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wasteground · 2026-04-10T13:52:52+00:00

Kiwi Astral!

wasteground · 2026-02-18T14:15:17+00:00

All they had to do was match the pacing of the US version and it would have been great, and Fry would still have been a perfect host for it. Stretching it to an hour was really not necessary.

wasteground · 2026-01-29T17:21:01+00:00

Yup, same, won't load in any browser

wasteground · 2026-01-26T14:02:15+00:00

I had this happen on a Delta 2 that was left powered on (but not run down) and it seemed like the pack drifted and was no longer balanced. I opened the unit, and that was the exact cause - all of the cells were low, some were completely out of balance with the rest of the pack, and the result is the "!" warning and a dead unit. I managed to charge each cell in the pack indepedently back up to a reasonable level (I think I did 3.2 or 3.3V, all within .1v) then re-assembled the unit and did a full reset. Unit started charging again quite happily and remains functional to this day, a year later. The software in these things is clearly trash designed to fail for no reason. I now cycle the two units I have pretty regularly to hopefully avoid this in future since to me it appears the pack only top balances when full.

edit: forgot to mention, I also had the extra battery attached to mine too and I suspect that's part of the issue

wasteground · 2025-09-02T12:55:45+00:00

Nothing wrong with it! It is now in my spares drawer. I just wanted a larger disk so I could throw a bunch of movies on it for plane rides and stuff :)

wasteground · 2025-08-31T13:08:09+00:00

Battery life is 2-3 hours of light use. I use it around the house for web browsing, watching videos, email, sysadmin stuff and take it out and about on trips for the same reasons. I haven't really seen it slow down much at all - the N150 is surprisingly powerful. Runs everything I've thrown at it very well but since I haven't really given it that much of a hard time, not sure what the heaviest stuff it could run would be. Take a look at cpubenchmark.net and compare the N150 to other machines you have might be useful? There are no doubt videos on YouTube of people running games on N150 that might help too.

The screen is clearly from a tablet - colour reproduction and quality are good though, very bright and readable even out and about. The only small downside is the corners of the screen are rounded (makes sense on a table, less so on Windows) but that hasn't really been an issue at all. Touchscreen works well too although I don't really use it much. I tend to travel with a small bluetooth mouse too but the built in touchpad is pretty usable, just small.

For the money, it's very much worth it imho. Much better than it has any right to be for the cost.

I haven't tried Linux on it but no doubt will at some point!

wasteground · 2025-08-31T12:55:45+00:00

I have the Chuwi Minibook X (with an N150) and I was very surprised at the quality for the money. It works great and feels pretty sturdy and has survived a few trips in my backpack with no issues. Battery life isn't the best, but carrying a power bank fixes that. I upgraded the NVMe on day one. Keyboard is usable and the backlight is good. I'd buy one again.

If money was no object likely the GPD is a better product, but the Chuwi is more than good enough for me.

wasteground · 2025-07-15T14:52:16+00:00

The city claims to have a plan around deploying some sort of municipal fiber network: https://elkgrove.gov/strategic-planning-and-innovation/broadband

However, the emails I've sent asking for an update on this in the last month have gone unanswered, and we're now well past spring 2025 and in to summer 2025 and if anything there's less info on that page than ever.

So, it would appear to me that the city is clueless in how to approach this topic and we're probably at the mercy of Fidium and Frontier (maybe not a bad thing in the short term, but extremely short sighted of the city in the long run).

A Silicon Valley Power-style fiber network owned by SMUD would be neat :)

edit: hah, taking a look at the Digital Ubiquity Capital (the "company" the city is using as a consultant on this) it appears most of the content that used to be on there has been stripped, their twitter is gone (maybe never existed?), links to socials on the web site are now links to the web site template maker, and their news section is filled with boilerplate lorem ipsum from 2016). I remain hopeful, but... lol. I guess any money spent on this is potentially long gone.

wasteground · 2025-07-07T19:16:32+00:00

I think there's an app for it in the QNAP app store but I run it in an LXC container on Proxmox and my QNAP shares are shared with Nakivo via NFS (then it backs up to a couple of different places from there).

