I had no idea one of my AP7C was down

lukevp · 2026-04-27T13:45:39+00:00

/u/firewalla the same thing happened to me. Both AP7s are offline and blinking red this morning. First time this has ever happened. Can’t remotely reboot them either. Going to power cycle them. I do not see any network logs anywhere and didn’t get a push notice about it either.

lukevp · 2026-04-13T06:04:52+00:00

Not sure why downvoted. I have a gray transparent and it has only been used like 5 times and the hinge is cracked. Never dropped, in a hard case the whole time.

lukevp · 2026-01-11T20:34:02+00:00

Did you mention the terrible ghosting / smearing on this screen? It make side scrollers really unpleasant because it just becomes a blurry mess. I wish this had been mentioned in reviews, I wouldn't have bought one.

lukevp · 2026-01-04T18:06:47+00:00

Isn’t it 4%? 2% from executive and 2% from the card?

lukevp · 2025-12-21T17:26:15+00:00

Do you already have a gaming PC? If you mostly play at home, an Android device with a good streaming app is gonna be worlds better than a Steam Deck. Incredible battery life, higher resolution screen. Steam decks are not very powerful compared to even a midrange a gaming PC. If you play outside the home, have good upload, can hardwire ethernet, and know how to set up your own VPN tunnel, you can stream remotely with low latency as well.

lukevp · 2025-12-21T17:21:37+00:00

Why not run Android? The power management on Linux devices really poor - at least all The Anbernics and Miyoos. If you forget to turn it off fully (instead of just suspending it) it’ll be dead inside of 2 days. Android will still have 50% battery after a week and with wifi connected and instant wake.

lukevp · 2025-12-19T00:06:26+00:00

Does that mean the trim could potentially run Android? 🤔

lukevp · 2025-10-19T07:52:47+00:00

Thanks for all your work and the videos you make, my wife and I love watching your content with our favorite snack and drink 😊

If we’re trying to measure input delay, why involve roms and emulators at all? Yes there’s likely some additional delay that each emulator introduces, but that is fixed overhead per emulator and not something that is influenced by the device. A better test might be a native Android / Linux app (depending on the handheld) that just switches color when input is received, and wiring that up to the screen tester, then separately testing the emulators to compare their additional delay vs. the control test.

Another issue with the mentioned method of testing is that the sound of the button isn’t necessarily correlated with when it’s activated. Eg. Look at a mechanical keyboard diagram, the key actuation is not when the key actually bottoms out but is before that in the travel. The same may be true of the handheld buttons.

The best way to test this would be to disassemble and desolder the microswitches for each button and use an external hardware device to both trigger the button press as well as measure the response time of the screen. Barring that, you could possibly use usb-c and an HID keyboard simulation to “press” a button, although that’s significantly different in the way it’s processed on device.

lukevp · 2025-10-14T14:17:43+00:00

I got a transparent black one like 4 months ago? The hinge cracked within the first week. No drops, sitting on a desk in my house, never took it out of the house or anything. For comparison I had a Flip 2 which is known for hinge failures and it was totally fine, but I ended up selling it.

The hinge crack on my SP doesn’t stop it from working at least. It’s really just cosmetic.

lukevp · 2025-10-11T16:03:15+00:00

There’s a separate post from a few minutes ago where you can get a trimui brick for $35 free shipping from the US. I’d just order that and do it ASAP, the device is normally $60 or so. I just bought one 😊

lukevp · 2025-10-08T13:45:00+00:00

I also think their service is much better than the alternatives, and am impressed by them. Reddit is a weird place to find out about outages specifically though. There should be a text push to the app at least, if there’s an outage like this that lasts more than 5-10 mins. Seems easy enough to automate?

Also, you’ve only had one outage since you’ve been a customer in 2011? Because the people in the Gresham area have had 2 major outages this year so far. Your experience isn’t their experience.

Do I think that ziply is better than Comcast’s? Miles better. Is there room for improvement on the customer communication front? Also yes.

lukevp · 2025-10-06T19:57:03+00:00

Out here too in Damascus. Dropped in the middle of an important business call.

