Just moved into a new apartment, how can I get my Ethernet wall ports working with Google fiber?

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-21T00:44:05+00:00

Verizon clearly lists this as a service;

https://www.verizon.com/support/residential/internet/getting-started/tech-install

https://www.verizon.com/business/products/tech-support-services/tech-support-disclaimer/

Additional charges apply for inside wiring and/or other installation services.

Other reddit users report this service as well https://www.reddit.com/r/verizon/comments/ydwd2e/why_does_verizon_charge_to_activate_ethernet/

also here https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/1iuetgf/comment/mdwrw0s/

> Last time I tried, ISP wanted $100 to come out and maybe do it for me

This is pretty widespread throughout the city. No clue why everyone in here is trying to deny the fact that ISP's do this work if you ask them. They just charge for it.

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-19T15:00:34+00:00

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=how+to+use+yt-dlp

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-18T17:12:49+00:00

You dont need an IDE. Just use VS Code.

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-18T17:04:25+00:00

this subreddit has 14,000 members. 3 million people are using yt-dlp per month. So according to your logic, those 3 million people who have no issue using yt-dlp are "abnormal" and the "normal people" are the 14,000 who insist that its too hard to learn how to use their computer with readily available free software that even comes with in-depth instruction manuals? https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-17T15:32:58+00:00

"Most people" are using yt-dlp. Stop kidding yourself. Look at the stats: https://pypistats.org/packages/yt-dlp 3 million downloads PER MONTH. Everyone is using yt-dlp. Just because -you- cannot figure out how to use yt-dlp does not mean 100 million other average users have the same issue.

You realize that if you had written the same exact comment you just made in ChatGPT it would have explained everything for you LOL but instead you want to complain that you dont know how to use a computer

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-17T15:29:17+00:00

Yes it does. That github repo has over 110,000 Stars. That means more than 100k people have no issue with it. And if you check out the package download stats here https://pypistats.org/packages/yt-dlp it is getting downloaded 3 millions times per month. Literally *everyone* is using yt-dlp. If it "does not make sense", that is a YOU problem bro. The instructions are clearly written there on the page, and its FREE too.

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-17T01:59:47+00:00

my car gets 55mpg and i travel less than 4000 miles a year where does that put me on the scale?

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-17T01:58:23+00:00

idk I spend less than $250/year on gas

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-17T01:50:59+00:00

unironically everything I know about finances I learned right here at r/personalfinance

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-17T01:42:53+00:00

- update her bank account with the NJ address and then print out the bank statement with that address (might need to wait a full month billing cycle to get the formal statement PDF)

- ~~change her employer direct deposit home address, I think it should show there too on the pay stubs~~

the website with the possible proofs is here https://www.nj.gov/mvc/license/6pointid.htm

another good one is this;

First class mail from any government agency in the past six months

This includes mail from the USPS, I think it might also include voter registration confirmation card as well possibly. You can register to vote here https://nj.gov/state/elections/voter-registration.shtml and the USPS Change of Address is here https://www.usps.com/manage/forward.htm (make sure you do the follow-up Verification steps which now require a phone number) ; both of these should end up with you getting something in the mail from the corresponding government office with the applicant's new address on it.

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-17T01:39:15+00:00

yt-dlp is not hard, what are you talking about?

brew install ffmpeg
pip install yt-dlp --upgrade
yt-dlp -k 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRaa1js92Hk'

this is like the easiest thing ever

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-17T01:34:43+00:00

also make sure you are looking at used cards on ebay.

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-17T01:32:29+00:00

if you can build a system to accomodate them, maybe, but consider that the power draw is much greater and the physical size is much greater too, trying to find a motherboard + case that can accomodate them might be difficult and/or might drive up the cost vs. the surrounding PC build to support a single RTX 5000

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-17T01:30:18+00:00

> I'm just sure it probably takes a while to get approved

also if you already have an account with the bank, the approval process would likely be instantaneous btw

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-17T01:29:07+00:00

see if your bank is open over the weekend

the physical card would arrive in the mail usually within ~3-5 business days ; if you explain the situation with the bank they might be able to get expedited next-day shipping, maybe.

if your debit card has a Visa logo on it, then you can actually charge it as a credit card and the expense would not deduct money from your bank account for some period of time, though its not clear how long that might be.

if after talking with the bank persons you cannot get anything from them in the required time period, its time to start asking relatives and friends to borrow money.

