The Official Status Thread
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Status: Uhhh....
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Status: Shocked! Fitbit seems to have actually implemented my suggestion that the clock be visible on the full-screen "Your watch is charging, here's a battery icon!" state.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Shocked! Fitbit seems to have actually implemented my suggestion that the clock be visible on the full-screen "Your watch is charging, here's a battery icon!" state.
Your watch can tell the time
Filed under: Are you from the future? My watch says yes.
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If you thought dll hell was bad. I'm in obfuscated embedded jar file hell.
Filed under: It's like real hell but with more XML config files.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Your watch can tell the time
How else would they know when the guard changes are?
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Your watch can tell the time
How else would they know when the guard changes are?
+1 "Twelve o'clock and all's well!"
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status mining Final Fantasy games for bombastic boss quotes for an upcoming D&D game.
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Good News: I finished cleaning my keyboard.
Bad News: Some of the keys aren't working properly; my guess is that some debris got inside. Unfortunately I don't have a thin enough nut driver to take it apart, so for now I'm on my backup. :(
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
nut driver
Fellow IBM mechanical keyboard user spotted!
For now, at least. If I can't fix my glitching keyboard I may end up buying a modern mechanical. My backup is an M5-1, the kind with a trackball by the arrow keys. I was planning on selling it before the virus happened.
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Status: spent all day diagnosing and fighting these two issues, which have both been open (and acknowledged by the author) for the better part of a year.
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Status: Planted 2 tomatoes, 1 oregano, 2 English thyme, 1 lemon thyme, 1 sage, 1 Spanish lavender and a bunch of freesias. Made lasagna and roasted zucchini. Designed a bent-wood garden bench.
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Status: Finally got internet working. The ISP has a monopoly on my house (the next house down the street has several fiber providers), so the speed and the price made me feel like I'm in USA again. But then I remembered that in USA, you'll never find 40Mbps with unlimited data for just $20
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
But then I remembered that in USA, you'll never find 40Mbps with unlimited data for just $20
I guess I'll settle for 1Gbps.
Also, I've never seen metered hardline connections. Mobile? That's Different.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
But then I remembered that in USA, you'll never find 40Mbps with unlimited data for just $20
I guess I'll settle for 1Gbps.
For $20?
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@error Comcast puts 1TB data limit on all customers unless they pay extra $50.
From what I've gathered, all other large ISPs do the same.
Where can you get 1Gbps for $20 in USA?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
But then I remembered that in USA, you'll never find 40Mbps with unlimited data for just $20
I guess I'll settle for 1Gbps.
For $20?
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@error pretty much like this:
: I normally pay €8 for 3GB mobile data without a plan (pre-paid). I'm going to a holiday in the US for a week, is there something similarly cheap?
: Of course, it's much cheaper. You can get 100GB for $60 (plus tax).
: But that's almost ten times as expensive?!
: What? No, it's only a third the cost per GB.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@error pretty much like this:
: I normally pay €8 for 3GB mobile data without a plan (pre-paid). I'm going to a holiday in the US for a week, is there something similarly cheap?
: Of course, it's much cheaper. You can get 100GB for $60 (plus tax).
: But that's almost ten times as expensive?!
: What? No, it's only a third the cost per GB.
:I saw it as:
:@Ga̸̜̜̮̓́̃̄ska: I got a new Internet package that's almost as bad as the US, but in the US you'll never find a deal this sweet.
I'm in the US, and mine is 20x faster.
For the same price though?
Well, obviously not, but who cares?
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@error people who can't afford to buy a brand new premium car every other year? But yeah, fuck those people.
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Theory: @error never heard of data caps on landline internet because he never checked his internet bill - he just pays whatever it says.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Theory: @error never heard of data caps on landline internet because he never checked his internet bill - he just pays whatever it says.
Your theory is totally wrong!
They charge my checking account directly through ACH, and they don't even send me a bill. I'm not involved in any point of the process.
There's a place online I think I can see it? I have never looked.
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@error your person is the one legally making the payment, and the bill exists somewhere, and you've never seen it - so I was 100% correct.
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Status: having a heated argument about Carole Baskin with my mother.
Or really, just getting ranted at.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@error people who can't afford to buy a brand new premium car every other year? But yeah, fuck those people.
Of course they can't afford that. They're getting premium internet access instead!
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@dkf speaking of - I'm pretty sure that you could actually get financing for some low end car with monthly payment lower than @error's internet bill.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf speaking of - I'm pretty sure that you could actually get financing for some low end car with monthly payment lower than @error's internet bill.
I don't know, I bought my last car with cash.
Filed under: Well, a cashiers' check.
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Status: Likely shopping for replacement parts for my computer chair or just a straight up replacement, since the metal base snapped where a caster attaches.
Chair has a 5 year warranty, and I'm under 2 years since purchase. Warranty states "contact the reseller who will work with us to verify the claim" so I do. Get a reply from the reseller this morning, saying I need to contact the manufacturer. The warranty doesn't contain any contact information, they didn't provide any contact information, and the site for the brand doesn't contain any contact information. So I push back that the warranty for a product they sell says to contact them.
At this point, I'm thinking I either get ghosted or they're just going to come back with the same lack of helping reply.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf speaking of - I'm pretty sure that you could actually get financing for some low end car with monthly payment lower than @error's internet bill.
I don't know, I bought my last car with cash.
You should've bought a better car then! Or was it too expensive for you
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@error Comcast puts 1TB data limit on all customers unless they pay extra $50.
