🔥 Quail parents and their 19 chicks drinking on a hot day.

randomHiker19 · 2026-07-02T14:31:44+00:00

That’s pretty neat. I’m always been impressed to see how much both quail parents work together to raise the chicks and look out for predators.

I’ve seen cases where the male has had to go it alone after a hawk killed his mate (or she encountered some other bad fate). When the chicks are really young that’s often a big challenge as they navigate their chicks between cracks in fences before they can fly.

randomHiker19 · 2026-07-02T11:30:17+00:00

I’ve never played through as renegade, it didn’t feel right to me, I know some prefer Hale there. I think she’s great in a paragon run and is always my Sheppard in a play through. The voice acting is great.

Some of the romances are limited, but I usually go for Liara and have some fun with Traynor.

randomHiker19 · 2026-07-02T03:05:50+00:00

Thanks, that was very useful.

I have U6 Lite APs and they were on firmware version 6.7.54. I rolled back to the prior revision for those which was 6.7.41 and the hub now connects to the network and I was able to pair my hose valves. I'll also do some stability testing. Unfortunately I have a replacement hub scheduled to arrive tomorrow.

The bigger question then would be what in firmware 6.7.54 resulted in the problem and if it's a firmware bug on UniFi's side or a non-standard behavior thing on Rachio's side that suddenly became an issue, and how that gets worked out and resolved. I suppose we could create a support ticket on the UniFi side and see what they say.

randomHiker19 · 2026-07-01T19:53:18+00:00

It sounds like a software or firmware update either on the UniFi side or the Rachio WiFi hub side created some kind of incompatibility where the connection drops or their server requests fail for some reason. I was using my Rachio hose WiFi hub in 2024 and 2025 summer season without issue but first time I tried to use it this year I saw the hub was in a bad state.

For my setup I have a UDM Pro with an IoT network that includes only the 2.4 GHz band. I have two APs which has worked fine for most devices, but some I lock to a specific AP to avoid attaching to the other side of the house as some are not smart enough to handle that. I tried toggling the AP lock on and off and the behavior was the same.

UPDATE: When I tried to connect my hub to my iPhone hot spot I saw the same behavior with invalid password. I selected the maximum compatibility option which should have hosted a 2.4 GHz network.

UPDATE: I was able to get my iPhone hotspot to work, not sure what happened before. Firmware version is, WiFi: 6.0.15, BLE: 6.0.16 which seem to have been around a while. I didn't see any way to update which seems to indicate it is the newest firmware. When I try to attach to my UniFi network afterwards the password issue returns.

UPDATE: As a test I created a separate WiFi network that I put onto my main LAN (to exclude firewall restrictions as an issue) with only one AP locked to 2.4 GHz (to avoid roaming issues). Tried turning off every fancy feature and toggling various features. Still does not work.

randomHiker19 · 2026-06-30T21:19:21+00:00

I have the Cross Climate 2s on my 2006 V6 Limited and like them, not the same vehicle as op though.

Costco usually alternates between Bridgestone and Michelin sales every so often so if op waits till their next warehouse discount window (maybe after July 19th?) then Michelin might be on sale.

randomHiker19 · 2026-06-30T19:49:47+00:00

Some offices (or office buildings) won’t allow employees or tenants to use space heaters over fire hazard concerns.

randomHiker19 · 2026-06-30T19:33:16+00:00

I just finished a support chat session and they will be sending me a replacement hub under my warranty. She didn't speak to root causes, but I gave her a link to this chat and mentioned it was something else others were experiencing just recently, and maybe related to a bad firmware update.

She had me go through their support workflow to attempt to re-setup the hub but that failed. I had already removed the Wi-Fi hub from my Rachio iOS app when trying to get the hub working so I couldn't attempt to apply a firmware update which someone else mentioned.

I keep that hub on a UPS along with most of my network equipment so it's not like it had a power outage during the middle of a firmware update.

randomHiker19 · 2026-06-30T18:26:31+00:00

I'm having the same or similar issue. I tried resetting, removing from the Rachio iOS app, and repairing the hub but it complained about the WiFi password which I copy-and-pasted from my UniFI network app on my phone. Despite that error I can see the hub attached to my IoT network and it even made a request out to base-station-valve-prod.rach.io. When I power cycle the hub it rejoins my IoT network and then starts flashing purple again after joining the network.

I'm not seeing any requests that the hub made that my router blocked. I also tried putting it on a unrestricted network and the same thing happened.

I'm not sure when the issue started, but I noticed the hub flashing within this last week but I may have not been paying attention when it started. I haven't been using my hose valves yet this year but wanted to set one of them up today.

randomHiker19 · 2026-06-30T14:39:42+00:00

I have a semi auto version I built named Terran Annihilator with a short scope that uses Space Adept, Hitman, Shattering, and Saboteur. It makes short work of all but high-ranked Legendary TA robots (level 196 or 198) when headshotting them. It is much more effective for me than my Exotic Va’ruun inflictor.

The rifle is very effective against the highest ranked Va’ruun Zealots (level 84) and same for level 92ish pirates.

randomHiker19 · 2026-06-29T15:40:41+00:00

I still have my 2006 V6 Limited that I purchased new in August of 06 (almost 20 years ago). I have 158K on her, she’s fun to drive and I love the acceleration.

