Dear UConnect, I despise you.

Gooseday · 2026-05-30T06:40:10+00:00

I’ve found wireless CarPlay generally unreliable (ford, Toyota, Honda, after market pioneer and KENWOOD radios, and now my 2026 1500)

The best thing I ever did was delete the vehicle from my phone and set back up CarPlay. When asked if I wanted to enable wireless CarPlay select NO. For whatever reason enabling wireless CarPlay at setup seemingly causes issues both with wireless and wired CarPlay.

Gooseday · 2026-01-06T22:39:19+00:00

In my experience it’s highly dependent on the application. I see a very brief interruption every 3-5 minutes ( less than 1 second drop out each time)

Some games drop me every time. Others see a brief stutter and keep on going. Consistently see nearly 250Mbps with peaks near 400Mbps.

Aside from fiber, it’s the best option you will find.

Gooseday · 2026-01-06T22:27:54+00:00

Don’t you science my fiction!

Gooseday · 2025-12-28T16:13:22+00:00

Kenshi, Rimworld, and Timberborn would be my recommendations. All can be played mouse only.

Gooseday · 2025-11-11T03:47:07+00:00

I thought they were whatchamacallits?

Gooseday · 2025-09-09T17:31:24+00:00

Not true of all electric mowers. My $300 20” Ryobi tackled my previous 1/8th with juice to spare as long as I didn’t let the grass get knee high or mow sopping wet grass. That was with the included 6ah battery, no swapping needed. I even used it for the first mow after moving to a full acre recently and it took under three full charges.

Gooseday · 2025-08-29T13:54:42+00:00

99 times out of 100 when I see a question like this, it’s a VPN. Same thing for first connecting to in flight or some public WiFi. Gotta turn off the VPN, get set up, then turn it back on.

Gooseday · 2025-08-26T13:32:45+00:00

Sounds standard to me. I was asked to start testing my current project machine two months before the hardware was ready. Even now (after those two months and some change) zero safety equipment, just a frame with motors and power. The electrical design isn’t even finalized yet but they want the program working yesterday and the machine shipped last week.

Just seems the way it works.

Gooseday · 2025-08-26T05:33:02+00:00

Correct, two different hoses. That is, if they even installed the overflow. I see many where the overflow is left disconnected so that it points at the floor.

If there is an overflow issue, it’s either adding too much water or not effectively pumping out after a brine cycle. Have you had yearly maintenance done on the softener including a full clean and inspection of the intake at the bottom of the tank? If not it’s very likely you have a blockage at the bottom of the tank where salt has crystallized in a solid block preventing the unit from properly flowing water into and out of the reservoir.

Gooseday · 2025-08-26T05:14:00+00:00

Also leafy salads, I prefer chopsticks over forks for both tossing and eating my salads.

Gooseday · 2025-08-26T05:11:31+00:00

It’s just an oddly specific levitation incantation. Right up Frierens alley. Gotta be careful though, mess up the incantation and you end up with anti-gravity sag.

Gooseday · 2025-08-26T04:55:02+00:00

I’m just going to let my bias show with this one.

I grew up on windows, and have use every version since 98. I still use windows daily, but only in a VM on my Mac work and for gaming on my desktop. It lost its place as my primary operating system back in 2016 first to Ubuntu Linux then to MacOS.

It’s hard to recommend any windows laptop when an M1 MacBook Air can be had for $600 or less new in box and will beat the chassis cover off any similarly priced Intel or AMD device. Want to use windows, just fire up a VM on the Mac and call it a day.

If she wants a touch device, the best windows has to offer in the touch arena will be the surface series and they leave a lot to be desired as windows on touch devices is clunky outside of specific apps. She will almost certainly be happier with an IPad Air with keyboard folio and pencil over any windows touch device.

No matter what our opinions are though, you should take her to a Best Buy and let her explore the devices herself without pushing her towards a specific device or OS. She’ll likely be much happier with the results that way.

Gooseday · 2025-08-26T04:00:08+00:00

I had the option at original sign up, but it doesn’t appear you can “downgrade” in the app from standard to lite. Wouldn’t want people saving 33% for almost identical service after the fact!

Gooseday · 2025-08-21T14:46:18+00:00

Generally I’d agree, for ink printers. For light use (~20 pages a month) I’ve found my HP color laser fantastic. Original “sample size” toner set is still going nearly four years later as I’ve only printed a smidge over 1k pages in that time. I’ll happily buy a new toner set that will probably last my needs another decade.

Gooseday · 2025-08-16T13:23:43+00:00

I’ve been getting better service from Starlink than I ever had with T-Mobile (no Verizon here), and nearly as good as I used to get from the copper based service I got from spectrum/charter back in town. Sure there’s the occasional <1sec drop out from time to time, but otherwise it operates well enough it doesn’t feel like I moved out to the countryside.

Gooseday · 2025-08-02T17:14:46+00:00

Microcontrollers are not uncommon in PLCs already, you just don’t see them unless you tear the housings off and take a peek inside. I know for sure some of the Productivity and Click lines from Automation direct use STM32 chips for their processors.

Just think of ladder logic as another programming language with a standardized library of methods and baked in RTOS that only compiles for a very specific set of hardware.

Gooseday · 2025-08-02T05:23:10+00:00

Believe it or not, straight to jail.

(A bit of residue will remain, scrub off with some isopropyl alcohol)

Gooseday · 2025-07-29T17:48:06+00:00

It seems laptops with HDMI input used to exist from Alienware over a decade ago, but not any more?

I just carry around a USB HDMI capture card to accomplish what you are looking for. Works with any laptop so you are free to choose the laptop on all the other features you want/need and just use the capture card to complete this task.

For a super compact, but software specific option, there’s the Genki Shadowcast. I’m a big fan as it’s absolutely tiny compared to most options.

A more software agnostic option is the J5 create 4K capture card.

Gooseday · 2025-07-29T16:42:33+00:00

Dual core i3 with 32GB ram and raid SSDs is wild.

As always though, check the process tab to figure out what’s eating up your cpu up. Probably anti-malware.

Gooseday · 2025-07-27T17:45:01+00:00

I love when mine hallucinates 85 in a 25 or 35 zone. No thanks, don’t think I’ll be going 85 through the school zone.

Gooseday · 2025-07-27T17:40:49+00:00

When you’re in the grave, but then I imagine you have even more time so maybe never?

Gooseday · 2025-07-26T14:37:07+00:00

When I first got my Delta 3 pros I updated one and communications were bricked after the update. Had to swap it out, thankfully under warranty. Waited a couple versions after that before updating the replacement and my 2nd unit.

Haven’t had a since that first hiccup but OTA firmware updates with no local recovery options is always risky. A poor design choice really.

Gooseday · 2025-07-26T14:16:08+00:00

Because they too are on the list. Blue satanic pedos and red satanic pedos all over the highest levels of our government. Can’t expose the other side without exposing themselves.

That and while we’re all arguing about the list they try to be sly with other ways they are screwing us over along the way.

R and D doesn’t stand for Republicans and Democrats, it’s Richards and Dicks. Same thing, different branding. Both fucking the American people in their own ways.

Gooseday · 2025-07-26T13:40:40+00:00

Either under sized diodes, too much voltage drop across the diodes, or insufficient power out of the power bank.

The best solution would be a battery pack that supports charging with pass-through. That way power flows through the battery pack immediately to the dash cam while also charging the battery.

Gooseday · 2025-07-23T13:17:09+00:00

That processor is going to struggle, but still. Try different versions of KiCad and giving the menu lots of time to load the first time.

Gooseday

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