moepstar

Sure, having legislation would help tremendously.

What would help just as much: people actually giving a fcuk - as in: researching how durable something is, how hackable, how cloud-dependant or not...

...and not act all surprised when something stops working once the manufacturer calling it quits (or starts charging for a previously-free service).

Today, whenever i talk to others how i evaluate products i still get blank stares and i might as well have talked in a foreign tongue.

Also not happening: learning from $companys previous behaviour - stopped supporting something after a year? No parts, no schematics, no nothing?

Well - welcome to my shitlist of companies that'll never see another $/€ from me, ever again.

Doing this eventually would force companies to change their ways, but as long as they can continue selling whatever dreck they come up with to the masses...

Well, it appears that Neato/Vorwerk robots are not supported - at least they're not listed on https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/supported-robots.html

> Please note that this list is exhaustive. These are the supported robots. Robots not on this list are not supported by Valetudo. If your robot is not on this list, it is not supported.

From what i gathered so far, Valetudo is actually no custom firmware but modified vendor firmware? So, not sure if anyone related to the project has any interest and capability to reverse that...

> business and domain PC's has Xbox stuff on it and game bar running by default

I know where you're coming from, however Win+G has _one_ use in the corporate world: give users the ability to record their screen without installing (and licensing) additional software to document breakage for support.

_If_ the device does have a serial by id, you’ll be fine - if not (I.e. it is mapped by /dev/bus/usb/001/002 for example) you’re mostly out of luck. Cases in point recently encountered: USB printers (to be used in container with CUPS), Eaton UPS to be used in container with NUT.

No amount of scripting with systemd path units, pre and post hooks, udev rules could make those work reliably (for me).

Solution, or workaround, after much headdesking: put services into a VM, map USB device by vendor:device ID, done.

If anyone could shed a light into why that is possible with a VM but not a LXC container, I’d be thankful!

Question: did you run the pve8to9 script? Read their extensive documentation [0]on how to upgrade? Fix the stuff aforementioned script comes up with?

My cluster went from 6 to 7, 7 to 8 and recently 8 to 9, along with Ceph - all without a single problem.

Given it’s more or less Debian underneath, not too surprising I’d say? Granted, there’s always a chance for something to go sideways, however, it’s unlikely you’re the first person to encounter this problem and if you check their forums, you should find a solution.

[0] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_8_to_9

The difference: the free repositories get the updates before the enterprise repo.

So, the software versions that go into the enterprise repo are considered stable by then.

(If we're talking about Proxmox, that is.)

Indeed, leaving Windows behind for the odd application is easy.

With the depreciation of my late 2017 Intel iMac 5k incoming, i however wonder how to ditch macOS for Linux and keep the one odd Mac App I kinda depend on - ideas welcome!

If you’re wondering, the App is MoneyMoney and keeps track of all bank accounts automatically, sorts all spendings into categories etc.

There simply seems to be no equivalent, and running Mac Apps on Linux just doesn’t seem to be a thing yet (at least in a half-viable way I know of, and yes, I at least read about Darling).

Again, if anyone does have a pointer (running macOS virtualized? What’s the status there?) would be much appreciated..

Edit: oh and i fully intend to keep using the iMac, its an i7 with 64GB RAM and the 5k display is still so gorgeous to look at.

Same, I thought they may have gone through a rebrand or something..

I wonder how long ago it was I last used it - must’ve been sometime around 2010 or a few years earlier..

That panel gap thing also is blown way out of proportion.

I challenge anyone to find a bad aligned one on a chinese made one - interestingly enough , those only seem to be a thing on US made vehicles, which basically are only Model X and Model S (ironically being the higher priced cars).

> a box that is mostly just an SMB share

...and supposedly keeps your files, safe - at least that what keeps me from tinkering too much with such a solution.

Sure, having backups still is necessary, yet, a NAS to me is a means to an end..

> Pretty much anything HomeKit supported will last “perpetually” for its smart features.

How so, should Apple ever decide they'll remove it from tvOS/HomepodOS?

And frankly, having to use Homekit for automations (or using it at all) is - compared to Home Assistant - frustrating, especially given their more or less unlimited resources.

And don't even get me started on Siri - compared to what it was when it started on the iPhone 4s i don't feel it made like any progress, at all. Having updated to iOS 26 a few days ago - congratulations, Siri is now failing 100% to "turn off bedside lamp" which worked fine on 18.x and ever before.

No, i don't think Apple is going to keep Homekit's lights on (heh) indefinitely - and wouldn't bet the farm (or house) on it.

> The one irritating exception is the windshield wipers

Push the wiper button (left stalk) once, adjust with left scrollwheel (either up/down if on a recent firmware or left/right if it’s older than a year or so).

Facelift has a dedicated button on the steering wheel I think and then scroll wheel as well…

> Opening a moving car door is presumably quite difficult given the aerodynamic pressure on the body. So the car would have to be moving rather slow

Actually, no - at least not slow by my definition.

You’d have to drive over 130km/h, this is when you need some serious force to open the door more than maybe 10-20cm - but anything slower than that, it’s still pretty easy, certainly easy enough for a kid to open the door wide enough to fall out or get in serious trouble..

