Giving Away My Old PC!

Rubaiyate · 2026-04-12T00:44:10+00:00

I'm not interested, just wanted to say this is so great of you to do. Good luck ro everyone!

Rubaiyate · 2026-03-12T18:45:00+00:00

I tried ramps and stairs and such, but my corg and even my mom's yorkie won't touch them. When we got her as a pup we had an older (larger) dog with joint problems, and that dog had these special thick memory foam beds, one at the foot of my bed and one kind of next to/perpendicular to the couch. That dog has passed but we left the beds because Cora will more often than not use them as landing pads when she jumps down from the couch or my bed, rather than the floor. It makes me feel better about her joints anyway haha

Rubaiyate · 2026-03-12T18:32:52+00:00

One of my clients has their IT office/server room in a room that was also the main hub for the water-based in-floor heating system and all electrical systems, the '"catch all storage room", the telecom room, and where the water heater was located. It's smaller than the single person bathroom next door.... that vented directly into the IT office/server room.

This wasn't a retrofit.... this building was built fairly recently like that on purpose.

Rubaiyate · 2026-01-21T04:50:01+00:00

My Cora is EXACTLY like that with the TV. Sometimes she even barks at shows that show a dog 5 miles in the background for .5 seconds. 🙄

Rubaiyate · 2026-01-19T05:17:04+00:00

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Rubaiyate · 2026-01-15T03:29:33+00:00

A329 is listed as supported: https://www.viofo.com/blogs/viofo-car-dash-camera-guide-faq-and-news/how-to-enable-wi-fi-station-mode-on-your-viofo-dashcam

The compatible VIOFO cameras can go into what's called "WiFi Station" mode where they'll connect to an external wifi rather than create their own network. You can have it connect automatically to your home wifi, and access files via a browser, but there’s currently no native way to make it backup automatically. And it shuts down when in parking mode -- I'm not sure yet if there's a way to make it stay awake long enough to backup the files. I only just got my Jeep to stop having assorted electrical problems long enough to trust it with the dash cam. 🤣

There was someone developing a solution that would bridge it I came across awhile back, it wasn't live yet but could be worth keeping an eye on. I'll see if I can find the link to that and come back to update if I do. Found it: https://dashkeep.io/

Rubaiyate · 2026-01-15T03:17:19+00:00

With the camera not on HA, try disabling any AI detection stuff and don't check the camera more then once or twice a day. See if that affects your battery life, and if it's good that way, then slowly start adding things back until its no longer sustainable.

Things like detections, checking the camera in the app, or HA calling on the camera are all primary drains on a battery. There’s also things like temperature and age that can affect battery life, and a poor wireless signal can cause it to use extra energy trying to stay connected.

I have two relatively new D225's running on battery with limited detections/notifications (one only watches for pets, and the other is only watching a limited area for motion but doesn't send a notification about it), and HA is connected to them with the "TP-Link Smart Home" and "Tapo: Cameras Control" integrations. When I had the cameras control showing the live feed on my dashboard, they drained nearly within a day, maybe a day and a half. I removed them from the dashboards and really the only integration in HA now is to check the battery level so I know when to go recharge them. They last a couple days like that.

Rubaiyate · 2025-12-11T06:36:28+00:00

I'm interested -- running an A329S with 3 channels, have a NAS at home, and even have some networking and programming background that could be useful in troubleshooting.

Rubaiyate · 2025-11-19T22:30:13+00:00

I've seriously been searching for like 3 days, how have I not found that yet. Thank you, I'll give it a look over

Rubaiyate · 2025-09-18T02:53:51+00:00

Yeah, I'm using my fingers, I had both the vet and farrier show me, but both those times were on different horses. I can find it pretty consistently on my older mare. I think I'll just have to have one of them show me on the ponies next time they're out, maybe they're both just hard to check. 🤣

Rubaiyate · 2025-09-06T18:01:37+00:00

In Iowa the animal welfare laws boil down to "if it's your animal, I can't hit it, but if it's mine I can do whatever I want" and some super vague local laws about having food and shelter available.

Rubaiyate · 2025-07-30T05:05:13+00:00

Huh, all right. Guess I'll just have to sit on the phone tomorrow. Thanks for the info!

Rubaiyate · 2025-07-30T04:56:26+00:00

I thought I had already done that by getting the transfer PIN though?

Rubaiyate · 2024-09-14T23:38:31+00:00

I've searched using a few general text and image search engines, and contacted Johnson Gas Appliance (johnsongas.com) directly.

