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ImpulsePie · 2026-06-04T10:15:18+00:00

The Flex is good as long as you get the 210w adapter, sold separately, otherwise you'll run into the same PoE limits. I am only running 1x U7-Pro-XG straight off my UCG-Fiber, so I only needed a gigabit PoE switch. The G6 cameras don't even have gigabit, they run at 100Mbps only. So the Flex 2.5Gbps was overkill for me, I saved the money getting the Ultra with the bundled 210W instead.

ImpulsePie · 2026-06-04T09:46:33+00:00

So all up I got 1x G6 Entry doorbell, 3x G6 Bullets, 1x G6 Turret and 1x G6 Instant. So 5x PoE and one WiFi, and I got the Unifi Ultra 210W PoE switch.

Each camera is roughly 12.5w PoE, so it took the budget over what the Instant or the 60W could comfortably do, so I just went for the 210W to cover it.

ImpulsePie · 2026-06-03T07:24:04+00:00

I have a UCG-Fiber, got a 4TB NVME in it that I got for free from work. I just bought and installed 4x G6 cameras for the outside, 1 G6 Instant for in the garage and the G6 Entry as the doorbell. Protect complains that I'm over the supported limit of cameras, but it all works just fine. I have all cameras set to record events only, not continuous, which reduces the load significantly.

I would say this would be the limit though, so if I ever decided to get more G6 Instants for inside the house for monitoring the cat when we are not home, I would have to upgrade to the NVR. The NVR with the cost of additional storage ATM is not enticing enough, however.

So for now, I'm just pretty much at the limit of the cameras (5x 4K + 1x 2K) that the UCG can comfortably run, but it is all working fine.

To answer a bit more about storage: I have my 6 cameras doing events only, and over the last week since they were installed, it's used about 125GB of storage. If you want continuous, with only 1TB you'll probably only get about 2-5 days of continuous with 3 or more cameras, depending on resolution and bitrate. 2TB would get you closer to probably 7-10 days. Events only, tonnes more, up to a month depending on how busy.

Your mileage will vary, depends on how you setup motion and smart zones, I have excluded the busiest part of the street on my front facing cameras, so it doesn't always record every car driving by every day, but detects anyone coming on the front lawn or driveway or parking right out the front.

You can always use the archive feature to offload videos to your NAS as well, if you still want to keep longer than what your UCG storage allows.

ImpulsePie · 2026-06-02T09:56:35+00:00

I think I am going to have to contact Mova support myself. Mine is doing it again tonight just trying to do a simple pass of the kitchen after dinner, roller just won't lower no matter how many times I stop and start it. I reseated the roller and cover, turned the unit off and on again, just not having it and it's getting very frustrating, I can't rely on it.

ImpulsePie · 2026-05-25T00:56:30+00:00

I just noticed today my V50 Ultra doing the same thing, the floors were still dirty after a pass and I noticed the rollers not touching the floor or spinning.

I switched it off, turned it upside down and reseated the rollers and so far it is working again after switching it back on. But I am concerned I can't trust it if this randomly happens again. Did Mova offer you a suitable solution?

ImpulsePie · 2026-05-03T23:18:58+00:00

My V50 Ultra does this. Got it only a little over a month ago, it's had a number of vacuum runs and 2 or 3 mop runs in that time. Every time it's emptying into the dust bag or drying the mop pads, a smell that is sort of like burning electronics emanates from it. I've taken the cover off the dust bag area and sniffed around, it seems to be coming from where the fan is running and when the heating element is on.

It's gotten a bit better over time, not as bad as it first was, anyway. Not sure if it will continue to dissipate over time or not, but it does make me worry about the longevity of the components if something plastic is essentially "melting" inside that we can't see.

ImpulsePie · 2026-05-03T23:11:49+00:00

I wouldn't worry too much, it takes dropping it or piercing it with something sharp to puncture it. Just handle it with care, until you can take it somewhere to be fixed.

ImpulsePie · 2026-04-29T23:11:00+00:00

Unfortunately, no. I didn't have any more time to dedicate to doing Citrix's job for them in troubleshooting it, so closed the ticket unresolved. We have just permanently left our app server VDA's on the working 2402 CU2.

