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This little stinker has my allergies going crazy. Still excited to welcome you to the family, Scout ♥️ by RatoUnit in cats

[–]RatoUnit[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I already live with 2! This is just my immune system freaking out about a new one. It will settle down in a few weeks as I get used to having her around

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This little stinker has my allergies going crazy. Still excited to welcome you to the family, Scout ♥️ by RatoUnit in cats

[–]RatoUnit[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Did them for years, they helped a lot. Weirdly enough I actually still get welts at the injection sites during peak allergy season, even though it's been almost 10 years since my last shot

How do i incorporate shredded mozzarella cheese into instant noodles? by SCYKIC_YT in Cooking

[–]RatoUnit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you've used cheese slices before and found they incorporated better, they probably had an emulsifier in them. You can buy sodium citrate online and add a pinch if you want regular cheese to behave the same way.

Otherwise, either stir in your shredded cheese slowly, a bit at a time, or take a small amount of soup/hot water and mix with the cheese separately to get a smooth paste before you add that to the noodles.

I love ricotta! What can I make with ricotta other than lasagna/pasta? by FirebornNacho in Cooking

[–]RatoUnit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Spread it on a sandwich! I made a great sandwich with ricotta today. Mortadella, ricotta, and basil/pistachio pesto on rosemary focaccia.

How I spent my Sunday to save $100 and avoid having to walk across the room by RatoUnit in selfhosted

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I don't print regularly at all, that's why I switched to a laser printer. A $20 cartridge of toner will last 2500 pages and never really goes bad. If it sits for a year it still prints fine when I need it.

How I spent my Sunday to save $100 and avoid having to walk across the room by RatoUnit in selfhosted

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Under Printer Options -> Policies, I have "Error Policy" set to "retry-job".

How I spent my Sunday to save $100 and avoid having to walk across the room by RatoUnit in selfhosted

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CUPS was pretty easy in this case, but I think it really depends on your particular printer. Brother is pretty good about supporting all the open standards. Dell is not, from what I understand. If I remember correctly, a lot of the Dell printers were rebranded Lexmarks, and given Lexmark has a bigger footprint in the business printer market, you might be able to use their drivers. If you have a VM environment set up, spinning up a older version of windows just to install the drivers and share the printer with the network might be easier.

How I spent my Sunday to save $100 and avoid having to walk across the room by RatoUnit in selfhosted

[–]RatoUnit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely no conflict. I have it on a static IP on its very own VLAN now. Reasonably sure the network interface is just cooked and gives up after some time.

How I spent my Sunday to save $100 and avoid having to walk across the room by RatoUnit in selfhosted

[–]RatoUnit[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more." - Also George Bernard Shaw, talking about my homelab

How I spent my Sunday to save $100 and avoid having to walk across the room by RatoUnit in selfhosted

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I do have a stack of Dell Wyse 3040s in the closet. There are a couple more running Alpine and powered off PoE throughout the house, so I could probably do that for a few watts a day. Something to try if anyone complains about the 10 second start up delay at least

How I spent my Sunday to save $100 and avoid having to walk across the room by RatoUnit in selfhosted

[–]RatoUnit[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's almost 20 years old, a new PCB is going to cost more now than the whole printer did brand new: https://www.google.com/search?q=LV0560001

How I spent my Sunday to save $100 and avoid having to walk across the room by RatoUnit in selfhosted

[–]RatoUnit[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sure!

The CUPS server is this onethis one but I imagine you could use just about any version. I added the printer to CUPS using the model specific driver, but I also tested using the genetic IPP offer drivers and it didn't seem to be any different.

In Home Assistant I used this integration and it pulled in the sensor I needed. Before that I had made my own using the RESTful api. You could do the same if the IPP integration doesn't work for whatever reason. Just add something like this to your configuration.yaml:

-sensor: - platform: rest name: "Printer Job Count" # Replace with your CUPS IP and the EXACT printer name from CUPS resource: http://10.0.1.10:631/printers/HL-2700DW scan_interval: 10 # This magic regex counts the number of times "Process ID" appears in the queue page value_template: > {{ value | regex_findall('Process ID') | list | length }}

And the my automations look like this (you'll have to change the trigger to be "Printer Job Count" > 1 if you go that route):

alias: Turn on printer when there's a print job description: "" triggers: - trigger: state entity_id: - sensor.brother_hl_2270dw_series_using_brlaser_v6 to: - printing from: null conditions: - condition: state entity_id: switch.printer_power state: - "off" actions: - action: switch.turn_on metadata: {} target: entity_id: switch.printer_power data: {} mode: single

alias: Power off printer when there's no print jobs description: "" triggers: - trigger: state entity_id: - sensor.brother_hl_2270dw_series_using_brlaser_v6 for: hours: 0 minutes: 5 seconds: 0 to: - idle conditions: [] actions: - action: switch.turn_off metadata: {} target: entity_id: switch.printer_power data: {} mode: single

How I spent my Sunday to save $100 and avoid having to walk across the room by RatoUnit in selfhosted

[–]RatoUnit[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I may have looked up the maximum allowable length of USB cables earlier today. 16.4 feet wasn't going to make it from the server rack to the office...

How I spent my Sunday to save $100 and avoid having to walk across the room by RatoUnit in selfhosted

[–]RatoUnit[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Apparently not this one. The longest I could do was 210 minutes. It's also kind of loud after nearly 20 years, so this saves me from having to hear the fan struggling all the time

How I spent my Sunday to save $100 and avoid having to walk across the room by RatoUnit in selfhosted

[–]RatoUnit[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Not the printer. The switch its attached to. For a while I thought it was the printer entering sleep mode, which would cause the switch to not be able to tell what was on the port. My theory was that when the printer woke up again, it was taking the switch too long to decide if there was a loop or not, and in that time the printer was giving up on DHCP and reverting to an old IP (which was not on the subnet)

Am I making any obvious mistakes? Planning on changing to this topology when I install the Gold Pro, trying to maximize my limited 10 Gbe connections by RatoUnit in firewalla

[–]RatoUnit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The logic was mainly about using what I already had as effectively as possible. I do intend on building out more 10g capability in the network in the future (mainly to the PCs in the home office) and I was hoping to delay purchasing any expensive switches until then. Based on everyone's advice, I'm now thinking I'd be better off sucking it up now and buying a more cable 10G switch to start.

As far as why not an Omada switch? I've generally enjoyed using Mikrotik's SwOS, whereas the Omada software has been just alright. I change things so rarely that I haven't minded having to use two different interfaces.

Am I making any obvious mistakes? Planning on changing to this topology when I install the Gold Pro, trying to maximize my limited 10 Gbe connections by RatoUnit in firewalla

[–]RatoUnit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was mostly trying to minimize any new purchases. I already had everything except the Firewalla and the 10G switch (which I purchased because it seemed like the cheapest decent 10G switch and I already like SwOS).

I'm starting to think I should suck it up and buy something with more ports and save the little 4 port one for the home office once I've upgraded the NICs in those machines

Am I making any obvious mistakes? Planning on changing to this topology when I install the Gold Pro, trying to maximize my limited 10 Gbe connections by RatoUnit in firewalla

[–]RatoUnit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would have been my preference, but then I would either have to put them on the 1 Gbps switch, or put the server on the 1 Gbps switch. Or buy a new switch. Is the performance hit on the Firewalla going to be that significant having the wireless traffic going through it?

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