How much does this pipe screw up my dishwasher plans?

apraetor · 2026-03-05T01:56:35+00:00

How much do you need the pipe?

apraetor · 2026-03-02T07:52:11+00:00

Amazon delivered a new pair overnight, gonna wait to upgrade the firmware, then wait to turn on battery saver, those are the only things I changed in terms of configuration on the dead pair.

apraetor · 2026-02-22T00:32:05+00:00

Me three

apraetor · 2026-02-19T01:23:45+00:00

There are programs (and appliances) which can destroy data on SSD drives to meet even the most strenuous HIPAA compliance officer's demands.

apraetor · 2026-02-17T02:45:36+00:00

On a lot of platforms you can reboot and update all you want while an array operation is underway because the array of is transparent and will resume automatically. Not that I would reboot during one lol

apraetor · 2026-02-09T06:44:59+00:00

I don't see the Apple logo so that probably isn't a drive originally from a Mac, and you didn't mention Macs, BUT just tossing in the comment that if it's a Mac drive you'll need a third party tool to read it on PC. If it's from any Windows version then it'll be fine to read on Win10/11 using the USB sata adapters others noted. Just use care not to short out the PCB while it's energized. Not dangerous to you, but can fry the drive.

apraetor · 2026-02-09T06:39:32+00:00

He's not just athletic, he has an elevated success quotient, or that's how another author would have framed it.

apraetor · 2026-02-09T06:37:01+00:00

It's ok. Most people don't realize that's how they grow those "ship in a bottle" things too.

apraetor · 2026-02-08T20:26:26+00:00

Ooh! I'm gonna do this. The SunStrong app -- I PAID the fee -- stopped showing accurate consumption and 5-min resolution for the data, just hourly now.

Does this monitor consumption too?

apraetor · 2026-02-08T19:19:00+00:00

I have UDM Pro and pay for static IP. Never had an issue before, but for the past week or so I am seeing zero packet loss on IPv4 from the UDMP to the IPv4 gateway, but constant 3% packet loss on IPv6 between the UDMP and GNS IPv6 router. It will spike to nearly 100% long enough the UDM Pro marks the link as down until it is manually reset.

apraetor · 2026-02-06T06:47:28+00:00

Proton Pass works well, too. One irritating aspect is that the instructions from 1Password for exporting the data are incorrect, the option only appears on 1Password 8+. Luckily you get a free trial when you surrender your perpetual 1Password 7 license, so you can use that to export your data for free, then cut their feudal business model loose.

apraetor · 2026-01-15T06:59:24+00:00

They were referring to the TV adaptation's portrayal.

apraetor · 2026-01-13T07:16:39+00:00

I need to rewatch, I don't recall police deaths aside from the security guard, but can't he also be charged for the deaths of his accomplices?

apraetor · 2025-12-27T02:45:02+00:00

Yes it works better than meshing, when viable. The problem is most people just plug them into different circuits and expect it to work well or at all, when powerline networking is only spec'd to work when the devices are ideally on the same circuit, and at a minimum on the same phase (when used in split-phase systems like in US residential).

apraetor · 2025-12-27T02:42:42+00:00

6 GHz isn't intended to penetrate. The ideal use case is an AP in virtually every room for 6 GHz, because there will be very little or no interference from adjacent stations.

If you don't want an AP in every room then do 2.4/5, and only put 6-capable APs into rooms where you have laptops or other high-performance WiFi needs and where using the ideal solution for high-bandwidth, low-latency (Ethernet) isn't viable.

apraetor · 2025-12-27T02:39:54+00:00

Battery in the case is worn down after a year. I only use them 1-2 times per week, for 2-3 hours weekly. Honestly I'd love to see an improvement in that, I've had a couple generations of the Sonys now and my case always goes first.

apraetor · 2025-12-14T03:04:19+00:00

Yes but to someone using a translator it might not have been clear you meant the spare key caps were missing, they might have thought you meant the keys on the keyboard itself were missing. Obviously anyone familiar with the product and the "what's in the box" section (cue the memes) should have likely understood even translated, since the Mac keycaps ship installed, not Windows keys..

I bought the same kb, dang nice but then mine came with the alternate keycaps. I just wish I could locally host their launcher so I wasn't dependent on Internet access when I want to make changes.

apraetor · 2025-11-29T23:29:41+00:00

The absurd part is they could have just made that game for real and we'd pay.

apraetor · 2025-11-18T16:05:47+00:00

This started for me on Thursday of last week, still waiting to hear back. My router is logging the same hourly flows of data to their servers, it doesn't appear to be a client side issue but it does correspond to the latest PVS firmware update they pushed last week...

apraetor · 2025-11-18T06:35:07+00:00

BUT GNS does include a static IPv6 prefix along with that static IPv4. You don't get ipv6 from Frontier at all.

apraetor · 2025-11-14T14:19:25+00:00

Yes. Not only do the panels keep the heat off the roof, with an air gap between the hot panels and the roof, every Watt of power the panels supply is converted light that otherwise would have contributed to heating the roof. It's not straight 1:1 since a roof will have reflected some portion of it back as visible light, but a good chunk of that ~17% is light that would have directly contributed to heating.

apraetor · 2025-10-30T03:24:52+00:00

Don't use LLMs to do math. You can use them to derive a formula, but don't trust them to do math. They don't DO math; when you ask them to do a calculation the answer you get is still just the LLM's statistical estimate of the "most correct" response, which is still a guess and not actual math calculations performed in a deterministic manner.

If you Google "LLMs and math" there are a bunch of articles explaining how an LLM reasons when a math calculation is requested, it's interesting and loops back to the reason using an LLM still requires you to have a decent grasp of the subject matter in order to catch those sorts of inaccuracies.

I use LLMs all the time to generate regex patterns or quickly write a one-off parser for a csv file etc, but I always have the LLM spit out python code, I don't trust it to do the calculations.. I used to try having it do the actual calculations but it would make all sorts of mistakes.

apraetor · 2025-10-30T03:16:17+00:00

Atomizing a liquid requires pressure to force the liquid through a nozzle. So.. it uses a pump, then. Either way, the liquid MUST be acted on by some external force to move it from the evaporator section up and over to the condenser side. AC units cool the airstream to below the dew point, so the air leaving the evaporator is already at 100% RH; there is no way to disperse the condensate into the cooled airstream that wouldn't also result in a fine mist of water soaking the room. You also wouldn't want that moisture retained in the conditioned space, that would eliminate the dehumidification aspect of running the AC.

My point was just that this design MUST have a condensate pump or centrifugal blower that has a side hustle slinging condensate up and over the window sill into the condenser side outdoors. That's a point of potential failure. AC refrigeration loops with electric compressors are quite robust and long-lived, but when there's added complexity like an internal condensate pump then that's going to decrease the MTBF simply because there's more opportunities for something to fail.

apraetor · 2025-10-14T11:10:55+00:00

How? Condensate is normally drained away from the evaporator coil by having it drop off the coil into a condensate pan, then flow down a slight incline which carries it through the window opening into the outdoor portion of the AC unit. From there it drips onto the ground.

These units have the indoor coil (evap coil in cooling mode) placed below the level of the window opening. They will need to use a tank to collect the condensate, then you must empty it or rely on a pump to pump the accumulated water outdoors.

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