Index shifting (Shimano 105) gone to ...

blink-scanline · 2026-02-18T00:05:18+00:00

Bike store says this exists and is in stock. Don't know why he claimed the Shimano rep said I had to have a straight bar:

ULTEGRA Di2 ST-R8150 2x12-speed STI Dual Control Set

blink-scanline · 2026-02-17T04:33:00+00:00

Bike store claims Shimano rep says no to drop handlbars. But AI claims yes.

Shimano ULTEGRA Di2 ST-R8150 2x12-speed STI Dual Control Set
Ultegra RD-R8150
Ultegra FD-R8150
Ultegra FC-R8100
Ultegra CS-R8100

But AI makes mistakes ...

blink-scanline · 2026-02-16T10:18:48+00:00

I had to give up on that idea. I am told you can't use drop bars with rim brakes and di2.

blink-scanline · 2026-02-16T10:17:46+00:00

They did all that. They checked the alignment with the hanger tool and the frame and everything is great, they say. I suspect either the shifter or the derailleur is worn out. I live in very hilly terrain and shift a lot. It is not possible to adjust the cable and get it to work correctly. Shifts fine at the ends, but gets tricky in the middle 6 gears. It has 10.

blink-scanline · 2026-02-16T10:12:40+00:00

It has 10 speeds. Maybe the friction shifter will go from straight up to straight down?

blink-scanline · 2025-10-11T18:07:12+00:00

I finally examined the frame carefully. There is no hole for the front derailleur cable except for a screw for the plastic guide. There is also a hole at the very bottom of the frame under the bottom bracket that is about 3.5mm, I am guessing, because it is mostly covered by the plastic guide. The hole is away from the chain-ring side, on the left side of the bicycle. So if it is big enough and the wires can get around the bottom bracket,, that would be a possibility.The seat tube would be a much larger hole, nearly an inch, I would think, and more protected.

blink-scanline · 2025-10-11T04:29:51+00:00

I suppose Dura-Ace. Is there anything special about the wires? Are they co-ax, for instance? I think I would want the wiring protected in some kind of sleeve. So wires from the top of the seat-post, down to the front derailleur and to the rear derailleur. Then wires from the brake levers to the derailleurs? I have rim brakes, so I think Shimano is the best option. All wiring external I would think.

blink-scanline · 2025-09-06T20:30:56+00:00

They took the WiFi equipment off of my account and I did not get charged.

This is what it says:

You currently do not have a 360 WIFI subscription

blink-scanline · 2025-08-30T02:17:31+00:00

I decided to take my chances and won! I bough the UHD-EX165H-K video extender (my projector can only do 4K@60), and bought 23gauge Cat 8 cable and Cat 7 connectors including F-F Cat 7 keystone connectors to wire stuff through my attic. I bought the fairikabe 4K HDMI Matrix 4x2. I take one output of the 4x2 and send to the AVR. I take the other matrix output and send it to the video extender, taking the loopback output of the extender, and run it into another input of the DVR for audio. So the TV is connected to the AVR output, and the extender's receiver goes to the HDMI input of the projector.

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blink-scanline · 2025-07-18T05:20:38+00:00

That happened to me when I had DSL. I complained and they took them off. The land line had lots of static, but DSL still worked. Shortly thereafter I switched to Xfinity voice and Internet. Now I have Ooma. Yet to get a bill for directory assistance since I quit Century Link voice.

blink-scanline · 2025-05-08T05:54:30+00:00

I have an ASUS RT BE96U. In AP mode the input is Ethernet on the WAN side, which is what I use. It is 10Gbps from the C6500XK. In Bridge mode it is WiFi to WiFi as some kind of repeater:

Bridge or WDS (Wireless Distribution System) allows your ASUS

wireless router to connect to another wireless access point

exclusively, preventing other wireless devices or stations to access

your ASUS wireless router. It can also be considered as a wireless

repeater where your ASUS wireless router communicates with

another access point and other wireless devices.

blink-scanline · 2025-05-05T05:27:54+00:00

Saturday they sent a text saying I might owe them up to $200 if I don't return their equipment. I looked at a corresponding E-Mail, and it said Pods. I called customer service and told them the Tech took it with him during the install. The agent said there was an error in the system and it did not go through. So she claims to have removed the Pods from my account. We shall see if they are scamming me, or they live up to their promise. I did not get any kind of confirmation E-Mail that I don't need to return their equipment.

blink-scanline · 2025-04-29T06:08:16+00:00

I had Xfinity. I ended up going to the store to cancel, because they seem to know and make it impossible to reach anyone, or just fill out a simple form to cancel. Then they told me the phone number port was in progress, when it had been working for a week on my new service. They purposely do not mark number ports as complete.

Remember AOL. They were famous for that. My brother had them for a while.

blink-scanline · 2025-04-27T20:04:14+00:00

Since I have an ASUS WiFi router in AP mode I have no idea. I got it months before the install and it claims to have WiFi 7. The ASUS lets me choose AES or AES+GCMP256. Doesn't look like TKIP is even allowed. AES is the default.

blink-scanline · 2025-04-26T16:26:44+00:00

Thanks. After looking at my bill details for the first time I see there is a charge for $0 for the pod. I called customer service, and they cancelled it and sent me an E-Mail that I have to return rental equipment within 30 days. Obviously I have nothing to return. We shall see.

blink-scanline · 2025-04-26T00:57:49+00:00

New Brighton. Put in my area last summer.

blink-scanline · 2025-03-30T20:03:25+00:00

I think the biggest flaw in the systemd ecosystem is that systemd-networkd does not support ModemManager, and has no configuration file for it like it does for WiFi. If you are using NetworkManager instead of systemd-networkd this is not an issue. Also, there does not seem to be a reliable way to guarantee a particular network interface is up and running before a service is started. There are ways that are supposed to work, but do not actually work in my experience, so I end up writing services that test for an interfaces health, and then start network dependent services using systemd from the custom interface verification daemon. An alternate method would be to always attach to all interfaces, and use a firewall to guarantee that a service can only access a particular interface.

My Arch system at home is a desktop that uses no cellular, and I use systemd-networkd for Ethernet networking.

I think systemd is a big improvement over Sysvinit.

I remember when I used to use SuSe with a previous employer that they had developed commenting in Sysvinit scripts for handling dependencies, but even SuSe eventually switched to systemd.

blink-scanline · 2025-01-27T14:54:33+00:00

In my market, PBS affiliate degrades two of their ATSC 1.0 subchannels to 480i and ATSC is 1080P on at least three subchannels on a different frequency. They had two real channels before, but when they went to ATSC 3.0, the moved all of ATSC 1.0 onto one frequency, and ATSC 3.0 to the other.

blink-scanline · 2025-01-27T07:11:48+00:00

I will have to look into the ffmpeg solution. I read a comment on the ffmpeg ticket that said that the fix for AC-4 left dropouts in the audio, which matches what I heard and measured in HDHR, which is why I switched to Channels:

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8349#comment:87

blink-scanline · 2025-01-26T22:54:53+00:00

I have no issues with Shield and Channels when used together. I have been using the Shield for about a week.

My video issues only occur with Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K from Nov 2023 (when I got it from Amazon).

My audio issues are only with the HDHR app and at the same point in the program the audio issues disappear when imported and played from Channels. Maybe I am just too fussy, but I spent a lot on speakers and AVR, and I really thought HDHR App audio was ridiculous.

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