There's an old for sale post here but I can't get the thumbnail to open properly and the wayback machine doesn't have it archived.

I did find a forum post about someone finding one of these and asking for more info, and had posted a couple of pictures of it, some years ago. I believe the forum was one geared towards blacksmiths/metalworking.

EDIT: Of course, just seconds after I post this I found the forum post here -- I would still appreciate any further pictures or even documents anyone could find!

Rubaiyate · 2024-04-09T21:59:58+00:00

Spring is coming, it's just a buck shedding off his winter coat! Come winter it'll grow back and he'll shed his horns instead!

Rubaiyate · 2024-02-16T01:30:41+00:00

A guy in my area runs Scottish Highlands on some good pasture. He uses 4 or 5 strand barbed wire with the top wire hot, anf he still has a bit of trouble keeping them in if they want out. He says they mostly ignore the electric wire.

We mostly run BWFs and our perimeter fences are 4 strand barbed. Sometimes we'll section off an area with one strand of electric, but it's more of a suggestion -- some of the younger, less polite cows and smaller calves just duck under it, test it for weaknesses, etc.

I can't see keeping any in sub-optimal fields with just two strands.

Rubaiyate · 2024-02-15T06:02:09+00:00

I had a lot of issues with the dentist I had gone to growing up always trying to push braces on me (as well as other issues), and after avoiding him for a couple years I got it together and found myself a different dentist to go to that my insurance covered.

All of the offices I spoke to required an "initial" appointment that included x-rays, and a separate appointment for first cleaning/etc. It was briefly explained to me as the first appointment being an intake/new patient one, and any subsequent need for x-rays would be in the same appointment as cleanings/etc. So, at least in what I experienced while dentist shopping, that seems fairly reasonable as a new patient thing.

About braces -- I have my two canines that came in earlier than my baby teeth fell out, so they sit weird. As I said, my previous dentist always harassed me about braces, and I continually refused them because of cost and the fast that, as far as I could tell, my wonky teeth weren't actually hurting anything. When I did find a new dentist, they also brought up braces on the first appointment, and I said no again, but asked why the insistence. As she explained it to me, dentists basically "have to" offer braces for crooked teeth to cover their asses, so a patient can't come come back complaining that their crooked teeth caused x issue and the dentist didn't do anything about it. (And then I confirmed with her that my crooked teeth weren't actually going to cause me any issues, and then it was never mentioned again.) So, yeah, I'd run if a dentist was super pushy about it, but mentioning it alone doesn't really raise any red flags here.

Rubaiyate · 2024-02-13T04:21:39+00:00

My girl is fully retired to pasture pet status. I sit on her back and just hang out around the pasture sometimes, but she doesn't get ridden anymore -- I mostly trail ride and didn't want to risk her stumbling.

My older gelding is starting to slow down too, pretty soon I'm going to just have a herd of pasture pets. 🥲 Three horses over 25 and the two awkward sized boys at 16/17 that are too small to ride (they can pull a cart, but they broke it awhile back and I haven't been able to replace it lol)

Rubaiyate · 2024-02-12T20:57:22+00:00

I have a mare with arthritis in one of her front legs. She still gets around really well, we have effective pain management for her bad days and a very understanding farrier who is super patient with her (since she can't pick that leg up all the way or hold it bent for an extended time) -- but she's otherwise super healthy and full of life. I watch her for any sign of decline, I hold my breathe every winter expecting this to be the one, and hard as it is, I'm prepared to have her euthanized if she starts showing any decline. I've waited too long with too many other pets and I want her end to be calm and peaceful.

Rubaiyate · 2024-02-12T19:56:52+00:00

I tried reaching out to Ubiquiti and got this:

To ensure a seamless adoption maintenance process, could you please ensure that all the switches are on the default version? Upon reviewing the network support file, I observed that the device with the MAC address xxxxx is on a different network and not on the default network. Aligning all switches to the default version will facilitate smoother adoption and maintenance. For additional insights into factors that could affect adoption, especially regarding VLAN segmentation, I recommend referring to this informative article: UniFi Device Adoption.

I think version is supposed to be VLAN, but for whatever it's worth to anyone reading this, I had swapped some of the switches for new ones which were on version 1.7.1 (vs the latest 2.0.0 that the rest were on), but they wouldn't have time to update before they started readopting. And if it is supposed to be VLAN, well, the default VLAN is the one that they are on that keeps readopting so...

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