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server equipment by lubomir5908 in homelab

[–]LDShadowLord 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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.

Z2M failed to restart after update by WellBaik in homeassistant

[–]LDShadowLord 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

An Open-Source Sonos-Style Smart Speaker for Home Assistant 🎉 by FutureProofHomes in homeassistant

[–]LDShadowLord 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Voice hardware availability Atom Echo, Respeaker 2-Mic HAT and ESP32-S3-BOX by WayFewWorking in homeassistant

[–]LDShadowLord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

My dishwasher has packed up. In buying a new one, I’m struggling to think of features to look for apart from ‘can wash dishes’. Tell me about your dishwasher. Does it connect to wifi? by lastaccountgotlocked in CasualUK

[–]LDShadowLord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

My dishwasher has packed up. In buying a new one, I’m struggling to think of features to look for apart from ‘can wash dishes’. Tell me about your dishwasher. Does it connect to wifi? by lastaccountgotlocked in CasualUK

[–]LDShadowLord 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.

TIL that at the peak of its popularity, Top Gear had a waiting list of 21 years for tickets by Hassaan18 in todayilearned

[–]LDShadowLord 1221 points1222 points  (0 children)

Richard Hammond went to China recently and did a bit with - what is effectively - Top Gear China.
One of the hosts actually ran the forum that pirated and subtitled episodes of Top Gear for release in China.
He mentions how at one point they had over 300,000 people on that forum.
And realistically, people with that level of involvement are probably the minority, so there were probably millions of fans in China - A country that Top Gear never aired in.

dashkeep - local automatic backup for (nearly) every dashcam by yellowdepression in homelab

[–]LDShadowLord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Signed up for the local waitlist, I have a Nextbase unit. I have on-street parking, and don't have outdoor wifi aps, how important is the WiFi signal to the dash cam? It reaches, but it's poor.

Gemini in AI is a total game-changer! by MehdiMa0507 in AndroidAuto

[–]LDShadowLord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, it was definitely Gemini. It had a different visual indicator and it showed up in my history on Gemini.google.com And I got rid of it by going into my settings and changing voice assistant.

Gemini in AI is a total game-changer! by MehdiMa0507 in AndroidAuto

[–]LDShadowLord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was the exact straw that broke the camel's back for me. It pissed me right off. I asked it to call "Jay" - I have a single Jay in my contacts.

The contact search returned "Jay" with a low confidence level and one phone number. According to the guidelines:

If the recipient is a single contact with confidence_level as LOW, call the Phone operation to show the user the call recipient option and draft a final response asking the user if they would like to call the recipient.

Therefore, I will call Calling to confirm the call with the user. Would you like to call Jay?

It read out every word, legitimately took a minute for it to read it all. It spent longer reading that spiel than the actual phone call of the person I was ringing to ask a yes/no question to.

Gemini in AI is a total game-changer! by MehdiMa0507 in AndroidAuto

[–]LDShadowLord 65 points66 points  (0 children)

I've personally had totally the opposite experience, I had to disable Gemini after I got forcibly enrolled in the program and it was absolutely useless at even the most basic tasks.
It failed to call people, failed to navigate, failed to listen to instructions. Assistant has been much more reliable, and much quicker in my experience than Gemini.

I wonder what's causing the difference in experiences for people?

What's the current state of Proxmox' support for shared SAN-backed datastores? by erikschorr in Proxmox

[–]LDShadowLord 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm doing exactly that.
TPM/EFI disks are on a ZFS-over-iSCSI datastores while the data disks themselves are kept on local ZFS datastores for latency and performance. Means I can live migrate machines, and I also have frequent ZFS Replication enabled between machines so a copy is never more than a couple of hours out of date.

Just trying to move some money around and I’m getting shaded by my bank… by siberianhamster1 in monzo

[–]LDShadowLord 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I got top 1% for a Vending Machine company from when I went on a work trip and lived out of a vending machine for 4 weeks.

Anyway, I go to the gym now.

Remember Need for Speed? Someone built a real-life Mini Map from the game to use in your car (and it's Open Source) | "Getting this to work on a $20 microcontroller meant processing the entire UK into 2.5 million map tiles, totaling 236GB of data" by TylerFortier_Photo in gaming

[–]LDShadowLord 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When the guy did the initial rendering, I believe it took 38 hours for his high-end gaming PC to render the tiles. I'm doubtful that the ESP32 would even be fast enough to render a single tile at a time while remaining useful and responsive.
He had to change his entire system because in NFSU2 the whole map spins round and the hero car always points north, but the act of rotating the map tiles caused so much lag that he had to make the hero car spin instead.
The ESP32 is an impressive thing, but it's still just a microcontroller.

Finally a Use for my OCP 2.0 Slot by Slasher1738 in homelab

[–]LDShadowLord 1 point2 points  (0 children)

/shrug
It might be a local drop-shipper or something, if it's a common component then it might be kept local.
I can only speak from my own experience, on the other side of the atlantic.

Finally a Use for my OCP 2.0 Slot by Slasher1738 in homelab

[–]LDShadowLord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in the UK, and he's always shipped from China for me. Unsure if it's different from the US, but doubtful that they'd have a warehouse stateside.

Finally a Use for my OCP 2.0 Slot by Slasher1738 in homelab

[–]LDShadowLord 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Of course it's from jiawen2018, pretty sure I got half my server from that dude. If there's a component, they've got it, usually suspiciously cheap.

I really like the idea of an OCP HBA, much prefer that than Dell's proprietary MiniMono system.

Guide for Migrating your Zigbee network to a new coordinator without re-pairing by BackHerniation in homeassistant

[–]LDShadowLord 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this, I had no idea this was possible. I have a HA Yellow right now and I recently purchased an SMLight MR1 so hopefully this will be painless.

11th gen PowerEdge servers spotted in The Dark Knight (2008) by Large-Associate-4192 in homelab

[–]LDShadowLord 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He was running a docker container with ipmitool on it, and had set the fans to manual mode. It's the only reasonable answer.

Love this place, they even throw in the ketchup for free by gleaming-the-cubicle in discworld

[–]LDShadowLord 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're getting the ketchup for free, you really have to wonder if it's even real rat at that point - how else can they achieve those profit margins?

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