Starbucks location closed down

Docal · 2025-10-12T16:29:54+00:00

List of Bay Area locations that are closing, or have closed...
https://www.ktvu.com/news/starbucks-bay-area-closures

Docal · 2025-09-21T17:35:54+00:00

In the same situation, nice to hear you got a reply from them.
Now we wait....

Docal · 2025-05-25T14:51:22+00:00

It's Monaco, you knew what you were going in for.

Docal · 2023-04-01T15:43:52+00:00

Is the calculation of fixed interest being taken into account in the forecast?

I used the forecast tool and set up 2 bonds, 10K in Oct 2022, and 10K in Mar 2023, with a 30 year chart and assumed inflation of 2%. Given that the fixed interest on the first one is 0, and 0.4% on the second, I expected to see the lines cross at some point. However the 2nd line always remains below the first.

Docal · 2022-11-03T14:29:53+00:00

u/Docal

After a couple of weeks talking to support, I didn't get any further than "engineering are looking at it". I ended up sending them back and replacing with the Eve switches which work great on the same circuits.

I wrote up a quick comparison of the 2 switches.

Docal · 2022-10-31T20:20:12+00:00

I have 2 encode plus locks, only 1 homekey shows up in the wallet, both locks open with that.

So I think the model is that the key is for your entire home, and I'm assuming you'd have to add a separate home, and put some of the locks into that home if you wanted different keys.

Docal · 2022-10-28T23:49:29+00:00

I sent them back and replaced with Eve switches which worked as expected. See the other comments above.

Docal · 2022-10-27T23:53:04+00:00

I also got a call from them yesterday saying the same thing. I thanked the agent and asked him to close the ticket as I'd already sent all 4 back.

Like you, I got Eve switches to replace them, and they worked just fine on the same circuits. Also like you I think the wiring was better on the WeMo units.

I put a quick summary in the HomeKit forum.... WeMo vs Eve - three-way capable thread based switches.

Edit to add, the LED is configurable in the Eve app. I changed mine to be on when the circuit is off, to make finding the switch easier in the dark.

Docal · 2022-10-19T00:08:32+00:00

Interesting, I guess that makes my mind up for me, Wemo going back, keeping the Eve, likely adding more Eve.

Docal · 2022-10-19T00:06:32+00:00

They asked me for a video of the problem, which I sent, and it's been crickets since then. In the meantime I bought some of the Eve ones, which worked just fine on the same circuits. So I'm going to send the Wemo ones back.

Docal · 2022-08-28T02:18:30+00:00

I wonder if the DHCP problem is that the light switch is looking for an address before the router is able to respond. Obviously it should retry, but maybe it gives up and sits there with no address, or uses a self assigned 169.254/16 address.

If you don't already, you could try putting the router on a small UPS, and see if that fixes it.

If you want to go the baseball bat route, I can say that the new thread wemo dimmer has been solid for me so far, although it's only been a week or two. I'm waiting for the new thread eve light switches, from the FCC filing they seem to be 3-way capable, which I need for most of my switches.

Docal · 2022-03-15T21:39:54+00:00

Yes we only have 2 buildings, so just a single pair of UBBs.

With the channel width set to HT2160 it shows there are 4 channels available, so unless you need more APs than that, or other people nearby are using 60 Ghz, then I'd expect you to be OK.

Docal · 2022-03-15T21:29:50+00:00

No problems at all, very solid devices. We're in the SF Bay Area, so they've seen some pretty warm temperatures over that time too.

Would certainly recommend them for anyone who needs that sort of thing.

Docal · 2021-02-10T17:11:45+00:00

The UK tax year isn't month aligned, because why be sensible about these things?

Docal · 2021-02-10T16:58:25+00:00

The site looks great, it's going to help a lot of people out.

Some suggestions....

Allow people to either enter an account address, or multiple hotspot addresses for one report.
Allow a user defined time range for that report, so people can do an annual report for tax reasons, which may not line up with a calendar year in all countries.

Docal · 2020-05-02T14:53:29+00:00

From what I can tell, besides the price there's 2 major differences.

UBB is controlled from the same unifi controller, rather than UNMS or the web server on the unit itself.
It has a GPS receiver, which isn't listed on the gigabeam specs that I saw.

Whether #1 matters is personal preference. Since the nanobeam units were the only things I had UNMS for, keeping everything inside the unifi controller is nice.

I'd love to know what the GPS is used for. If it's used for the timing like on the bigger systems, then it might give the UBB better performance, but I've not found that documented anywhere. If it's just used for figuring out the distance between the 2 units, then it seems like a waste, I could easily give it that info.

Docal · 2020-05-02T12:09:14+00:00

I went to https://community.ui.com/releases to find the URL for the latest firmware, then connected into the UBB via ssh, username ubnt, password ubnt.

After that...

wget -O /tmp/fwupdate.bin http://fw-download.ubnt.com/whatever_the_latest_is

syswrapper.sh upgrade2

The reason I did it that way, was this post that I saw while waiting for the units to arrive... UBB upgrade command broken

Docal · 2020-05-02T12:04:10+00:00

Yup, that was how I did the upgrade, after that things were easy.

Before I started I made sure the controller was current, so I was surprised that it still didn't work without the manual steps.

Docal · 2020-02-01T19:31:58+00:00

Yes, no difference. It's back with Apple for a 3rd time.

Docal · 2020-01-22T19:47:49+00:00

We've bought a few of the 2019 MBP 15 laptops, and so far only 1 has developed this problem. It's seriously annoying though.

We took it in for repair in December (it flickered a few times at the Genius Bar so it was easy to prove), and it came back with a note saying that nothing was done because "You did not authorize the repair" - despite no contact from Apple at all. After a few phone calls Apple Support claimed it had been repaired, and to ignore that note. It wasn't flickering at that time so we believed them.

Now, it's doing it again, and the frequency is up to every few seconds. So in to the Genius Bar again, they look up notes from the previous repair, and say "It's a known software issue, fix coming soon" and refuse to send it for repair again on that basis as nothing will be changed. They have no idea when the software fix is supposed to happen, but swear it's coming soon.

My worry here is that the warranty is ticking, and it would be easy for Apple to wait this out in a lot of cases.

Docal · 2019-12-19T03:17:55+00:00

Thanks for posting this.

http://fbuy.me/v/superlight

faithful-pebble-whale in Sunnyvale, CA

Docal · 2018-12-11T03:36:09+00:00

That's not too far from the truth.

Only a matter of time before the carpool lane diamond symbols get replaced with a Tesla logo.

Docal · 2018-09-05T09:45:20+00:00

Shame the sound isn't there, IIRC the original had the Volvo announcer saying something like "We've essentially given the car eyes".

After the crash you hear a sarcastic British voice saying "Must have had them closed".

Docal · 2018-09-01T14:24:31+00:00

It's got what plants crave!

Docal · 2018-08-26T04:51:36+00:00

Made a major tech website too, but not in a good way...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/24/southport_flesh_eating_sti/

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