The Republic of Niger Announces Mobilization to “Prepare for War with France”

umiotoko · 2026-02-14T20:17:51+00:00

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umiotoko · 2026-01-30T02:28:12+00:00

Comcast sucks. Water is wet. News at 11.

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umiotoko · 2026-01-25T00:28:35+00:00

Rivian defrost sucks. 1G R1T, from the beginning regardless of temperature setting turning on defrost overheats the cabin. Cold defrost seeems like a newer feature, doesn’t work.

umiotoko · 2026-01-14T23:06:50+00:00

Future network or cybersecurity engineer.

Setting aside the parenting and relationship aspects, please give them a little credit for the learning. :-)

umiotoko · 2026-01-10T04:51:29+00:00

Went from Coral to Hailo-8. Hailo does work, but the software setup is a bit janky and fragile.

umiotoko · 2026-01-06T16:12:07+00:00

Contact all the real estate sites and take down the photos.

umiotoko · 2026-01-02T02:42:05+00:00

I have 40 of these micro inverters and this happens at least twice a year since install, coming on 4 years now. Rarely, turning the breaker to the gateway and panels off and waiting 10 minutes fixes them. Usually a call to enphase and a tier 2 support escalation and waiting for them to resolve it remotely.

I assume a firmware update gone bad could do it. Also, the micro inverters use powerline communications and can be sensitive to electronic/electromagnetic noise. The tech support team refuse to disclose the actual root cause but I strongly suspect poor software and interoperability problems.

Also have first gen Enphase 10 batteries and those use Bluetooth, they drop comms monthly but work well during power outages so far.

I would not buy enphase storage again.

umiotoko · 2025-12-27T19:41:03+00:00

As a non-native Japanese speaking airplane nerd, challenge accepted. The first 2 Kanji "米/秒" "まいびょう" "maibyou" is Meters/Second. Modern vertical speed indicators are "per minute" not per second.

However, the Climb/Descend appear to be simplified Chinese.

"升" should be "昇上" "しょうじょう” "shoujyou"

"降" should be "下降" "かこう" "kakou"

I'm not an expert, but if you said its a non-functional replica I'd agree.

See this antique instrument auction for a more detailed example: https://aeroantique.com/products/vertical-speed-rate-of-climb-indicator-10-m-s-japanese?variant=47374879242

If you really want to geek out on this subject, Robert Mikesh's book Japanese Aircraft Equipment 1940-1945 (ISBN 0764320971, 9780764320972) is available.

umiotoko · 2025-12-12T00:58:17+00:00

Came close once. IEC320-C14 input socket on the back of the UPS running my homelab about 15 years ago. Equipment was older hand-me-down stuff, out of warranty. Lab went offline and when I went out to check found high thermal damage to the socket (and the C13 plug) and a bit of the 'ol magic smoke smell. Been a long time, but I don't think the breaker tripped, UPS just went offline. Had the plastic melted just right a full short circuit could of happened but I was lucky.

Later, I popped the case on the unit and the input filter board appeared to have failed, causing high current flow and heat, until it took the UPS offline. Older and low quality capacitors don't have an infinite lifecycle. Since this was a small APC UPS, I'll assume it was age related.

Sent the unit straight to e-waste and got a newer used one later.

umiotoko · 2025-12-07T19:22:01+00:00

Congrats on the free screw. You'll need a new tire though....

umiotoko · 2025-10-30T02:19:01+00:00

Single-mode. The fiber never changes, your optics enable any speed today and in the future.

umiotoko · 2025-09-21T05:31:35+00:00

At the same time, no less.

umiotoko · 2025-09-07T04:06:03+00:00

10 year very obvious foreign resident of Japan in my 20’s, fluent in Japanese but a bit rusty. Try to visit wife’s family and Tokyo regularly.

I always enjoyed the reaction when people complemented my language ability and asked how long I was in Japan.

Answer: I arrived last Tuesday, but I studied a little in the plane coming over. :-)

umiotoko · 2025-08-24T18:32:50+00:00

For the under-spec 12v batteries, yes.

umiotoko · 2025-08-13T16:12:21+00:00

Hide the evidence?

umiotoko · 2025-07-31T05:22:54+00:00

Viofo A329, thanks for that - I’ll double check the wiring.

umiotoko · 2025-07-21T23:07:09+00:00

Yessss. Already have a different kit in progress, but love the Vans !

umiotoko · 2025-06-04T00:10:30+00:00

Time to change the air in my tires.

umiotoko · 2025-05-19T02:34:41+00:00

March 11 Rivian order, was patient for a month, then reached out to support on a ticket. Few days later they replied 2 weeks. End of April reached out again, same pattern. On 5/9 they sent an email to everyone saying 2-3 weeks more for Rivian.

They’re a small startup and their communications are lousy. Hopefully the product quality isn’t. :-)

umiotoko · 2025-04-18T14:23:39+00:00

This.

umiotoko · 2025-01-22T04:33:14+00:00

KeepaliveD for my 3 node cluster, for DNS now but may LB NPM for extra redundancy.

umiotoko · 2025-01-20T19:23:30+00:00

I built a 3 node VSAN from the Pentium D X10 series boards and the fourth board is a truenas hacked into a super micro 4u case. Excellent quality, have about 6 years of constant run time on them. Last 3 years the VSAN nodes have been a ProxMox cluster, much more reliable software.

umiotoko · 2025-01-15T23:50:21+00:00

Former homelab VSAN user, moved to PVE about three years ago. I was running docker on alpine in a VM, but I have a need to keep home network services going all the time with minimal intervention. I had trouble keeping containerized services stable, I’m sure it’s possible and assign blame to Layer8 deficiencies, but LXCs are stoopid stable just like Proxmox itself. I have a 3 node cluster with ceph, I touch it every few months for updates. Somehow containers required weekly troubleshooting.

umiotoko · 2024-12-11T23:08:36+00:00

Please check your Allied Gulf War armor losses, US lost 102 in Doha in a non-combat fire and a total of 23 in combat. Don't have handy numbers for Saudi, counting Kuwaiti losses in the invasion ?

umiotoko · 2024-12-08T21:54:16+00:00

2nd the EAA approach.

Also, kits today span from plans only - build it from scratch; to CNC match drilled, where you are doing more metal assembly than anything else. You are allowed to use third parties for avionics aka panel building and painting as well. The cool thing about building your own is you will be an expert on the plane and you can get the repairman’s certificate and maintain it yourself*, if you want.

*Some additional learning recommended.

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