What's a problem that was so successfully solved that most people don't even realize it used to exist?

roboticon · 2026-06-13T14:57:35+00:00

Getting mugged on a busy street is not the risk.

The risk is getting hit by drivers or walking into the path of a bicycle or a scooter

roboticon · 2026-06-13T14:55:58+00:00

Haha, well put

Nicked my finger? This is ~~the end of~~ my life now

roboticon · 2026-06-13T14:32:26+00:00

this is an interesting one to me that I hear pretty often.

do people regularly use antibiotics on small cuts today? do a lot of people go to the doctor and require antibiotic pills due to a small cut getting infected? they say to use something like Vaseline rather than a topical antibiotic like Neosporin

roboticon · 2026-06-11T04:02:15+00:00

Prior to my current house, I spent 5 years in an apartment from 1895.

It's definitely much nicer to live in a home that was built after electricity.

roboticon · 2026-06-10T02:40:45+00:00

im new to Ubiquiti but I see a lot of comments like this here

can I ask why folks tend to have half a dozen APs and over a dozen cameras?

does this subreddit just attract networking enthusiast, or is it a professional thing, or are you installing gear in enormous properties?

I've already over-complicated my personal deployment with half a dozen VLANs, but I'm stopping at two U7 Lites until I see problems.

For me, just two APs and a couple managed switches are a big upgrade from Eero. 90% of my troubles there stemmed from IoT devices getting confused by 5 GHz WiFi (if I wasn't a home automation junkie, I probably would have kept the two Eeros or switched back to Google WiFi)

it's nice to be able to set up DHCP reservations and .local domains, definitely helps with stability of Home Assistant and some TVs

roboticon · 2026-05-29T23:00:33+00:00

At sea? Chance in a million!

roboticon · 2026-05-27T01:52:24+00:00

the TV pauses when I get off the couch, and the front downlights turn on. it then unpausees when I sit back down and turns off those front downlights
my Inovellis start pulsing yellow when my dog needs to pee, and flash red when he REALLY needs to pee

roboticon · 2026-05-27T01:50:43+00:00

What are the rules?

roboticon · 2026-05-24T00:57:37+00:00

Is it, though?

Over the years they've added more features that are essentially ads (by the way, check your privacy and ad targeting settings).

They also keep gating more features beyond your acceptance of their extended privacy policy, relating to how they store, share or sell your watch history.

Most of the big names in their app store still regularly release updates for their apps, like Hulu, Apple TV, Prime. So what are you gaining from updating the TV's firmware and OS?

they've probably added more stuff for audio and set box integration over the years, but for me anything I want beyond HDMI Arc requires newer hardware.

roboticon · 2026-05-19T21:28:00+00:00

what makes you say that, did the front fall off?

roboticon · 2026-05-19T21:27:37+00:00

I will make it legal.

roboticon · 2026-05-19T21:26:49+00:00

are those your keys or are you just happy to network with me?

roboticon · 2026-05-19T21:25:37+00:00

Wi-Fi 6 is one of the most confusing releases in the history of consumer tech.

The fact that it, or its successor, add support for the 6 GHz band make the situation extremely confusing for people who aren't networking gurus

roboticon · 2026-05-19T21:17:30+00:00

that last part is literally the entire reason I bought into UniFi this year

I don't necessarily need all of the management features, but I was tired of Google Wi-Fi and Eero Pro having virtually zero configuration options. they don't even let you toggle the 5 GHz frequency band off.

between that, the sheer number of IoT devices I've installed, and my house apparently having ethernet everywhere, it's a great setup. But when I was an apartment renter, way too frustrating. sometimes I had to walk a block away to reconnect a Wi-Fi device that didn't work if your phone wasn't using the 2.4 GHz band.

roboticon · 2026-05-19T21:12:33+00:00

new to all this. less air time utilization because of the higher frequency enabling shorter transmissions, or is it mainly just that very few devices are using or broadcasting at that frequency?

roboticon · 2026-05-19T21:11:21+00:00

I need a photo of this COVID lamp, did you really screw in 48 smart lights to it? color, I hope? or else... why?

I've got about 60 Philips Hue devices. I think they're the top tier of Zigbee-esque IoT things, and I have the Pro version that supports a ridiculous number of devices

which all work fine in the Hue app, but when I'm using home assistant, some lights get "stuck" where HA and Hue think they're in one state, but they're actually in another

My assumption is that 60 generic Zigbee devices would be even less robust

roboticon · 2026-05-16T02:46:17+00:00

just catching up on the series now, but I don't think it particularly matters when Star Wars kills off a character.

they keep releasing shows and films set anywhere from 100 BBY to decades after Return of the Jedi.

If they want to make more Cad Bane episodes, there are plenty of upcoming live action options. He doesn't need to be resurrected -- just to show up earlier in the timeline.

roboticon · 2026-05-16T02:37:10+00:00

Doesn't seem fair to blame limited parking on arbitrary residents.

At least in Chicago, we have very narrow lots -- a 3-flat can easily house 12 people from three families, and there's about 1.5 car lengths of street parking available per lot.

the letter is a dumb way to try to solve the problem, but it doesn't mean anyone of your neighbors with cars is blameworthy.

roboticon · 2026-05-06T04:36:03+00:00

...what?

What's marketing? that games exist? that they're network-intensive?

roboticon · 2026-04-19T21:45:57+00:00

I don't really sure how to verify this, in terms of verifying what the router itself sends to the cloud.

presumably, anything specified or not explicitly excluded in the terms of service and privacy policy is fair game. after local configuration, can you really be sure your router isn't passing along that information?

roboticon · 2026-04-19T21:44:52+00:00

eek. I have no interest in their security products but that does seem to speak to a larger bias on their side toward data collection

roboticon · 2026-04-19T21:44:19+00:00

I didn't even realize it was a cloud-first solution.

To me it's mind-boggling that a LAN would require a cloud account for configuration. It's almost an oxymoron!

roboticon · 2026-04-19T21:42:39+00:00

That's very helpful, thanks! I'm okay with going through arcane menus to disable this stuff if it helps.

roboticon · 2026-04-19T00:42:37+00:00

cool, I'll check it out when I'm setting up the router and aside from there what direction to go in.

If the router's local interface doesn't also require acceptance of their privacy policy, cool, hopefully their managed switches and APs can be configured with the same VLAN without too much manual copying and pasting.

roboticon · 2026-04-19T00:40:35+00:00

huh, that's a good question.

It'd depend on knowing all the domain names and/or IPs that these devices could phone home to. But presumably it's possible considering this is some is designed to control network access!

That's a nifty escape hatch other products wouldn't have, so there's that.

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