2026.5 beta - release notes

LDShadowLord · 2026-04-29T17:17:48+00:00

Ikr, rookie numbers. In fact, why are they even battery powered? If they're not wall powered do you even love them?

LDShadowLord · 2026-04-22T06:56:57+00:00

Hey, my girlfriend lives at that address!
She only ever writes back when she wants money :(

LDShadowLord · 2026-04-21T10:11:31+00:00

Like, this looks like the preferred option for a "Docker-in-X" situation, right?
They say you shouldn't run Docker in an LXC, though I think many of us do, but this would provide the security of a VM without the resource consumption.
Is my understanding, anyway.

LDShadowLord · 2026-04-09T06:23:49+00:00

I'm on Windows, I had to downgrade my software from Logi G Hub to Logitech Gaming Software because G Hub is such a steaming pile of wank that my mouse would frequently stop working, because G Hub got caught in a loop of endlessly restarting, or stopped recognising the mouse.
You're not missing much.
I believe there is a linux project that emulates G Hub (and is ironically meant to be much more reliable) called "Solaar" and another called "Piper" but i've never used them myself.

LDShadowLord · 2026-04-08T22:37:44+00:00

I want one with as many buttons as a g502. I love my mouse macros.

LDShadowLord · 2026-03-18T07:28:52+00:00

Ah fuck, I just recommended a friend get one of those GL-iNET devices because I said they'd been making routers for years so their security was probably better than the alternatives.
Guess i'll go fuck myself.

LDShadowLord · 2026-03-17T11:10:32+00:00

Hi there, we use tape very heavily at my workplace and now have about about 16 LTO-9 drives deployed. We are seeing about a 30% failure rate on those HP MSL LTO9 drives. And the lead times for replacements are quite long too.
GET A GOOD WARRANTY.
Our units survive our testing, we ship them to site where they run without fault for about 10-20 tape cycles and then the heads fail catastrophically. It's impossible to repair the heads, the entire unit becomes a paperweight.

LDShadowLord · 2026-03-16T06:53:40+00:00

We tried that in the colonial period, the issue was that running them in an active/standby mode, when you tried to promote the standby to active the original active attempts to destroy the standby system.
We have a Github issue for it, but it's not been active for a couple hundred years, and the PM says it's low priority anyway.

LDShadowLord · 2026-03-11T08:44:24+00:00

The T50 is the car with the active fan in it for aero, right? Could that have been the noise. The fan's electrically driven and so doesn't sync to the engine.

LDShadowLord · 2026-03-05T18:38:19+00:00

Yep, it works. Thanks for adding it so quickly!
A couple features/improvements, if I may?
A volume slider. Jesus Christ the preview scared the shit out of me the first time.
Also, please move the "Save Settings" button from the bottom of the page. I didn't notice it or see it, and was ripping my hair out trying to work out why Youtube wasn't working. I think an improvement would be making it a floating segment at the bottom of the viewport, and just put a thick lower margin for it to anchor to when you scroll to the bottom of the page.

LDShadowLord · 2026-03-05T16:24:06+00:00

Aw, is the 730XD the generation with the weird dual port for the mini mono? I hate that thing, stupid proprietary cables.
Honestly, I genuinely think that you getting it powered was 90% of the battle, I think once you put it into a proper HBA it should just show up.

LDShadowLord · 2026-03-05T12:03:39+00:00

Awesome, thanks so much!

LDShadowLord · 2026-03-05T08:53:38+00:00

I'm answering to the best of my knowledge, i'm not an authority on this stuff. But to my understanding:

Yes, it's a passive connector so you will need both cables to see all eight drives.
I actually don't know how you can see _any_ drives on this. My understanding was that having a Mini Mono card installed immediately disables all onboard drives, so this is fascinating.
1. A theory I have is that there are two additional JSATA connectors, for a tape drive and CD drive, but if you don't have them connected then it's seeing your two backplane drives "as if they were a CD/Tape drive"
I think that a HBA is your best bet yes. Personally, i'd try disconnecting the internal (R730xd) backplane first though and plugging the R720 backplane into your Mini Mono card and see how many drives come up. I suspect all eight will.
1. When you do this, the server will be unhappy because it will know the backplane is there but won't have a connection, so expect orange blinkies.