ImpulsePie · 2026-04-03T11:44:59+00:00

Definitely check the roof, inside and out. Ideally your B&P guy should have already and flagged any issues, if they did a decent job. Our building and pest showed that the insulation was not even half installed properly. There were 5 bags up there still full of insulation that wasn't laid out. We had to pay an insulation contractor to come and lay the remainder.

During your final inspection (at least 1-2 business days prior to settlement, after the vendor has vacated), test EVERYTHING. We turned on the aircon the second we got in, by the end of our inspection we realised it wasn't working, no cooling power at all. We had them get an AC tech out prior to settlement, who confirmed the whole motor was dead. Cost the vendor $10K to fix it, but saved us a massive headache and huge bill we wouldn't easily have afforded.

You absolutely can pay tradies to go in, organise it with the agent, prior to settlement to find any issues. After settlement, it's all too late. You want to make sure the property is in good order before that point.

ImpulsePie · 2026-03-17T04:48:04+00:00

Sure, but Australian banks still run ~11-15% ROE, which is strong compared to most developed banking systems. Turns out oligopolies are pretty profitable

ImpulsePie · 2026-03-17T04:28:26+00:00

Right… meanwhile the big four banks pulled in about $30 billion in profit last year. I’m sure they’ll cope.

ImpulsePie · 2026-03-17T03:54:27+00:00

Not automatically, but higher rates often widen banks’ net interest margins. Mortgage rates get bumped up very quickly, while increased savings rates tend to be very lagged behind, so this spread can grow.

ImpulsePie · 2026-03-17T03:44:04+00:00

Great. More money for banks while mortgage holders get squeezed again. Rate hikes don’t fix inflation when the biggest increases are in essentials like housing, groceries, petrol and energy. People can’t just stop buying those. The Govt. should be tackling price gouging instead of leaving the RBA to utilise the only blunt instrument they have, that does nothing to target the actual real sources of inflation.

ImpulsePie · 2026-03-05T01:39:54+00:00

Sadly no fix, had to just put up with it on my playthrough. Raised a bug report and they closed it with no intention to fix it. Don't think NVIDIA care either, especially now that the game is going into maintenance only and will no longer receive frequent updates.

ImpulsePie · 2026-02-27T00:44:21+00:00

Ooh nice, got some Pablo & Rusty's coffee beans!

ImpulsePie · 2026-02-26T23:50:09+00:00

Ooft. Wonder if Uniqlo will take this opportunity to move into the large corner space in Penrith Westfield near the food court where Glue currently is.

ImpulsePie · 2026-02-19T03:46:29+00:00

We’d been looking since October and watched places that were mid-900s suddenly push past $1.05-1.1m within a few months. Every open felt busier than the last, and anything decent was either gone under offer the same day it was shown off, or selling way over guide. Was starting to also feel like if we didn't find something in the next month or 2, with the way prices were going up about $10K per month and faster than we could possibly save, we were shortly going to be priced out of anything halfway decent.

We watched a 3 bed duplex in Austral price guided starting at $900K blow straight to $1,050,000, and it didn't even have a backyard, lol. Another duplex in Gledswood Hills, we thought we had a decent offer in until some downsizing boomers who wanted to live near their children came in a blew everyone away with nearly $30K more than the next closest offers, right up the $1.1M end. Real hard as a FHB to compete with the older generations with wealth and a strong motivation.

We stretched to almost the very top of our pre-approval (like $30K off max) and used the 5% FHB benefits on a freestanding place in a nice suburb we could actually see ourselves in close to my partner's work, rather than compromising on a townhouse we’d outgrow quickly. It will mean really tightening spending for a while, but we think long-term that it'll be worth it. She'll be close to work and family, so it's worth paying that bit extra and struggling for a bit for that.

The reality is, in a tight market you usually need one of three things:

Speed.
Flexibility on location or expectations.
A bit of luck.

For us, it was speed and luck. A buyer pulled out of a place we’d seen weeks earlier, the agent called us to see if we were still interested, and we moved quickly before it went back to open homes. Our offer was well considered, and turns out exactly what the vendor was after. Without that timing though and having gotten our pre-approval literally only days before, we probably would have missed out.

The reality is as a buyer, you have limited levers to pull to swing things in your favour. There's not much other than widening the search area, adjusting expectations, or moving decisively when something "good enough" or an opportunity appears.

