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net: Airbnb We’re having trouble redeeming your gift card
If you get this dreaded message, be aware that they have a time-bound limit filter; if you add too many gift cards at once, they block it, so you need to go to support and patiently get a payment specialist to unblock it. I can see why this happens. If you have fraud, then there…
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net: AARP Reward must use Safari on Mac
Well, one of the better deals right now is that from AARP (if you qualify!) you can get 5% off of gift cards on things like AirBNB. What isn’t obvious and has to be the first time it has happened for me, is that neither Chrome nor Brave on the Mac will correctly handle their…
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ai: Roo Code, Claude Code and Open WebUI Missing Manual 2025-07
Wow, what a powerful open source project, this is in the class of seemingly infinite AI Coders, but the use of “modes” (what the current hype calls Agents ), but it’s super great, although a little confusing to use, so here are some notes: Strange asdf and roo code interaction with claude OK, figure this…
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ai: Open WebUI -1 problems, more ram, $200 plans and ComfyUI URLs
OK, some miscellaneous but valuable comments in the AI journey Open WebUI model parameters redux The context length and other parameters of Open WebUI are really low, like 2K context windows. This doesn’t make any sense in the era of AI coding. Some defaults help a bit, which we’ve covered before. Like -1, but I…
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pod: RT9. Quick Test and more on Claude Deep Research
Another short test with YouTube, LinkedIn, but actually, the content is sort of interesting, how to do prompting and think of it like a programming language
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sw: Passport photo workflow redux
Every six months or so, I have to get some photos or visa photos, and it is so complicated (and who wants to pay $30 per photo). So here is the workflow that works at home:
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cell: At&T Hotspot strangeness and the magic of APN profiles and “dun”
Long story short hotspotting is great and we had great luck on light speed (T-mobile) on US mobile with Nexus 6 phones but sigh not this time: Net, net, the Android APN defaults are wrong from US Mobile at least for the Xiaomi phone. The APN profile needs to explicitly say “dun” in it or…
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edc: Setting Time on Casio Promaster C660
I know I’ve posted about this before, but with the very cool looking CITIZEN Promaster C660 ECODRIVE, I can never remember how to operate all the little buttons to change the time, but there’s a manual online: To make the analog hands change time zones, this is a little tricky: The idea is that you…
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ai: Local Builds and how much VRAM
Peter Kukol asked. Great question from months back. How do you run big models like DeepSeek AI or Meta Llama4 on consumer hardware? Should you go big on CPU DRAM or not? Long answer but… Yes, that’s what most people are doing:g buying a big CPU and lots of RAM and a few big Nvidia…
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ai: Best Local Image Models July 2025 and Comfy Missing Manual Addendum
Well, I’ve been keeping track of the latest models in Ollama. This is pretty easy because they have the latest list and we just rotate off old models, trying to keep the total models on the machine to 600GB (wow, that’s a lot!). It is convenient to have the latest sorting, so we can churn…