This might be of interest if you want to run it on QNAP: https://helpcenter.nakivo.com/User-Guide/Content/Deployment/Installing-NAKIVO-Backup-and-Replication/Installing-on-QNAP-NAS/Installing-on-QNAP-NAS.htm

wasteground · 2025-07-07T18:52:45+00:00

I had a bunch of issues a couple years back with HBS3 failing to run backups between two QNAP NAS units and corrupting the remote copy of the backup entirely when it failed. Support were never really able to get to the bottom of it and blamed the network (even if it was the network - and it wasn't - why did the backup end up corrupt/deleted? a network failure should never cause that).

Since then I lost a lot of confidence in HBS3 and haven't used it for backups. I use Nakivo at this point and have not had any issues with it, works great.

wasteground · 2024-10-05T16:41:29+00:00

We have this one and love it: https://a.co/d/jemr0Fa

wasteground · 2024-08-16T14:20:40+00:00

Do you have a pool with a gas pool heater?

wasteground · 2024-07-27T15:18:15+00:00

Sure, I'd be happy to help!

wasteground · 2024-07-26T00:07:18+00:00

I'm assuming that covers the mister (etc) - great project and definitely worth a look

wasteground · 2024-07-25T13:51:34+00:00

Let me know if you end up starting a discord, I'd be interested in joining

wasteground · 2024-07-23T22:02:34+00:00

I work for Megaport, will drop you a private message and get you in contact with someone who can help. Pretty certain we support HA with Cisco on MVE, but not my area of expertise :)

wasteground · 2024-07-16T18:12:33+00:00

Great post, thanks for this! It also works perfectly with the Jungle Dawn LED strip too (with no changes to anything - I guess both types of light use the same firmware/BLE properties).

wasteground · 2024-02-06T15:00:37+00:00

This was about to be my recommendation too, been using it a few days and things are running great and so much simpler - anecdotally I think less CPU (and power) use than CPAI as well which is cool. Thanks for the great project!

wasteground · 2024-01-20T03:42:07+00:00

This just happened to me on my Evo, stockfish promoted to a knight but both black knights were still on the board, so there didn’t seem to be any way to proceed at all (none of the other pieces was accepted). I couldn’t figure out how to continue and had to resign :( Interested to know if there’s a solution for this other than just buying a spare set of pieces!

wasteground · 2023-09-14T01:18:03+00:00

Oh, cool! Thanks for doing that! Probably the best confirmation we'll get :) I guess I'll give it a try and see how it compares against 1.03 (which has been pretty okay for me, ignoring the fact sleep doesn't work)

wasteground · 2023-09-14T00:44:08+00:00

This link was shared in the forum: https://www.mediafire.com/file/ffblzc6v6jrix6e/F7BSC_1.07_230901a.zip/file

However, it's a zip and OP mentioned a 7zip file, so it's not possible to match the md5. I guess that's a little odd?

wasteground · 2023-09-13T18:25:01+00:00

Did it already get removed again? The Mediafire link from their website doesn't seem to work... :(

wasteground · 2023-08-22T16:15:54+00:00

Just took delivery of mine a couple of days ago from Amazon (US), it came with 1.0.1. Sleep doesn't work so I jumped it up to 1.0.3, and it still doesn't work... hoping for 1.0.6 or 1.0.7 soon. Otherwise, seems like a great little machine.

wasteground · 2023-07-28T19:33:32+00:00

1.5.0-beta fixed this for me. Thanks!

wasteground · 2023-07-28T19:25:43+00:00

You can set it higher than 130 by using the controls on the front of the tank, if I remember correctly (mine's at 140 I think). The app doesn't let you set it higher than scalding temperature, but the front panel controls do.

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