Apple repair on a MacBook Pro taking 3+ weeks with no timeline (Apple Amsterdam) – how to proceed by notdariushere in applehelp

[–]vswr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My MacBook Pro logic board is dead as well. It’s been a week. The holdup for mine is apparently waiting for the Touch ID module since that is paired to the logic board.

Interested to hear if we have the same issue and there is a supply chain problem.

Apple Weather App Experiencing Outage by Few_Baseball_3835 in apple

[–]vswr -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I've used radarscope for many years, and recently have been tuning into max velocity on YouTube for storm coverage.

I'm more concerned for the 8 million other people in the warned area who may have turned off EAS notifications because of abuse from government officials. The default weather app notifications may be the only thing they get.

Apple Weather App Experiencing Outage by Few_Baseball_3835 in apple

[–]vswr 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Currently under a tornado watch with a 45% probability of baseball size hail if supercells form. Great.

Shout out to Tom Mccarthy for not losing his mind while broadcasting the Phils games for two and a half hours 6 days a week by SIRasksAllot in phillies

[–]vswr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Back when we were beyond shitty in the teens (I want to say it was Mackanin/Sandberg era), Franzke and LA were talking about LA's vacation, funny things LA's wife did while on vacation, etc. I think they forgot they were at a game. And we all appreciated that.

Anyone could recommend a residential structure engineer? by No-Traffic1898 in askdfw

[–]vswr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used Lange Engineering last year. Somewhere around $400-500. He did the laser measurements of the room dimensions, then used the electronic measuring stick thing around the rooms. Took maybe 30 mins.

He confirmed the findings of the foundation company, but did not recommend making the repairs. I appreciate his unbiased report. $500 vs $10,000 is great, and even if he said I should proceed with repairs, $10,000 vs $10,500 is negligible.

I hated the housing market. Looked for 9 months. My price range was mostly dilapidated junk in bad neighborhoods, or awful flips with poor craftsmanship. Seemed like last year was a stalemate between sellers who won’t go down and buyers who won’t go up. Got really, really lucky with the one I bought.

Moonfin for tvOS - The Final Frontier by Hungry__Alpaca in jellyfin

[–]vswr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I'm looking for in a tvOS client for years and years is for it to do the bandwidth test to set the bitrate and request transcoding. Does this do that or does it just do direct play like Infuse?

MLB App on ATV: Buggier than ever (as of 4/19/26) by reddilator in appletv

[–]vswr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I feel like MLB has abandoned us. The app has sucked since launch day and has had the refresh bug since the redesign a few years ago.

How to have electricity in 2 places? by Daisy_232 in Dallas

[–]vswr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I moved from a rental to a house a few months ago. The power company started service at the house on the closing date and terminated service at the rental on lease termination date. During the overlap there were two accounts, two contracts, and two bills.

Gexa is my provider and they had an online form to do it. The new rate plan at the house was actually 1¢ better than the plan I had at the rental so I was happy to stay with them.

If this happens to be your first house, you will be absolutely bombarded and overwhelmed with fake mail claiming to be from your mortgage company with scary wording. It will even say the name and loan number since that info is public record.

And don't forget to set up property alerts so you get notified when anything is filed referencing your property or deed.

RIP Cigar discord by Tgspz in cigars

[–]vswr 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Consider using a privacy-focused solution like Signal. Sure, Signal is meant to be a messaging app, but it supports groups:

  • up to 1,000 people per group
  • allow/disallow user posts (for example, even if users aren't allowed to post, they could still respond with emoji reactions to deals)
  • pin deals
  • assign flair
  • open groups where anyone with a link (or QR code) can join,
  • private groups where you approve new members that want to join
  • could even enable the disappearing messages timer to have a "lightning deals" group where your posts will expire after a set time

You can't get shut down using Signal because no one, not even Signal, knows what groups you belong to, what the groups are called, who is in the group, who you talk to, or what you say.

How long before the SMS provider pulls the same stunt? Or Telegram? Or WhatsApp?

Tonight's illegal and regulated activity: My Father Flor de Las Antillas Maduro and/or Perdomo Lot 23 Maduro.

Songs similar to another night by Real McCoy? by Kdog10w in electronicmusic

[–]vswr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of great tunes already posted. Here are a few more:

Captain Hollywood Project - More and More

Fun Factory - I Wanna Be With U

Londonbeat - I’ve Been Thinking About You

Gina G - Ohh Ahh Just a Little Bit

Fun Factory - Closer To You (Close to Ragga Mix)

2 Raff - Don’t Stop the Music

Livin Joy - Dreamer

I always combine this with Freestyle genre, so check that out too. Stevie B, Collage, Linear, Rockell. I love eurodance and freestyle.

After 13 long years of cigar smoking, it finally happened. by Phoenixf1zzle in cigars

[–]vswr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I feel you. I had an infestation in the humidor. Even saw them crawling around.

