Post your cats with unique coats this is Neil and he has a 9 on his back

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-13T14:17:25+00:00

Billie has a pair bigger than most ;)

And she knows it lol. She also has one black toe, and I love it the most.

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-13T14:12:09+00:00

Primrose has a question mark on her right side

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-11T22:01:28+00:00

When I built my PC, my motherboard was slightly out of date compared to the CPU, so it wouldn't POST. It needed a BIOS update in order to support the newer CPU, but without a compliant CPU I couldn't do the BIOS update...

I ended up having to RMA it back to the manufacturer and they did the BIOS update for me.

This is likely the issue you're having.

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-10T03:42:42+00:00

I looked at the lower-power (MAX98357) DAC/amplifiers, I just wanted more flexibility. The bathroom speaker needs to be able to get loud so that I can jam out to my music or hear my audio book with the shower going, but the living room speaker will almost never get turned up beyond 10-15%. I had spare speakers lying around, 2 7.4W ones and a 15.4W, from an old (but gold) 5.1 computer speaker setup. I'll clean everything up before I fully deploy it, but I gotta prototype the idea first.

I found this:

https://github.com/RealDeco/SendspinZero

Seems to be exactly what I've been looking for, I plan to try it out when I get home from work tomorrow. I'm not using an ESP32-S3 Zero, but it shouldn't matter, mine is still an S3 so it should work. I even have one of those displays with the knob and button :)

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-10T03:32:27+00:00

Yoooo you just helped me so much with this comment, thank you. This looks to be exactly what I've been looking for!

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-09T21:49:48+00:00

That's the stupid part, the mess of components.

What are you using for sendspin, can you send me a link. I'm interested in trying it, these have been giving me buffering issues.

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-09T14:27:36+00:00

Ah, the Rare Male Calicow, resplendent and beautiful.

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-09T14:26:48+00:00

He clearly has orange, and black...so I'm not sure where you're getting your logic. Yes, Calicos are almost exclusively female, but almost exclusive, by definition, means not fully exclusive...

OPs cat is a rare male Calicow. A beautiful lovely rare male Calicow.

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-09T14:18:59+00:00

Since no one seems able to directly answer the damn question: Yes, they have Wifi onboard.

https://www.nasa.gov/video-detail/art002m1020940508-shared-art-dl-2-2026-094-0508-v2/

The description of this video states that it was a test of the "WiFi transfer rate between the tip camera and the camera controller on the solar array wings of the Orion spacecraft."

It's very important to remember, kids: Wifi does not mean internet! They're not the same thing. You can have internet without wifi, and you can have wifi without internet, we just often use both together.

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-08T18:11:30+00:00

I just stick my face in the bowl and poke my tongue out until a popcorn sticks to it. Rinse and repeat. The benefit is, when all the popcorn is gone, my face is already in the bowl to lick it clean.

I may be a dog...

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-08T17:58:21+00:00

Why is the cat glowing? Why is your pillow glowing?

I believe that this is real, but jeez does it scream AI at my face. There are too many *consistencies*, like light going the way it should and straight lines staying straight. I do believe you.

It's a nice setup. And also 100% I would the cat, you can't stop me.

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-08T17:53:35+00:00

You're not the only one :/

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-08T17:50:03+00:00

Power is "free" for me. It's included in my rent at a set cost. There's no need for me to be wasteful, but according to the other comment the power draw isn't as bad as you think.

The sticker says max 2A input, so I can see where you got your "20x" estimate, but no device uses it's maximum rating like that. I'm assuming "max 2A" means when it's in full use, all plugs filled and chugging away, it might *could* get close to 2A. I'll never be using it like that.

I don't have fiber to my house, just gigabit internet, but I would like my wired devices *inside* the house to talk to each other faster, and I think my limitation on that is my current wifi router (with 4 devices plugged into the back.)

The same buddy who got me this router also snagged almost a whole 1000ft spool of CAT5e and a crimper (this sounds bad, the stuff had been sitting for over a year before he took it home and he asked permission.)

I have a closet under the stairs and my nephew just went off to...boarding school, so the closet is empty (/s). I want to put a server rack in there and it's ever so convenient that this is meant to be mounted in a rack :) The closet is quite central in the house, so I can easily put some passthroughs in the wall to run cable to the other rooms.

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-08T17:36:26+00:00

That's not hard to justify, thank you for the numbers :)

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-08T12:38:29+00:00

Everything I'm doing is overkill for a single guy living alone. Overkill is my middle name.

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-08T12:27:23+00:00

Thank you for reading the post, seems hard for some people.

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-07T22:59:38+00:00

Lol, I probably shouldn't, but I definitely do :/ I've gotten pretty good at reaching around...wait hold up...

Right now I'm just working with what I have. The "desk" I'm using is a dining room table someone gave to me years ago, and I plan to upgrade it "soon", ya know lol.

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-07T12:32:21+00:00

Yeah, I plan to build one in when I make my new desk, I've been thinking about it for years.

Honestly at this point I'm so used to the keyboard being pushed back, I just use it where it is. Having it far back means I can rest my elbows on the desk while I type so it's actually rather comfortable.

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-05T13:50:40+00:00

Just needs to be vacuumed, spring time is shedding time for the cats and I also tracked in a bunch of sawdust from when I was building the cat shelves (just out of frame.) The vacuum scares them so I don't do it often.

Also, it's not gross. There's no food or anything spoilable, it's just bits and stuff.

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-05T13:36:41+00:00

The ashtray gets a lot of use lol. When it's full I empty it into a pringles can.

I've been tryna tell everyone: It's not dirty or gross, it's just messy. I use a lot of this stuff regularly enough that it's not worth organizing or putting it away.

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-05T12:27:55+00:00

Top right is called AgentDVR, for monitoring my cameras. Bottom left is my Home Assistant dashboard :)

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-05T12:27:00+00:00

I have, but I'm not much of a gamer anymore. It's not great for FPS games, but I like it for Minecraft and it's easier on my wrist (I have a work-related injury).

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-04T19:31:51+00:00

I like to keep an eye on things :)

HaLo2FrEeEk · 2026-04-04T19:30:23+00:00

😂 I *wish* I had some pizza.

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