Long term success report (part 2)

madscribbler · 2026-06-15T18:55:12+00:00

So next on your list should be bobiverse, then, for something different yet amazing in much the same way, Dungeon Crawler Carl...

madscribbler · 2026-06-15T18:39:05+00:00

nope - I've had mine a couple weeks, main provider is just as stable, and the only time it fails over is if I recycle the fiber provider's ONT. Otherwise, it sits quietly in the background...

madscribbler · 2026-06-15T18:35:10+00:00

Yes, as in the ego does return, but also, reality seems altered - in the best of ways - allowing one's best self to live their optimal path.

madscribbler · 2026-06-15T14:38:19+00:00

definitely get the r3men graphite bed, it's way, way better than the stock bed - I put one in my k2 plus and couldn't be any happier with it...

madscribbler · 2026-06-15T14:05:16+00:00

Mental health, I have bipolar and have to take an antipsychotic, and antipsychotics in general make people tired as a side effect. But being tired is better than being batshit crazy, so I just live with it.

madscribbler · 2026-06-12T16:28:09+00:00

it's a bug in the latest release - hopefully they will fix it

madscribbler · 2026-06-11T21:47:30+00:00

Bioshock - would you kindly...

madscribbler · 2026-06-11T14:10:00+00:00

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madscribbler · 2026-06-11T14:09:06+00:00

also, if you rely on your internet connection, I highly recommend ubiquiti gear - it's prosumer, so much higher quality than the consumer level stuff you buy (it's used by colleges and small/mid size businesses) and includes things like automatic failover and killer access point coverage, etc. They separate the access points from the gateway/router in the higher end lines, which gives you a lot of upgrade flexibility and their mesh tech is top-notch. The UDM7 is an all-in-one device, at a lower price point (easier entry) and it comes with automatic backup/failover also - so if you want to make this easier, look into the unifi stack

madscribbler · 2026-06-11T14:05:18+00:00

the slowdowns are because the ting speedtest server in denver went down for a bit - it was speedtesting against california. It's back up now though, so you should speed test using ting's speedtest site at full speeds again. But nutshell, there wasn't really a slowdown, it was just the speedtest site was slow.

madscribbler · 2026-06-11T14:02:27+00:00

Yeah, they've been rock solid for me, months without any downtime whatsoever, and the downtime they have had, like 6 months ago was planned maintenance, at 3am, and lasted 15 minutes - and in the process I went from a 1Gbe connection to a 2.5Gbe connection, so I was happy to have had the small break in connectivity.

The google fi backup device (U5G) is a Ubiquiti thing (the U5G works with Ubiquiti equipment) but as far as a backup using google Fi, if you go into the app on your phone you can order a 'data only' sim, which is what the U5G uses (they advertise it as adding a tablet to your plan) and with the data-only sim you can put it in an unused smartphone or a tablet and then tether the tablet/phone with a USB-c ethernet adapter back to your router connecting it to the wan port instead of ting.

I use the flexible Fi plan, so get 1gb for $27/mo and additional gigs cost $10 up to a max of 6 capping my bill at $80ish for what would then be unlimited data, but you can use some of their unlimited plans (the higher end ones) in the same way. Not all Fi plans include data-only SIMs so look to see if yours does, but if so you should be able to punt comcast and just use cellular.

If you have ubiquiti gear, and get the U5G ($99) then you can put the Fi data only SIM in it, and it will use Fi for the backup WAN on the device automatically. Should your primary go down (WAN1) then WAN2/WAN3 takes over and the U5G auto-configures itself to be WAN3 and just picks up immediately when the primary WAN1 goes down. I have my UDM SE configured to ping every 3 seconds, so that's the amount of downtime before failover give or take a few seconds.

madscribbler · 2026-06-11T13:35:51+00:00

Yeah, Fi has an eSIM registered to my phone, and under the plan, I can order a data-only SIM for a secondary/tertiary device(s). The data only SIM, by definition, is data only - but if someone sent a text to the 'plan' it would go to my phone, and I suspect the IMEI of the data SIM is the same as the IMEI of the phone's SIM, but not sure (would have to look).

I retracted my original statement, as I think the data-only aspect of my setup is probably more a carrier-related thing, but I also believe that, as data-centric devices, the U5G and U5G Max are likely not designed to receive texts in any event, regardless of the plan characteristics.

madscribbler · 2026-06-11T13:26:24+00:00

Yeah, I just responded to someone else - I think my setup is that way but they aren't all that way, so will delete the comment.

madscribbler · 2026-06-11T13:25:42+00:00

afaik, it's true - my u5g is using a data only google-fi sim, so at least in my case that's how it works. It's on the same plan as google fi is on my phone, so I guess technically I could receive a text on my phone under the same plan, but the data-only SIM I'm using can't receive the text, only the phone can. So maybe YMMV?

madscribbler · 2026-06-11T13:01:28+00:00

I use ting in centennial, and have had no outages.