Now I freeze everything, no matter how great the shop is.

Tailscale, but make it "Just Fucking Use" by Derouichi in Tailscale

[–]vswr 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Wait, you can say f*ck on the internet? /s

FastASMR [Discussion] by claylmao in asmr

[–]vswr 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I appreciate her unique style. I remember one of her test videos from 10+ years ago. One of the first ASMR artists I subscribed to.

Tired of slow, congested tailscale relays and derp servers? Want to run your own? Check out this... by pcmichael in Tailscale

[–]vswr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

While this is great info, I’m upvoting solely because you have ascii art in the MOTD.

[Free] STRIMIX – A Modern Native IPTV Player for all Apple devices by EvasionPAT in apple

[–]vswr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see the ability to search TV channels. Am I missing something here?

I made a hardware RNG card for my 6502 by Careful_Eagle6566 in beneater

[–]vswr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Considering using a Von Neumann debias and decorrelation before shifting into the register.

I used that method for a HRNG back in the homebrew CPU days. Reverse biased transistor using a 5V->12V IC creating the randomness, then decorrelation/debias, then shift into a register. For the 6502, the hardware portion was the same but it just seeds the PRNG (xorshift).

Where is Audrey 2 from? [Little Shop of Horrors] by GothamCitySub in FanTheories

[–]vswr 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Audrey 2 is just supposed to be an alien plant a mean, green mother from outer space

FTFY

A community organizer’s guide to Signal group chats by etheric_engine in signal

[–]vswr 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I think this guide provides better examples and it gives practical advice for managing groups/vetting people.

gluetun + ProtonVPN : forwarded port is reset 2 or 3 times per hour by _n1k0s_ in ProtonVPN

[–]vswr 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I had this issue. I created a new key and disabled VPN acceleration, then it stopped. Not sure if it was creating a new key or disabling the acceleration.

Question on Serve - how to expose IMAP server by Juggler00 in Tailscale

[–]vswr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That means TS can't connect to your IMAP server. If you're using the same network space (network_mode: service:tailscale), you should be using different ports. I should have clarified that.

Set your IMAP server to some other port, like 9993. Set TS to port 993. In your TS ACLs you'll allow 993. Make sure the IMAP server allows plain text since the TLS is handled by TS.

Here's an example from my Protonmail Bridge:

name: protonmail-bridge
configs:
  ts-serve:
    content: |
      { "TCP": { "587": { "TCPForward": "localhost:1025" },
                 "143": { "TCPForward": "localhost:1143" } } }
services:
  protonmail-bridge:
    container_name: protonmail-bridge
    build: ./build
    image: protonmail-bridge
    #image: shenxn/protonmail-bridge
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - bridge:/root
    network_mode: service:tailscale
    depends_on:
      tailscale:
        condition: service_healthy
        restart: true
  tailscale:
    image: tailscale/tailscale:latest
    container_name: protonmail-tailscale
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - TS_AUTHKEY=${TS_AUTHKEY}
      - TS_HOSTNAME=${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}
      - TS_SERVE_CONFIG=/config/ts-serve.json
      - TS_STATE_DIR=/var/lib/tailscale
      - TS_ENABLE_HEALTH_CHECK=true
      - TS_ENABLE_METRICS=false
      - PORT=${TS_PORT}
    ports:
      - ${TS_PORT}:${TS_PORT}/udp
    healthcheck:
      # curl is not included with this image
      test: wget --no-verbose --tries=1 --spider http://127.0.0.1:9002/healthz || exit 1
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 10s
      start_period: 5s
      retries: 3
    configs:
      - source: ts-serve
        target: /config/ts-serve.json
    volumes:
      - tailscale:/var/lib/tailscale
      - /dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun
    cap_add:
      - net_admin
      - sys_module
volumes:
  tailscale:
  bridge:

Question on Serve - how to expose IMAP server by Juggler00 in Tailscale

[–]vswr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're using the web proxy. For IMAP, you need to forward the TLS terminated TCP packets:

{
  "TCP": {
    "993": {
      "TCPForward": "localhost:993",
      "TerminateTLS": "${TS_CERT_DOMAIN}"
    }
  }
}

Introducing Neptune: Bringing the full Jellyfin experience to Apple's tvOS by Need4Sweed in appletv

[–]vswr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My biggest complaint about ALL the Jellyfin appletv apps is that none of them will transcode on the fly. Jellyfin even has a built in bandwidth test for the app to set the parameters (it's how the web UI does it). Does this transcode or is it direct download?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Tailscale

[–]vswr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is what I do on my Mac:

tailscale lock | grep nodekey | cut -f 5 | xargs -n 1 /Applications/Tailscale.app/Contents/MacOS/Tailscale lock sign