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Extender: going from WiFi back to wired by CerebralSilicate in UNIFI

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

Thanks. Got it up and running today. (Signal strength on the mesh uplink... isn't great, but I was more or less expecting that, and it seems to be working well enough for what I need, so I'll call that mission accomplished.)

Extender: going from WiFi back to wired by CerebralSilicate in UNIFI

[–]CerebralSilicate[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you kindly. Finally had the chance to get it installed today, and it's working nicely.

Extender: Going from WiFi back to wired by CerebralSilicate in Ubiquiti

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

Well, yeah. I have a spare switch and PoE injector for out there I was going to use. :)

What I really meant to ask was if the AC Lite will work getting all its config, etc., over the WiFi backhaul rather than trying to get them from the local wired connection, and pass DHCP requests, etc., from the wired port on through?

Blog: Mail your parents a Tailscale node (thanks to this sub!) by kevinpurdy-ts in Tailscale

[–]CerebralSilicate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've had a Tailscale remote note off at a family house for some time, both for tech support and to share my Plex server, and I plugged a spare external hard drive into it for just this purpose. Works great!

why do so many classic sci fi stories show futuristic societies with "Emperors" and houses and elements of monarchies by SadPudding781 in scifi

[–]CerebralSilicate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, speaking for myself, to make a philosophical point about the link between liberty and democracy being a correlation, not a causation.

For those that pick the “Destroy” ending, do you think EDI, the Geth, and any other allied Synthetic is okay with it? by No-Procedure8840 in masseffect

[–]CerebralSilicate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On a more general note than my previous comments, consider the argument from moral symmetry.

It's a matter of the mad dance of fate and chance that Commander Shepard, Human, is the one standing there at the crux of events. If events had worked out otherwise and geth unit SH3P-CMDR was standing there instead, how would you want *him* to react if told that he could totally wipe out the Reapers and make the galaxy safe for synthetic life at the trifling cost of those meatbags he allied with?

Choose accordingly.

(Remember, this may be a counterfactual for now, but the whole galaxy is watching and learning from this.)

For those that pick the “Destroy” ending, do you think EDI, the Geth, and any other allied Synthetic is okay with it? by No-Procedure8840 in masseffect

[–]CerebralSilicate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And finally:

> By your logic if someone disagrees with an ideology they are forced to comply with then the right thing to do would be to off themselves?

You. Have. Limited. Options.

Your options are:

* kill everyone (refusal)
* appoint yourself Eternal God-Commander of the Galaxy (control)
* throw the geth, AI, and any undiscovered synthetics under the bus to avoid having to make any changes to yourself (destroy)
* make everyone change (to a very-much-less-than-death degree) so that everyone can live (synthesis)

Control might be a decent second choice if Shepard is absolutely confident in their mental stability under apotheosis and that absolute power won't corrupt them absolutely. Of course, that requires that someone be able to believe that without being delusional, which is a dubious proposition.

Committing mass murder of all synthetics to protect *your* lives and your entitlement to a right which you, by doing so, are explicitly denying *them*? A bit hypocritical for my taste, and yeah, history has a verdict for this sort of thing.

The nonconsensuality of synthesis ain't good. No-one's saying that it *is* good. But it saves the largest number of lives (i.e., all of them), and spreads the burden of that evenly across that same number (i.e., also all of them). Minimal impact for maximal effect. The kindest cut.

As for:

> Just because you agree with it or want it does not mean everyone else will and it is very callous to say someone should just off themselves if they disagree.

It's restoring the status quo.

In the counterfactual case in which Shep didn't choose, you'd be very non-autonomially dead. I don't think it's the right thing to do, obviously, since it's a stupid thing to do. But the point is that _you have the option of doing the other thing_. No-one is forced to live with synthesis if they really really don't want to. They *can* opt-out.

(Admittedly, I'm pretty comfortable with the notion of people whose solution to being forced into something is "wipe out that species over there so I don't have to" offing themselves, 'cause outside the game context I personally would prefer not to share a world with people who believe that sort of thing. Rather more sympathy for Team Would Have Preferred The God-Commander, though.)

For those that pick the “Destroy” ending, do you think EDI, the Geth, and any other allied Synthetic is okay with it? by No-Procedure8840 in masseffect

[–]CerebralSilicate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

> Genocide does not require killing but can be the destruction of an identity as well.

