I would love to find a proper app for Lemmy, ideally non-graphical. I tried Neonmodemoverdrive and it was broken out of the box. I think I heard there is an emacs mode for Lemmy but didn’t keep track of it. I would love to find something that maintains a local copy of threads of interest and which synchronises with the server whenever I am online.

Seems like a good approach for the scale. It’s quite thin but I’ll see if I can add a mechanical switch.

No I did not change my browser. But today it works so it seems they fiddled with an anti-ai-scraper mechanism and now it works again.

I use Tor so my IPs would be all over the place, perhaps even changing across the same session cookie.

I was forced to use Alexandrite for quite a long time because the stock client was unusable on Ungoogled Chromium. But in the past couple months the stock UI has been working again with the exception of this thread. But that’s fixed as well, today at least.

Today is my first visit since the OP, and it’s all good. So somehow it is fixed.

refreshing made no difference for me. Tried a hard refresh (control-shift-R).

I cleared the cache and did a hard refresh (control-shift-R) and this makes no difference.

BTW, I am able to reply to you only by hovering over the area where I expect to find a reply button, and the mouseover text says reply.

i might try this for the calipers. But the battery cover for the scale uses a screw… so i might opt to hack that to use external power of some kind.

your interpretation of my quote is incorrect

Your words, quoted here again as proof that you have defined “repair” so narrowly as to exclude taking actions to restore a product to put back into service:

I wouldn’t consider “hacking” a drive to continue using it when you shouldn’t a repair.

What is your mother tongue that is so far from English?

All I’ll say is I’m glad you have nothing to do with making the specifications for this sort of hardware and that it’s left to competent and educated engineers.

You are really lost here. We actually agreed on the engineering decision (which was the decision to have a fail safe trigger). Again, the point of contention is the management decision to block property owners from control over their own property after they recover their data – the management decision that forces useful hardware to be needlessly committed to e-waste after the data has been migrated. It is because you think the profit-driven management decision of a private enterprise is “engineering” makes you profoundly incompetent for involvement in engineering specs. But you might be able to do marketing or management at a company like Microsoft. Shareholders would at least love your corporate boot-licking posture and your propaganda rhetoric in framing management decisions as “engineering”.

But plz, stay away from specs. Proper specs favor the consumers/users and community. They are not optimized to exploit consumers to enrich corporate suppliers and generate landfill.

Me providing an example of a repair is not me claiming it is the only method of repair.

Luckily I quoted you, which shows that you have defined “repair” so narrowly as to exclude taking actions to restore a product to put back into service.

Except, again, you aren’t making it useful again,

Of course it’s useful again. To claim writing to a drive is not useful is to misunderstand how storage devices are useful.

you’re attempting to bypass a fail safe put in place by engineers.

No I’m not. The fail safe should remain. That much was well done by engineers and I would be outraged if it were not in place. I WANT my drive to go into read-only mode when it crosses a reliability threshhold. The contention is what happens after the fail safe – after recovering the data. No one here believes the drive should not fail safe.

The first paragraph quoted (and the article as whole) cover reads, different between different drives (including different specs for enterprise vs consumer) and how the values are drawn.

Yes I read that. And? It’s immaterial to the discussion whether it’s an enterprise or consumer grade. Enterprise hardware still lands in the hands of consumers at 2nd-hand markets.

10k is for intel 50nm MLC NAND specifically. Other values are presented in the article.

And? Why do you think this is relevant to the nannying anti-repair discussion? It doesn’t obviate anything I have said. It’s just a red herring.

It isn’t arbitrary as you’ve attempted to hand wave it as.

Yes it is. Read your own source. They are counting write cycles to get an approximation of wear, not counting electrons that stick.

It doesn’t matter how sophisticated the software standard is, the oxide on the drive will eventually wear down and is a physical problem.

This supports what I have said. Extreme precision is not needed when we have software that gives redundancy to a user-specified extent and precisely detects errors.

it doesn’t pass for right to repair imo.

