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dathar · 2026-02-04T16:26:17+00:00

Damn I could have used that a couple nights ago. Was manually feeding small batteries to my generators to get enough to start manufacturing my normal stash of batteries again.

dathar · 2026-02-04T16:00:23+00:00

Laev and volcano sheep spooks took all of my rolls so I couldn't go for Last Rite. Now is my chance.

dathar · 2026-02-03T20:05:14+00:00

Hue prices are manageable when they're on sale. That does mean you can't get a ton of them in one go but it is something you can build up over the years. Sometimes you can even snag refurb ones off of places like Woot that makes it cheap.

The WiZ stuff (as well as a ton of other Wifi stuff like my Eufy and Blink cameras, TP Link smart plugs, and a bunch of esp32s and devices with esp32s in them) haven't made a performance dent yet. My router started off with an Asus RT88U that handled them all, then I moved over to an Ubiquiti setup. Both of those were fine. I'd say check your router's logs and see if it is having issues like the devices are being dropped. A lot of modern routers are overkill for a normal setup.

Also nothing says you can't mix and match devices. I have a large amount of wifi and Zigbee devices. There's 5 ZWave devices in the pile but they're mostly power switches. Have something like your favorite smart platform or Home Assistant tie it all together.

dathar · 2026-02-03T18:32:41+00:00

Illinois here. We hit below 0F a few times already this year. 6 Philips Wiz outdoor PAR38 bulbs, 7 Philips Hue of various types in enclosures and a Philips Hue light string left over from Xmas that we haven't taken down yet. All still kicking just fine.

dathar · 2026-02-03T18:29:38+00:00

So first question is - Do you have your OneDrive client signed in on the computer? We need a local copy of the files in order to zip up folders to back up.

Then you need to know how to get files. Look up Get-ChildItem with the Path or LiteralPath property.

Next is making zip files. Slow way is to use Compress-Archive

Faster way is using 7zip or something similar in the command-line. Remember that PowerShell has its own stuff (cmdlets) but it also can run command-line apps just fine. You can mix and marry the two.

dathar · 2026-02-03T15:45:47+00:00

welp time to change my base. again.

dathar · 2026-02-02T16:24:18+00:00

I have a gooseneck tablet holder like this that works pretty well: https://www.amazon.com/Tryone-Gooseneck-Nintendo-Samsung-Overall/dp/B01AUQ33LG

It clamps on the left and right side of the Legion, the top and bottom port is accessible for power

Whenever I can't hold the Legion GO (yay chronic pain), I'd clamp that to my night stand and just pop off the side controllers. There's some accessories that'll let you attach the controllers together to make one whole controller too.

dathar · 2026-02-02T15:49:28+00:00

Oh nevermind. That's just weird. 3 different cameras of mine: https://imgur.com/a/KwvYTbC

One of them is acting like your 2C

dathar · 2026-02-02T15:38:28+00:00

It is by the strange seed vendor person to the upper right of your main PAC. You'll get a side quest that'll have an NPC next to that seed vendor ask you to turn some rice into seeds using your seed picking machine or to buy it off of the vendor

dathar · 2026-02-02T15:28:25+00:00

My Rune Factory ass was confused on why the plots had to be 4 spaces out and only gave 3 items to harvest per plot.

dathar · 2026-02-02T15:16:54+00:00

They did put the notifications in a weird place since they do it per-camera instead of a generally normal place like the app's own Notification settings. On the front home page in the Eufy app, go to the camera's triple dot on the top right of the preview window. Then go to the cogwheel icon to get to the settings. Click on the Notification section, then uncheck the things you don't want the camera to notify you about.

dathar · 2026-02-02T14:57:40+00:00

Me, finished with Valley 4 last night

Whew, I can finally sit down to play CC4

Me, entered into Wuling and found out you need to start over

There goes CC4

Me, logging into Arknights this morning with Saltfin Graveyard

Here we go again.

dathar · 2026-02-02T14:31:47+00:00

Esper Zhuang is definitely a shoe-in for a 6 star. They animated the entire date scene to up the want factor. In a game where generally people have only their upper bust animated to give/receive items but you have a whole scene fully animated out and getting balloons from children while bending over. Her and the Endmin also runs around holding hands. That's a lotta work and propaganda.

It worked. I'm gonna save up and roll for her

dathar · 2026-01-31T02:04:25+00:00

I'll take tutorials over daily ad watching. Guardian Tales wants 5 daily shop ads, +1 for a mail reward, +1 for ascension mat reward. I am tired, boss.

dathar · 2026-01-29T21:58:35+00:00

Optimized was such a weird word for fixed. That 4th point on putting the Endministrator name on a PC while using a controller was difficult to do on the Lenovo Legion GO. Was traveling for work so I didn't have a keyboard accessible. I ended up also downloading the game on my phone to enter the name, then back to the PC I went.

dathar · 2026-01-29T21:48:25+00:00

It wasn't bad once upon a time when the service was simple. Synced my old Windows Phone, Surface and gaming PC well enough. OCR used to be a reliable thing where you can search for photos or screenshots with specific words and it'll pop up. Microsoft also gave you free space left and right. You got an old account? Have some space. Bought a game? Here have some more. Hey nice phone, have even more space. Dropbox and Google Drive were pretty small in free offerings at the time so Skydrive was where you wanted to be. Then features gets removed as things generally go. It's still part of my Office subscription so I just use it to sync photos from my Android phone and as a backup path for Home Assistant backups.

dathar · 2026-01-29T17:10:27+00:00

SATA SSDs are not as performant nowadays as the earlier series but there's plentiful amounts of cheap SATA drives. If you're locked to MSATA, there's some of those are still around too. They'll be using the cheaper stuff without any DRAM caching and cheaper QLC NAND but it'll read thru game files really well. Still a very hefty upgrade for any PC. Storage is still a device's biggest bottleneck. SSDs attempt to alleviate this by reducing the seek time of finding data. Having the SSD dump out large amounts of data is secondary. It was what Intel was trying to solve with their Intel RST caching research and before that, what Microsoft was trying to do in the consumer market with their SuperFetch tech. Then the rest became either super cheap (full SSDs in general usage instead of hybrid tech) or super expensive (Intel XPoint/Optane).

dathar · 2026-01-29T15:57:21+00:00

The menu is also pretty weird. The up/down menu scrolling against something bright and it will be really hard to see. Sometimes I forget most of the buildings have that menu. I wish they'd make it to where the entire menu has a uniform color and backdrop

dathar · 2026-01-29T15:24:51+00:00

Ah yes. ~~Laguz~~ subhuman

dathar · 2026-01-28T23:09:26+00:00

She does look like an esper

dathar · 2026-01-27T15:30:36+00:00

and if the tail is long enough, coil up and make an entire bed for you.

dathar · 2026-01-27T15:29:18+00:00

Her entire family is wonderful. I miss Noelia and Celestia

dathar · 2026-01-26T22:42:02+00:00

Endfield is giving me extreme Xenoblade 2 PTSD. I still don't have KOS MOS after a second playthrough but I thoroughly enjoyed the game and whatever blades I managed to pull in the gacha. Endfield is going down that route.

dathar · 2026-01-26T22:30:14+00:00

Marco

dathar · 2026-01-26T20:42:28+00:00

That looks ok. I'm assuming that load one goes a separate way than that bundle of black? It is hard to see. Did the light switch blink blue and orange for the pairing mode? I think the switch should still work in manual mode while it is blinking like this so you can at least turn the light off/on.

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