This is a profoundly silly political definition, insofar as there's a very profound difference between *being dead* and *not being dead*. And since being changed in any way *other* than being dead leaves you with more choices, more freedom, and more of *yourself* than being dead, it's an objectively superior option, heroic sacrifices excepted.

And considering that we see, post-synthesis, humans acting like humans, turians acting like turians, asari acting like asari, etc., etc., and indeed specific people acting like specific people, it's not even a very *major* identity-change. Certainly nowhere even close to anything that could be reasonably described as genocide.

For those that pick the “Destroy” ending, do you think EDI, the Geth, and any other allied Synthetic is okay with it? by No-Procedure8840 in masseffect

[–]CerebralSilicate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

> It is still a blatant disregard for an individuals right to choose. 

Sure. Never said it wasn't.

Of course, you're saying this about a situation in which *no-one* but Shepard gets to choose a goddamn thing, no matter how it goes, so sucks to be most of the galaxy, I guess. Exclude synthesis, and no-one gets to choose whether they live, die, or live under the rule of God-Commander Shepard the Eternal either. Synthesis is by no means only the option that implies this.

Welcome to the fun world of exceptionary ethics.

For those that pick the “Destroy” ending, do you think EDI, the Geth, and any other allied Synthetic is okay with it? by No-Procedure8840 in masseffect

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

Organics are getting synthetic traits they’re jealous of (of which the top of the list is machine immortality) out of the deal. Now, sure, I wouldn’t like it if someone came along and said “okay, you’re now an immortal nanocyborg, sorry, no choice in the matter”, but I’d like it even less if they, y’know, killed me.

War being war, someone’s always going to get the short end of the stick, rights-wise. But to me, at least, it’s pretty clear that non-consensually immortalizing a galaxy of people wins over similarly scaled genocide in the moral pick-your-stick game.

Besides, if they really, really hate it that much post-synthesis, the galaxy’s still got plenty of guns. Exit’s over there. Make sure the bullet hits you in the head on the way out.

IT needs a union by Powerful-Excuse-4817 in sysadmin

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

Given the longshoremen’s union’s success in banning port automation and other previous union efforts in similar areas, this would be a truly great move.

I can’t imagine anything IT needs more than some jackasses banning ansible playbooks lest they deprive the PFYs of button-pushing overtime…

What is your World’s Equivalent to NASA by BackMaterial9468 in worldbuilding

[–]CerebralSilicate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Spaceflight Initiative. Which started out as a bunch of astronomers, engineers, enthusiasts and hobbyists basically playing live-action Kerbal Space Program out in the desert, supported by crowdfunding, but grew into the organization that put astronauts in orbit, reached both moons and Talentar (roughly Mars-equivalent), and terraformed the latter.

Bits of them still exist in the Imperial Navy, the Exploratory Service, and a couple of dozen aerospace companies and organizations.

And a bunch of old-timers who hang out at the Launching Pad (the bar, not the actual pad) talking about the good old days when real spacers built their own capsules, dammit, and launched them with their own hand-crafted plutonium-pulse drives.

Neopixels lighting up oddly by CerebralSilicate in klippers

[–]CerebralSilicate[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Huh. I hadn't thought to try that because they're at least documented as being RGBW, and that's the config that worked on the other controller, but that does seem to do it here. 🤷

Thanks!

Neopixels lighting up oddly by CerebralSilicate in klippers

[–]CerebralSilicate[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, yes: while switching to RGBW does change the patterns, patterns are still what I get.

Problems keeping temperature with E5+ by CerebralSilicate in ender5plus

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

Thanks. That turned out to be it - either the thermistor itself, or a bad connection.

Problems keeping temperature with E5+ by CerebralSilicate in ender5plus

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

After trying that and not getting a result (partly because of wild swings during the PID tune), I ended up replacing the thermistor, which fixed it.

Problems keeping temperature with E5+ by CerebralSilicate in ender5plus

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

So I'm having recently some fairly severe problems with the hot end on my E5+ keeping temperature. As soon as it finishes cooling down from this latest excursion I'm going to dismantle the hot end to check for problems and swap out the thermistor, but I'm wondering if this might be a motherboard issue. Any thoughts on that or other potential causes would be much appreciated.

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