GreatBlueHeron

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Is Google deliberately crippling my phone... in c/[email protected]
[–] GreatBlueHeron 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm aware of the battery issue. Mine is one of the near bricked ones. I'm down to about 50% before I finish breakfast and coffee most days! I'm home most of the time so it's not a big deal - I can charge often. If I leave home it's in a car so I can charge while travelling etc. Because of where I live a replacement battery wasn't an option. I've been wanting to do it myself but the kits are out of stock ever since the announcement.

Someone else noted that their Pixel 3a is still going strong and this prompted me to recheck everything. We'll see how it goes.

I'm not just holding on to it to keep it out of landfill - although that is certainly a consideration. I really like it - the size is right etc. My wife has a Pixel 6 Pro and it's huge. There are no new options close to this size. I am keeping an eye out for a local used Pixel 7a and will do that if I find one at a reasonable price.

Is Google deliberately crippling my phone... in c/[email protected]
[–] GreatBlueHeron 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Knowing that your 3a is still performing well enough promted me to double double check things.

I found that "Do Not Disturb" in the notifications settings is not just a simple on/off toggle but a sub menu. Under schedules in there I had "Flip to shh" on. In my example today it was sitting face up on my desk so should not have been in DND mode, but in general maybe being in my pocket is triggering this.

I've also cleared cache and data for Chat and Messages and they both prompted me to enable notifications when first run after that. (I'm sure I've already done this recently but can't hurt to do it again)

And, I've switched back to Pixel Launcher as a test. I much prefer Niagara and will switch back as soon as I notice and improvment, or determine that changing launcher has not improved anything.

Thanks.

Is Google deliberately crippling my phone... in c/[email protected]
[–] GreatBlueHeron 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What network connection are you using to get these notifications?

In general a mix of WiFi and telco cellular. In the example today, my house WiFi - a UniFi U6-Lite on channel 157 at around -65dBm when at my desk.

If it’s a telco, they might have modified their network and your coverage might have changed.

Telco coverage is really poor here - I have UniFi access points in 3 buildings that I roam between. I understand I may see some issues as my phone roams between the access points but that does not explain the example today where I was just sitting at my desk.

If it’s WiFi, your router or an antenna might have come loose, or a neighbour has updated their WiFi network and is drowning out yours

The antenna of a UniFi U6 Lite is internal - I have no way to check if it's come loose, but everything else works fine so I don't suspect it. I live in the middle of nowhere. My closest neighbours are about 100m away - I see one of them at -75dBm and the other at -89dBm.

Have you purchased and installed new equipment? It might be causing interference. An old piece of gear, a power supply, inverter, solar panel, could suddenly generate radio noise and stop things from working too.

Not that I'm aware of. I do sometimes see a hidden SSID broadcast from " SAGEMCOM BROADBAND SAS" hardware that I can't identify. I think it's my Bell GigaHub that has WiFi turned off - maybe it turns itself on from time to time to scan etc.

You might think of wireless communication as unchanging, but it’s constantly updating and reacting to local conditions which in turn can vary from second to second.

Yeah, I get that. I have other radio comms issues not related to Android, so not really appropriate here. I'm a volunteer firefighter and have a Motorola Minitor VI pager sitting on my desk. My pages often come through really scratchy, or not at all. We (the fire dept.) have just spent a few thousand dollars installing a new antenna at the transmitter and this has not helped.

Source: I’m a licensed radio amateur

I'd be very interested to chat with you privately about my pager issues :-)

Is Google deliberately crippling my phone... in c/[email protected]
[–] GreatBlueHeron 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't think that's it - the notifications are getting to my phone, Android is just not showing them to me. In the example today in my post - the notifications were timestamped 8 and 6 minutes ago, but there was no alert for them. And, I have good connectivity - especially today's example, sitting at my desk connected to my home wifi - which is good.

How to avoid seeing the same posts over and over again? in c/[email protected]
[–] GreatBlueHeron 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think Lemmy has an issue with the same community existing on multiple servers and the "big stories" tend to get posted to all of them. So you'll mark a post as read on (for example) [email protected] only to see it again a minute later on [email protected]. If this is what you're experiencing, I don't think there's a solution yet, but I think some options are being worked on.

US tells French companies to comply with Donald Trump’s anti-diversity order in c/[email protected]
[–] GreatBlueHeron 16 points 2 weeks ago

Not just French companies, companies in multiple EU countries (from the article). And it's only applicable if they want to do business with the US. This behaviour is pretty normal for them - they used to have policies about not buying from companies that used child labour, or didn't enforce DEI etc. They're just enforcing a different set of standards for their suppliers now.

