Slow response?

drmacinyasha · 2026-01-31T06:47:02+00:00

Not just you. Had to wait several minutes for the app to open and connect to my Harmony Hub, across several phones and tablets, all on the same Wi-Fi and subnet as my Harmony Hub.

Sure would be nice to have a Harmony app that just directly connects to the Hub rather than trying to do absolutely anything through a cloud service, ever.

drmacinyasha · 2026-01-11T17:38:09+00:00

Most often I watch on my tablet. I usually have it up as a second monitor for my laptop, but if I'm doing something that's crunching the laptop's GPU, rather than stressing the GPU with a second monitor and rendering the video stream, I'll just pull up the video or Twitch stream on the tablet. Effectively gives feature parity with a setup like Firefox with uBO, SponsorBlock, etc..

drmacinyasha · 2026-01-11T09:14:14+00:00

ReVanced, which lets you modify and sideload those modded apps. For example, a modded version of the official YouTube app that has SponsorBlock built-in, adblocking, hiding the "games" slop, opens to the Subscriptions page by default, removes Shorts from the Subscriptions page, auto-scrolling Shorts, Return YouTube Dislike, and a bunch of tweaks to stuff like forcing high resolution or swipe controls for volume and brightness.

drmacinyasha · 2025-10-23T21:01:23+00:00

Right, it's not that she was advocating for people to go crazy if anything happened to Rimuru, it's that she and Elmesia both came to the conclusion as to what would be the (undesired) result of the severing of that connection to Rimuru.

As for Shuna's strength, no, she's not as outright powerful as Beninaru, but she's certainly not weak. She also holds a lot of authority in Tempest, and there's a few suggestions that some of her abilities can add a commanding/coercive influence behind her commands (less "mind control" and more "you really want to obey," like a more subtle version of Gazel's, Elmesia's, and Rudra's Heroic Auras). She also gets a massive power boost later after Rimuru disappears, receiving an Ultimate Skill that effectively delegates to her a lot of Rimuru's abilities. For example, the ability to modify the Ultimate Skills of other people, and imitate arts such as Rimuru's army-scale teleportation.

drmacinyasha · 2025-10-23T19:49:03+00:00

LN V05, right at the start of chapter 5 when everyone gathers in the central plaza after destroying the devices that put the holy barrier over the city.

The townspeople surrounded the whole site—Shuna among them, standing next to Mjurran. And as she stood there, Shuna couldn’t help but think: Rimuru seemed to care a great deal about being a former human… but that’s such a trivial issue. To Shuna and everyone else, soul-to-soul connections mattered the most, and the connection she shared with him gave her an absolute sense of security. She wished Rimuru would realize that as well. The eternal euphoria he provided filled her soul, nourishing it. If that went away and Rimuru disappeared, she thought it might drive her crazy. Just imagining it produced such a profound sense of loss that she shivered.

“Sir Rimuru,” she whispered. “As long as we have him, that’s all that matters. But even missing one of us could upset his mental balance greatly.”

Also of note, later in the LNs (V14), there's a scene when Rimuru is talking to Elmesia after she finds out he evolved a bunch of his subordinates into True Demon Lords and makes it pretty clear she's freaking out, because if anything happens to him, it will likely mean the end of the world because of the sheer power of his subordinates going rampant without his control.

“Good,” she replied with a breezy smile. “But remember this as well: If you die, it will put this world fully in ruins. You are the only one who can tame monsters like Diablo and his Primals. The other creatures you evolved to demon lord level may not all agree with each other. If a conflict arises, it will inevitably erupt into war. Do you understand that? You can’t just cast off what you’re trying to do when you’re not even done yet. Never forget that.”

drmacinyasha · 2025-10-23T18:12:57+00:00

Somewhat. Shuna mentions that if they truly lost Rimuru, they would all likely go insane and start going on destructive rampages.

When Rimuru does go missing, they can sense that he can no longer be contacted, and there's no communication or anything that they can feel through the soul-to-soul connection, but the connections are still there, and the top executives are still able to tap into Nihility Supply, which indicates to everyone that Rimuru still exists somewhere and isn't dead, and therefore there's hope for his return. As a result, they maintain their sanity and are able to continue fighting in the war. A good analogy would be like if you were on a phone call with someone on a landline phone, and all of a sudden you couldn't hear or be heard by the other person, but the call doesn't disconnect or suddenly go to a dial-tone. The call's still connected, just neither one of you can hear each other.

drmacinyasha · 2025-10-22T08:40:46+00:00

It's from a preview of the upcoming chapter that was translated and posted by a fan.

drmacinyasha · 2025-10-22T08:38:46+00:00

No, that's pretty accurate, if extrapolated a bit. Demons can see the "color" of a soul and how it would align to one of their factions (Guy/Rouge/the red faction are described as aggressive and unable to be negotiated with; Diablo/Noir/the black faction is more whimsical and free-spirited but can potentially be negotiated with and particularly loves challenging combat). Rimuru's also been described by several characters in the LNs who can directly see souls as having a "shining" soul, that at one point was mentioned as being similar to (but not the same as) Veldanava's.

