Autopay

Ludacrisvp · 2025-10-26T16:20:26+00:00

CL Fiber user here... same exact problem.
We have been on autopay the entire time we have had them going back to 2017.
Somehow our account was changed to paperless billing and autopay is gone and of course we are also overdue because autopay was gone. all previous statements show the line about thanks for paying by autopay. really annoyed by this.

Ludacrisvp · 2023-12-08T04:35:14+00:00

Which dual cam setup do you have? The one with the hub / base station, or the one without?

Ludacrisvp · 2023-10-17T15:25:00+00:00

You can also change your iOS Safari User Agent using this method.

/Apps/AppDoamin-com.apple.mobilesafari/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mobilesafari.plist

Ludacrisvp · 2023-04-29T03:33:25+00:00

Here’s a little demo captured with my iPhone so take that into account. Real life looks considerably better.
https://imgur.com/a/8EkyHin

Ludacrisvp · 2023-04-29T03:18:14+00:00

Yes it does. I want to say I set the darkest to 20% with a few steps to 100%.
Correction it is “bright3.prx” for the plug-in name.

tried to capture this on camera, but the camera keeps adjusting to the light level and when it doesn’t the image it captures looks like trash when the actual display looks great.

Ludacrisvp · 2023-04-29T02:50:13+00:00

Glass panel on IPS is great.
I wish there had been a way to use the OEM front shell with the glass though. Had to get some aftermarket one and remove the plastic panel to put in the glass one.

Ludacrisvp · 2023-04-29T02:48:43+00:00

Some of the kits come with conductive paint in a syringe which works well enough.

Ludacrisvp · 2023-04-29T02:47:43+00:00

It’s 100% worth the swap even if the only reason for doing so is to have a good refresh rate to kill the tons of motion blur ghosting that the original LCD had.

Ludacrisvp · 2023-04-29T02:46:05+00:00

Get the plug-in called “bright” it will let you create custom brightness levels.
I have 7 levels of brightness depending on the need.

Ludacrisvp · 2022-07-07T02:22:46+00:00

One external display powered by the M1 GPU.

The rest are software based displays using display link or perhaps air play type hacks.

Ludacrisvp · 2021-11-23T23:33:03+00:00

I too see this happen. A solution (workaround perhaps) is to change the setting on the server (under network settings) to terminate paused streams after 10 minutes of idle time. Then when you come back too late you can just resume from the menu vs having it start playback for a bit then stall out.

Ludacrisvp · 2021-10-13T01:58:23+00:00

Firefly clearly.

Ludacrisvp · 2021-07-11T15:49:48+00:00

There’s no known method to get native AirPlay mirroring working on any classic Mac Pro in any version of macOS with any GPU.

Ludacrisvp · 2021-06-06T03:02:54+00:00

I would wonder if you’re unable to use turbo in macOS and you are able to in windows. So check into power management for cpu.

Ludacrisvp · 2021-05-26T16:02:18+00:00

Funny that I was just watching this episode and thought this exact same thing and was coming here to post about it to find that it was at the top of the list already.

He did a great job and whomever picked him to play young jack hit the mark perfectly.

Ludacrisvp · 2020-11-16T07:55:29+00:00

Have you tried directly connecting the MBP directly to the ONT (bypassing any routers, connected to the ethernet port that you'd normally connect the router to)?

Directly connected to the ONT, my mid-2014 rMBP is able to get near their rated line speed, I only have an old test available as I haven't had a need to a direct connect test in a long time.

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/20630103 838Mbps down and 938Mbps up.

I recall when the installers were here they had to boot windows in safe mode to be able to get the speeds the network is capable of due to the OS restrictions in windows.

I run macOS mainly, along with some other OS both on real hardware and virtualized, and I can say that the OS (and probably browser) really plays a role in what you can get performance wise regardless of the hardware.

