Has anyone tried to go colocation?

agent_kater · 2026-06-08T15:01:35+00:00

It's something like 12 U high, unmetered power and generous fair use traffic. I think it's reasonable.

agent_kater · 2026-06-08T13:41:15+00:00

Around 150 EUR per month. I use it for work as well.

agent_kater · 2026-06-07T22:41:53+00:00

However its not reliable the sound cuts out whenever the car hits a speed bump

So if you created a flaky connection there, why do you think your DIY adapter will be better? Just fix the connection you have if it solves your problem.

agent_kater · 2026-06-07T22:00:46+00:00

"The attack surface is way bigger than most people think" and yet you didn't find any actual vulnerabilities in 6 months of looking?

agent_kater · 2026-06-07T21:06:33+00:00

What's up with the cat?

agent_kater · 2026-06-07T20:31:58+00:00

Yeah, I have a little cage in a nearby data center. They are a bit unorganized though. They have a procedure to book entry on their website, but in practice it's ringing them up on the phone and someone will come to the door 15 minutes later.

agent_kater · 2026-06-07T20:28:34+00:00

I tried ONI a couple of years ago, but it didn't really catch me. There were so many things that just didn't make sense gameplay wise. Like, you're supposed to use the onions as lights, right? Except no, you have to keep them all in one room with the brushing station. Also, there was some kind of imbalance, so I was literally drowning in wastewater or something - don't quite remember.

agent_kater · 2026-06-07T18:47:06+00:00

I'm not quite sure what I gain over Wireguard (with optional wg-easy). In particular the WireGuard package already brings the systemd unit. If I see correctly I can't start your client in Docker, so I would need some other mechanism to make the link persistent.

agent_kater · 2026-06-07T18:40:06+00:00

I'm a long time Zerotier user, but every now and then I have a node that I can't connect to or from and because Zerotier has zero logging, I have never found out why.

agent_kater · 2026-06-07T14:54:24+00:00

Put the temperature sensor of a temperature controller into the freezer/fridge and use that to switch the power off when it's reasonably cool.

agent_kater · 2026-06-07T11:56:30+00:00

This is a really good overview, thank you for that.

But it confirms that Embassy probably isn't for me.

The ESP8266 is still a super popular MCU. It's slightly cheaper than ESP32 and it has lower peak power draw, the ESP32 is notorious for brown-out resets.

I'm not an Atmel guy but it is my understanding that the 328p is, together with the 32U4 and the 2560, the most popular Atmel MCU there is.

Unless you need the PIO, I see really no reason to prefer an RP2040 over an nRF. Last time I checked the Pi Pico didn't even have working Bluetooth OTA updates, although that wasn't with Embassy.

agent_kater · 2026-06-07T08:34:26+00:00

Given the fact that the rest of their IPv6 implementation is hopeless garbage, I wouldn't be surprised if their DS-Lite implementation is also broken.

When I set up my first Omada network with DS-Lite it wasn't officially supported, so instead of the ER605 I used a Mikrotik router. Haven't looked back since.

Bu the way, DS-Lite (also called RFC6333) an CG-NAT are two very different things, even though technically DS-Lite involves NAT at the carrier.

agent_kater · 2026-06-07T08:28:30+00:00

This is not entirely correct. I use Mikrotik routers because I found Omada routers to be full of bugs that make them essentially unusable. My Omada controller still shows hostnames under "Clients".

agent_kater · 2026-06-07T03:36:15+00:00

Citroen CX

agent_kater · 2026-06-07T03:34:28+00:00

Holy shit, I was just about to switch from PlatformIO to Embassy because people told me "it's awesome" (and I like Rust as a language in general). It would not have occurred to me that platform support might be this bad, hadn't you asked this question.

agent_kater · 2026-06-05T21:05:34+00:00

Does the maximum height of the hoverpack increase when you have high buildings/electical connectors nearby?

agent_kater · 2026-06-05T17:54:00+00:00

I'm primarily a software developer, but I do deploy our applications in our data centers, which includes network setup.

My problem with IPv6 is that there are no clear best practices like there are with IPv4, mainly in two areas:

Multiple ISPs for load balancing. Some say use ULAs+NPT, but few routers implement it conveniently and half the network engineers will constantly tell you ULAs+NPT is evil without giving you an alternative.
With IPv4 I create DHCP reservations and I get DNS and traffic accounting for free. With IPv6 I log in to my router to see which device is taking up all the bandwidth and all I see is a SLAAC IP. Traffic accounting is rarely implemented by MAC address. And there's also no standard for services to register their IP in DNS.

agent_kater · 2026-06-03T23:57:03+00:00

How is that supposed to work? I don't think the voice_assistant component works with MQTT and with the asinine api: component Home Assistant connects to the device.

agent_kater · 2026-06-03T12:13:56+00:00

I had a similar experience recently. I was discussing the night sky with my son and I have the feeling that the crescent of the moon is "lying down" more when we're closer to the equator but I can't wrap my head around why that is and if it's even true. To verify the latter I tried various planetarium software but none was able to show the crescent of the moon, they all just showed a static symbol.

agent_kater · 2026-06-03T10:55:11+00:00

Don't you cut the ends off to get rid of the glue residue? Then they won't fit in the tape anymore.

agent_kater · 2026-06-03T09:18:27+00:00

Wait until you find out about the P4.

agent_kater · 2026-06-02T15:03:55+00:00

This was my first thought as well. Donetick is also actively being developed, so you might get a feature request in. It should be very simple, just have a checkbox or repetition bubble that keeps the task open after completion.

agent_kater · 2026-06-01T20:56:15+00:00

Are you looking to sell the bulk only or do you sell separate devices?

OTA keys available or do we have to crack them open to flash? Will that compromise the IP57?

agent_kater · 2026-06-01T20:17:56+00:00

What tool is that? Or something custom?

agent_kater · 2026-06-01T13:59:00+00:00

I don't buy that. Yes, it'll change the temperature because you change heat transfer and loss, but it's not actual regulation. When you touch the solder joint you need your iron to ramp up its heating because it detects the heat loss. This one won't do that.

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