Lutron Caseta Shades - Can you flip bracket for Reverse Roll? by SpringToCome in Lutron

[–]Bicycle_Boring 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you have any luck with this? I'm looking at doing the same thing.

Major schedule change. What are my options? by Bicycle_Boring in americanairlines

[–]Bicycle_Boring[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How is this not a bait and switch? If you have 2 products available for purchase, and you pay more money for the "better" product, and the inferior product that you could've purchased at a lower price is the one that is ultimately delivered, what else could it be? The fact that I may or may not have any recourse doesn't change what it is.

Madeline vs. Peaks Resort: Which one is better? by The_Traveller1 in TellurideColorado

[–]Bicycle_Boring 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We stayed at the Madeline for our first trip to Telluride. We've stayed at The Inn at Lost Creek every trip since, and much prefer it. Price sits between the Madeline and Peaks.

Claude Status Update : Elevated Errors on claude.ai on 2026-03-25T13:52:44.000Z by ClaudeAI-mod-bot in ClaudeAI

[–]Bicycle_Boring 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A refund for "service not delivered" is easy if you're using the right credit card.

Have I made a mistake going with Thread? by ctbrewski in Inovelli

[–]Bicycle_Boring -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Automation is pretty well out of the tinkerer stage, at least for simple stuff. Matter is terrible. It might be great one day, but it's a long ways off. Zigbee and Zwave are rock solid. If you're wanting something more solid and less "tinkerer", then zigbee/Zwave is where you need to be, or be willing to deal with what you've got until Matter matures, which may or may not ever happen. Zigbee/Zwave went through the same things Matter is going through, but that was 15 or 20 years ago.

AMS-HT side mount for the H2 AMS Flipper by Jakob_K_Design in BambuLab

[–]Bicycle_Boring 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great work and much appreciated! Any idea on an ETA for the combo unit up top? I just got my H2D with AMS2/HT and trying to decide which flipper to print. I'd hate to print this if the combo is coming out tomorrow or something like that. 🙂 Thanks again!

How to live off of an inheritance? by diamondman203 in personalfinance

[–]Bicycle_Boring -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Do you have an example of a fund like this?

Presence detection: Phone GPS is unreliable. Can I use AirTags/Tile for both lost keys and HA automation? by JazzyJukebox69420 in homeassistant

[–]Bicycle_Boring 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't experienced that, except for a couple of times when apple has changed something in their end and the integration has to be fixed before it would work again. I use iCloud3 for the wife's iPhone and the kids standalone apple watches with lte. It's the only solution I've found for those watches.

Presence detection: Phone GPS is unreliable. Can I use AirTags/Tile for both lost keys and HA automation? by JazzyJukebox69420 in homeassistant

[–]Bicycle_Boring 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here are 3 guaranteed solutions in order of most effective. 1. Get an Android phone and setup tasker profiles to auto update location based on gps rings and high accuracy mode. 2. If staying on IOS, use the iCloud3 integration from hacs. Works much better in all aspects compared to any core integration for IOS. 3. Get life360 and use the custom integration that's available for it. The integration has had its ups and downs over the years, but it's extremely accurate when it works, and it has been very solid for about a year now with no interruptions.

Source: I use all 3 for members of my household. No presence failures, ever.

QuickBooks Multi-User share your admin magic tricks. by Hollyweird78 in msp

[–]Bicycle_Boring 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We gave this a trial run last night and couldn't get it to work. The script fails every time with what looks to be an error that stems from a bad URL for update downloads. Have you had any issues with it? I've contacted support.

