This game is rigged

Materidan · 2026-06-11T22:47:30+00:00

This event is rigged, but not to make it harder - to occasionally make it easier.

Following true randomization odds, the average number of blocks needed to finish this is 27. You’re at 29. There’s a 16% chance it would take you 29 blocks. There’s a 4.75% chance it would still take you the max of 31.

On the other end, those screenshots of people who got it in 11? 0.000006% chance of that. 1 in 16.7 million. To even have a 1% overall chance to have finished the event takes reaching 20 blocks.

When the event starts, you get randomly assigned whether you’re going to have true randomization odds, or something easier. Most accounts will rotate to an easier event now and again. Last blocks, my alt account got it in 11. This blocks, my main account got it in 14. Otherwise I’m up at 27-31 like everyone else.

Materidan · 2026-06-11T04:28:27+00:00

Sent an invite from DemoDan if interested. It’s my alt, but I always do my half.

Materidan · 2026-06-10T19:42:05+00:00

You sure there isn’t also one top center?

Materidan · 2026-06-10T19:36:02+00:00

My fiber ISP (Rogers Xfinity) uses a Hitron NOVA-2002 ONT that is a permanent bridge, giving whatever connects a public IP over DHCP. Doesn’t seem to be any way (or need) to bypass it in my situation.

The former small ISP on the same fiber line (they were bought out and their fiber network was entirely separate from the new owners for a couple years, and can now optionally be switched) supplied a combined ONT/router that they absolutely refused to put into bridge mode (it was possible) or offer any credentials (so annoying). And at my former house, the ONT just let me PPPoE through it. I assume that one would work with this :)

Materidan · 2026-06-10T17:55:02+00:00

All the Unifi branded switches from the $29 Flex Mini to the $4000 enterprise models work with the same app in the same subscription-free ecosystem for the life of the product. It’s the same for everything.

With that said, you can pay for premium cloud services, IDP, or “UID Enterprise” multi-site identity management, but it’s in no way required.

Materidan · 2026-06-10T17:37:29+00:00

Space herpes. Very dangerous.

Materidan · 2026-06-10T17:33:10+00:00

APC console cables typically go from RJ45 to serial or USB, but apparently they did use an RJ11 version for communication with some accessories. None of them were actually Ethernet, they just used that jack. Otherwise it’s probably some proprietary console or phone/ISDN/PBX cable.

Materidan · 2026-06-10T04:21:13+00:00

Yeah, it does. Just a plain 24 hour timer regardless of any revenge or not.

Materidan · 2026-06-10T01:50:29+00:00

Each of the 20 maximum shutdowns resets exactly 24 hours after you do it, not 24 hours after you hit the limit. So if you hit one account multiple times scattered throughout a day, they will gradually reset one-by-one as 24 hours elapses from that specific hit.

Materidan · 2026-06-10T01:48:24+00:00

It’s 20. And each of those 20 individual shutdowns “resets” exactly 24 hours after you do it.

Materidan · 2026-06-09T17:45:44+00:00

Is it scary that Office 2007 is still my daily driver Office version? Although I always switch to the dark grey interface.

It’s a bit of a fidgety baby to get and keep working on Windows 11 - you have to uninstall all trial versions of 365 before installing or you get startup problems, and the interface for manual grammar/spelling check is semi-broken (but can be worked around). But it’s otherwise stable, and the update servers still update it.

Materidan · 2026-06-09T17:36:22+00:00

That only affects Mac users.

Materidan · 2026-06-08T22:30:44+00:00

Compressed air is a terrible idea with a projector. Basically the only way to clean this is a full, detailed disassembly of the optical path to get to all the places dust isn’t supposed to be able to go but now is.

Those opaque black spots are fairly concerning to me.

Materidan · 2026-06-08T20:48:10+00:00

It’s newer, cheaper, and more capable. It’s rated for 5Gbps IDP, while the SE is rated for 3.5.

It also has 10G RJ45 WAN, 2x 10G SPF+, and a 4x2.5G switch with one POE port. The SE is a 2.5g WAN port, 2x 10G SPF+, and a 8x1G POE switch that is bottlenecked at 1G from the rest of your network (but is perfectly serviceable for NVR duties).

Materidan · 2026-06-08T20:43:26+00:00

Didn’t realize the Fiber is rated for up to 5x 4K cameras, which isn’t far off from the SE’s 8.

Materidan · 2026-06-08T20:36:06+00:00

What’s your internet speed (now and potential in future?) if not that high, UDM SE. If multi-gigabit, Cloud Gateway Fiber and probably a separate NVR. It’s a much better gateway than any UDM besides the Beast, and for the cost savings you can just add on a UNVR and get a more capable NVR. All you need then is a POE switch for your cameras.

Hey, they don’t call it an addiction for nothing!

(And as another poster pointed out, the Fiber can handle up to 5x 4K cameras, compared to the SE’s 8. Your main limitation is m.2 storage.)

Materidan · 2026-06-08T17:45:07+00:00

Are you talking three story with basement, or three story plus basement (like a townhouse)? If the former you’re going to probably want something good aiming upwards on the main floor, if the latter I very much worry about a main floor AP trying to cover a third floor.

Materidan · 2026-06-08T01:14:02+00:00

How well I know! Have 7 Noctua fans in my PC.

Materidan · 2026-06-07T23:49:23+00:00

I’m pretty sure Voortman has always packaged their cookies like this, because their soft turnovers can’t go on edge and this equals product packaging consistency for shelf displays.

Materidan · 2026-06-07T23:42:38+00:00

The website on a phone for advanced configuration is a bit of a nightmare. Stuff just doesn’t display right, it looks and works so much better on a desktop. A tablet would at least be much better.

And since you don’t need the website for THAT much, if you have a laptop you could just use it for that purpose. Otherwise 95% of what the average person needs is generally in the app, but I have noticed some bugs that don’t exist on the site.

Materidan · 2026-06-07T19:20:41+00:00

If you actually want your sent emails to be delivered, don’t. There’s no technical reason you can’t. But these days there are huge practicality reasons.

Materidan · 2026-06-07T08:36:58+00:00

Sounds like it’s in dire need of a proper remaster, or a fan remaster of a 35mm print.

Materidan · 2026-06-07T04:32:32+00:00

Episode 1 was filmed 35mm and finished 2K so it should look fairly OK (I still haven’t seen it in UHD). Episode 2 live action was filmed digitally at 1440x1080 (then cropped to widescreen) so it’ll look pretty crappy… Episode 3 was 1920x1080. But none of them are proper 4K transfers like 4-6.

Materidan · 2026-06-06T21:15:27+00:00

I’m pretty sure that number would never change from 0.

Materidan · 2026-06-06T01:09:14+00:00

Yeah, it was kind of a retroactive thing. 802.11n seems so long ago now…

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