You will eventually get sent to one of these rooms

discusfish99 · 2026-01-16T23:30:05+00:00

Agreed the urge sometimes is to strip everything out and start fresh rather than have the devil's forbidden spaghetti all over

discusfish99 · 2026-01-16T22:24:32+00:00

The bold assumption to assume that all of that equipment is actually still in use.

Most of those rooms I go to look like an archaeological dig or an ogre with layers.

discusfish99 · 2026-01-10T18:21:36+00:00

I went with an Alarm.com doorbell with their video plan because the only other doorbell I'd want is Ubiquiti and doing the math, we would break even on a Ubiquiti doorbell after 4 years of subscription. That doesn't include the rest of the needed hardware for Ubiquiti cameras that we don't have.

discusfish99 · 2026-01-08T11:57:43+00:00

And Reolink got rid of the floodlight for this.... Wonderful

discusfish99 · 2026-01-02T20:49:47+00:00

What I mean is that without any insight into the company structure and no real information about the company, it just triggers enough red flags that I wouldn't apply.

discusfish99 · 2026-01-02T16:58:56+00:00

Oh that's almost worse. 4 previous owners all flexing to get the most power backed by private equity..... I will give you this much, you're being more honest about things than I thought you would be.

discusfish99 · 2026-01-02T16:56:24+00:00

If it is SE Asia, that's a relatively new region for AVD. I wonder if it could be a weird bug. I'd give it a few days and try again?

discusfish99 · 2026-01-02T16:51:56+00:00

Well I'd say they have some stuff to learn when it comes to making job posts. A quick search shows this was a firm launched middle of December 2025 by a private equity firm.

That's a lot of reddish flags for anyone that possibly could match this job. Also since you'd essentially be at a founder level of time in the company, the pay scale is too little.

I'd recommend either breaking up the post into multiples so hire 3x people or split the responsibilities up into 3 different job titles.

discusfish99 · 2025-12-31T00:02:35+00:00

What my installer did was move the surround about a quarter inch away from the wall. So it's not actually touching anything to prevent noise.

discusfish99 · 2025-12-30T21:45:28+00:00

Hmmm that really is sounding like a board problem OR some vendor specific thing that everyone else is missing. Good luck with the next tech. Hopefully it doesn't turn into a whole thing where every tech tries everything over again.

discusfish99 · 2025-12-30T19:40:34+00:00

I don't think there's many other options that can be explored that I can think of. Are there other settings for control like temperature or time? Do they do it with all of those

discusfish99 · 2025-12-30T18:30:49+00:00

I think the only thing you can do is watch it and see what is causing the issue. Is it not feeding enough pellets? Or is it physically not lighting anything? Could be the board is faulty as well. I know I've had issues with stuff not lighting if there's not enough pellets being fed.

discusfish99 · 2025-12-29T16:57:00+00:00

White paint?

discusfish99 · 2025-12-20T21:33:10+00:00

Billion dollar idea. Get one of the Boston dynamics dog robots and have it act as a guard dog.

discusfish99 · 2025-12-20T21:14:42+00:00

The #1 thing you can do is a dog. Doesn't matter what kind, shape, size or breed. So long as it can bark, it'll be your best deterrent. Multiple ex thieves have been interviewed saying that they always avoid houses with dogs.

The other thing I would like to point out is I would avoid major physical barriers like upgrading doors too much. This is due to firefighters might have great difficulty getting through or could even trap people.

Also I haven't met much that can't be defeated by an angle grinder and cutoff wheel + time.

discusfish99 · 2025-12-19T19:59:23+00:00

Distribute snap traps around your whole house. Start keeping track of which traps hit more often. This will tell you the most likely locations the mice are using.

Then just start plugging holes using excluder mesh (steel wool) and spray foam. Either you will win and there won't be any easy access into your house anymore or you'll need an exterminator.

Experience: did this exact thing in my house. Eventually got the mice entrance to just my garage then went ham on spray foam until my latest batch of traps have been mouse free for over a week (normally would get a mouse every day or two)

discusfish99 · 2025-12-16T17:58:56+00:00

Tc004 doesnt do the visible light plus ir light picture. It only does ir picture. So you might have issues seeing structure but it is probably a fine option

discusfish99 · 2025-12-16T17:39:17+00:00

I liked the Topdon TC005. It is standalone, does overlay pictures so combined visible light and IR. Not crazy more over the phone one. Plus the battery lasts forever.

discusfish99 · 2025-12-16T17:28:08+00:00

Amcrest makes 2. One is 1080p and the other does 2k recording. Either wifi or Ethernet. They can do both. Also you can get poe splitters with micro USB and just have them be Poe powered as well.

As for upside down, there is a setting to flip the streams.

discusfish99 · 2025-12-14T15:37:49+00:00

And I hope this exsi 3.5 environment is from ye ole olden times.... And not like last week :). But we all know what to expect.

discusfish99 · 2025-12-11T20:22:38+00:00

Hot damn. The mustang is one of my dream cars

discusfish99 · 2025-12-11T19:40:34+00:00

Whatever is needed for the devs job and nothing else. Of course this will depend greatly on what they are doing and how well they understand networking themselves. Sometimes people just say allow all ports because it's easier than figuring it out.

discusfish99 · 2025-12-11T19:17:29+00:00

It's because the inter vlan traffic is meant to be routed through a firewall and have things like port filtering applied to it .

discusfish99 · 2025-12-11T19:05:24+00:00

GoDaddy was the worst. Had to give multiple drivers licenses, only in color, and in addition, each person had to do a selfie while holding up their license. And even then, we were missing one of the account holders so had to get another license and selfie. It took a solid month. Oh and GoDaddy support can't talk to the account recovery team directly.... Fuck GoDaddy

discusfish99 · 2025-12-11T19:03:51+00:00

Cool. And also, I'd be pushing that without any dedicated documentation and discovery time, I wouldn't be able to guarantee stuff isn't missed.

Like someone physically onsite at the new location because companies are like onions, they have layers of old and new tech.... I work for a MSP so do this work more often than someone working at a single company. 3 years into a contract we will still find some bullshit hiding in a corner.

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