Denying owners control over their own property s.t. they cannot put it back into service is an assault on repair. Opposing the nannying is to advocate for a right to repair.

It’s risking data loss to wring an extra 12 months (or likely, less) from a dying drive.

You’re not grasping how the tech works. The 12 months is powered off state maintenance for reading. Again, you’re missing the reading and writing roles here. I’m not going to explain it again. Read your own source again.

For every 1 person like you that its an annoyance for it saves multitudes more that are less savvy pointlessly risking data loss.

This is a false dichotomy. It’s possible to protect the low tech novices without compromising experts from retaining control over their own product. This false dichotomy manifests from your erroneous belief that the fail safe contradicts an ability to reverse the safety switch after it triggers.

I didn’t claim as such

Luckily I quoted you, which shows that you have defined “repair” so narrowly as to exclude taking actions to restore a product to put back into service.

and replacing a faulty or damaged module wouldn’t return it to factory condition.

I never said it would. But more importantly, this is a red herring. I don’t accept your claim that it wouldn’t, but it’s a moot point because this is not the sort of repair I would do and it’s not likely worthwhile. The anti-repair tactic that I condemn is the one that blocks owners from hacks that make the device more useful than the read-only state.

I wouldn’t consider “hacking” a drive to continue using it when you shouldn’t a repair.

(emphasis mine) This is the nannying I am calling out. If someone can make a degraded product useful again, it’s neither your place nor the manufacturers place to tell advanced users/repairers not to – to dictate what is appropriate.

As far as I’m aware it’s to comply with JEDEC standards.

It’s over-compliant. Also, we don’t give a shit about JEDEC standards after the drive is garbage. The standards are only useful during the useful life of the product. From your own source:

In the consumer space you need that time to presumably transfer your data over.

I need a couple weeks tops to transfer my data. It’s good that we get a year. Then what? The drive is as useful as a brick. And needlessly so.

I just don’t see how using a drive into the period where it’s likely to fail and lose data,

That’s because you’re not making the distinction between reading and writing, and understanding that it’s writing that fails. The fitness to write to a NAND declines gradually with each cycle. Every transistor is different. A transistor might last 11,943 cycles and it sits next to a transistor that lasts 10,392 cycles. They drew a line and said “10k writes is safe for this tech, so draw a line there and go into read-only mode when an arbitrary number of transistors have likely undergone 10k writes”.

The telemetry on the device is not sophisticated enough to track exactly when a transistor’s state becomes ambiguous. So the best they could do is keep an avg cycle count which factors in a large safety margin for error. So of course it would be an insignificant risk to do 1 (or 5) more write cycles. Even if the straw that breaks the camel’s back is on the 1 additional write operation on a particular sector, we have software that is sophisticated enough to correct it. Have a look at par2.

against specification,

It’s not “against” the spec because the spec does not specify how we may use the drive. Rightfully so. The spec says the drive must remain readable for 1 year after crossing a threshhold (which BTW is determined by write cycle counts not actual ability to store electrons).

is a good idea.

Bricking by design is a bad idea because preventable e-waste and consumerism is harmful to the environment. I write this post from a 2008 laptop that novice consumers would have declared useless 10 years ago.

Let alone a right to repair issue.

Of course it’s a right to repair issue because it’s a nannying anti-repair tactic that has prematurely forced a functional product into uselessness. I am being artificially blocked from returning the product into useful service.

I don’t think this is right to repair tbh. You can’t repair the SSD in this state?

“Repair” does not necessarily mean returning to a factory state. If a machine/appliance/device breaks and the OEM parts are no longer available, and you hack it to serve your purpose without restoring the original mint state, that’s still a repair. My bicycle is loaded after-market parts and hacks in order to keep it in service. The fact that the parts function differently does not mean they cease to repair the bike.

In the case at hand, the drive is crippled. To uncripple it to get back some of its original functionality to some extent is to repair it.

