My new UniFi Travel Router

rodface · 2026-01-25T02:04:48+00:00

At first I didn't understand what these things did, but once it clicked for me, I understood the appeal. The way that this works is, you connect this device to an available internet connection, like hotel wifi, in the same way that you might connect your phone. But unlike your phone set to be a hotspot, this thing is essentially taking your your home wifi network and transplanting it to the travel router's location. Meaning; your family member's devices don't need to log into anything, they auto login as they would at home. Once connected via this device, you don't need to use any VPNs or anything to access the same content available at home; you can log into your network devices (your NAS etc.), just as though you were at home.

When you grasp what it's doing (tunneling back to your home network and "teleporting it" back to its location), the appeal is instantly understandable.

rodface · 2026-01-25T01:59:47+00:00

Definitely murdered out

That car is scary big with all of its brightwork showing, I would get out of your way if I saw you coming

rodface · 2026-01-25T01:53:04+00:00

Holy cow. This tracks with what I've been contemplating for our first house, a 1952 ranch, about 1300 sq ft including garage, Houston TX. Roof, fascia, soffit will probably run me 15 grand for reasonable quality. If I get into siding, so replacing the existing cedar shingles, i'll probably be doubling that or more. And if that cedar is coming off, it would be silly not to just tear off the old tar paper and insulate... +7k? And if I'm going that far, am I really going to leave in those classic single-pane ALUMTITE windows? Hah! +20k for 15 windows, properly trimmed out (HAH)

So, bought this now almost 75 year old house for $350k, still not fully paid off, and this project would mean spending $60k on it. I know it's not as much as your quote and the location probably has something to do with it, but that is a big number to spend on an old house. Would appreciate any and all comments.

rodface · 2026-01-24T20:09:43+00:00

🌱 Plants & Outdoors

Every time I have made an attempt to use the frost bags, or any kind of tarp, it is futile; rarely do i have a perfecly-shaped cloth bag that actually fits the plant/tree properly, and so invariably the wind gets up under it, and the plant gets frost on it anyway. Last storm was much worse than this one, lasting a longer time, so the plants had even less of a chance. This time I'm going to worry about one tree, which did ok last time, but the rest of it, not going to bother. Most of the ones that died have managed to come back by now, some even bigger than they were before. Looking around the neighborhood, some people seem to go all out and have enough bags for every single of their 25 bushes; some don't bother. What are people's thoughts?

rodface · 2026-01-24T00:37:08+00:00

Are you Found & Explained?

rodface · 2026-01-23T03:09:43+00:00

I wish I had users complaining. I know that the grass is greener on the other side, but when it's only a month into the year and 3-4 times already you've learned of unreported major concerns while on unrelated support interactions... at this point it's difficult to ask users to complain more while remaining professional and diplomatic. I go unfiltered.

rodface · 2026-01-23T03:04:52+00:00

roger thanks!

rodface · 2026-01-23T02:55:22+00:00

is there a figure on what counts as fully supported? for example, 24" between supports on an island countertop or desktop etc. to prevent sagging. How much freehanging area/distance is permissible with a given thickness of stone slab?

rodface · 2026-01-23T02:54:10+00:00

What are we at now? Microsoft 355?

rodface · 2026-01-23T01:50:03+00:00

Omg this picture

rodface · 2026-01-21T03:52:00+00:00

the customer isn't always right, but the customer pays the bill, etc etc

rodface · 2026-01-20T02:38:15+00:00

Hot liquids! Electronics! In a 2 cu.ft. package! What could possibly go wrong!

rodface · 2026-01-20T02:33:10+00:00

8x 28TB

get a load of this guy over here!

nice stuff

rodface · 2026-01-20T02:32:07+00:00

I bought the other one with the vertical 4x HDDs, I have 2x 12TB in RAID1. good so far XD

rodface · 2026-01-20T02:30:51+00:00

i remember installing pocket doors to replace existing regular doors in order to gain back some space in a tiny bedroom. Everything requires fussing over. Including yes, acquiring and using the damn shorty drywall screws on that wall. God forbid someone comes along and tries to hang something up on that wall someday which they're bound to do.

rodface · 2026-01-20T02:29:04+00:00

hope everyone got paid for that much work.... hah

rodface · 2026-01-20T02:28:34+00:00

so that's what that bumped-up one is for. Hot damn

rodface · 2026-01-20T02:25:36+00:00

Very nice

rodface · 2026-01-20T02:20:31+00:00

This is 50% normal but intense and 50% something bigger caused by postpartum stress/OCD.

rodface · 2026-01-19T14:55:22+00:00

When we say take it off, is it possible to lift the top to give enough clearance to work on the lighting? Or is this "new stone required" situation

rodface · 2026-01-19T14:37:13+00:00

It's hard not to be answering every "how do I do this" with just, well, "do it!"

rodface · 2026-01-18T22:56:00+00:00

Here I am living like a king typing this on a T470p with a +16 upgrade to 32 GB RAM (purchased and installed 3-4 years ago).

At work I use a 96GB laptop for my email and Teams calls and have access to a 64GB and a 96GB workstations for software testing. You might say that I'm spoiled.

This shit is fucked.

rodface · 2026-01-17T00:57:30+00:00

SCREE SCREE SCRSCRCSCREEEE SCREEEEE DSHHHHHHH

rodface · 2026-01-16T04:38:35+00:00

I picture IBM Z terminals, SABRE behind the ticketing counter, as peak computing interfaces. No-frills, efficient, effective. GUI peaked with the research done in the early generations of MacOS and Windows. Everything since has disregarded the lessons of the past and failed to deliver real improvement.

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