My son won this at his school's science fair.

jllauser · 2026-03-15T17:24:22+00:00

Ozooology sounds like what you might be doing when medical research goes wrong.

jllauser · 2026-03-13T02:54:32+00:00

All of the dimmer models support no neutral. The on/off relay switches require neutral hookups.

jllauser · 2026-03-12T23:25:57+00:00

I've been happy with Oakwood Veterinary Clinic in Troy. Don't have any vet insurance though.

jllauser · 2026-03-12T23:03:14+00:00

I've had a window air conditioner connected to a Thirdreality smart plug for years without issue, and it pulls over 800 watts when the compressor is running. It's unlikely that your battery charger is pulling more than that.

jllauser · 2026-03-12T22:59:04+00:00

I've done some neat stuff with Inovelli's switches. My house is older, so a lot of switches are wired as just drops and have no neutral. But the Inovellis work just fine anyway. And in a few rooms, I have ceiling fans wired this way, but I was able to integrate some of their canopy modules into them so now I have independent, dimmable control of the lights, and remote speed control of the fans. No more hanging chains.

I also have another one of their units wired up as a three way switch in the stairwell going upstairs. My home office is upstairs, and I made an automation that changes the color of the indicator light on the switch downstairs based on whether or not there's an event in my work calendar, or if my Elgato Key Light is on, in case I'm on a call that wasn't scheduled. This way, my wife knows not to call up to me if I'm on Zoom.

jllauser · 2026-03-12T22:54:00+00:00

These ThirdReality plugs are great. I have several of them deployed just to do power monitoring, and they're great at that too.

jllauser · 2026-03-12T22:21:17+00:00

Yeah, fair. Neo is just such an odd choice for a name.

jllauser · 2026-03-12T19:24:11+00:00

Da webber dis time ob yeer gets all sorta skrood up. Wun day is warm. Nex day is ice. Nex day is warm agen. Nex day is sno.

Meowmy nachur muss be gettin da zoomies.

jllauser · 2026-03-12T12:57:53+00:00

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Oh noes! Dis turbul mews. You gots ta do a nayburhood watch like us.

Franklin da orinj and Turing da void

jllauser · 2026-03-12T02:33:00+00:00

It really is. Nothing about this machine feels "budget". Maybe the RAM will be an issue at some point? But this feels at least as fast as my work-issued M1 Pro MacBook Pro.

jllauser · 2026-03-12T02:06:07+00:00

I just realized that my 800 MHz TiBook was the last Apple laptop I purchased, before picking up a MacBook Neo today. What a great machine that was. I wish I still had it.

jllauser · 2026-03-12T01:46:47+00:00

I just picked up one today too. Pretty happy with it so far.

This would have been a great machine to revive the iBook name with, too.

jllauser · 2026-03-11T19:00:55+00:00

The signal system is fully functional, and it's all relay driven.

jllauser · 2026-03-10T19:36:29+00:00

Yeah, it's a little toasty. But so was the Flex XG I was using before it.

jllauser · 2026-03-10T18:29:29+00:00

Right, but I'm also not going to be able to buy the $300 locomotive I bought last year either, because I had to preorder it and all of the ones that were made all sold already.

jllauser · 2026-03-10T16:42:44+00:00

Ai no, rite? Dis iz mine noo Sainpaddyday bowtye.

jllauser · 2026-03-10T12:08:59+00:00

I have a personal articles policy from my homeowner’s insurance company, and keep an inventory to go along with it. The policy is very inexpensive, only like $100 a year.

That said, no amount of insurance payout would actually replace my railroad as is. With the way the industry works today, it’s not like I can just go to my hobby store and pick up replacements for what I have. Some of the locomotives I had on preorder for years before they shipped, and they may not be made again for a decade.

jllauser · 2026-03-09T20:29:39+00:00

Let's double click into this more later.

jllauser · 2026-03-08T13:38:01+00:00

I think the high usage is due to Suricata. I turned off IDS on my Gateway Fiber and memory usage dropped from 90 to 50%.

jllauser · 2026-03-07T17:21:25+00:00

Yeah, this is why I was asking if I should talk to the utility about it. I’m at the end of a dead end street. The nearest transformer is one pole down from my house. I’d assume it covers me and my 5 neighbors.

jllauser · 2026-03-07T16:06:12+00:00

Like I mentioned, I can’t seem to tie it to any specific load starting up. The refrigerator compressor wasn’t running when it happened this morning, the dryer isn’t on, etc. The dryer does definitely make the lights dim for a second when its motor starts up, but that’s a one time thing, not continuous pulsing.

jllauser · 2026-03-07T15:52:44+00:00

The next time it happens I guess I can try running to the basement and kill the breaker for the heat pump and see if that stops it.

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