Which click “ignore” after not reading the message informing them

That’s not how it works. Though it would be feasible for an OS creator to implement such a click-through hack, that’s on them. ATM it does not exist. It’s unlikely that OS suppliers would want that liability.

A good majority of users aren’t anywhere near as tech savvy enough to understand what’s going on.

Nannying those who do know what they’re doing is not a justified propoposition when low-tech users can still be nannied nonetheless. Anyone who implements a one-click automatic dialog as you suggest would be at fault for low-tech users getting stung. Publishing an ATA password for hdparm users gives a sufficient hurdle for the tech illiterates without nannying advanced users.

That indeed makes sense from a purely practical PoV, if you neglect right to repair. But the drive maker (Apacer) is effectively denying users their right to repair through the nannying. Your approach is good for repair avoidance but still supports anti-repair suppliers in the end.

I don’t quite follow the connection between retailer size and planned obsolescence. Do you have a Cliff’s Notes? Youtube has become a shitshow since Google now treats Invidious and Tor with hostility. We can no longer consider YT videos to be openly reachable. I am essentially blocked from YT.

(edit) I was able to find a rarely working invidious instance and fetch it. will watch it later.

Oki (formerly Okidata) has always had the ethical higher ground, above Brother, AFAICT. Brother does partake in ink waste shenanigans with their inkjets. IIRC, the only negative with Oki is they write that non-Oki toner voids the warranty – but don’t they all?

⚠ But note that you cannot be in the US. Oki pulled out of the US marketplace.

This is click baity. Have a look at some of the laws:

https://pirg.org/media-center/release-all-50-states-now-have-filed-right-to-repair-legislation-over-last-8-years/

Things like wheelchairs, farm equipment, and cars. Very narrow.

I’m not the least bit impressed and hope these examples are not used as an excuse to encumber the badly needed progress to fix things that matter apart from wheelchairs and veg. farm equipment.

IMO, Trump is more of a right to repair motivator because all the trade wars will make consumerism less attractive and thus inspire repair.

I mean, it would be an accident on Trump’s part and he will want to intervene to thwart r2r. But consider as well that the GOP is theoretically all about shifting power to the states and reducing federal power. This will be a source of cognitive dissonance for the retarded tyrant.

What if you want to sell the house

I’ve not read the contract yet. Considering they include removal an reinstallation labor for free if someone renovates their roof, they theoretically might as well relocate them to another house when moving within their service area (which is constrained as well by the region of the green certificates).

What happens when you want to exit the contract within the 30 years?

Certainly you can buy the gear. And if you buy all the panels you are out of the contract. Price per panel as they age is something like this:

• years 0-5: €850
• years 5-10: €750
• years 10-15: €650
• …
• year 30: €0

If you want to exit the contract and return the panels, I have no idea. But since these prices seem to be heavily inflated to cover their labor, I imagine it’s quite uninteresting to return the panels because they likely factor in the labor.

When the sun is shining at peak brightness, what’s the guarantee that you get to use all of it?

All the boxes have LCDs. The 1st box shows the power generation. Then another box shows what of that you are consuming. I don’t recall what the 3rd box shows but I can only imagine it’s the energy fed to the grid. I assume the original electric meter is still installed, in which case it might be possible to check the math.

There could still be shenanigans because it’s probably hard to verify. I think as a low consumer I might be better off buying the panels and getting an i/o meter (not sure what the correct term is but something that compensates me for what is fed back to the grid).

Anyway, I appreciate the reply. I’ll have to mirror some of those questions to the supplier.

I can only guess. I don’t think that could even be in contract. My guess:

• another company buys it: the buyer takes over the contracts
• liquidation: normally assets go to the creditors. But every homeowner is a creditor for the property in the future. So I think a reasonable court would just turn ownership over to the homeowner. OTOH, the energy company is also a party to the deal because the energy supplier gets the unused power. Perhaps the panels would be taken over by the energy supplier until the 30 year mark.