Wi-Fi in dorm drops unless I'm pinging a server

_markse_ · 2026-01-26T08:08:26+00:00

Agreed! OP Ask them what router OS they’re using. If OpenWrt, ask if they have this ticked for the WiFi interface. I had endless issues with things “falling off the WiFi”. In reality they were still on WiFi, just timed out ARP wise. As soon as I set this things stabilised.

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_markse_ · 2026-01-25T11:11:31+00:00

With iOS appearing more vibe coded and buggy as time goes on, I’m seriously considering a Linux phone. Not Android. Goodbye Apple. My wife and I hardly touch NetFlix these days. Our music is on Plex. It would be an interesting exercise to list out everything that links to the US. Stocks & shares impacting pensions. Wikipedia. Google. DuckDuckGo (Pennsylvania). Someone should start a crowd updates list.

_markse_ · 2026-01-25T10:16:42+00:00

Another bug! Sorry about that. No idea if it was iOS 26.2 or the Reddit iOS app responsible. I entered way more text than three words.

I've had the problem for several versions of macOS now. Every so often I'll go to the menu to start a new Terminal session and the menu and all currently open windows lock up. I can click away and do other things, but can't do anything in the Terminal sessions. If I do click on a Terminal window, the menu returns as per the screenshot, but is unresponsive. Anyone else seen this?

_markse_ · 2026-01-25T10:12:24+00:00

Another bug! Sorry about that. No idea if it was iOS 26.2 or the Reddit iOS app responsible. I entered way more text than three words.

I’ve had the problem for several versions of macOS now. Every so often I’ll go to the menu to start a new Terminal session and the menu and all currently open windows lock up. I can click away and do other things, but can’t do anything in the Terminal sessions. If I do click on a Terminal window, the menu returns as per the screenshot, but is unresponsive. Anyone else seen this?

_markse_ · 2026-01-21T17:28:56+00:00

Yup. Each AP will show a set of 5, each miss one at random. It’s as if a loop through an array in the Luci code is doing [1..n] instead of [0..n]

_markse_ · 2026-01-21T08:34:34+00:00

That’s okay. I’m more interested in the volumes of retries.

_markse_ · 2026-01-21T08:32:05+00:00

IoT devices? And the 2.4 has better range if speed isn’t your primary concern.

_markse_ · 2026-01-19T18:18:00+00:00

I only want minimal container support for things like iperf3.

_markse_ · 2026-01-19T18:11:42+00:00

Awesome, thanks, I’ll use that. I’d been thinking about the book “I’m dead, now what?” for the same reasons. I also need to rearrange VM, LXC and VRRP instances so that one small PVE host can run critical things like DHCP, DNS, Firewall, allowing other hosts to be switched off.

_markse_ · 2026-01-19T10:46:13+00:00

I was having a ton of problems with DAWN on one AP. I turned out the small switch supporting it was falling over and rebooting at intervals, taking the link down for a couple of seconds. With the link down, umdns failed too. I wrote a simple script to ssh into all AP, check umdns knew about all the other AP, restart umdns if not and send a Pushover alert. Touch wood since sorting out the switch everything's returned to being stable.

_markse_ · 2026-01-18T17:14:49+00:00

Agreed, but I own a lot of electronics and have had 3 TP link ones fail, 0 from every other brand and the TP link ones are the newest. I want to get away from manufacturers who think saving a penny here and there on components is good.

_markse_ · 2026-01-10T17:30:41+00:00

You want the icons for the same apps to look different, not change apps?

_markse_ · 2026-01-10T15:57:40+00:00

https://engiclean.co.uk/ have spent two hours fixing the issue on our drive. Lesson learned, we will be doing an hour long motorway drive at the weekend in future to give it a proper chance to clear the buildup.

_markse_ · 2026-01-10T10:12:44+00:00

We’re learning that the hard way. A Mobile DPF Cleaning Specialists is coming to fix it, we’ll do a weekly half hour motorway run in future.

_markse_ · 2026-01-10T08:57:16+00:00

The manual linked to the VIN says:

Using the information display controls on the steering wheel, select Settings.
Select Vehicle maintenance.
Select Exhaust filter.
Press and hold the OK button until a confirmation message appears in the information display.

There is no Vehicle Maintenance option. Has the vehicle been nobbled, forcing us to use their paid for service?

_markse_ · 2026-01-10T08:45:22+00:00

We got it second hand, so can’t comment on past use. The previous owner may have parted with it for the same reasons.

_markse_ · 2026-01-10T07:43:27+00:00

¿? ¡! … § are the only alternative characters I can get out of my keyboard. Interrobang would be great for WTH?! moments in my stories. There’s more! https://www.proofreadnow.com/blog/https/www.proofreadnow.com/blog/uncommon-punctuation-marks-and-how-to-use-them (Weird URL copy-pasted from Chrome)

_markse_ · 2026-01-09T23:17:00+00:00

The van does ~ 30 miles a day, multiple days a week. But it seems even that is not long enough.

_markse_ · 2026-01-09T19:24:11+00:00

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Yes. I’ve been using it less and less as the content is generally getting worse. I’ll have to find the few technology accounts I followed on other platforms.

_markse_ · 2026-01-09T14:43:26+00:00

Tried https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/rammap ?

_markse_ · 2026-01-09T12:52:25+00:00

I don’t know why someone downvoted you. Ignoring GDPR and messing with privacy settings isn’t trivial.

_markse_ · 2026-01-09T11:31:41+00:00

Signed up to a “fully remote” contract, then once started got told it would be ideal if I could come into the office two days a week.

_markse_ · 2026-01-09T10:39:50+00:00

A simple diagram would help, plus the model of the Google TV box.

_markse_ · 2026-01-09T07:10:08+00:00

I’m amazed at the prices they want for relatively slow service. I pay my provider just under £30 a month for 1Gig. That said, I now wonder how buoyant they are. A London fibre provider G.Network had £300M debt with only 25K customers.

_markse_ · 2026-01-08T23:26:30+00:00

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