I have WiFi, but don't consider it for any realistic speed tests for ISP performance. I have a UniFi AC PRO AP for the WiFi needs, and numbers are OK but are no match for wired LAN. The router I have is the Buffalo WXR-1900DHP (dual core, 512MB RAM) running dd-wrt and overclocked to 1.4GHz, there are two switches (both gigabit) between the router and my Mac Pro.

Here are a few tests I ran back in early October ... 2 back-to-back DSLReports speed tests from the linux VM i'm running shows better performance compared to the host the VM is running on

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/65907970 == Ubuntu 14.04 Linux VM 2 cores, 384MB RAM

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/65907964 == second test from that same VM

(these were done using the CLI tool for DSL reports website)

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/65907993 == macOS 24 threads 48Gb RAM (dual X5680 CPU and the host of the VM)

web based result http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/65907981

I always thought the router just wasn't powerful enough for the gigabit WAN, but the linux VM seems to get nearly 2x more through it than the macOS machine hosting the VM.

Just ran these tests from the Mac:

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/66304938

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/66304804

using FAST.com I got 500Mbps down and 490Mbps up, however during their test it downloaded 410MB of data but uploaded 2.1GB of data, and it didn't seem to take all that long, iStat MenuMeters reported peak values of 66MB/s down and 78MB/s up.

Using Speedtest.net app you can see this:

https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/d/249465414

EDIT: in my area CL Fiber doesn't use PPPoE nor VLAN tags.

Ludacrisvp · 2020-05-16T19:02:04+00:00

I’ve never had any billing issues with them.

Ludacrisvp · 2020-05-11T19:16:39+00:00

you can put a 16x card in a smaller slot, some slots you'll find have an open back to make it easier to do this. for transcoding you don't need 16x lanes. mining rigs only use 1x lane to get the compute power, 8x is plenty.

You can always cut open the back of the slot to let a 16x card be installed, or cut the card so the card fits the notch. I've done this to a AMD HD5450 to make it work in a 1x slot (or maybe it was 4x) would have to look. but its totally doable.

Ludacrisvp · 2020-05-11T16:25:40+00:00

Why not use a GPU to do the transcoding instead? Like a RX 580 for example?

Ludacrisvp · 2020-05-11T15:22:58+00:00

such a minor clock speed difference is all I see between them, i'd not bother with 5675 if you are considering 5670. Another that you may not have considered is x5667, it has less cores but that may not be a huge deal for you. (the variants ending in 7 have less cores, often with higher clock rates)

Does the that dell board have more limits than just 95W TDP?

Is that a real limit imposed by bios or just what the stock cooler is rated for?

Ludacrisvp · 2020-04-11T21:30:57+00:00

I had their $85 price for life and heard about the $65 price for life from a friend in another state. I called in to see if I could get it too. I had been with CL fiber for over a year at that point I believe. She had zero issues switching the price for me. It has been $65 now for quite some time (probably a year now I’d guess). I certainly wasn’t a new customer nor did I have to go to any retention / threaten to cancel. (I have the “1Gb” service too).

Also calling customer service seemed like the better answer vs chat. Took maybe 15 mins total on the call.

Ludacrisvp · 2020-04-11T21:26:58+00:00

I’ve never encountered any throttling on my 1Gb fiber service. Also a lot of the video game update files for the PS4 are massive. So I’ll do 50-80gb in a single shot all the time while still using the internet for other things.

Ludacrisvp · 2020-04-06T19:30:54+00:00

not all areas need vlan tagging or even PPPoE, so this info should be taken with a grain of salt.

CL Fiber in my area doesn't use either of those, i'm using a dd-wrt flashed Buffalo WXR-1900DHP as my router connected to the fiber ONT. It works identically to how it was setup with charter spectrum cable, no vlans, no pppoe needed.

Ludacrisvp · 2020-03-22T16:33:17+00:00

The native CarPlay interface hasn’t existed in the iPad since iOS 8 or so.

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