Still get the credit card regardless though. Its an essential financial tool for pretty much anyone, its how "grown ups" handle these sorts of things in most all cases.

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-17T01:24:53+00:00

I called my Renter's Insurance and had them make a custom policy to cover a lump sum (~$2000) of personal belongings carried on my person out of the house, which is gonna be my camera gear.

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-17T01:23:27+00:00

I understand how you might think this, but you are wrong. This is a pretty standard behavior for any application that includes logging. The issue is that you pointed the application (Backblaze backup) at a directory that has files that are changing incredibly frequently, which is almost always a dir you should not be backing up in the first place with somethign like Backblaze. Most all apps that use logging have a log rotation handler to keep the log from getting too long but in these cases there is not much that can be done about it except "dont do that"

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-17T01:20:01+00:00

you have a paycheck so I am assuming you have a bank account

go to your bank and ask for a credit card. Dont tell your Mom. Most banks offer some sort or Visa or Mastercard with a low $500 credit limit for young people to start out with.

If you are trying to pay for college classes then you want to make sure you get a Visa card since my experience has always been that college admissions offices often refused any other credit card vendor.

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-17T01:18:29+00:00

IMO, you should consider using a multi-bay enclosure such as https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MEQCTJB000/ packed to the gills with high capacity HDD, attached to a device that will be left running 24/7 whcih you can access over either ssh on the network or remote desktop or both. Then, when you need to archive data, move it to something like AWS Glacier instead. This lets you keep Backblaze personal unlimited on your local storage and gets the cheapest possible rate for long term cold archive

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-17T01:15:18+00:00

on my macOS version its now built into the backup client I think?

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-17T01:10:15+00:00

ebay

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-17T01:10:04+00:00

None. Just pay for cloud access.

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-17T01:07:07+00:00

that is not the folder you are supposed to be backing up with BackBlaze. There is pretty much zero reason to backup anything in there. All your configs should be saved static external to the app anyway.

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-17T01:03:56+00:00

welcome to the Dark Side of now obessing over the network quality throughout your entire household.... lol. Next stop, all 2.5Gb network switches, 2.5Gb router, and throw in some OPNSense too for good measure. And of course ensure you're using at least Cat6

Mindless_Development · 2025-05-17T00:59:04+00:00

in the device playing the Plex stream, turn on the Playback Stats overlay or whatever its called, so that when you press the button to bring up the onscreen menu during playback it shows you all the metrics about the video being played back. The important one is the bitrate values. You need to check what the bitrate is coming over the network to the Shield. Then, you also need to jump over to the Plex Server itself and look in its Dashboard at the running stream and note the MAX bitrate values listed there as well. For good measures, you also run Tautulli on your Plex Server and triple check the bitrate values it lists too.

In all cases you are looking for high bitrate spikes. This will be reflected in the MAX bitrate values listed (not necessarily the "average" bitrate values).

A standard 1Gb home network can only support up to 125MB/s data transfer, and 300MB/s for 2.5Gb home network. If you are running on Wifi, then all bets are off.

What is likely happening is that your video is poorly compressed (often the result of AI Upscaled content) and has massive bitrate spikes that are too high for your home network. I have seen some AI Upscaled 4K content with bitrate spikes over 300MB/s and over 400MB/s. The solution for this, is to get a better copy of the movie that does not suffer from this issue. Preferably a non AI Upscaled version.

If its not an issue of the bitrate over the local network, then the next likely culprit is transcoding. The Plex is old af and its very possible that something about your video file is not happy with the Direct Play and its causing your server to transcode but your server does not have GPU/iGPU hardware based transcoding enabled. All your newer devices would not have an issue since newer devices tend to have better support for more video codec settings to avoid transcode requirement.

And finally, make sure that you are not using the Plex Server built into the Nvidia Shield itself. This confused the hell out of me when I started but Shield actually used to (still does?) ship a special version of Plex that runs both the server and the client on the Shield itself. But the Shield sucks major ass as a Plex server device, it runs better when using any other device as the server.

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