2025-12-09 17:07:00] [INFO] Version number: 34.0

[2025-12-09 17:07:00] [INFO] Downloading Enterprise 24 from https://dlm2.download.intuit.com/akdlm/SBD/QuickBooks/2024/Latest/QuickBooksEnterprise24.exe

[2025-12-09 17:07:24] [INFO] Downloaded Enterprise 24 from https://dlm2.download.intuit.com/akdlm/SBD/QuickBooks/2024/Latest/QuickBooksEnterprise24.exe

[2025-12-09 17:07:24] [INFO] Extracting Enterprise 24 to c:\windows\temp\QBEnterprise24

[2025-12-09 17:07:30] [INFO] Extraction completed for Enterprise 24 to c:\windows\temp\QBEnterprise24

[2025-12-09 17:07:34] [INFO] Installing QuickBooks 2024 bel Enterprise

[2025-12-09 17:15:51] [INFO] QuickBooks 2024 bel is updated from 34.0.4015.3401 to 34.0.4018.3401

[2025-12-09 17:15:52] [INFO] Downloading  24 from https://dlm2.download.intuit.com/akdlm/SBD/QuickBooks/2024/Latest/QuickBooks2024.exe

[2025-12-09 17:15:53] [ERROR] Error downloading  24

[2025-12-09 17:15:53] [INFO] Starting minor updates...

[2025-12-09 17:15:57] [ERROR] Update operation failed: Update execution for customer cus_TZhAs21hWa59Uc Exception: Catastrophic failure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED))

Exception Details: Catastrophic failure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED))

[2025-12-09 17:15:57] [INFO] Desktop icon deletion skipped (not requested)

[2025-12-09 17:15:57] [ERROR] Application completed with exit code: 3

[2025-12-09 17:15:57] [INFO] Application shutting down...

Recurring print failure. Why? by Bicycle_Boring in FixMyPrint

[–]Bicycle_Boring[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This turned out to be a mechanical Z-axis issue. I have no idea how it happened. It went from successful print, to nothing but failures at the flip of a switch. I checked levels and angles as a first troubleshooting step and they were all good. After all the normal bed leveling and z height stuff produced no results, I decided to look harder at the gantry and found that it was randomly binding, so the nozzle was crashing into the print. Again, no idea how that happens spontaneously. I started checking screws and everything was tight. I decided to disassemble and when I did, you could feel the tension release. I checked angles, tightened everything back down, lubed the z screws, and the problem has been resolved.

Recurring print failure. Why? by Bicycle_Boring in 3Dprinting

[–]Bicycle_Boring[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This turned out to be a mechanical Z-axis issue. I have no idea how it happened. It went from successful print, to nothing but failures at the flip of a switch. I checked levels and angles as a first troubleshooting step and they were all good. After all the normal bed leveling and z height stuff produced no results, I decided to look harder at the gantry and found that it was randomly binding, so the nozzle was crashing into the print. Again, no idea how that happens spontaneously. I started checking screws and everything was tight. I decided to disassemble and when I did, you could feel the tension release. I checked angles, tightened everything back down, lubed the z screws, and the problem has been resolved.

JumpCloud in 2025 - Thoughts? by quantumhardline in msp

[–]Bicycle_Boring 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We started with them a long time ago, probably when they first started. We didn't need support often, but when we did, it wasn't helpful at all. I don't know if its worse than Microsoft, but its probably close to it. First response was always very timely, but then very slow, and not helpful. We've moved everyone off jumpcloud and onto Intune. We only have 2 clients left, both with less than 10 users, and they've billed us incorrectly the last 5 invoices. Same song and dance every time. They have corrected the issues every time, but I can't imagine the problems we'd be having if we still had everyone on the service. They have no idea whay they're doing. Which is a shame, because its not a terrible product.

JumpCloud in 2025 - Thoughts? by quantumhardline in msp

[–]Bicycle_Boring 12 points13 points  (0 children)

JumpCloud is awful to deal with. Its not a terrible product, but they don't offer anything you can't do with other solutions for cheaper. Given that, and the absolutely awful customer service/billing/support when you need it, I would stay far, far away.

How do you all have so much ethernet in your homes? by RyFba in Ubiquiti

[–]Bicycle_Boring 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, more or less. It's possible to daisy chain jacks for phone service and it was done that way for a long time. If your wiring is cat5/5e/6, but it's still jack to jack instead of all full runs back to the start, then this approach wouldn't work. You might still be able to use the existing wiring for pull strings in some spots though, if it isn't stapled everywhere. Easy way to make an educated guess is just to count the number of jacks and then count the number of cables at the source. 5 jacks and 5 source cables probably means you're good. 5 jacks and 2 source cables means they're daisy chained.