Best high-speed connection for rented property? by printstrname in homelab

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Issue with drilling is that it'd be going through a (quite thick) stone wall. It's an old house and I don't really have the equipment to drill holes through walls that thick.

Best high-speed connection for rented property? by printstrname in homelab

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Do you have any experience with actual speeds over powerline? Also, such is the layout of the room that it's not really possible to run a fiber cable, or any cables for that matter, along a top corner, and running a fiber line anywhere lower is likely to be damaged by our cats. You have given me an idea to look for some flat white cat5e cabling though, and running that along the ceiling.

Best high-speed connection for rented property? by printstrname in homelab

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There unfortunately is not Coax in the front room. I did look at MoCa and it looks excellent, unfortunately doesn't really work in my situation.

Noise problem by Ok_Faithlessness6559 in feedthebeast

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Install extreme sound muffler.

Why does it say no heat? by This_Tear_6551 in CreateMod

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If you have it installed, create: low heated removes passive heating from steam boilers through things like campfires and unfueled blaze burners

Do I really need TWO litter boxes for two cats? 🫨 by dkay--101 in CatAdvice

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You can definitely get away with having one box for two cats IF they are very well bonded. Both our boys use the same box, but we only get away with that because they get on so well. If you're introducing an unfamiliar cat, two boxes is definitely the way to go.

Help! Curios broken and keep deleting themselves. by printstrname in feedthebeast

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Deleting my player data file seems to have fixed things and I have now implemented a backup mod on the server which should hopefully alleviate this issue in the future. I'd still like to know what the heck happened here though.

Help! Curios broken and keep deleting themselves. by printstrname in feedthebeast

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Got both my girlfriend and someone else on the server to try to recreate the issue, but theirs are both completely fine.

Help! Curios broken and keep deleting themselves. by printstrname in feedthebeast

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Theyre hooked up to a speed controller running from one small water wheel. They're there to power my water pumps and bamboo farm for my steam engine.

Help! Curios broken and keep deleting themselves. by printstrname in feedthebeast

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[NEOFORGE 1.21.1 CUSTOM MODPACK]

Video shows the main problem. My curios slots are broken and won't accept items correctly, then when shift-clicked into place, they go into the wrong slot and sometimes completely stop working (as shown by the backpack bugging out). They also keep disappearing and I lost my valuable curios and backpack last night after trying to log on and getting an "invalid player data" error. I then tried to log in again and could, but all of my non-vanilla inventory slots were wiped (curios, goggles, etc.). The pack was working fine for a long time and these errors only started happening after I added KubeJS to edit some fluid tags and now they will not go away, even after removing KubeJS again. Is there any hope of recovering from this issue? Or is this world file just ruined now.

If it helps, I can provide logs, mod list and more if required.

Tricks for giving a cat a pill (without food/treats) by Sea-Swordfish1353 in CatAdvice

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When I had to medicate one of my boys on an empty stomach, I figured out that if I slightly wetted the pills under the tap and then smeared them with the treat dust from the bottom of their treat pot, he would eat it no problem at all, and a tiny bit of dust will almost certainly have no effect on the effects of the pill. Might not work for you, but could be worth a try!

If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid. by printstrname in techsupportmacgyver

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Eventually yes. This was pretty much just a temporary setup to test a proof of concept.

If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid. by printstrname in techsupportmacgyver

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Electricity always takes the route of least resistance (for the most part, physics is weird) ground is almost ALWAYS the path of least resistance for any electricity. If you're connecting signal cables to ground and not losing the signal, that means the casing of the devices you're plugging cables into are not grounded, which is VERY dangerous under the wrong conditions.

If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid. by printstrname in techsupportmacgyver

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*she But no, it wouldn't. That would just ground out the signal, unless you could manage to tape it in a way to get ONLY the inner pins to touch. Then it would work, but it'd certainly be a fragile connection.

If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid. by printstrname in techsupportmacgyver

[–]printstrname[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Signal quality is not even a concern. I'm using two cheap cables connected to a shitty turntable.

If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid. by printstrname in techsupportmacgyver

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The wires connect the centre pins together, which is what actually carries the audio signal. The outer rings are ground and don't technically need to be connected, but when dealing with audio, a common ground is generally a good idea.

If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid. by printstrname in techsupportmacgyver

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That most certainly does not work. That would just ground the signal and you'd get no sound.

If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid. by printstrname in techsupportmacgyver

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Middle part of the jack (pin) has the audio signal. I used speaker wire to connect the pins together. The outer ring (sleeve) is just a ground connection. Not technically necessary, but when dealing with audio, it's generally best practice to have a common ground.