I'm not saying it's not messed up, just that it's not unusual and shouldn't surprise anyone.

Zoomers & Boomers are the same in c/[email protected]
[–] GreatBlueHeron 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm very early Gen X and take issue with being excluded from that - we were in our early 20s as computing really started to develop. Maybe I'm biased because I worked in IT.

Democrat wins special state Senate election in Pennsylvania in major upset [Flipping a Trump+15 district] in c/[email protected]
[–] GreatBlueHeron 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I can accept that. I guess what really meant was fuck the current Dems that are so clearly complicit in whatever the GOP is doing and maybe even more Zionist. If they can be overhauled to the point they can, and do, get big money out (repeal citizens united), repair all the gerymandered districts etc. then sure - go Dems. I know that's a huge ask, but it's what's needed.

Democrat wins special state Senate election in Pennsylvania in major upset [Flipping a Trump+15 district] in c/[email protected]
[–] GreatBlueHeron 34 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Fuck the Dems - I'm hoping it's a great sign for whatever party comes out of Bernie and AOC's current tour. (I know I don't really understand how things work there and I'm being optimistic talking about future elections.)

Trump: Put Chinese flags on our planes and bomb Russia in c/[email protected]
[–] GreatBlueHeron 9 points 3 weeks ago

I thought it was a bit weird for him to be suggesting bombing Russia now.

test post from Mastodon! in c/[email protected]
[–] GreatBlueHeron 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When I go to mastodon and lookup OP, I can see their profile and it says they have 231 posts, but I can't see any of them - so I have no idea how this thread is displayed there.

The devil's best work in c/[email protected]
[–] GreatBlueHeron 10 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Yep - my mother is one of them - she won't admit it directly, but it's clear from some of the stuff she says.

It's scary shit - I think there are three different "accelerationist" groups trying to destroy society as we know it. The christians waiting for the rapture, Curtis Yarvin's tech bros that want to build their techno feudal cities and the extreme preppers that want to see some return on their investment. Have I missed anyone?

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Firefox with uBlock Origin slow on some sites (self.firefox)
 

I'm using Firefox with uBlock Origin on both android and windows. I'm finding more and more sites that are very slow to load, or won't load at all. Yet when I open them in Chrome they work fine. I'm assuming the sites are just failing because of the privacy protection features of ff+ubo, and I'm happy enough to just avoid these shitty sites in general. But - I'm just checking to see - is this expected behaviour, might I have configuration issues?

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To scrub, or not to scrub (self.zfs)
 

Looking for thoughts/opinions

I have a 5 disc raidz1 array. The volumes are accumulating CKSUM errors - fairly evenly distributed over the discs. I've been lazy and let this progress to the point where there are permanent errors in files.

# zpool status -v
  pool: tank
 state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data
        corruption.  Applications may be affected.
action: Restore the file in question if possible.  Otherwise restore the
        entire pool from backup.
   see: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/msg/ZFS-8000-8A
  scan: scrub repaired 748K in 06:17:19 with 1 errors on Sun Jul 14 06:41:22 2024
config:

        NAME                                 STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        tank                                 ONLINE       0     0     0
          raidz1-0                           ONLINE       0     0     0
            ata-ST8000VN004-2M2101_WSD13YBW  ONLINE       0     0     6
            ata-ST8000VN004-2M2101_WSD13YE4  ONLINE       0     0     7
            ata-ST8000VN004-2M2101_WSD1454G  ONLINE       0     0     8
            ata-ST8000VN004-2M2101_WSD1454W  ONLINE       0     0     6
            ata-ST8000VN004-2M2101_WSD14563  ONLINE       0     0     7

errors: Permanent errors have been detected in the following files:

        /you/do/not/need/this/level of detail.txt

I've done some research and believe (hope) that the cause of these errors is the "domestic" onboard SATA controllers I'm using and I have ordered a LSI SAS3008 9300-8i HBA as an upgrade.

I know I can fix the permanent error by deleting and restoring it and then running a scrub. But, I'm torn - should I scrub now and risk stressing it more on the crappy SATA controllers, or wait until I get the new HBA (in a few weeks - free cheap, slow, shipping)?

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Pepperoni sticks? (self.vegan)
 

I'm not vegan, but I'm trying to reduce my meat consumption. Unfortunately I really like snacking on pepperoni sticks - I like to tough, chewy texture and the spicyness. When I search for vegan pepperoni substitutes I can only find things intended for making pizza etc. Any suggestions for vegan snacks similar to pepperoni sticks?