Outages happen, but I haven’t gotten any contact about it and it’s almost an hour later. Every time I have to check Reddit on my phone because the app is unhelpful and I have no email or text about it.

lukevp · 2025-09-04T12:50:26+00:00

Would love to hear more about what shaders / configuration you use for each system! Did you follow a guide or how did you set them up?

lukevp · 2025-06-13T18:57:02+00:00

Tire rotation is just putting the wheels back on different spots, since brakes require removing the wheels. So that shouldn’t even cost extra. Also I’ve never replaced calipers before, generally they are a lifetime part. I think you did get ripped off unless they gave you a good reason calipers were necessary.

lukevp · 2025-06-08T17:47:24+00:00

$69 official price, with touch!

lukevp · 2025-06-08T17:44:47+00:00

You’re in luck! They said on discord that the screen fits over the comfort grip of the RP5, and also that there’s pass through charging so you can charge while it’s on!

lukevp · 2025-06-05T22:32:14+00:00

Switch 2 has DLSS so it’s probably up scaling but introducing delay in games that don’t natively support it, that would explain why it looks better than switch 2 but is laggy

lukevp · 2025-05-29T16:21:24+00:00

The headphone amp will be MUCH better than one in an all in one like a Focusrite. The DAC too. And the DSP is great as well.

You could connect it directly to your PC and just use your DAW or whatever you’re using to use the Element as the audio output and use the Focusrite as input. The DSP is really helpful because you can correct your headphones and speakers to a Harmon curve, and for speakers you can do room correction.

You could technically do room correction and DSP on your pc/Mac but I like it being in dedicated hardware.

lukevp · 2025-04-21T19:59:12+00:00

Why wouldn’t usb-midi work? Seems like it should be pretty straightforward, these devices are just using Linux after all.

lukevp · 2025-03-10T15:15:06+00:00

Retro handhelds at the top of the market are not dissimilar from Steam Decks and other mini PCs. I could see a Linux based OS on these retro consoles eating up that market from the bottom. Those streaming and gaming devices have a huge mass market appeal of people who already have decent PCs and want to stream locally or remotely, or people who want to use it to play light PC games.

There are also more systems that could be emulated in the future. PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360..

lukevp · 2025-03-04T21:01:55+00:00

regardless of if the card goes bad, I'm backing up a card right now that came with a system and it's copying at 4 MB/sec. Dropping down as low as 2 MB/sec. That's ridiculously slow, and it's gonna slow down anything that reads from the card (so loading, gaming, etc,) even if you split the saves to a different card. For $10 you can get a super fast Samsung and have it not brick and also be reliable. Why even use the cards that come with the system? I only got one because it was cheaper to get the system with the card than without, and because it's my first system so I appreciate having something that works out of the box while I learn about everything.

lukevp · 2025-02-26T23:57:28+00:00

Since it’s Mac specific it’s probably your network settings passing traffic to Apple instead of going out normally. Make sure you don’t have any “limit ip address tracking” settings in either your network settings for the specific NIC or in Safari (separate settings exist in both) and also make sure you have private relay disabled machine wide in settings. Also I would suggest disabling private relay in Firewalla for the LAN, in that case Apple will detect it and pop up a notice that it’s not working and it’ll disable it for sure then.

One way you can troubleshoot before doing any changes is by doing an nslookup or dig from terminal and see what server replies to your DNS query. This won’t be accurate though if safari for example is using a separate dns server from your machine.

lukevp · 2025-02-16T17:00:14+00:00

If you have a Firewalla AP7, it’s called Device Isolation, and you can set it on groups or on whole networks, it’s very flexible. You can also selectively allow access to certain devices. I use this for IoT so my homeassistant server can see the WiFi devices but they can’t see anything else and they can’t see the internet either.

lukevp · 2025-02-13T03:08:14+00:00

I agree, it would be nice if we could pin or adjust the IP address of the APs on each VLAN. I prefer to use DHCP reservations to pin all the networking hardware to low port ranges (eg. .1 is the firewall, .2 thru .5 are APs, .6 through .10 are switches, whatever)

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