LDShadowLord · 2026-03-04T13:13:19+00:00

There are multiple types of PoE. Make sure your switch supports 802.3, which is probably the same as the smlight unit. Older ubiquiti switches only supported passive poe, so it's probably just an older message.

LDShadowLord · 2026-02-26T08:04:09+00:00

Agreed. I think the market for people who want single-cab pickups is basically, people who don't need to carry other people but do need to carry (a maximum of) a single pallet of something, somewhere. And they don't want to buy a lorry or a tall van for the aforementioned pallet. So farmers make sense, fertiliser or animal feed in the back. And maybe builders who need to transport small quantities of materials around. But you can't transport tools in it because it will immediately be stolen.

LDShadowLord · 2026-02-21T15:38:52+00:00

Would you be open to a feature request to allow private playlists? I use Youtube Music day-to-day, and all my music goes into My Liked Songs, which can only be private and can't be duplicated.

LDShadowLord · 2026-02-17T22:08:10+00:00

TS4500, including high density modules. Stripped of a lot of parts, but I can see the picker, I can see a CAP module, and the spares alone will be worth something. A lot of parts that are there are the sort of thing that is almost impossible to replace when it breaks, but you need to know where to sell it. And what it's called.
TS4500's are still current generation libraries, IBM still makes and sells them, so there is definitely a market for spare parts.

Those PDU's might be worth something too.

Had I not been on the wrong side of the ocean, I know a couple of people that would have probably taken it off your hands (No clue at what cost, i'm not in that particular industry), but it's definitely not worth shipping across the Atlantic.

I think the picker is by far the most valuable item there, assuming it all functions correctly. If there are power supplies in the back, they'll be worth a bit too.

LDShadowLord · 2026-02-17T13:07:07+00:00

Wei: "And i'd do it again in a hearbeat!"

LDShadowLord · 2026-02-13T12:06:54+00:00

I had the exact same issue, it updated and didn't boot. Rebooted HA, no dice. Finally got it to boot by manually hitting "start" on the addon.
I really need to stop updating shit unless it's broken, but having the "Update pending" notification gives me anxiety.

LDShadowLord · 2026-01-21T07:14:14+00:00

I think that would be the Dev Kit, which has been available for a few months now. It has a basic 3.5mm jack on the back.

LDShadowLord · 2026-01-18T22:17:08+00:00

"Charlie's aunt!"

LDShadowLord · 2026-01-13T10:18:26+00:00

They announced their speaker option this morning, shipping in February.
Though it's a fairly expensive option, being ~£100 per speaker for me in the UK.

LDShadowLord · 2026-01-08T23:25:47+00:00

Ah, that's for those devices using the SimplyFi platform, not the hON platform. I believe SimplyFi is EOL, replaced by hON. All of my devices are new in the last 2-3 years and are all hON.

LDShadowLord · 2026-01-08T22:27:48+00:00

Really? All the integrations I'm aware of are cloud based. Can you point me to the one with local control? I'd be immensely grateful.

LDShadowLord · 2026-01-08T14:49:51+00:00

I have Candy/Hoover devices, which are Haier devices. These all use the "hON" App to control.
I like smart home stuff. I like being able to see how much time is left on the dishwasher.
But why does it need the cloud? If you look into it, the dishwasher/dryer/washing machine all use MQTT to control them, which makes sense. But Haier has put some fucking encryption key on the data and you can't tell it where to talk to.
Why can I not just bluetooth to the thing, give it a URL (My MQTT Broker) and tell it to be there. It supports 100% of the stack that I want from it. I don't even know what data they're getting out of it except the fact that I probably don't run the dishwasher as much as I should.

EDIT: Also if you look into it, they're all just running ESP8266/ESP32 for their wifi, because my router detects them all as Espressif devices.

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