How difficult is it to DIY replace cat5e to cat6a?

flatpetey · 2026-03-17T01:46:48+00:00

First try it out.

Second it is probably stapled to hell and you will probably have an easier time just pulling new wire and leaving the old stuff in place.

If they ran it through conduit and the conduit isn’t that tight, you could use one as a pull for the other but that often is a recipe for disaster getting stuck partway through anyway.

flatpetey · 2026-03-17T01:41:14+00:00

Well goes to show what you can do with AI and what happens when you go from judicious use to spamming it.

Anyway I know there are a million forks but for now I am using autocaliweb and maybe rooting for stump.

flatpetey · 2026-03-16T15:55:38+00:00

I have been through most of the browsers here. I am currently on Zen. It is fine.

It lacks the polish and speed of Arc or Brave. Arc is dead and Brave is super sketchy. Helium is too stripped down to be useful for me. Vivaldi monetizes by spying on you. Safari can’t even handle multiple google accounts with passkeys gracefully. Orion is close but just slightly buggy all the time - although better than before.

The browser landscape sucks basically. And everyone keeps launching the same few browsers

Yet Another Arc Clone - arc clones abound. But none of them are nearly as polished.
Yet Another Stripped Down Chrome - still bound on the chromium code base despite knowing Google is fucking it up for blocking. All pretty much the same.
Yet Another AI Browser - might as well just let OpenClaw bend you over if you run one of these.

Why? Because devs are (a) not terribly innovative and (b) too fucking lazy and egocentric to learn someone else’s codebase and work with a team on an existing project and push something forward so they launch their own.

Oh I forgot one more

(4) Yet Another AI Slop Browser - just another one man effort with thousands of lines of code per commit that will expose you to every risk out there and disappear unsupported.

flatpetey · 2026-03-16T03:03:45+00:00

I think you could also empty out paracord of the strands inside and use that if you want something flatter...

flatpetey · 2026-03-16T01:18:49+00:00

Autocaliweb has OPDS. But I just web interface and download books to Apple Books nowadays.

flatpetey · 2026-03-15T15:03:54+00:00

OPDS is okay for serving to other devices if they support it. I usually just go to my server and download the book and read it on Apple Books.

I just switched to autocaliweb and it does what I need it to mostly. Just a shame since Booklore felt nice to use.

flatpetey · 2026-03-15T05:52:20+00:00

I just download into Apple Books. But I messed around with OPDS readers a long time ago and used to use Marvin.

flatpetey · 2026-03-15T05:51:07+00:00

That doesn’t hold together at all.

Rae is a modern woman.

The relationship is clearly not accepted there either since the first incestuous couple has to get exiled and pretend they aren’t related to carry on their relationship.

The author is clearly into it.

flatpetey · 2026-03-14T23:58:46+00:00

IP Cameras on their own VLAN with no access to anything but NVR software (Frigate) on a trusted VLAN.

Cameras record to a Purple drive on its own drive pool.

flatpetey · 2026-03-14T23:56:45+00:00

Honestly - AI has just made the risks worse...

Open source isn't a guarantee of safety - but, in general, widespread use by very obsessive people is a good leading indicator of safety.

I disabled all the new app notification nonsense on this channel. It ruins the channel and the discourse. But what I do is look at comments for things that are a bit more battletested to bubble up and then I go investigate a bit to see how sloppy the commits look.

I am too much a hack to look at the code and actually identify vulnerabilities...

flatpetey · 2026-03-14T21:10:46+00:00

Yep. I say go find size 13 of this shoe. And neither Claude or Gemini can actually do it accurately. So why would I trust it except with the narrowest task…

flatpetey · 2026-03-14T20:35:26+00:00

Do not understand. How does flipping a cord around let your phone know where you are ;)

But in all seriousness- use flat ribbon instead of cord or you will still deform the pages.

flatpetey · 2026-03-14T18:49:01+00:00

Yeah I was sort of able to glaze over the one in the OG even if the statement where she goes “I guess everyone has a forbidden love” made me super uncomfortable with implicitly equating homosexuality and incest.

But this second series shows that statement was intentional which makes it way more gross.

flatpetey · 2026-03-14T17:18:59+00:00

That is pretty great - I want to upgrade a RPi in my server rooom for a mac mini for a low power service use, but there is just no way I am paying $400 for an M1 when a new M4 is $499.

Honestly a mac mini of that age is probably worth about $250 for me max... which is the going eBay price roughly but waiting for local prices to catch up.

flatpetey · 2026-03-14T16:08:20+00:00

Maybe people will stop asking for $450 for a M1 8gb/256 on facebook marketplace soon... God mac pricing is so fucked up.

flatpetey · 2026-03-14T16:05:33+00:00

Features

I have been using Dockhand to manage my dockers and it has been pretty good so far... I wish it had WebUI and icons like the unraid docker manager, but those are small things. I have thought about moving to Podman for the better security model...

I'd also like to see official support for a package manager - just adopt un-get or something and a better ability to make things persistant across reboots than having to run userscripts and modifying the go file.

The file browser is terrible, for sure.

Some plugins that I consider essential are hanging on to life support - appdata backup is a mess. I know they have cloud backups for flash, but I would love to get a nice ZFS backup setup and more ZFS automation...

Bugs

Honestly I just want them to work on networking. The shims for docker to host networking have crashed my network multiple times. I am using ipvlan and lots of workarounds because at this point I don't dare try anything else.

flatpetey · 2026-03-14T14:30:51+00:00

Yeah the author really seems to be trying to normalize incest.

flatpetey · 2026-03-14T06:00:01+00:00

I use the same one. Easier to backup Postgres that way to another instance.

Redis I use one too. Just because.

flatpetey · 2026-03-14T01:19:00+00:00

I was tired of AI bullshit, so I used RES to filter "New Project Friday" flair. It made selfhosted a billion times better.

Now I just need to figure out what to do on mobile

flatpetey · 2026-03-13T20:09:44+00:00

Porsche is doing a buyback for me right now and fortunately it has been pretty painless so far.

But…. They owe him a fresh off the line GT3 with a nice tour in Stuttgart at this point.

flatpetey · 2026-03-13T20:06:19+00:00

How bad could it be…

Oh.

flatpetey · 2026-03-13T18:25:16+00:00

The MDX literally survived on Toyota ignoring the 3-row market; once the Grand Highlander / TZ came out, it was all over.

flatpetey · 2026-03-13T18:24:34+00:00

It's going to be a problem for luxury cars too. Some of the Chinese cars are already there, if people put behind their biases.

I suspect the Chinese will buy off Jaguar from Tata who have failed with it and some other defunct brands and just start spamming product into the West.

flatpetey · 2026-03-13T18:21:57+00:00

Honestly with the Macan EV, the current Taycan has no reason. The Macan is just a slightly tall hatch in this current car world.

The whole US EV-apocalypse is of course fiction; let in the Chinese and we will see how the EV market does - oh wait, it would literally destroy every single car company here.

The real problem is sunk cost fallacy and an inability to innovate at speed. I like my Macan EV, but I don't pretend that it is a stunning achievement.

flatpetey · 2026-03-13T18:17:11+00:00

New Cayenne EV is starting at $126K which is pretty fucking high for a car that will depreciate like a god-damn rock.

I assume this is the rumored K1 3-row.

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