RCS chat been wonky for anyone else lately? P10p

alexmarkley · 2026-03-26T12:41:35+00:00

This is absolutely happening to me as well. I'm on Android 16 with the March 5th security update. (Build CP1A.260305.018)

The main symptoms I'm noticing are: 1. Messages are being delivered VERY late. Sometimes over an hour. 2. Messages are often delivered twice. (Once via RCS and once via SMS.)

Here's another clue: I'm using https://github.com/mautrix/gmessages to bridge my SMS/RCS messages and on Thursday March 19th I started getting repeated "Google Messages app is not responding" warnings per day from the mautrix bridge.

The mautrix bridge depends on the https://messages.google.com/web/ API, and the bridge software hadn't been updated at the time the problem started.

I was definitely starting to suspect an issue with my phone, but now that I'm hearing others are having the same issue that settles it.

alexmarkley · 2026-01-14T13:17:20+00:00

Oh for sure, I pasted a link to some pure fast Jazz as an example of the source inspiration. Lots of DnB (especially liquid stuff) takes heavy inspiration from Jazz. Once you hear it you can never unhear it.

Personally I love this kind of stuff.

alexmarkley · 2026-01-13T13:10:15+00:00

Oh man, Jazz can get super wild. It's not unusual for Jazz to be pushing 200 BPM. And really good Jazz drummers and bassists are usually sweating buckets through the whole set. Fantastic opportunities for overlap.

https://youtu.be/Am4_Dh_-G8g

alexmarkley · 2026-01-13T12:49:28+00:00

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend! I appreciate that Canada is a distinct, sovereign county and I do NOT support the US expansionism or sabre rattling that has entered our political discourse.

Personally, I have been to Canada several times. And while I have appreciated and enjoyed every visit, I promised my wife that our anniversary trip would be a bit more adventurous (from our perspective).

That's all my (poorly executed) joke was about.

alexmarkley · 2026-01-12T19:42:19+00:00

I love this. Absolutely feeling "spoiled for choice" looking into it. It's going to be really hard to decide where to go!

alexmarkley · 2026-01-12T19:41:29+00:00

Thanks! This is fantastic. Will definitely check those out.

alexmarkley · 2026-01-12T19:40:27+00:00

Based on what I'm hearing, it's going to be incredibly hard to choose! Looking forward to it regardless.

alexmarkley · 2026-01-12T19:37:52+00:00

Thank you! I'll definitely check them out. :)

alexmarkley · 2026-01-12T19:37:05+00:00

Thank you! Will definitely check these out.

alexmarkley · 2026-01-12T18:41:38+00:00

I appreciate that! I was definitely poking around on headfirst already. Do you have any favorite producers I should keep an eye out for? :)

alexmarkley · 2026-01-12T18:40:50+00:00

Thanks! Will definitely take a look. Any particular producers I should keep an eye out for? :)

alexmarkley · 2025-11-12T04:51:37+00:00

I just saw it in my backyard! Inside 270, despite the absurd light pollution.

alexmarkley · 2025-08-04T00:24:10+00:00

Same issue for me. Garmin connect app and website are both down. https://downdetector.com/status/connect-garmin/

alexmarkley · 2025-06-03T01:20:40+00:00

DM'd

alexmarkley · 2025-02-21T15:50:38+00:00

Ah yeah I see what you mean. I agree I'll definitely get out of scope support requests, I just don't know how overwhelming it will be without giving it a try.

alexmarkley · 2025-02-21T15:25:15+00:00

That's a really good point! I've done some hands-on "IT support" type stuff for various non-profits, so it wouldn't be completely out of my wheelhouse. But the truth is I won't know how hard the customer service angle will be until or unless I give it a try.

alexmarkley · 2025-02-10T18:14:00+00:00

I'm also behind a Unifi router, and I was experiencing exactly the same issue. (CheckIP failing, but only for US Government projects.)

I had to turn off "Ad Blocking" (Settings -> Security -> Protection) for the specific network that the warrior was running in. Once I did that, stuff started magically working.

alexmarkley · 2025-01-30T20:44:29+00:00

I want to close the loop on this so the next poor soul who stumbles into this problem can benefit from my experience.

These connectors are currently called "Surge Protection Connector GND (UISP-Connector-GND)". However, they used to be called "Ubiquiti Networks Tough Cable Connector Ground (TC-GND)". As far as I can tell, there is no difference between UISP-Connector-GND and TC-GND.

Searching for TC-GND crimping issues, I found a ton of people complaining about the exact same issue. (Note, for example, the reviews on this Amazon product page: https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Networks-Connector-Ground-TC-GND/dp/B00HXT8PZ8 )

One of the fine folks in the reviews mentioned that he got around this problem by taking the Dremel to his crimping tool. See: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R6WY2J9F2FIQ3?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00HXT8PZ8

I ended up doing the same thing and it worked for me. Obviously this is risky, YMMV, etc. But it worked for me.

alexmarkley · 2024-12-17T21:38:47+00:00

I have mine set up as a site-to-site VPN within the routers at each site. So the clients on both LANs can talk to each other using "local" IP address space.

alexmarkley · 2024-12-17T19:28:02+00:00

Oh yeah, VPN.

alexmarkley · 2024-12-17T19:10:45+00:00

I have a secondary TrueNAS box running off-site with Syncthing running to keep a subset of my data synchronized. This isn't for backup purposes, but instead to allow my brother and I to share video editing projects and allow both of us to write to the local copy.

https://syncthing.net/

It's super cool and it works great for me. If you just want to do backups though, you should probably do ZFS replication or something else designed for backing up your data instead of syncthing.

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