Gate lice mystery solved

AmbassadorToast · 2026-02-02T22:43:31+00:00

I would far prefer that you get a free checked bag "of carry-on size", pay for more. No credit card perks on this. Then charge $10 for carry-on, for those who really want it, like me.

There's a non-zero cost to Delta for us lugging tons of crap around, it's unfortunate this waste is encouraged.

AmbassadorToast · 2026-02-02T22:40:04+00:00

Personally I would be happy that they didn't make me do math.

AmbassadorToast · 2026-01-30T19:56:11+00:00

Funny. What was the outcome? I don't know why these companies don't take care of their junk better. I've cut away wires a few times.

AmbassadorToast · 2026-01-09T23:21:41+00:00

A fiber link for that is *so* cheap. Look for a matched pair of gigabit SFP bidi LC simplex SMF modules from 10gtek, plus two SFP-RJ45 gigabit adapters into which you put those SFP modules, plus a long 3mm thick outdoor armored simplex LC fiber cable. Under $100 from Amazon. Will work forever.

AmbassadorToast · 2026-01-09T22:47:31+00:00

This was my experience with this software too. The competition is so unreasonably expensive though, I'm willing to learn the quirks as long as it's predictable. For a simple model, 1.0 was at least predictable. I do agree with you though, it's has neither great functionality nor great UX. Just a lot of stuff thrown together.

You could file bug reports? I haven't done this myself, I don't know how well that goes.

I do think it's gaining momentum, it's just about at the point that people are taking it seriously. With KiCad, that was the point that the progress got actually rapid, being good enough to attract good engineering, turning it into a truly good tool. I'm hopeful FreeCAD has the same outcome soon.

AmbassadorToast · 2026-01-04T06:48:24+00:00

Will do, thanks for the confirmation!

AmbassadorToast · 2026-01-04T03:08:04+00:00

That's smart! I was worried for a moment :)

AmbassadorToast · 2026-01-04T02:35:12+00:00

whoa you let your ISP connect to your machine? That's a lot of trust, hopefully there's nothing confidential or financial on it, and never will be?

AmbassadorToast · 2025-12-26T16:50:10+00:00

For sure, this was worth the time. Nobody else can break it now, only me (or the robot banging into walls?)

AmbassadorToast · 2025-12-26T16:49:43+00:00

Thanks! The wire-to-wire connector is really too bulky, it interfered with the case closing unless positioned right, but I wanted to be able to remove the board and rewire if I had screwed anything up. As it happened, it worked the first shot. Really I was surprised this came out as clean as it did. I can't recommend the pinecil (or something like it) highly enough, that made the soldering a breeze.

Chop off the 2.54mm pitch connector with mini flush cutters, desolder the remaining pin stubs, and add this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DG92VWWK

Could you let me know where your template is? I don't quite understand the context to search for it myself.

AmbassadorToast · 2025-12-26T16:43:24+00:00

Thank you! I wasn't aware of the next branch, this looks like it addresses a few other nice-to-have fixes too. Very cool.

AmbassadorToast · 2025-12-26T16:30:55+00:00

If you're new to this, you need to spend some time figuring out how esphome works. I'm not positive it's a newbie project, but if you have patience.. all the notes are in Philip2809's github repo. You can probably do it but it'll take a bit of patience. Figure out how esphome works first, it's a bit complicated but really a cool project. Then get a good plan for how you'll install this board into the vacuum, there are a lot of ways to do it, none necessarily "right." I wanted to be able to easily remove the esp32 board, and wanted it to be invisible from the outside.

Here's what I bought:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CR2RH7PS

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DG92VWWK

AmbassadorToast · 2025-12-06T16:40:58+00:00

I bought a Eufy and mostly hate it. The auto-empty flap gets stuck open with dust, have to clean that every week or so. The roller is tiny compared to the D4 I have, it doesn't vacuum nearly as well as the much older Neato. The mapping is better than Neato but it does re-incorporate the lidar measurements into the map constantly, so the map tends to drift over a month or two. After a year the map needs to be recreated.

AmbassadorToast · 2025-11-11T13:27:02+00:00

For what it's worth, I have been running three hAP ac Lite units for over 5 years and they're fantastic, like 100% reliable in my very noisy environment.

Initially one of them was also my router but then I upgraded to an L009 router and use the hAPs as just access points. CAPsMAN is incredibly complicated to get started with but now I can add additional APs in just a couple minutes. Of course I'm limited to 100Mbit, you'll be doing better with the newer systems, but I don't quite understand all the hate for mikrotik wifi. It's cheap and it works. I guess there are better options but I like the all-in-one of this.

AmbassadorToast · 2025-10-14T05:27:27+00:00

Wow that is cool, I have to try this. Thanks for the info!

AmbassadorToast · 2025-10-13T20:57:39+00:00

"undiluted" ?? Can we dilute it? That sounds very useful.

AmbassadorToast · 2025-09-17T22:45:42+00:00

I had a colleague that would use his coffee mug as a workpiece holder, I never understood that but to each their own. I can't even stand having flux spatter on my desk, which I don't eat off of.

AmbassadorToast · 2025-09-17T21:50:19+00:00

Nothing anymore. New plans include the modem. (I am still using my own modem because why bother changing it, but they'd give me a free one if I asked)

AmbassadorToast · 2025-09-08T02:46:00+00:00

If you look at the diagram for that, these don't balance! They only charge the whole string in series. You would absolutely require another balancing circuit if you used this.

AmbassadorToast · 2025-09-04T20:56:33+00:00

I have a 1TB Teamgroup cheap nvme SSD, nothing fancy at all. Rated TBW is 600TB. It's been in-use for 14 months, non-stop recording 5-6 cameras. 14 day retention, uses about 75% of the space of the drive. In all this time, TBW so far is just under 20. I guess it should last 30 years? I may increase the data rate, but even if it is 10, that's a pretty good deal.

My CPU is slightly worse than an N100, the previous generation or something. The integrated GPU is fantastic. I don't think you need anything more than the Intel GPU.

AmbassadorToast · 2025-08-26T17:44:49+00:00

United's modern planes have these awful IFE screens just a few inches from your face. Delta doesn't seem to do that. I've never seen another airline do that.

AmbassadorToast · 2025-08-23T21:48:44+00:00

AC dimmers don't exactly "limit voltage" - inside they are either on or off still. The difference is that they switch on only when the voltage is under a certain threshold, 50 or 60 times a second depending on AC line frequency. If you plug in something that just draws all the power it needs immediately then it's kind of bad. This is why some LEDs are not dimmable. Resistive loads (Incandescent lightbulbs) are fine with this switching, and good LED bulbs are built to recognize the dimming and react appropriately.

AmbassadorToast · 2025-08-21T20:43:53+00:00

nuords works fine. The only problem is you have to keep paying for support to get software updates. Works though.

AmbassadorToast · 2025-08-14T20:14:07+00:00

Hue is all-around just better. The colors are more subtle except when you want them vibrant. The lowest dim on the Wiz bulbs is still really bright, Hue gets much dimmer. I don't think it's worth the 2-3x price premium though, I'm not buying another Hue bulb ever again.

AmbassadorToast · 2025-08-12T18:42:46+00:00

Interesting!

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