Yep, and living in CA that’s almost 10%.
10.25% here! I need their store card. Jeesh, I remember the days of no sales tax on other-state transactions. The golden days.
Readit Newsqingcharles commented on How Not to Buy a SSD andrei.xyz/post/how-not-t... · Posted by u/speckx
If there is a Micro Center near you, they have been reliable.
I recently had to replace an entire array of SATA SSDs with models that could support DRAT/DZAT*. Their Samsung 2.5" SATA SSDs came with the original Samsung stickers sealing them, and they scanned each one to attribute it to my purchase. I'm sure it as much to protect them as me, i.e. that if I returned a drive, I gave them back the drive with the exact Device ID that originally came in that package. Nonetheless it was reassuring for me as well.
*For anyone who uses SATA drives attached to an SAS HBA, please check that your SATA drives support DRAT and DZAT. Unbeknownst to you, your drives may be failing to TRIM when connected through your HBA!
Micro Center ran one of those "Free 128GB flash drive next time you drop by!" offers last year. I picked one up. It was fake :(
qingcharles commented on I made a floppy disk from scratch kottke.org/25/08/i-made-a... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
8" drives having lower density, I would think that is easier.
Right. He's making a disk in this video, though. In the movie they have the disks and no drive :)
qingcharles commented on What about using rel="share-url" to expose sharing intents? shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/edent
Does this mean that, when the user clicks a "share to social.network" button in random.com, the browser would first request the full html page of social.network (in the background) only to parse the rel="share-url" link? Seems a bad design.
That's how I'm reading it? It's a bit clunky, but sometimes you have to be pragmatic :(
qingcharles commented on What about using rel="share-url" to expose sharing intents? shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/edent
tiktok share links also dox you. they have a banner with the name and profile picture of the person that shared it
Facebook's too.
qingcharles commented on I made a floppy disk from scratch kottke.org/25/08/i-made-a... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
In the new Mission: Impossible film they're tasked with making an 8" disk drive from scratch. That should be his next video :)
qingcharles commented on I made a floppy disk from scratch kottke.org/25/08/i-made-a... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
Come on, it's absurd to think that we all follow a stereotype. Some of us use emacs.
You monster.
qingcharles commented on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org giuliomagnifico.blog/post... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
I'm going to plug fastmail. Rationale:
(1) tech support that actually reads your messages and replies with a solution demonstrating comprehension of the message that you wrote. Amazing. I've emailed them twice and gotten a great response both times.
(2) it is the best UI I've seen outside gmail;
(3) They have continued actively developing their UI, with nice updates released perhaps in the last 6 weeks.
(4) keyboard shortcuts that work
(5) Instead of inbox 0, I practice inbox 50k and it handles it fine.
(6) I just had a decade-anniversary there and I've never regretted it.
I think I'm over 20 years using Fastmail now? It just works. I've never had a single ounce of trouble with them. Their support is great. There are few products in life that I would recommend without question, and Fastmail is one of those. If only every company was this good.
qingcharles commented on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org giuliomagnifico.blog/post... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
I'm on fastmail with an xyz.dev domain and keep a gmail for legacy purposes. Unfortunately some email validators will reject my short FM address.
Right. Everyone has to keep a Gmail address as backup because of all these edge cases. For one, some domains (like yours) are just rejected. I tried to register an account with a huge corporate SMTP provider recently but they've not updated their allowed gTLD in 10 years and their devs fought me for weeks telling me it was my domain that was wrong, not their system until they finally gave in.
And secondly, many sites, like Reddit, use a Gmail address as some sort of signal of quality. You can avoid a lot of new account bans on Reddit simply by registering with a Gmail instead of your own domain.
qingcharles commented on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org giuliomagnifico.blog/post... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
Fastmail is kind of a weird service. If you stop paying they release your email for someone else to take over. Pretty unacceptable this day and age.
This does not appear correct. I lost my original account in 2013 and the handle is extremely unique, and I just tried to reregister it, and it won't allow it. ("Sorry, [redacted]@fastmail.fm has already been taken.")
Are you sure you didn't confuse domains? My original handle is on fastmail.fm, but it will let me register that on fastmail.com.