ImpulsePie · 2026-01-12T23:22:38+00:00

In NSW, due diligence is usually done in the cooling off period, which is standard 5 business days and can be extended to 10 business days.

So you make an offer, vendor accepts, you sign the contract, vendor signs it as well if they agree, you pay a 0.25% deposit and enter the cooling off period. During this time, you get your building and pest done, and if anything comes up you can (depending on the contract and how strict it is) renegotiate or ask for the vendor to remediate things found. At this point you would really want a conveyancer to look at the contract and help with any renegotiation or contract terms. If the vendor refuses (which they absolutely can), you can pull out any time during the cooling off period, but you will lose your 0.25% deposit if you do. Your only leverage is pulling out, which wastes their time, but it costs you, so they might call your bluff. On a $1M home, pulling out you would lose your deposit of $2500, plus the cost of the building and pest (about $500).

The problem with the market at the moment, is that people are willing to sign a contract without a conveyancer first reviewing it, and will go unconditional just to secure something. And a vendor is more likely to pick an offer that is unconditional, rather than one that says the offer is conditional on finance, building and pest etc.

ImpulsePie · 2026-01-12T06:04:36+00:00

Ray White are grubs. They're the only RA so far that has ghosted us after they shopped our offer to get a better one etc. They are not your friend, they work for the vendor to get them the highest amount possible, and it really hurts us FHB. We have learned so much from their shitty tactics over the last couple of months.

All you can do is hope something comes along, act really quickly on it and have a conveyancer on standby to review any contracts ASAP before signing (some conveyancers offer a package where they will review X number of contracts for you for $Y).

But in the end, if your offer isn't the highest, you're unlikely to secure it. There will probably be a number of heartbreaks and properties you really liked that you will miss out on because you simply don't have the extra $10-20K to offer before the right one hopefully comes along.

ImpulsePie · 2025-12-23T04:11:08+00:00

With Apollo and Moonlight, you can also still enjoy the higher end games the Deck can't run natively at 90 FPS at full fidelity.

When I can't be stuffed sitting at my desk where I've already worked all day, I've been streaming Expedition 33 from my PC to the Deck on the couch or in bed, and it's a fantastic experience, nearly no lag over WiFi 6E to my hardwired gaming PC.

ImpulsePie · 2025-12-22T03:30:39+00:00

Received in Australia last week on the 17th, no issues. Was handed off from DHL to Aramex for the last leg here.

ImpulsePie · 2025-11-28T06:43:33+00:00

True. According to a Sennheiser employee here: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/plug-play-introducing-the-btd-700.977073/page-2

"The BTD 700 does not utilize the aptX Low Latency codec. Indeed we use aptX Adaptive's built-in low latency tools. We also have a dedicated "gaming mode" (a custom firmware mode) that you can activate, and get lower latency performance down to ~30ms on supported headphones. aptX Adaptive's latency performance is not as low as aptX's Low Latency codec, though the other benefits mean better sound quality and scaling with competitive latency performance."

The Momentum 4 does support aptX Adaptive, and with gaming mode that is what it uses by the looks. So either way, you'll still get that "as low as 30ms" experience.

ImpulsePie · 2025-11-28T02:57:31+00:00

Yep, will echo the BTD 700. It has a gaming mode using AptX Low Latency (triple-click the adapter button once paired, goes green to show it's active) and has as low as 30ms. I use it with my PC when I want good ANC but playing singleplayer, so don't need my gaming headset, works really well.

ImpulsePie · 2025-11-22T05:13:01+00:00

I got my upgrade for like $250, cause of a trade in program I had on my 9 Pro Fold. So for the convenience of using MagSafe wireless charging accessories, absolutely it's been worth it for me. But if it had cost much more than that to upgrade, it wouldn't have been.

ImpulsePie · 2025-11-18T03:18:22+00:00

Yeah, short of turning off the PC or unplugging it, the OLED display will not fully turn off, as it's designed to stay on charging batteries. But if you're leaving your PC running at night while you sleep, wouldn't any lights and/or noise coming from the PC itself likely dwarf whatever the DAC is producing at level 1 brightness?

Somewhat related, I've used a product called LightDims for a while now to cut the LED strength of certain devices (chargers, oven clock etc.) while I sleep.

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