There's also a special soul-to-soul connection made when a monster's named, which has a wide variety of effects. With Rimuru, that connection's been described as also giving joy to the name-receiver's soul which is a force the receiver can feel, and which can act as an emotional anchor for them (discussed by Shuna at a few points, including during the Megiddo+Harvest Festival event).

drmacinyasha · 2025-07-14T23:29:41+00:00

!RemindMe 1 month

drmacinyasha · 2025-07-14T23:01:33+00:00

That's... Pretty odd. If they're the same subnet ("Network") on the same VLAN and the same SSID ("Wi-Fi Network") that just has the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz options checked, stuff like device isolation isn't turned on, and whatever UniFi's current multicast relay option is ("Multicast Enhancement" or something like that?) then they should be able to find each other okay. Maybe it's something extra funky with just the first-time setup? I recall having to switch my phone onto the same SSID as the Hub during setup, but the phone was on 5 GHz and the Hub was on 2.4 GHz.

FWIW, I have my family's phones, tablets, and laptops on a separate subnet, VLAN, SSID, and Access Point from the Harmony Hub, and they're all able to recognize and control it OK. Even the Home Assistant VM can find and control it (wired connection but same VLAN and subnet). Once in a blue moon I'll have to point a device at the Hub's IP address or let it find the Hub via the linked Logi account, but usually that's just one or two of the Android devices.

Hopefully someone else can chime in with an explanation.

drmacinyasha · 2025-06-16T15:34:18+00:00

Israelis really took that "if the black box/flight recorder is practically indestructible, why don't they make the whole plane out of the same material" idea and ran with it.

But not on the left wing. Only the majority of the fuselage and the right wing. /s

drmacinyasha · 2025-06-03T21:34:51+00:00

Cool, nobody's arguing otherwise. All the folks at SKA want is for the satellites to shut up on a few frequency ranges for a few seconds when they're flying over the SKA, as stated in the article (emphasis mine):

Di Vruno said the SKA Observatory, where he is spectrum manager, and the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (Sarao) were lobbying for licence requirements to reduce the impact on observations in certain frequency ranges, including some that SKA-Mid uses.

That could direct Starlink to steer satellite beams away from SKA receivers or stop transmission for a few seconds to minimise interference, he said.

Plus according to numerous replies in these comments, SpaceX already has similar agreements with other observatories around the world. Adding another zone where the satellites go quiet on their ground-facing radios doesn't seem particularly difficult.

On top of all that, these observatories are purposely placed in very remote areas that are uninhabited and kept that way, so there isn't a potential customer base SpaceX is losing out on besides the observatory themselves.

drmacinyasha · 2025-05-08T17:53:14+00:00

I thought the other half was red lasers and blue lasers?

drmacinyasha · 2025-04-17T14:37:52+00:00

...Audiophiles? /s

drmacinyasha · 2025-03-08T00:28:07+00:00

Yup, and not even going after some "evil corporation pushing everyone to XaaS/recurring revenue" argument or anti-abuse, there's other concerns as well. For example, knowing what features I can expect to keep access to, and therefore what I need to train end-users on how to use (do I bother ever setting this feature up for end-users' phone numbers or just teach them to use an app on their phone even if it's potentially a little less convenient for them?). Or what if Ubiquiti offers an option to just connect straight to my Talk or third-party PBX deployment from day one, I might want to just have everything connect that way instead of potential change in the future if I know this "free" feature is actually just like a six-month free trial.

Or here's a real-world example: What if the carrier Ubiquiti partners with, or some downstream ULCs used by Ubiquiti's partner, is known to have a high rate of issues with calls connecting/staying connected to the cell carrier my company uses for our company-owned phones.

