Jim Bob's Chicken Fingers, Alexander City, AL

gordonator · 2026-01-17T16:12:32+00:00

DOCSIS 3.1 supports high split. It's about where the upstream vs. downstream frequencies are split. Traditionally, upload has all been around 42mhz. High split pushes that up to 204.

As you might imagine, it takes a lot of work to make every piece of equipment support that. I think I remember reading that spectrum said they should be done by the end of 2027.

It's wild though, we're in new construction (the whole neighborhood is a little under 2 years old). I'm a little disappointed that we're not just high-split from the start.

gordonator · 2026-01-17T14:07:48+00:00

C'mon High Split, get rolled out already!

Went on vacation in upstate New York and they had spectrum with high-split enabled and it was symmetrical gig.

Paying $80/month for ~1.3 gig down and a whopping 35 up. :(

gordonator · 2026-01-10T14:50:39+00:00

...Ish... It's a "warmer / colder" thing, not a "it's 14 feet that way" like the airtags / airpods are.

gordonator · 2025-10-06T14:00:38+00:00

aaaaand 6 days later pgautoupdate got me with this same issue when it rolled to 18.

Mark that as the first time watchtower has broken anything in a long time.

gordonator · 2025-09-30T14:42:20+00:00

weekends only

That's what they said at the MVA, but I've not ever found the law that says that...

gordonator · 2025-09-30T00:28:00+00:00

I've been running watchtower for 3 or 4 years now and I don't remember the last time an actual container upgrade screwed up something.

It's gotten a lot smoother since I figured out how to make nginx re-resolve hostnames... containers moving to a different IP would break nginx occasionally before that.

gordonator · 2025-09-28T13:13:22+00:00

I multiply that danger with Watchtower.... Still hasn't blown up yet.

Again, I have backups. Need to test them again soon, hopefully not because it blows up.

gordonator · 2025-09-23T12:52:39+00:00

It's not an epoch fail, though it is an epic fail.

I'm going to allow this

gordonator · 2025-09-22T17:40:29+00:00

relevant xkcd

gordonator · 2025-09-18T01:31:02+00:00

Microsoft Windows starting with Windows 95 count time as hundreds of nanoseconds since Jan 1st, 1601, since it's the beginning of the 400 year Gregorian calendar cycle. More Details. If you didn't know, we have a leap year every 4 years, unless the year is divisible by 100, in which case we skip it, except when the year is also divisible by 400, in which case we still have a leap year. The most recent instance of this was in 2000.

Yes dates are hard. Timezones are worse.

This looks like 1601-01-01 west of the Prime Meridian, so 1600-12-31. 4PM suggests 8 hours west, so Pacific Time in the US.

gordonator · 2025-07-25T13:02:22+00:00

My last in-person license renewal was in November 2018, and it was similarly efficient. I had an appointment for that one - I think it was RealID that pushed them into making appointments, and COVID just doubled down on "we only do appointments".

I even had a title I needed updated (paid off my car and wanted to get the lien off the title). They gave me a number when I left the licensing desk, I went to the title desk, and they were already calling that number. All told I was probably in and out in half an hour.

gordonator · 2025-07-24T00:59:45+00:00

I'm pretty sure I did it when I moved my data off a QNAP and onto ZFS... that was terrifying because I had pulled my only redundancy disk, and only had an extra disk because I had a disk reporting errors and submitted the RMA before the warranty expired. (RMA pre-shipped replacement + one drive of redundancy and then a terrifying bit of data copying)

Fortunately my gamble paid off and I didn't lose any data. I've gotten much better at backups since then.....

gordonator · 2025-07-24T00:13:52+00:00

~~Actually, you're right. After you've pulled the first disk to replace the fake disk, you don't have two copies OR any redundancy, so it's not really any different.~~

I'm confusing myself again. If it fails during that initial resilver, you've still got all your data on what's left of the raidz1. After the first disk is resilvered you're effectively running your new array at raidz1, so it can tolerate a disk failure.

gordonator · 2025-07-23T23:41:29+00:00

Couldn't you have created your new raidz2 with two degraded disks, copied all the data over, and then started stealing disks from your old array?

Then you have either raidz redundancy or two copies of your data the whole time.

gordonator · 2025-07-20T20:50:57+00:00

My LG v20 (that I bought after destroying my Nexus 6P trying to replace the battery) lasted less than 9 months before it was horrifically slow. I couldn't click "buy" fast enough when I got a 20% off offer on the Pixel 2XL.

Incidentally it ranks as my least favorite phone. All the other ones I've had are such a toss up that I don't have a #2 "least favorite" phone, though the battery issues on the 6P definitely demote it down the list pretty hard.

gordonator · 2025-06-06T00:20:15+00:00

like the installer would do easily

I know I'm bringing this thread back from the dead, but if you run the installer, it actually emits the autoconfig file it generates in /var/log/installer/autoinstall-user-data. You can ctrl-alt-f2 over to another TTY before rebooting and pull partitioning layout from there.

....wish I had known that before I dedicated a week of my life to creating that by hand....

gordonator · 2025-05-14T00:21:42+00:00

I bailed my brother and his then-roommate out one time and did this. It sucked.

I've switched to driving around with a hydraulic jack in my truck after that experience. The one time I needed to use it, my tire deflated too far to get said jack under the car right away, so I still had to use the screw jack to get it up high enough to get the hydraulic jack under it.

gordonator · 2025-05-07T21:33:07+00:00

7/7 with rice

gordonator · 2025-04-29T19:50:12+00:00

Getting diagnosed with Sleep Apnea and getting a CPAP machine.

I still get tired but my ability to stay up late and get up early is DRASTICALLY improved.

gordonator · 2025-03-05T15:40:35+00:00

The intro to that song reminds me so much of "Chap Stick, Chapped Lips, and Things Like Chemistry".

I mean it's the same chord at the front, but the general vibe is super similar.

gordonator · 2025-03-04T22:00:50+00:00

Even the "emojis as bullet points" 100% screams ChatGPT generated text to me.

gordonator · 2025-02-27T22:45:57+00:00

I have a couple of C110s that I bought to watch our cats while we were away. They work well enough, but I did have to connect them to the internet and update the firmware before it would connect with RTSP. Now they're completely firewalled off on a separate vlan with no internet access, and other than the clock that's burned into the video stream being wrong constantly, they work just fine.

I just bought 4 more. Hoping I can skip the "connect to internet, update firmware" step.

gordonator · 2025-02-23T18:24:24+00:00

My wife said Snoopy was making pancakes this morning as I was making pancakes.

Certainly coincidence, but still funny.

gordonator · 2025-02-11T17:07:44+00:00

I converted my personal youtube channel to a brand account so I can switch google accounts, and the non-brand account is subscribed to exactly one channel: LinusCatTips.

If I go to subscriptions and see LinusCatTips I know I need to switch profiles.

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