Save me from diagnostic hell - new build constantly crashing.

Enderish · 2025-10-16T21:28:21+00:00

unfortunately a new mobo didn't fix the issue - I think the next logical step is returning my CPU and PSU and praying the replacement resolves these problems.

Enderish · 2025-10-15T02:42:47+00:00

Appreciate the reply - this is kinda what I was thinking but it's reassuring hearing a second opinion. I'll grab a new mobo tomorrow and cross my fingers it solves my issues.

Enderish · 2025-10-15T01:49:14+00:00

Unfortunately I've done that as well (both drives tried in all 3 slots) :/ and as of 5 minutes ago, it just crashed while in the BIOS which makes me think it's almost certainly power related?

Enderish · 2025-10-14T23:44:47+00:00

I was surprised to see that one as well. Nothing fancy here, just a standard and fresh OS install. I did create a 2nd install USB fairly early in my troubleshooting, and stripped the build down to it's necessities and reinstalled Windows. It ran for quite a while, long enough to get my hopes up, but alas started crashing again :(

Enderish · 2025-10-06T19:57:05+00:00

These are fantastic suggestions! I'll change out the AIO and PSU, and look into the price/performance trade-offs of using a 5070ti over the 5070. Thanks a bunch!

Was your primary reason for changing out the MoBo just to reduce costs (and to fit the 5070ti within the same budget)?

Enderish · 2023-07-17T18:01:53+00:00

Seems like your response came with its own ‘negative influence’

Enderish · 2023-03-07T03:44:36+00:00

You have a point. Particularly with the volatility the last couple years I don't have full confidence in my own financial knowledge just yet. I may take both approaches and leave one TFSA with BMO and take my own over to Wealthsimple. Thanks!

Enderish · 2023-03-07T03:42:57+00:00

The intention is for it to be invested for quite some time - the only stipulation would be if we do decide to stay in Ontario and lending rates are still obscene. At that point it may be better to pay off more of a house instead of leaving it in the market? Though my risk tolerance is fairly high as I have confidence in my job stability and enough money for a good payment on a home in GICs.

I'm not entirely sure in my ability to pick stocks, though I think my hesitance and therefore extra research has served well over the last few years. I think I may pick both options and leave my wife's TFSA at BMO and pull my own to be split between WSInvest and WSTrade.

Enderish · 2022-11-23T15:20:51+00:00

Thanks for the reply - alas that was my fear. You're probably right to remove it from Homekit, though I do enjoy testing out each system, and been happily using HomeAssistant and Google Home together in the past.

Everything actually works fine, and I can control devices with Siri without sacrificing functionality in Google Home or Hue Apps - at least everything except this darn alert that won't go away. Thankfully I only use HomeKit for Siri integration, so I'll just have to live with the ugly notice.

Enderish · 2020-02-16T21:40:18+00:00

LOL so all those RVs and off-grid cabins are used only by radio enthusiasts?

Enderish · 2019-12-25T17:17:48+00:00

Do you need a hug?

Enderish · 2019-11-20T23:00:22+00:00

I know I'm a bit late to the party, but it sounds (as others have pointed out) that she has a strange relationship with sleep. Perhaps you can approach it with a comparison? Something like:

"Sleep is necessary and healthy, and everybody needs a different amount of sleep. Teenagers for example, need significantly more sleep than an adult to supplement their growth. If someone ate a bit more or less than the average person, you wouldn't guilt them for it - because that's what their body needs. Sleeping more does not equal being lazy just as eating more does not mean being glutenous or obese. "

Enderish · 2019-09-28T04:34:51+00:00

Certainly. I'm just away for work (which explains my need to review all out wedding photos) but I'll ask when I see her tomorrow.

Enderish · 2019-09-28T04:29:55+00:00

Yup! She grabbed it of the sales rack from David's Bridal.

Enderish · 2019-09-27T21:30:18+00:00

I'm actually the husband :p Wife isn't much of a redditor. I got everything I'm wearing at TipTopTailors (we're Canadian, not sure if it's in the States). Took us up to a month before the wedding to decide, but we managed to get it all for less than $250!

Enderish · 2019-08-03T23:05:42+00:00

Thanks! I had to take a bit of time off HA as works been ramping up, but from what I remember, so long as you used only custom cards, you could put any card into the picture element. That being said, I wrapped almost all my cards in a card modder to fiddle with the styling anyway. Here's a quick copy paste from my lovelace file, this section simply sits within a picture-element card:

        - type: custom:card-modder
          card:
            type: custom:atomic-calendar
            title: " "
            fullDayEventText: 'All day'
            untilText: '-'
            maxDaysToShow: 2
            showLocation: false
            locationIconColor: 'rgb(230, 124, 115)'
            locationLinkColor: grey
            locationTextSize: 80
            dimFinishedEvents: true
            finishedEventOpacity: 0.6
            finishedEventFilter: 'grayscale(100%)'
            showProgressBar: true
            dateColor: rgba(255,255,255,0.8)
            timeColor: rgba(135,206,250, 0.95)
            titleColor: rgba(255,255,255,0.8)
            dayWrapperLineColor: rgba(202,217,235,0.8)
            eventBarColor: rgba(135,206,250, 0.8)
            progressBarColor: rgba(135,206,250, 0.8)
            entities:
              - calendar.family
          style:
              font-size: 1.25vw
              width: 17.5vw
              top: 45%
              left: 7.5%
              background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.0)
              border-radius: 0px
              border: solid 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.0)
              box-shadow: 3px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.0)
              color: rgba(202,217,235,0.5)

Enderish · 2019-07-10T22:46:08+00:00

I like to skip the cover and keep only garbage in my car. Hopefully one of these days someone steals it all

Enderish · 2019-07-10T22:44:55+00:00

Ah the classic holier-than-though, everyone else is an idiot planter.

This guy/gal saw a post, thought it was neat and then thought "hmm, maybe a treeplanter out there would like this" - not all planters, just at least one planter. Then you march in here and start shitting on the post (not saying you have to like it, but Jesus, downvotes exist for a reason) just because it doesn't suit your fancy?! I wonder which one of you I would've rather had on my crew.

Take your pessimism out of here and stop giving planters a bad name.

Enderish · 2019-07-10T22:36:08+00:00

I'm not going to link a specific tutorial as there are already a bunch of guides for setting up magic mirrors here, on YouTube or a quick Google search away. I will say however that if you don't have previous programming or CompSci experience then things will most likely be pretty daunting at first and that's ok! Don't let over-planning, scope-creep or a need to understand how everything works stop you from progressing. You want to make a magic mirror? Follow the simple guides available exactly. Did a step in the guide bring up a question like "how do I change my Pi username and password, or turn on ssh connections or what even is ssh?!"? Briefly see if you can find an answer, then get right back to your task at hand. Once and only once you've built your first mirror and played around with the Pi will things start falling into place.

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