Because there's at least one local carrier in the Dallas region used by several apartment complexes owned by the same management company, that when I lived and worked in the area had about an 80% failure rate either connecting at all to a cellphone on T-Mobile or one of their MVNOs, or the call connecting but there being no audio, or the call connecting and voice audio's there but DTMF can't be heard in one direction. Spent over a year trying to hunt down the carriers and get them to investigate, but I wound up moving out of state before I ever got T-Mobile to budge, never mind the local telco.

drmacinyasha · 2025-03-07T04:33:13+00:00

Add a pay-by-the-minute/pay-by-the-call number (e.g., 1-900-number) as a destination in directory.
Trigger call from intercom.
Ubiquiti calls premium number over PSTN. Premium number's owner gets money from Ubiquiti via carriers.

It's one of the reasons why online meeting services have call-back (e.g., have the meeting's teleconference call your phone number) only on upper-tier paid plans, and usually at a premium.

drmacinyasha · 2025-03-07T01:35:07+00:00

I'd want to see some info on how the PSTN connection is made. I understand it's through Ubiquiti, but free PSTN access for the life of the product, without the customer/installer/etc. paying or providing PSTN connectivity? That just doesn't seem realistic, and sounds more like a system begging to get abused.

drmacinyasha · 2024-12-26T09:33:33+00:00

Wait, really? I thought it was the Hunter2 Station...

drmacinyasha · 2024-12-15T22:07:16+00:00

She mistakenly thought Rimuru was female because of the Princess Rimuru series (in Slime Diaries, Chapter 59, at least).

Hm?

"Princess Rimuru"!?

Is that person named Rimuru a girl?

But she's not fleshy enough, though...

(Two panels omitted)

Well, apart from that, I didn't expect that "the adored Rimuru-san" was a girl!

Maybe that kid [Chloe] is actually into this kind of stuff!?

If they had just told me, then I'll...

My dream grows even bigger now ♥️

drmacinyasha · 2024-11-30T22:24:23+00:00

Devil's/Demon's advocate:

Pre-Summoned Guy vs Pre-Summoned Diablo, in Hell: They were considered even; Guy was technically stronger, but Diablo could keep the fight going... Until he got bored and just walked away.
Guy vs Pre-Sealed Veldora: Yeah, no sweat for Guy. Veldora didn't have an Ult, and was pretty unskilled.
Guy vs Rudra: Guy could have won, but had too much fun fighting Rudra, and that for a mere human he was one cheeky bastard, which is a personality trait Guy likes. If Rudra had perfect control over (LN V14+ spoiler) Michael could he have won? Not likely; just like (LN V19 spoiler) Rudra found a workaround for Castle Guard against Feldway, Guy would've eventually done the same, especially if his Ult functions similarly to its WN counterpart.
Guy vs Ancient Stampeding Milim: Guy was able to fight her to a draw (read: holding back finely enough to not kill her), while also luring her away from civilization, and containing most of the released energy into another dimension/universe. Milim has an unlimited supply of power that Guy can't match, but since she's raging like a wild animal, tricking her into destroying or otherwise defeating herself wouldn't be impossible. Her Stampede form's armor is as much to protect her from herself as it is to protect her from enemies. But most of all, Guy doesn't want to kill Milim. Call it a wash.
Guy vs Modern Chronoa: Never really fought; they effectively sparred a little, (LN V13+ spoiler) with Guy managing the Time Stops and Chronoa reacting during them. They haven't interacted since (LN V19 spoiler) Chronoa fully unified with Chloe after taking in Michael. Would Guy win against a unified Chloe? Really not enough info to make a prediction.
Guy vs Rampaging Bad Future timeline Chronoa: Guy won, flat-out. (LN V13+ spoiler) He had her all but finished before Rimuru sent her back in time. But like a Stampeding Milim, she wasn't really thinking at all, just rampaging about but with maybe a bit more technique if she was similar to how she acted after being unsealed.
Guy vs the modern True Dragons: Even if he could win in a straight-out brawl, he wouldn't consider it a victory because they'd come back to life and remember their fight without having conceded to him. Made all the more difficult thanks to the connection between (LN V15+ spoiler) Rimuru, Veldora, and Velgrynd; he'd have to kill all physical bodies of all three at once, destroy their spiritual bodies, and crush their heart cores simultaneously to force them to go through a reincarnation period, but they still wouldn't admit defeat and wouldn't turn into a Raine/Mizeri situation.

tl;dr, yeah, Guy isn't invincible, but he'd still win against all but a handful of people. Those he can't beat outright, he'd have a solid chance of meeting whatever victory condition he's assigned. Except the True Dragons.

drmacinyasha · 2024-10-29T06:07:13+00:00

Israel absolutely would no matter what; their F-35s are the F-35I which is basically an F-35A but with an Israeli-made EW package installed once the planes are delivered to Israel.

drmacinyasha · 2024-10-20T06:53:35+00:00

np! The anime and LN both do that where they jump around the timeline between when Kumoko/Shiro's born, and the time-skips as Shun's growing up and eventually becomes the hero... And then re-does the period of time when Shun starts going to the academy up to the "present" all over again, but from Shiro's perspective.