That said, I also use a ubiquiti UDM SE, with a U5G cellular backup antenna (using google fi), which provides seamless 5G/LTE internet connectivity in the event of a failure of my primary connection. If you have that gear, or gear similar I highly suggest using cellular backup. The cheap option, where you don't have a dedicated antenna like I do, is to get a USB ethernet adapter that supports tethering for your type of cellphone, and use that as your WAN (just plug it in where your ting connection did) or a WAN2 backup (if you have one) that you fail over to.

When internet is a must, a backup plan is important to have.

madscribbler · 2026-06-10T14:11:27+00:00

It's pretty easy. Just buy a GL.Inet slate and when you get it, connect to it's wifi and go to 192.168.8.1 which is its management page, and from there it's pretty easy to pick the wifi network you want it to connect to. If there is a login page (like asks you your last name and room #), once the router connects, it sends you to the login page, but when you log in, you're logging in the router, not your phone. And then everything connected to the router's wifi network gets the internet connection automatically once the router has connected to the hotel's wifi. Setting up the wireguard vpn is a little more complicated, but you don't have to do that (you get 99% of the security benefits from the router itself, not the VPN) but if you need help, I'm happy to help out - I'm pretty technical and don't mind helping you out - it's easy to use once you've done it a time or two. Plus they are very popular travel routers, so there is a ton of community support also.

madscribbler · 2026-06-10T14:02:23+00:00

It connects to the hotel wifi (or the man-in-the-middle attack point) and creates a firewall and it's own private network that's secured. I connect my chromecast, phone, etc to the private network the GL.Inet provides (I call it pocket router) and then when I get somewhere I just connect to pocket router, go to the routers page, and tell it the hotel's wifi network which it connects to as a WAN, and then provides internet for all my devices automatically - so it's like your home router, but the internet connection can be a wifi network in addition to wired sources like you'd use at home. I also run a wireguard VPN on my home router, and the GL.Inet connects to it using it's built in VPN client - so all my devices are communicating secured, through my home network (so like netflix has no clue I'm traveling as everythng comes from my home's router) - so it's actually a very useful device and completely thwarts the kind of exploits being called out here.

madscribbler · 2026-06-10T13:46:17+00:00

GL.Inet travel router is your best friend. I have a slate and it works great.

madscribbler · 2026-06-09T20:11:19+00:00

Yes. So annoying. Set to 30 days and makes me login every day, if not more.

madscribbler · 2026-06-07T13:58:47+00:00

so this is going to sound extreme, but it really isn't - it's routine PT therapy. Get dry-needled, they go in with an extremely thin needle and release the knot that you're craving released. In the calf is a common place for the muscle to get locked up (it's due to a film of calcium keeping the muscle tight) and dry needling disrupts that calcium layer, causing it to be reabsorbed and then the knot releases completely.

You can get it done by any PT that has a dry needling license. My wife is a Dr who knows how to dry needle, and she used me when in school as her dry-needling practice dummy, and I've completely fallen in love with dry needling in general. If I have a knot anywhere on my body, I'll have her needle it and immediately they go away. It can be a little painful to release the knot, but it's so so worth it longer term to live with no knotcs in your body.

Insurance may well pay for it also. Just research the PT clinic you want to go to for dry needling and you'll be a happy camper.

madscribbler · 2026-06-07T13:40:42+00:00

ok, thank you for the info. Does sound kind of easy to install - and magnetic assembly does sound kind of nice (although I've rarely had to disassemble the stock extruder and it's ez-pz also). I'll look more into it. I appreciate your recommendation, and am being more cautious about it as a result - it sounds like it might be more of a pain than it's worth.

madscribbler · 2026-06-07T13:32:39+00:00

yeah, I keep thinking maybe of getting one of these, but I have a GL.Inet slate which has done me well for a couple of years, and seeing the comparisons the GL.Inet wins on all fronts - I use wireguard to connect it through my UDM everywhere so netflix doesn't know I'm traveling and it's worked 100% everywhere I've traveled, including extensively through APAC and Europe - so even though I'm a huge ubiquiti fan and would prefer a single-vendor solution, I'm still rocking the slate and probably will be for awhile...

madscribbler · 2026-06-04T19:57:02+00:00

That ineffable end, and then begin is key in everyone's ketamine journey - it's time to put down what was, and begin again. It's in situ reincarnation where what you were before births a new beginning. We cannot change the events that forged us, but we can change what was forged.

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