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Project idea for learning (self.programming)
 

I'm a retired Unix sysadmin. Over the years I've built things in COBOL, FORTAN, C, perl, rexx, PHP, visual basic, various Unix shells and maybe others. Nothing has been a real "application" - mostly just utilities to help me get things done.

Now that I'm retired, and it's cold outside, I'm curious to try some more coding - and I have an idea.

The music communities here seem to post links to YouTube. I generally use Lemmy on my phone but don't use YouTube, or listen to music, on my phone if I can help it. I'd like to scrape a music community here and add the songs posted to a playlist in my musicbrainz account.

Does that sound like a reasonable learner project? Any suggestions for language and libraries appreciated. My preferred IDE is vim on bash and I have a home server running Linux where this could run as a daemon, or be scheduled.

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Looking for men's work pants (self.buyitforlife)
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I'm retired spend most of my time in my workshop or doing maintenance on outbuildings on our rural property. I really like Dickies Duck Logger pants, but they seem to wear out quickly. I have three pairs that get worn almost constantly in rotation. The oldest pair is now just over two years old and is worn out - I've repaired the seam in the crotch once, but now the fabric either side of it is thread bare. My phone has worn trough the bottom of the right front pocket.

Are there similar pants that will last longer, or am I expecting too much?

I'm in Canada.

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Apache or nginx WebDAV with Nextcloud sync client? (self.nextcloud)
 

I'm trying out Nextcloud to use as on my home server. It looks great, but seems way overkill for just two users that really only want the file sync. capability.

As I'm reading I'm seeing references to WebDAV and it seems that the Nextcloud file sync. server might be "just" a WebDAV server? If it is, might it be possible to point the Nextcloud sync. client (on Windows and Android) at an appropriately configured Apache or nginx server?

The reason I'm asking here, rather than just trying for myself, is that I have no experience with WebDAV and have no idea what an appropriately configured server might mean in this situation. I'm happy to go do the required learning to make it work - just looking for someone to tell me it's not possible before I put too much effort into it.

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Should I move to Docker? (self.selfhosted)
 

I'm a retired Unix admin. It was my job from the early '90s until the mid '10s. I've kept somewhat current ever since by running various machines at home. So far I've managed to avoid using Docker at home even though I have a decent understanding of how it works - I stopped being a sysadmin in the mid '10s, I still worked for a technology company and did plenty of "interesting" reading and training.

It seems that more and more stuff that I want to run at home is being delivered as Docker-first and I have to really go out of my way to find a non-Docker install.

I'm thinking it's no longer a fad and I should invest some time getting comfortable with it?

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Google is now putting product ads on the home screen of my Sony Bravia TV (lemmy.ca)
 

Up until now I've only seen suggestions for content offered by the various streaming services. Today I started getting ads for a Hyundai car!

I tried to log a support call with Sony but they said they couldn't do anything without a photo of the offending ad. I now have a photo so will try again tomorrow. I know a single support call won't do anything (though I intend to be very persistent), but if enough people log formal complaints maybe Sony will "talk to" Google.

I know this is deep first world problems territory, but I feel really betrayed having a device I paid $2,300 for being used to shove ads in my face.

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Enjoying the sun (lemmy.ca)
 

Silver fox enjoying the sun in my yard. Photo is a bit soft because I had to shoot through a dirty window.

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Learning to describe taste (self.beer)
 

I know this is a tiny community and my chances of generating significant discussion are small, but we have to start somewhere.

I like beer. I am lucky enough to have a lifestyle where at the end of most days I get a chance to sit with a beer and listen to some music. I like to try different beers and most times I go shopping I get a mixed 6 pack. If I find something I like I might get a few more of them next week etc.

Last weekend I was buying beer at an unfamiliar location, it was crowded and I just wanted out so I grabbed a 12 pack of Alexander Keith's IPA (I'm in Nova Scotia). The main reason I went for the 12 pack of mass produced was cost - buying individual cans of craft beer I'm paying $4-$6 per can - it adds up.

Now we finally get to to reason for my post - I'm really not enjoying the Keith's IPA and I don't have the language to describe why. I can't say any more than it tastes watery and reminds of other cheap mass produced beers.

I've been to tasting sessions where the server describes the tastes of the various beers on a flight etc., but the information doesn't get retained. Maybe I'm not supposed to share my tasting experience with anyone? Any suggestions for reading, or other experiences, that might help me improve my beer language?

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Great Blue Heron - 9-July-2023, Nova Scotia (lemmy.ca)
 
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Sulfur Crested Cockatoo - 24-Jan-2021 NSW, Australia (lemmy.ca)
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