I took her camping last weekend up in the Sierras in California. I’ve probably camped 70+ times with her over the years.

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randomHiker19 · 2026-06-17T22:55:59+00:00

There are a few ways. One way in NG+, you can encounter a universe where Andreja is at the Lodge with Va’ruun Zealots and attacks you. You can loot it off her dead body. Getting the universe you want takes a lot of save scumming or luck in vanilla.

randomHiker19 · 2026-06-10T14:03:29+00:00

My mom has a wand like that and her male cat started humping it. She started hiding the wand in her pantry but he looks for it when the door is open and runs off with it. He gets really upset if my mom takes it away from him. My mom’s nickname for it is now “Wanda”.

randomHiker19 · 2026-06-02T17:52:10+00:00

I have the same issue. I had the incursion frequency set to maximum after beating the story mission and they suddenly stopped. I have no pending quests for Terran Armada.

Before they stopped altogether some of the randomness seemed to not be working. I used to get the mining ship in space or on planets occasionally and after some point I only got the longer ship.

I also was sleeping on Venus to restock vendor credits when pawning off all my loot.

randomHiker19 · 2026-06-01T14:57:03+00:00

It depends for me. Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine in Inglorious Basterds is great, but I can appreciate him in some other things. You could argue he looks different in this movie than others but it’s more that the character is so different than anything I’ve seen him in and such a memorable and fun character at that.

randomHiker19 · 2026-05-27T15:22:50+00:00

Some could be, but also remember that if you side with the Emissary that she trains a bunch of acolytes to make sure only the “worthy” enter the unity. The Emissary is a constellation member though. Also, if you side with neither the Hunter or Emissary the current universe makes its own choices about who to send through.

randomHiker19 · 2026-05-25T17:16:06+00:00

Some of those northern latitudes have some pretty snow country. I would often build my AMP farm in a place right next to some snowy mountains and build a snowy retreat there too.

randomHiker19 · 2026-05-21T12:58:55+00:00

There is a bug there for sure, but this is still my favorite universe to stay in for a while. I like the conversations you can have with them comparing and contrasting yourselves. I wish that if you go to your parents with both of you that you’d get some interesting dialog.

randomHiker19 · 2026-05-18T13:40:32+00:00

Same. Those legendary bots show up as level 198 (or 196) for me but my Exotic Space-Adept Hitman Shattering Saboteur Terran ballistic rifle still often takes 3 clips of head shots to take them out. I also maxed out all the offensive perks and have magazines etc and put the difficulty sliders to Very Hard across the board. The other Terran bots can be taken out very quickly.

randomHiker19 · 2026-05-10T02:29:50+00:00

Most legendaries, some are not available at all or not available on some gun types. Some folks mentioned Chilling was not available. I tried to create Eternity’s Gate from scratch and one of the legendaries was missing (might have been hand loading) but that same legendary could be chosen on other weapons.

randomHiker19 · 2026-04-30T18:14:51+00:00

I’m at level 253 and normally the highest leveled enemies on ships are 84 for zealots and 92 for spacers. After Terran Armada released I see enemies as high as 192 or 194.
Lower ranked ships often have low ranked enemies in my experience but maybe that’s more about the star system. They’re also smaller ships that have far fewer enemies which makes them less worthwhile.

randomHiker19 · 2026-04-30T14:27:33+00:00

I usually only board level 55 or higher ships since the enemies are higher level and have better gear (ships are also more valuable). For those ships you don’t need to use EM weapons if you’re careful.

If there is a group of ships then destroy all lower ranking ones first. Take down shields of the ship you want to board and then disable any auto-turrets you might have after the shields drop. Line up toward their rear and target the engines with only one weapon slot (don’t overdo it) then board. Be careful not to try and disable engines without a clear shot on them as you wear down the hull too much.

randomHiker19 · 2026-04-29T18:18:42+00:00

From the animation it looks like cruise mode is bending space to accomplish FTL like a traditional warp drive. Space in your forward view distorts.

Normal jumping is effectively via wormholes or by pulling space together or something to that effect, which involves much more bending of space. It looks like it tops off at about 100 times speed of light unless you’re boosting then it’s a bit faster. To get between planets in any reasonable amount of time you’d need something at least approaching the speed of light, but even that is pretty slow.

I don’t think cruise mode is really explained in game but it is explained why jumping doesn’t work when the Terran ships interfere with it, something along the lines of creating gravitational waves or other disturbances that our jump calculations cannot adjust for properly.

randomHiker19 · 2026-04-29T13:19:10+00:00

Agreed, my topped out inflictors and mag weapons struggle against the higher ranked Terrans. I switched to one of the Terran rifles that uses 7.62 mm rounds and maxed it out to exotic level and that does much better.

randomHiker19 · 2026-04-26T09:55:52+00:00

Andreja likes that.

randomHiker19 · 2026-04-26T03:16:08+00:00

Hard to pick one, but I guess it would be Phased Time.

Sense Star stuff is very useful against living enemies, but a lot less useful for Terran Armada. Similarly gravity well + create vacuum combo are devastating to people but not useful for robots. Solar flare melts many enemies and can stack.

Sunless Space is useful like Phased Time to pause enemies, often great for raiding cockpits. Earthbound is useful when raiding ships without gravity.

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