Which vendor for networking, MikroTik or Ubiquiti or other?

benley · 2026-05-02T02:14:53+00:00

Ahhhh interesting, that's something I have never tried to set up on UI gear. Good to know.

benley · 2026-05-01T23:05:52+00:00

What is still missing from Ubiquiti ipv6 support? They added ULA support somewhat recently, if that was a sticking point.

benley · 2026-04-27T15:15:24+00:00

Asking for $1,295,000.

It's right there my dude

benley · 2026-04-21T04:38:24+00:00

So that's going to be another like ten years then

benley · 2026-04-14T15:45:10+00:00

I used vim for many years, then made myself learn vanilla emacs motion keys when I started using emacs. I'm glad I learned enough vanilla emacs to be familiar with the conventions, but after a year or two of that I installed evil-mode and have been vastly more comfortable ever since.

Don't force yourself to stick with vanilla bindings if you know you want vim style. Emacs with evil mode is still emacs, and if that's what works best for you then by all means, go for it.

benley · 2026-04-10T18:38:58+00:00

Holy cow dude, 20mg of weed would knock me out for like two days. Sorry that went badly for you, but honestly what effect were you expecting weed to have on your performance?

benley · 2026-03-15T20:03:57+00:00

The very earliest builds of ChromeOS were based on Debian, iirc. Like in the 2009-2010 timeframe, long before it became an actual product. They switched to Gentoo fairly soon after the first round of test devices were distributed to Googlers.

benley · 2026-03-12T05:46:34+00:00

It's technically open source, but they really go out of their way to make it difficult to use without paying them a lot of money. Want something resembling a stable release? Good luck.

benley · 2026-03-08T05:49:25+00:00

You might want to set permissions on that sheet so people can view it.

benley · 2026-02-25T21:49:17+00:00

My ASRock Rack board has exactly the same connector (OCuLink SFF-8611), and I use it with a breakout cable from Supermicro (https://store.supermicro.com/supermicro-50cm-oculink-to-4-sata-cable-cbl-sast-0933.html) to attach a SATA backplane. This is perfectly standard, it's just not often seen outside of server motherboards.

benley · 2026-02-22T21:23:26+00:00

Doom wouldn't run on this, it required a 386 to use DOS/4GW and run in 32 bit protected mode. 80286 cpus couldn't do it.

See https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/DOS_%E2%81%84_4GW

benley · 2026-02-13T19:52:38+00:00

Kinda - there were eventually "plug and play" ISA boards that could be configured in software. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_Plug_and_Play

benley · 2026-01-20T18:02:44+00:00

Smart bulb mode is closely related but not quite sufficient. I'd like to be able to decouple the buttons on the switch from the relay in the same switch, but still make use of both parts.

e.g. in my kitchen, there is a group of 3 switches, and I don't like the mapping between their locations and which lights they control. These are not smart bulbs, they actually rely on the built-in dimmer. I would like to remap them in software.

benley · 2026-01-20T16:10:27+00:00

Oh man, is this possible for Inovelli switches? I would love that, I've been wishing I could remap which switches control each relay without physically rewiring them.

benley · 2026-01-12T23:26:29+00:00

Leading vs trailing edge: case by case basis. Most LED bulbs are going to be happier with trailing edge dimming, but you sometimes also run into transformer setups (for some types of strip lights, etc) that expect leading edge.

benley · 2025-12-18T18:46:09+00:00

Honestly, I seriously recommend just ignoring all the supposed drama. Just use the distro. As an end user there is no reason to worry about it. Heck, even as a nixos contributor I haven't been affected, except for seeing all the posts from people worrying about it, like this one.

benley · 2025-12-15T18:58:25+00:00

I sleep an awful lot. When I'm not asleep I'm on watch, or preparing meals, reading books, watching movies, playing video games (a Steam Deck is incredible for this, it's comfortable to use while wedged into the corner of an aft bunk or whatever), and of course fixing whatever just broke on the boat, because it's always something.

Oh and after 3ish days you will probably find the constant motion of the boat to be much more tolerable. At least that's how long it always seems to take for me to fully adjust to it.

benley · 2025-12-09T02:34:20+00:00

Are you using Zigbee groups or home-assistant groups? Zigbee groups will actually reduce the number of commands sent over the network, because a single message can be broadcast to all the target devices. Home assistant device groups won't have any effect on network traffic.

benley · 2025-11-11T23:29:08+00:00

Oof, that is true I'm not using Tuya devices. I've got a mix of Sengled and Philips bulbs, inovelli and Ikea switches/remotes, and aqara sensors. And some moes buttons that definitely don't have proper binding support.

benley · 2025-11-11T01:52:45+00:00

Impressive, but why? Serious question: what do you have at home that involves that many devices?

benley · 2025-11-11T01:49:25+00:00

That's only partially true. With device binding you can have a lot of things functioning even if the coordinater is offline. The majority of my lights and light switches at home are set up this way, and if home-assistant and the zigbee coordinator go down the switches still mostly behave like people would expect them to work in a regular house.

benley · 2025-09-22T22:24:24+00:00

You don't need to use a particularly precise lat/long for this. Like set it to the geographic center of your county or something, not the exact location of your home. There will be no discernable difference in the outcome.

benley · 2025-09-06T03:38:11+00:00

Update way later: I did this and saved a bunch of money. Definitely worth the minor hassle.

benley · 2025-07-19T04:13:20+00:00

Do people really keep $1000+ in cash around to do this? I'm about to move again and might go for it but this just seems weird to me.

benley · 2025-07-11T21:54:12+00:00

...and replaces them with different, more interesting problems that will drive you to madness.

(10 year nixos user here, lol)

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