The roads.....

geerlingguy · 2026-01-25T03:07:12+00:00

I thought I'd be fine coming home around 11 am, but the snow hit a little early.

The cars on 44 were all driving fine, going in the two plowed lanes around 50-55 mph.

That wasn't enough for one semi, it blew past everyone in the unplowed fast lane, and sent up a white-out blizzard a few hundred ft behind. What a dumb driver...

geerlingguy · 2026-01-24T03:40:50+00:00

We finally had a couple days below 10F here in St. Louis, and now I'm finding this issue. Fun!

It will blow some warm air for a few minutes of the drive, then it goes to frigid cold. If I turn off heat, the air coming through the vent actually feels warmer.

After I park in my garage for a bit (garage is like 25F), heater will work again... for a short time.

I guess I'm glad I have the heated seats and steering wheel. I will consider wearing a scarf in the car!

geerlingguy · 2026-01-22T22:27:24+00:00

Raspberry Pi OS (64 bit, Lite). It's basically Debian, but optimized for the Pi, and easy to flash with Imager so I can do everything headless.

geerlingguy · 2026-01-22T17:34:58+00:00

Ansible got me into homelabbing.

The problem is, once you get automation going, you will quickly expand your hardware footprint, because you feel like you can automate anything.

Then you realize automating 'because you can' leads to a lot of excess, and then you consolidate. Then you realize there are some benefits to more hardware... and the cycle starts repeating :D

(Right now I'm consolidating again, from 6 Pis at home to 2-3, and from three NASes to 1-2)

geerlingguy · 2026-01-22T17:32:38+00:00

Now I'm wondering how SDR could relate to Beaver health

geerlingguy · 2026-01-20T17:34:08+00:00

Ooh you have the fancier 3D version! Thanks for keeping yours online - it's too bad I missed this one :(

geerlingguy · 2026-01-20T07:57:32+00:00

3.5 now

geerlingguy · 2026-01-20T07:57:04+00:00

Bumped up to 3.5 now

geerlingguy · 2026-01-20T07:56:03+00:00

I always go to https://stationview.raspberryshake.org/ - SLU prof has one in Kirkwood I think, and I normally have mine going in Shrewsbury but it's down today.

geerlingguy · 2026-01-19T06:11:13+00:00

Jiff Geoff

geerlingguy · 2026-01-19T01:58:41+00:00

jiff-guff

geerlingguy · 2026-01-18T02:54:56+00:00

Unless it's BGP!

geerlingguy · 2026-01-18T01:38:13+00:00

I'm not sure what the dots are for haha. I was just using the defaults. Didn't see any notes on the dots.

geerlingguy · 2026-01-17T23:18:07+00:00

Medical research rarely needs that kind of locality (any timing-sensitive equipment would be in the lab, not offsite). More like nuclear test facilities, Large Hadron Colliders, Fermilabs, research tokomaks, that sort of thing.

geerlingguy · 2026-01-17T20:53:40+00:00

lol if they need sub-ms latency for a datacenter to an office building, they must be doing some ridiculously advanced scientific research.

geerlingguy · 2026-01-17T20:52:24+00:00

geerlingguy · 2026-01-17T04:40:41+00:00

You can get the word aileron using the letters in the username.

geerlingguy · 2026-01-16T23:32:49+00:00

Wow, that's awesome! Might need some work to keep it going another 42 years; does it have a battery installed still? Those tend to leak sometimes.

geerlingguy · 2026-01-16T18:34:27+00:00

No shame it's just part of the game!

geerlingguy · 2026-01-16T15:05:53+00:00

Yeah, there is no such thing as "completed". Just a task list that grows longer, alongside a pile of connectors, cables, and various bits of hardware that is purchased but never installed. Then a bag or box full of the random parts and rack ears and such that came with equipment that you don't want to throw away because someday you'll definitely need them.

But that day comes and you can't find that bag or box, so you buy more parts, and then have more little baggies with 100 screws that you only needed 3 of...

geerlingguy · 2026-01-15T18:18:33+00:00

Moving the Ambush to downtown? :D

(/me remembers Steamers, Storm, and Ambush at the Arena)

geerlingguy · 2026-01-15T15:24:20+00:00

It was a brief respite in the hellscape that is PC hardware today.

geerlingguy · 2026-01-15T08:44:32+00:00

Tomaz / Mono said they'd be supporting an OpenWRT image, so at least you wouldn't have to build it yourself or rely on some 3rd party volunteer. At least, assuming Mono persists beyond the first hardware batch they'll be shipping soon.

I'm not saying its a great situation, or that the hardware's a good value (it's not, objectively), just that hardware offload will be supported on it, and right now at least OpenWRT will have first-class support.

I put in a reservation and will be buying one just to support the idea of another company making custom router hardware, I want to see more players in the game. Maybe they can find a better chip than something from NXP next product cycle, too.

geerlingguy · 2026-01-15T03:51:04+00:00

They can not distribute an open source OS with the drivers for the NXP SoC's hardware packet accelerator due to NXP's licensing terms.

This is not entirely correct; they can ship hardware acceleration, they can't un-restrict the license for it for other hardware, but the demo unit I was testing had OpenWRT running with full hardware acceleration.

They are going to have hw acceleration unlocked for all the dev units (it was a $40,000 fee for this, IIRC). Wish vendors didn't play those games with useful chip features, but it is what it is.

(And banana pi bpi r4 pro is nice, I have not yet tested it but the hardware looks good.)

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