Source: 18 year old stupid me and buddies, doing stuff like opening driving cars doors, going over 100km/h

iirc, large parts of Proxmox VE is still also written in Perl

>I'm also curious who the market is for a thinner phone

Hm, i'd consider it (if i was upgrading yet again).

Why? My 15 Pro (not-Max) gets way too hot way too fast doing basically nothing and it p*sses me off - so, i'd rather not (yet?) take a bet if the new 17 Pro (Max) does better with an entire new thermal design - considering _something_ is _always_ off with new Apple hardware designs, starting with the iPhone 4...

> even sold by Amazon

Honest question: after all the reports of co-mingled inventory, plain fakes etc. being sold by Amazon - for years i might add - do you really consider Amazon being a reliable source for anything that is not some unimportant trinket?

I went from spending > 10k€ per year to less than 5%, probably not even that, on there, all by their own fault.

And i see no reason to buy there anymore:

- the default assumption of having the best price on the web went out of the window years ago

- next (or 2) day delivery - does not happen anymore in most cases, Prime or not

- even finding (!!) what you're searching for is a total sh.t show

- for years, Amazon is now a front for chinese cr.p shipped by the boatload

- the once useful review system has been and is being gamed, it is beyond broken these days and should not be trusted (basically forget everything that scores 4.5 or less, read all reviews and ensure that the review you're reading is not for some other variant of the item you're looking for or that the review you're looking at hasn't been swapped one item for another, because that's a thing as well on there...)

I mean - buying things on Aliexpress is more trustworthy, for crying out loud - yet, most people can't seem to be bothered. scratchinghead

I'd add dealerships to the list.

I've had to "experience" those once for our testdrive of said Ioniq 5. Well, never again. "Dubious" is the most friendly word i have for the one that is next to us.

And: the car itself is priced at least 10-15k€ too high for what it is.

Anecdata: i5-6500 did recognition in about 15ms, Coral TPU (M2 variant) does it in about 7.5ms - so… probably could’ve done without it in hindsight…

> Mobile BESS

Battery energy storage system, just in case…

> Yet here we are and climate change rarely even makes the news.

Sure, if you dismiss all the news about floodings etc.

Just because it's not titled "flooding due to climate change" ....

Yes, yes and yes.

Now, i really begin to wonder if that should be some kind of add-in to be sold..

> The other 1% are either accountants who actually use Excel for what it was made, designers, etc.

I, half-jokingly, recommend firing anyone who opens Excel and hasn't entered a formula within 15 minutes.

That alone would solve a lot of problems :)

What _i'm_ missing from those videos is - while they do go through the steps finding the fault - usually don't really explain their reasoning why they suspect component a, b, c to be faulty and how exactly a good (or bad) component would behave...

Might not be the case for all the vids of course, but for those i watched i never had that "ah, that's how it works" gotcha moment...

No, X is a completely different story arc, setting etc...

But yes, those mentioned are great in their own right - it is just that very different setting, the real open world, game play mechanics, skells (mechs) that can take you anywhere...

Did you play Xenoblade Chronicles X on the WiiU?

That was the open world game to me, it never felt boring (although the game itself had a lot of grind) and, if memory serves me right, about 400 square km to explore.

I sunk about 300 hours in it…

…and wish they already would release X 2.

> Which techies in which company in 10 years,who don't already have pervasive vmware footprint, will even begin to consider it?

Quite the opposite, actually - actively try to not fall into that trap.

Overall, your argument is not wrong - however...

The cost comes from "Tesla approved body shops" - which have some sort of monopoly on doing body work.

That is, if you don't want to possibly have arguments with Tesla if something is wrong which they may try to attribute to the car being repaired in some back-alley kind of workshop...

To add, body shops apparently rather replace whole parts which could have straightened out by a skilled repair guy.. for much less, achieving the same thing and even keeping the original panels, welds etc...

Talking about repairability - i really have to give Tesla credit for making the whole of all maintenance manuals (same Tesla themselves have) available for free.

Reading the comments, i find remarks about Grok, Gemini, ChatGPT, Copilot, Kagi.

What i wonder: (apparently) no one uses DeepSeek?

I do, and i pretty much like it, to be honest.

More than Copilot at the very least, which, in a recent attempt to "vibe code" a small tool at work, hallucinated in at least large parts of the answers and had to be corrected by me over and over again (when i haven't written a single line of code in that language).

Yes, true.

I, after all those years, can finally understand my dad coming into my room, yelling at me due to the electrical bill.

Couldn't understand, only was running Seti@Home 24/7 on my Pentium 4 :D

Maybe there is, maybe there isn't.

I mean, we all know what people say they want and what they'll do when/if they buy something may be two totally different things.

And: creating a dishwasher (or $appliance) that does its actual job good enough to be worth buying isn't something that can be hacked up in a weekend or two.

Edit to add: maybe - as Bosch pretty much has figured out how to make good diswhasheres - it'd be easier and more approachable to hack, rip out, replace the control electronics. Chances are this is going to work on more model than the one...