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Does screen annotation work on it? It's loss in the wayland version of zoom has been a major pain for me at work.

Not annotating when you yourself are screen sharing, but when someone else is screen sharing you can draw on their screen(aka annotating)?

It was me guys, my cursor user agent switcher glitched out and somehow set my new account to "Privacy Mode (Legacy)" and it crashed all of cursor... /s

    > "They just banned all chinese inverters"

That's news to me, when did that happen?

I “installed” two APsystems EZ1-LV-NA microinverters at my house in Guatemala this year. It’s easy here because there is effectively zero regulation or monitoring by the power companies.

It was stupidly simple. I laid four giant ~700 W panels flat on my upstairs patio, plugged the MC4 extension cables into the microinverters, and plugged the microinverter into a normal AC extension cord running to a wall outlet. After less than 10 minutes of fiddling with wires, I was generating power.

Moving the giant solar panels was the part that actually took some effort.

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I’ve been following these types of systems for a long time, since before people started calling them plug-in or balcony solar. For the longest time, I thought they were just stupid. Paying a premium for an inverter that has lower input and output capacity than a string inverter, can’t be connected to batteries, and can’t generate power when the grid is down seemed obscene to me.

To be honest, I still think they’re kind of dumb. Why can’t microinverters provide a DC tap so that I can also connect them to a battery system?

All that said, as a middle-aged man who has now had to deal with electricians more than a few times, the appeal has become crystal clear. Microinverters basically exist because electricians as a whole are downright awful and rip everyone off.

I have a couple of thoughts on this blog post.

#1. This blog post says that this product is launching in closed beta for "eligible Enterprise customers" only? But I thought cloudflare was moving away from enterprise gated features?

    Ref: https://blog.cloudflare.com/enterprise-grade-features-for-all/

#2. Will this feature finally allow me to tunnel my game server traffic through cloudflared to gain ddos protection and other features?

Long ago "Cloudflare Spectrum" launched which is exact that feature but was for some reason priced obscenely and limited to enterprise only. Later "Cloudflare/Argo Tunnel" launched and it seems perfectly positioned to take over CF Spectrum's job but instead was, I think, intentionally limited to not allow tunneling UDP traffic as to not cannibalize Spectrum.

    Ref: https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/issues/215

Yeah I'm pretty sure I switch between chatgbt, chatgtb, chatgtp, and chatgpt quite often without realizing it.

Still everyone knows what I'm talking about.

Def sounds like a bubble to me. In my own bubble, ChatGTP is so well known over the others that people will often slip and refer to other AI services collectively as ChatGTP.

e.g. "I put it in chatgtp and..." when they actual asked Gemini.

Well to be fair they only kind of quasi-exist for consumers right now. As far as I can tell Crucial was providing the only consumer accessible lpcamm2 modules on the market right now.

Crucial is certainly the only option that comes up looking on amazon or newegg right now. Lenovo has some OEM modules but they are obviously marketed as replacement parts to just their laptops, not sure how the warranty and support for them would be outside a lenovo product.

But the Crucial brand was unceremoniously sacrificed by Micron to the AI gods at the beginning of this year. So will these lpcamm2 modules even be available once current stock runs out? The 64gb module is already sitting at $1000 on newegg.

Samsung is making lpcamm2 modules but no telling when those will actually hit the market and be accessible.

And actually typing that all out just unlocked a bunch of memories about how many times I've been:

    1. On a screen share support call with a mac user
    2. Asked them to pull up a webpage
    3. They pull up a super tiny ass browser window to the point I can't really see anything
    4. I ask them to full screen the browser so we can actually read shit
    5. The mac user just straight up panics or acts like like I've spoken an alien language to them.

The same process happens when I need a mac user to get to an apps settings that on a windows/linux computer would normally be under something like File > Preferences/Settings. They have no idea what I'm talking about or know just barely enough to know they don't remember how to do it and panic.

Then I have to go google it and remember that CMD+comma(⌘+,) exists and reveal it to the mac user like it's actual black magic. And then I immediately forget about it until 6 months later when I need to support a mac user again and I repeat the whole cycle again.

Maybe this explains some of the bizarre questions I've gotten from mac designers.

The other day I was explaining to one that their designs fixed width looks silly once it got up towards 4k resolutions. But the designers main concern was if people actually used full screen browsers on 4k monitors and if there was any point in thinking about the design at that resolution.

There are plenty of times I enjoy have 2 browsers side by side of even 4 browsers in a square, and being able to do that is one of the benefits of having a 4k monitor. But without a doubt the majority of my time is spent with a full size browser window open, and I observe the same from all the other windows/linux users I manage that use a 4k monitor.

In service of keeping this post simple, I've ignore system display/ui scaling. But still... the question/assumption from the mac designer completely blew my mind.

I've not much to say on the thermal printer part of this but the extensions they did to markdown are great. They had me double taking for a few seconds thinking they might be real markdown because they make so much sense.

    [align=center]    Center-align the following text (also left, right)
    [qr=https://...]  Generate and print a QR code

Deprecating align in html was a mistake.

> Its not slow like the on-prem. Jira cloud version is fine.

Seems like opposite land to me. Back in the day running Jira Server was the only way to get a snappy Jira instance. When they discontinued Jira Server to force everyone to the cloud it was god awful slow and forced us to abandon not just Jira but our entire Atlassisn stack.