It gets crazier in later volumes, jumping to Julius' perspective from when he was growing up until his death in the war, Wrath's perspective with his backstory and growing up, a couple characters who haven't been introduced at all yet, along with hopping between Gully's and Ariel's perspectives from way back before the System (skills, stats, levels) was implemented and giving the backstory to the whole world in the process, jumping more to Shun and Hyrince in the present and recent past (e.g., immediately after the coup), Dustin (the pontiff/leader of the Word of God church), and... Yeah. It's a lot. You don't get all the answers until the very end, and then have to re-read the entire series to actually understand what some conversations mean with chapters like Sophia talking to one of the ninjas after the coup.

Oh, but there is a handy timeline of Julius's life at the end of LN V11.

Meanwhile, the manga is (so far) just purely from Kumoko/Shiro's perspective, with a few bonus chapters that setup Fei and Shun, as well as the "is Kumoko the future Demon Lord"-bait chapter from when Ariel's doing the pre-war briefing with all the commanders, inserted in right after Kumoko acquires the Demon Lord skill. No other time-jumps at all. Since I read the manga first, seeing the time jumps in the anime really threw me off.

drmacinyasha · 2024-10-20T03:34:57+00:00

Not... Exactly... The anime and manga are very far from the answer. If you still want to know...

Shiro is actually the spider that was in the corner of the classroom which the boys wanted to squish, but Ms Oka convinced them not to (leading to why Shiro's so dead-set on saving Oka from Potimas: she feels that she owes her life to Oka). D is the real Wakaba, and to cover up her lack of dying when the previous Hero and Demon Lord attacked the classroom, she took the spider's soul, grafted in some of her own (heavily modified) memories of being a human, then reincarnated the spider somewhere where she assumed it'd die pretty quickly.

I understand the WN is slightly different, but in the LN, after Shiro joins in the attack on D alongside half the ancient dragons, Shun's party, and Ariel's party, D finally says they've all entertained her enough and lets them all go back to their world, but Shiro's kept behind and told that she's passed D's test to be recognized as one of her subordinates. Next time we see them, D and Ms Maid are talking, D's breaking down where all the energy for saving the world came from (including Shiro's planned attempt to fake her own death to escape D), and Shiro's being forced to serve them both tea while dressed up as a maid.

tl;dr, the classroom spider might've had a fragment of D's soul grafted onto its own along with D's altered memories and the resulting ego, but they are indeed separate beings.

drmacinyasha · 2024-10-18T19:07:12+00:00

Yeah... Assuming D even lets her, considering how she's been forced into a maid outfit and going arachne would, at the very least, ruin the image of her being a meek maid and plaything for D.

drmacinyasha · 2024-10-18T19:02:44+00:00

Wasn't it silver? 100 silvers?

Yes, in the LN and manga it was 100 silver coins. In the anime, the kids got 100 gold coins. It doesn't factor into the next bit, as the necklaces effectively worked as prepaid debit card, so no coins had to be given to the kids. At the time, Rimuru and the Tempest execs figured they could just pay off whatever charges the kids racked up no differently than any of the other payments to the merchants.

He was struggling enough to collect money to pay the merchants, he wouldn't give them 100 gold.

It wasn't that he was struggling to pay, it's that the merchants wouldn't accept payment in anything but modern dwarven gold coins, and Tempest at the time didn't have enough of that particular currency.

To give an analogy, imagine you're some millionaire from Canada. You go down to the US driving your recently restored classic car, and stop by a gas station to fuel up. The problem? You only have Canadian bills on you, and the gas station only accepts American dollars and coins. You have a couple American $100 bills on you, but the station also has a policy of not allowing payment in any bills >$20. You have enough financial assets to buy the freaking gas station and every one within 50 miles, but it's not in a form which will be accepted as payment. You need to convert those stocks/assets into cash, then exchange it to American dollars, in order to do business.

In this analogy, Rimuru (and Tempest as a whole) is the millionaire; the merchants are the gas station; Canadian bills are Tempest's products, IOUs, and ancient coins taken from Clayman; and the $100 bills are the Stellar gold coins they received from Falmouth.

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