From what I've gathered, all other large ISPs do the same.
Where can you get 1Gbps for $20 in USA?
FWIW, Comcast has that for abusers but often doesn't enforce it. Our area had a 250GB limit for years without them billing us for going over. YMMV, of course.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@error Comcast puts 1TB data limit on all customers unless they pay extra $50.
From what I've gathered, all other large ISPs do the same.
Where can you get 1Gbps for $20 in USA?
FWIW, Comcast has that for abusers but often doesn't enforce it.
If I regularly download >2TB/month because that's my fucking normal internet usage because there are 3 people living in this house working at different times and all of them want to watch YouTube and Netflix in HD nearly all the time and we regularly download the same PS4 games over and over again because we can only fit 5-6 of them on a 500GB drive - am I an abuser or not?
But more seriously - yeah, I heard that there was a 250GB limit that they didn't enforce for years - but somewhere in 2015 or 16 they've got sued and lost and had to make it equal and transparent, so they made an actual 1TB limit that they actually enforce to a single byte. So be careful with your data.
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I'd wager that no ISP on the planet has enough a) peering/transit and/or b) core/backbone capacity to simultaneously provide every customer with max bandwidth, so there's ultimately always a limit anyway.
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I used to think people who hated on XML just "didn't get it."
No. It was I who did not get it.
Fuck XML.
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At 3 mbps, I don't think I could hit a 1TB cap if I wanted to.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
What the fuck...
Anyways, contacted Netgear and they bumped me all the way to Tier 3 support, who manually mounted the array (behind my back, because seeing that as a customer is a no-no). I let it copy shit over the weekend while in their recovery mode. Couldn't get all of that, because despite manually making a samba config they did not force it to use root so the user profiles (such as they aren't) and a few other things were not accessible.
Cut to today where I reboot it to normal and.... What the hay. It mounted itself just fun! (well, fine as in it's still missing the drive, but at least they were blue this time!).
So I stole a drive from one of the unused computers (may do it again for the dying drive in the 3rd bay) and...
Resyncing will take some time.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
(may do it again for the dying drive in the 3rd bay)
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
At 3 mbps, I don't think I could hit a 1TB cap if I wanted to.
You're just barely under the threshold if some napkin calculations I did once are accurate.
Memory serves 3.3 was about the max sustained bitrate to transfer 1 TB in 30 days.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
At 3 mbps, I don't think I could hit a 1TB cap if I wanted to.
At 3 milli-bits per second, I don't think you can get anywhere near a TB.
Nope. 0.003 bps * 2592000 sec/month = 7776
bytesbits/month.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
all other large ISPs do the same.
Negative. Spectrum, for one (oh God I'm actually repping spectrum...) does not. At least not in my area.
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Status: Fish or dead hookers? It's a tossup...
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I used to think people who hated on XML just "didn't get it."
No. It was I who did not get it.
Fuck XML.
As long as you start away from the more esoteric bits, XML is no worse than any other markup language. And when your data requires some really strange stuff from the markup, XML is really powerful.
But mostly, redesign the data and stay away from the Dahlian stuff.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I used to think people who hated on XML just "didn't get it."
No. It was I who did not get it.
Fuck XML.
As long as you start away from the more esoteric bits, XML is no worse than any other markup language. And when your data requires some really strange stuff from the markup, XML is really powerful.
But mostly, redesign the data and stay away from the Dahlian stuff.I've been digging through Lovecraftian hellscapes of XML. The sheer noise-to-signal ratio is unbearable.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I used to think people who hated on XML just "didn't get it."
No. It was I who did not get it.
Fuck XML.
As long as you start away from the more esoteric bits, XML is no worse than any other markup language. And when your data requires some really strange stuff from the markup, XML is really powerful.
But mostly, redesign the data and stay away from the Dahlian stuff.I've been digging through Lovecraftian hellscapes of XML. The sheer noise-to-signal ratio is unbearable.
Ah, yes. There are some very good bad examples of data design made in XML. And it is excessively wordy. Perfect fit for Java.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I used to think people who hated on XML just "didn't get it."
No. It was I who did not get it.
Fuck XML.
Great! You finally achieved enlightenment.
Not to be confused with Enlightenment, which is bad news.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
I'd wager that no ISP on the planet has enough a) peering/transit and/or b) core/backbone capacity to simultaneously provide every customer with max bandwidth, so there's ultimately always a limit anyway.
Let's say I bought 300Mbps service, but can only get 10% of its speed reliably. If I were to use it 24/7, that'd already be 10TB in a month. If I used full speed, I'd use up 1TB cap in just 8 hours.
There's a very big difference between ISP backbone reaching its limit and throttling your speed at times, and only being able to use what I pay for only for 8 hours each month.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
all other large ISPs do the same.
Negative. Spectrum, for one (oh God I'm actually repping spectrum...) does not. At least not in my area.
Only because FCC allowed merger of Charter and Time Warner Cable on the condition that they don't implement data caps for 7 years. If you're a heavy user, expect a sudden price hike in 2023.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
There's a very big difference between ISP backbone reaching its limit and throttling your speed at times, and only being able to use what I pay for only for 8 hours each month.
Duh.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
At 3 mbps, I don't think I could hit a 1TB cap if I wanted to.
You're just barely under the threshold if some napkin calculations I did once are accurate.
Memory serves 3.3 was about the max sustained bitrate to transfer 1 TB in 30 days.
Why compute when google does everything: