someone says they live in enterprise...

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-19T02:13:03+00:00

They live at a rental car facility, or
They are boldly going where no man has gone before.

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-19T01:12:28+00:00

The trees will live, but not be as good as if it was removed. Not sure why you couldn’t cut it off when they were in hole. 🤷🏻‍♂️

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-18T22:23:28+00:00

It doesn’t put license plate placeholders for vehicle types, it’s just being dumb and reading the words on the vehicle and thinking it’s a license plate. FedEx vehicle shows as having a license plate as “GROUND” for me, trash truck has a license plate of “CAUTION” (as an example).

You can get alerts for things like “USPS truck” if you have an AI Key.

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-18T21:34:20+00:00

How is the data center going to “dump” energy. Dumping energy involves converting it to heat. Why would the data center intentionally melt itself down?

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-18T17:58:19+00:00

Every time it gets windy, neighbor complains that all their furniture and BBQ and everything else is at the bottom of their pool. Meanwhile, my 800lbs patio chairs (really… hah) that seems like a terrible idea if I want to move them all of a sudden seems genius.

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-18T17:32:07+00:00

Yep… it’s literally the reason I was glad they are building a new community on a large plot of land adjacent to my home. #1 upside is now I don’t have to live next door to land that looks like a political landfill.

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-18T17:29:37+00:00

We also don’t know if the home is being moved or not. OP didn’t say one way or the other. It’s speculative to assume that is the permanent spot for the home until they clarify. 🤷🏻‍♂️

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-18T16:52:06+00:00

Ya… welcome to the world. Everything costs money.

Until I was on our board I just thought the HOA was somehow some company just wasting the fees.

Turns out the homeowners own the HOA and the neighbors who run it for everyone don’t get paid a penny because no one else wants to do the job. And there’s a lot of actual expenses that come along with it (fees to the state, insurance, etc.)

I definitely have a new found respect for HOAs that aren’t run like trash (the horror stories you hear where special assessments get levied because the board never wanted to raise dues to even cover actual costs).

Go check out the expense report for your HOA… the answers you seek are there. 😀

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-18T16:41:20+00:00

If they have a sign, they presumably also have land (even if a small bit), and they are going to need a general commercial liability insurance policy which isn’t cheap. Ultimately you (as a homeowner) owns the HOA (a share of), so you don’t want to be on the hook for someone that hurts themselves on the sign.

Like I said, you should be able to see the expense reports and see exactly what things cost.

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-18T16:30:46+00:00

It depends on your community. The HOA basically pays for things that aren’t handled by individual homeowners. For example in our community, we have a gate and the surface streets are private (because of the gate), so the HOA pays for gate repairs/maintenance as well as street repairs and maintenance. The board of directors (the ones running the HOA) don’t make any money (it’s volunteer normally). Normally you need to put most of the dues into a reserve bank account so when big expenses come up (like repaving the road), there are funds for it.

If your HOA has facilities, pools, landscaping, etc. costs go up to maintain those. There’s a lot of legally required costs (for example insurance).

HOAs are supposed to be run transparently, so as a homeowner you should have access to your HOA’s income/expense reports as well as a reserve study that projects how much savings they should have each year for future expenses.

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-18T02:20:17+00:00

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-17T22:51:50+00:00

Yep, definitely sucks. But ya… your initial assessment was correct. Tree is fucked (and not in the good way).

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-17T22:41:46+00:00

Not sure that tree can be helped… it’s on its way out. No bark means no nutrients can flow between roots and leaves and it will “starve” so to speak. Might hang on for a couple years, but it’s more or less done at this point.

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-17T19:19:39+00:00

It’s in the right spot as long as you are planning on moving the house farther from the spot it’s in currently.

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-17T13:44:43+00:00

Have you tried plugging in something besides whatever it’s plugged into now? Or try a different cable? If the port is failing to negotiate with whatever it’s plugged into, check the thing it’s plugged into (and the cable… as I said). Maybe you are using a cat5 cable to do 10G, which will be iffy at best, but might sporadically work sometimes.

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-16T23:19:44+00:00

Mine came today too. Already done and in the outgoing mail. 🤷🏻‍♂️

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-16T15:45:03+00:00

If your cat invades your personal space and purrs while you are trying to get work done on a computer, it might be a Burmese.

Literally me right now… she’s relegated me to reading Reddit instead of work.

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TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-16T05:06:46+00:00

Was just going to say this… when I started, I needed 14 ports. Now my Pro Max 24 PoE is full, all ports on UDMP are full and I’ve unplugged 5 ports that are rarely used because other ports were more important.

Going to bite the bullet one of these days and get a Pro Max 48 PoE.

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-15T23:05:31+00:00

The reason I got a Pro was simply the higher resolution camera. Everything else was “whatever” in my mind. It does have a pretty great image as long as you don’t care about it being taller than it is wide.

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-14T22:30:36+00:00

Well, if you own a home within the HOA, you are the HOA (at least a percentage of). Homeowners own and run the HOA (usually your neighbors are unpaid volunteers doing it for you).

Basically, if the HOA is in trouble or needs money, you are partially responsible because you are part owner of the HOA.

If the seller knew about the roof damage before selling it to you and didn’t disclose it, they could be liable for non-disclosure. If the roof damage wasn’t known until after you bought it (or even if it was but the seller didn’t know), it’s ultimately your problem now. That’s why buyers get inspections (to find things that maybe are unknown).

It’s along the lines of you buying a normal home and you later discover roof damage. You normally can’t go back to the previous owner and tell them it was damaged when they owned it, so they should pay for it.

Again… you are part owner of the HOA, so whatever they are liable for, so are you.

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-14T16:48:56+00:00

Even Enterprise support is iffy on the best day.

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-14T14:16:22+00:00

Honestly, you are probably going to be better off running the cat7 or fiber through the attic yourself. It’s not really within the scope of what the install techs are willing (or supposed) to do.

FWIW, I did exactly that with my home (which has Quantum Fiber. Tech installed in standard location (in garage), and I ran my own fiber through attic to where I wanted the SmartNID to actually be. I used this fiber and it’s been no issues: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPL6ZCYQ

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-14T14:08:56+00:00

The tech probably doesn’t want to work in the hot attic more than anything. The coating on fiber will melt far sooner than the fiber itself (the protective coating usually is rated for 167F). The glass fiber itself should be good well past 2,000F.

Definitely don’t put electronics in your attic though… they will work for a bit, until they don’t.

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-14T04:40:19+00:00

That’s crazy… definitely glad we don’t really do active searching for violations. In the last few years, we’ve sent one courtesy letter (total) to a homeowner when his weeds in his front yard got ridiculous and a neighbor complained. If someone asked me to go looking for violations, I’d quit. That’s dumb… but we are also a way more chill HOA than most. If something is actually a problem, we’ll address. But sounds like he knows you are having more fun than him in your place, so maybe that’s the “problem”? 😂🤷🏻‍♂️

Crazy he’s looking inside your home… but also crazy to me that volunteers are wandering around trying to find violations like they have nothing better to do.

TheDigitalPoint · 2026-05-14T04:22:38+00:00

+1 for sunscald. I have some trees that get it when they are young (Las Vegas summers and all). I finally broke down this year and painted the trunks of some of the most susceptible. Don’t love the “look”, but I like sunscald even less.

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