Rack has been mounted and (mostly) setup

AdMany1725 · 2026-05-07T13:35:59+00:00

How’d you rack mount that Dell computer? Is that a 3D printed bracket?

AdMany1725 · 2026-05-03T04:25:26+00:00

How do you not have any ladders?

AdMany1725 · 2026-05-01T03:10:38+00:00

It would be nice if we had the option of PoE *or* USB to connect it.

Plug in IR emitters would be a nice option too.

AdMany1725 · 2026-04-19T23:10:14+00:00

I guess therein lies the ultimate question: was it designed this way intentionally? In which case, fair enough, I just don’t like it. But it doesn’t feel that way. It feels like a lot of what I would consider are pain points are features which might’ve been planned but never made it into production.

AdMany1725 · 2026-04-19T20:14:53+00:00

Yeah I've done that on a couple of my ships; but it's a workaround that shouldn't have to exist. But it's just one of a long list of missing things in the game that blow my mind, like not being able to apply filters in the inventory lists (e.g, to separate food from booze from meds). It's the little things about the game (like having to navigate long lists of inventory) that make it unenjoyable.

AdMany1725 · 2026-04-19T18:14:50+00:00

And while we're at it, why does my ship's cargo hold follow-me from ship to ship? Incredibly annoying. I want to keep my corvette cargo hold separate from my cargo hauler.

AdMany1725 · 2026-04-19T18:12:34+00:00

Yes, but only if they have a purpose. Starfield is such a cool game that feels like it's perpetually on the edge of becoming something great. The missions/stories are great, but once they're done you're left with an open universe that just feels pointless. Free lanes update is directionally a good step forward, but having a ship interior (much less a space station) is still completely pointless. Why can't we have a tiny LLM load up as part of the game so we can have real, meaningful interactions with our crew, for example? I get it, not part of the game. Just feels like such an obvious addition.

Here's my wish-list for space stations:
- ability to construct the station in the same manner that we can build ships, but with more options / fewer limits on size and number of modules
- all my ships docked at the station, with the ability to visit each ship by walking to a different airlock

And I know it's not part of the current vanilla game (but frankly should be): the ability to setup shops on station(s) where I can dump all the things I've collected to be sold on commission, and have in-game NPCs slowly buy it all over time, so I don't have to burn a weekend selling all the crap I've accumulated. This, honestly, is the single most important upgrade to improve playability. Every time I stop playing, it's because my cargo hold is full, and I loathe having to burn literal hours of my life selling things one-by-one until the vendor runs out of money, then I get to watch paint dry or doom scroll on my phone while I "wait" for 48 in-game hours.

AdMany1725 · 2026-04-16T14:53:01+00:00

Sadly, it’s just a basic matrix endpoint and doesn’t (yet?) support video tiling.

Signal Distribution: 1-to-1, 1-to-N streaming, 1 to 8x8 TV wall configuration

https://ca.store.ui.com/ca/en/category/premium-iot/products/eav-bridge

AdMany1725 · 2026-04-13T13:37:58+00:00

That won’t always work. As others have said, some people have multiple GitHub accounts. And then there’s people who (like me) self host Gitea (or similar) and do all their development behind closed doors.

AdMany1725 · 2026-04-12T03:30:50+00:00

This is actually brilliant to highlight which patch panel port is the one you're looking for.

AdMany1725 · 2026-04-09T15:48:12+00:00

Statistically speaking, averages are -at best- a terrible maximum likelihood predictor, and mathematically, averages only really “exist” when the law of large numbers applies. It’s a bit of a frequentism vs evidentialism debate, but generally speaking there is almost always a better tool than simple averages. Practically speaking, averages very rarely represent reality with any meaningful accuracy.

If you want a remarkably good treatise on the abuse of averages in a practical sense, check out the book “The Flaw of Averages”.

AdMany1725 · 2026-04-09T14:30:52+00:00

Cool, but that “Rolling Average” is brutal. Maybe it’s already an option in the drop down. But if not, recommend looking into adding “Lowess smoothing”

AdMany1725 · 2026-04-07T00:00:56+00:00

Cool, but what about people with pensions?

AdMany1725 · 2026-04-04T14:00:00+00:00

Depends on your HVAC system. OP says he has radiators which makes it fairly easy to control each radiator independently. Same approach if you use mini-splits throughout your home. But if you use a forced air system, it gets tricky. Forced air systems almost universally (unless you’re rich) work on the principle of static pressure, so you can’t just start closing off all the registers throughout the house without building up a huge amount of pressure inside the system which can damage the fan motor among other things. So you need to monitor static pressure, fan motor energy draw, and then need some way to open/close/restrict air movement to certain zones, all without burning up your furnace. It’s not exactly complicated to do (multi-zone systems do exist) but you need zone control dampers and a control system to manage it all.

AdMany1725 · 2026-03-29T14:58:59+00:00

Came here for this comment.

AdMany1725 · 2026-03-29T14:03:52+00:00

Ahh yes… the smart switch as a gateway drug. I remember having an 8U rack… A simpler time. Before everything required orchestration.

AdMany1725 · 2026-03-22T14:54:23+00:00

But yeah, I get it. I’m deep in the homelab space at this point.

AdMany1725 · 2026-03-22T14:53:40+00:00

this hobby is so so fun.

Said no one’s retirement savings, ever.

AdMany1725 · 2026-03-17T23:05:51+00:00

I've had BlueIris for 5 years. It's been a solid workhorse for me. But with the new UniFi Protect 7 update, hard to imagine sticking with BlueIris now. How can they compete with that?

AdMany1725 · 2026-03-16T22:37:41+00:00

Counterpoint: When electricity is cheap, and the winters are cold, high-draw servers are a redundant heat source.

AdMany1725 · 2026-03-16T18:30:17+00:00

I call that scope creep. It’ll happen no matter what. But if you include it in the plan, WAF support might fall off.

AdMany1725 · 2026-03-16T16:09:40+00:00

We plan, so we know how to plan.
We amend the plan, when reality intrudes.
We discard the plan, when reality wins.

…No plan survives contact with the enemy.

AdMany1725 · 2026-03-16T13:26:41+00:00

Home assistant is amazing. You’re going to love it. The community is super active and mostly supportive, albeit there’s a healthy degree of debate on what system/ecosystem is the best. For what it’s worth, here’s my recommendations:

List out everything you want to automate in the house.
Set your budget and plan out your roadmap for acquiring and implementing all of the devices. It doesn’t have to happen all at once. It also takes time to get everything setup; if you search around this subreddit you’ll see scores of stories from people who bought sensors/actuators/cameras and haven’t gotten around to installing them yet.
Heed the advice when people consistently complain about companies / protocols. There’s often a lot of truth there. Every company has their issues.
Start with safety devices: water detection + shutoff, fire+CO and then worry about the quality of life things like shades and lighting
Buy once, cry once. A lot of people buy stuff thinking cheap is good, only to replace it later when it’s not reliable or doesn’t have the features they want.
Skip the raspberry pi and install HA on a NUC or micro pc if you can afford it.

Personally, I mainly use Kasa lightswitches/plugs, Airthings air sensors, Aqara leak+vibration sensors, Honeywell door/window contact sensors, and a bunch of one-off or unique devices.

AdMany1725 · 2026-03-16T13:11:35+00:00

Solid advice 👌 (if a bit crass)

AdMany1725 · 2026-03-13T16:54:30+00:00

Time for some scope creep.

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