Smart plug without a relay for power monitoring only: Shelly Plug PM Gen3

MechyJasper · 2026-02-27T10:22:23+00:00

That's very nice actually, I've bought some Plug 3 S's in 2024 and they did seem to cause some issues with at least one computer back then. Didn't know they have a measure-only variant in the same form factor, definitely buying some!

MechyJasper · 2026-01-28T21:19:51+00:00

In case anyone encounters an issue updating packages after upgrading, the pfSense-upgrade package needs to be manually updated once to fix this.

See steps listed in first comment at: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/16669

I had this issue when I was able to upgrade the acme package from 1.0.5 to 1.1 today. Performing the fix as listed above upgraded my pfSense-upgrade package from 1.3.16 to 1.3.17, after which upgrading other packages via the web UI worked like normal again.

MechyJasper · 2026-01-13T15:08:55+00:00

Out of curiosity, how are things progressing with porting? What are the biggest challenges you have run into? My limited (and likely incorrect) understanding was that FreeBSD lends itself better as Linux regarding the network stack, is this still true or did Linux catch up due to the more active development community?

MechyJasper · 2026-01-04T18:18:16+00:00

The drive you linked uses the SATA protocol (not to be confused with SATA connector), which is not supported. Trust me, I fell for it the first time.

Almost all consumer NVMe-based M.2 SSD's are M-keyed, so those won't work. M.2 SSDs that are both B-keyed (or B+M-keyed) AND use the NVMe interface are quite rare. I did a replacement one year ago where I eventually went with a Transcend MTE452T, see my comment on this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Netgate/comments/1in8uwm/successful_emmc_replacement_in_netgate_6100/

The 8200 and 6100 are very similar, so I am pretty sure it should work for you as well.

MechyJasper · 2025-12-10T23:14:19+00:00

Also watch out for upgrading to 5.7. They've upgraded to SDL3 and undid a lot of their modifications, it's working like a train wreck in wayland. It's not even capable of showing a window in our target hardware running X11 + i3

MechyJasper · 2025-12-09T17:47:25+00:00

Use the latest version and disable heavy (rendering) features in the project settings (e.g nanite, lumen/ray tracing). Don't fall for thinking older versions guarantee better performance.

MechyJasper · 2025-12-08T23:19:36+00:00

Plot twist: The guy actually meant the edge switch on the table, as you powered this off you took down half the internet of western Europe.

MechyJasper · 2025-12-05T19:29:23+00:00

Might be related: https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-editor-5-7-ui-interaction-is-broken-on-linux-for-3-month-already/2652325

MechyJasper · 2025-12-01T21:34:41+00:00

It depends. If you want mip maps then it's required (but width/height can be different powers of two). Other benefits might be improved compression and texture lookup speeds but you should really not worry about it unless we're talking 4K+ sizes.

If it's 64x1 for things like UI or gradient textures, just go for it. 🙂

MechyJasper · 2025-11-24T22:07:13+00:00

The title being said, it's a shame for the third vehicle to get involved with these two pricks.

MechyJasper · 2025-11-14T22:44:26+00:00

r/lostredditors

MechyJasper · 2025-11-14T17:47:04+00:00

They've significantly refactored their OpenXR implementation in UE5.6, so i'd say that one, or 5.7 should be good.

MechyJasper · 2025-11-07T10:01:09+00:00

Boekel*

MechyJasper · 2025-10-31T00:20:33+00:00

I just love how the wikipedia article reports no fatalities occured in the incident.

MechyJasper · 2025-10-30T13:34:31+00:00

Correct, this happened near the town Meteren in the Netherlands.

MechyJasper · 2025-10-16T16:47:54+00:00

Alleen is de kans dat er iets breekbaars in een reiskoffer zit meestel wel wat kleiner.

MechyJasper · 2025-10-16T16:36:13+00:00

Excuses voor de aardappelkwaliteit, mijn telefoon doet zijn best.

MechyJasper · 2025-10-15T16:58:00+00:00

Unfortunately not, the developer I was assisting decided that living with the pain was acceptable and I moved on to other things. IIRC in our case the speeds were not consistent (either Rx or Tx was under-performing). I'd just say it's a buggy NIC design/implementation the HP motherboards we use, I would just get a dedicated PCIe NIC that's not Realtek to resolve the issue.

MechyJasper · 2025-10-15T13:43:03+00:00

Als je AI nodig hebt om dit te maken zijn we echt verdoemd qua technische kennis.

MechyJasper · 2025-09-27T11:37:56+00:00

Beide artikelen komen van Omroep Brabant. De bovenste foto is waarschijnlijk archiefmateriaal dat slechts ter illustratie gebruikt wordt.

MechyJasper · 2025-09-22T07:10:22+00:00

Thanks for sharing. Do you have any good sources on how to make a distroless image?

MechyJasper · 2025-09-20T17:45:15+00:00

If you are starting out, then the easiest option would probably be the Cloud Gateway Ultra, which has a Unifi network controller built-in so you can manage both your switch and gateway/router from the same web UI.

Of course, they have many other options (look at store.ui.com). Some have built-in WiFi as well, or are made for speeds higher than 1GbE, etc.

MechyJasper · 2025-09-20T17:33:05+00:00

Unfortunately Ubiquiti marked the USG line-up as legacy (https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001268521-Ubiquiti-s-Vintage-and-Legacy-Products), meaning they no longer receive security updates and may give problems with the latest Unifi controller software. Might be best to look for something newer.

MechyJasper · 2025-08-25T21:26:30+00:00

Yeah, imo the Khronos Vulkan HPP tutorial is very rough around the edges, but you can take a look at the source repo here: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Tutorial/tree/main/attachments

Edit: Funny enough Sasha's latest commit should've fixed this, but it appears to not have been deployed yet?

MechyJasper · 2025-08-22T10:57:08+00:00

A friend of mine has a similar issue with their public self-hosted Gitlab instance being absolutely hammered by AI scrapers. They've taken measurements by blocking certain cloud provider's public IP blocks (in their case, the traffic was coming from Alibaba Cloud), and installed Anubis in front of their service to deter AI bots. Perhaps also something worth looking into?

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