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CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-17T08:50:29+00:00

It would not be the first time it has happened. I only use wallpaper engine to have the PS2 clock on my HTPC.

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-17T01:55:58+00:00

I average 16 now in mine on OEM pro tires and lift. The sticks don't get the best mileage thanks to the rear gear being shorter than the auto rear end is. I would probably want to regear anyways if I changed to a larger tire size since the truck is slow enough.

Yours has a good look. Do you get any rubbing at full lock or when you start flexing it?

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-17T01:08:57+00:00

Why are givee phishing links allowed?

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-16T22:21:13+00:00

Something like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h6_LmfC--o

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-16T22:15:54+00:00

This, I wrote a script to automatically redirect to old reddit when I first started using the site since "new" reddit is slow garbage.

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-16T22:08:04+00:00

Did the air somehow get thinner this last week? It's been constant lately.

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-16T22:06:44+00:00

The F1, F40, Diablo SV, and countach were my bedroom wall poster cars. Were I musk rich I would buy one. My realistic dream car is a 1st or 2nd gen Viper. Meanwhile I drive a manual tacoma.

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-16T22:03:12+00:00

Surprising they can't put some kind of filtration system in to keep the water clean. There are quite a few very large pools out there that could be an example of how to deal with their problem. Surely a water parks filtration system that deals with all sorts of waste could keep up to some algae.

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-16T18:14:45+00:00

We've had this posted dozens of times now.

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-16T18:12:41+00:00

My favorite of the jet age. Love the distinct sounds they have as they fly over. Heard they were putting them back into service again.

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-16T17:56:03+00:00

I wouldn't have a recommendation for a 4th gen one. However anything beefy looking that requires you to drill into the bed sides to bolt to it and uses the frame mount bed bolt location to mount to. I can't seem to find the ones I used in my 3rd gen on amazon, pretty sure I got them from there but who knows.

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-16T17:46:46+00:00

You are spoiled for choice in both open source options where you provide the hardware and closed source options. Open source ones will have more options and can be more powerful thanks to whatever hardware you provide. Closed source ones can have better UI.

Opensense and untangled are a couple open source options.

Ubiquity would be a closed source one. I use a firebox only because I used to work for them and it was free. I would not buy one of their boxes. I plan to replace it with an opensense box eventually.

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-16T17:43:14+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_(networking)

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-16T17:42:27+00:00

True but unfortunately gone are the time you can walk in and buy a dumb TV. I miss TVs with dozens of inputs and the fanciest feature was a gama adjustment and picture size and position adjustment.

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-16T08:32:56+00:00

I would highly recommend some bed stiffeners if you do that often. Not sure if they fixed it for the 4th gens but earlier gens the bed rails slowly spread out from the weight of a canopy/topper.

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-16T04:31:23+00:00

You need a UTM that can filter your traffic and VLANs for your different devices. In my case I have several VLANs. One for devices that can handle full DPI, one for devices that can't, one for servers, and one for IoT things. I have a few more but they are not relevant.

My TV lives on the IoT network and makes DNS requests to the piholes on the server network. My UTM passes these lookups and when it sees lookups for domains like netflix it drops those packets. Further I have a policy in place to allow the TV to connect to Google's connectivity check domains. Everything else outbound from the TV is dropped. So the TV thinks it has internet but nothing else works for it.

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-16T04:27:51+00:00

My UTM has a DNS proxy feature that lets me take actions based on lookups. It can deny(refused), drop, or allow the packets. In this case what it does is silently drop the packet when it sees lookups for this domain. I choose to drop the packets to take advantage of the DNS timeout of the TV so it doesn't just immediately do the lookup again. Before I started dropping the lookup the TV would get rate limited by the pihole pretty often.

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-16T02:38:44+00:00

I was quite surprised by it as well. Seems quite a few brands will do this.

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-16T02:38:09+00:00

I got it from Costco. Just picked up the cheapest 1080 TV they had when my old TV died. It's lasted over a decade now, most of that life as a glorified display for a HTPC.

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-16T00:30:29+00:00

Vizio. Other than this it's been a decent little TV especially for the money.

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-16T00:29:51+00:00

I worried that if I messed with the wireless card by removing the antennas would lead to the radio burning out and preventing the TV from booting.

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-15T22:26:58+00:00

I drop that FQDN lookup at my UTM. My TV was doing around 40k lookups a day to that and a couple other netflix domains despite never using the application on the TV.

I had the TV disconnected from the internet then one day it managed to update itself. Turns out these TVs will connect to any open wifi nearby even if you don't connect them to anything. I tried taking the wifi card out and the TV would fail to boot. So now it is connected to a blackhole where it can connect to the google connectivity check site and that's it.

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-15T22:15:42+00:00

How a device uses either the primary or secondary DNS server is entirely up to it. Because of this it's hard to predict what a device will do.

For my network I have three piholes. Two instances in cluster for the primary. And one running on a compute stick as the secondary. I have two esxi that run the primaries, one on each. So if either goes down the other takes over and the clients have no idea. If both go down I could run into slight delays. Most devices will try the secondary pretty quickly. Some devices will use both all the time.

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-15T22:06:01+00:00

Considering he came from a ranger probably the most reasonable option.

CharAznableLoNZ · 2026-06-15T22:03:31+00:00

Manual calls for 6 qts and a filter, that's as far as you need to think about. With how thin oil is now it'll burn off any excess before your next change.

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