moepstar

> My PoE switch is powered by a Li-Ion UPS and can provide power for about a day.

Same - and i can "remote yank" the power, thus restart the devices without lifting a finger (much).

I believe this is the first ESP to gain Ethernet capability?

I totally wish that a board would come with PoE…

Because as it is right now, powering a fleet of those with USB power supplies is annoying as fsck…

Sure, they're so far up in Germans automakers asses, they don't know it any other way.

One of the reasons i quit my 20 year+ membership with them.

I mean - have some bias? Fine with me, i can read between the lines. Come up with ridiculous crap and reasons to favour domestic brands? There is a line, at least for me and many others that do know when they're intentionally ignoring, downrating, downplaying etc. etc. etc.

Another example? German IT magazine "c't" by heise recently featured a test (4/2026, page 16ff.), in cooperation with ADAC, about subscriptions in electric vehicles - actually one thing where Tesla shines (it's a flat 10€ per month, other countries get a 99$ a year deal) - others don't even bother listing prices until you order, for example.

With no single word that test mentioned Tesla (yet, priding themselves having queried 16 brands for information) - only in the final table overview, there indeed is one column for them.

The bias is showing, it's ridiculous and they can, as far as i'm concerned, go the way of the dodo.

> Most Asian countries either have no charge stations or very few

I think Vinfast would like to have a word with you…

Having added Hisense to my shitlist of TV manufacturers a long time ago - did they ever make a model that haven’t had its power supply die after about 4 years? I don’t think so…

Hate to ask, but since it came up again and a quick search couldn’t find it - what’s that Gervais model? Links / explanations welcome!

Edit: seems that searching for „Gervais principle“ turned up what was talked about…

If you're aware of the sheer number of exploits that can work around or without authentication against anything Ivanti, it has to be the latter.

Wasn’t Threema sold this week or something?

https://comitiscapital.com/news/comitis-capital-announces-th...

Not sure what / if that changes anything, but presumably it will… sometime…

Nice story :) And good on you for saving a phone from the landfill!

> Spoiler: It will live again. Stay tuned

Speaking of tune... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqU4g5iJk2Y immediately sprung to my mind..

> I think you accidentally a verb.

Totally reminded me of the old meme "i accidentally a coca cola bottle, is that bad?" :D

To be more on topic: yup, Casio fx-85ES - still going strong, needs basically no maintenance at all and having tactile buttons you can mash while sitting over a piece of paper just has no comparison.

Must be that way - watching "an evening" (yes, i just made up a time unit) of Netflix consumes 1/4 to 1/3 of the bandwidth "an evening" of consuming content on AppleTV+.

So, about 10GB or less on Netflix to 30GB or more on AppleTV+, dissected by DPI on my TP-Link Omada Gateway.

And indeed, i think it shows - i can't notice any banding or moire effect on pretty much any AppleTV+ content, while it is as clear as night and day that Netflix compresses the hell out of their content.

I kinda agree in the way that having synced notes (a good feature in itself, also available on iPhone/Mac) would probably suffice.

Still, being able to copy and paste not only text but also images between devices seamlessly is really nice, not to mention i can open an open browser-tab (Safari, iOS) in Brave on the Mac by just clicking the icon that has a "mobile device icon" next to it and it opens the same tab on the Mac...

And yes - as i said - i agree that having a synced note app would probably enable the same usecases, but with distinctly more friction (at least in my books).

My journey is quite similar, although I haven’t migrated (back) to Linux and not away from iPhone yet.

Do you have a writeup of that, somewhere? How do you manage without device interoperability (i.e. copy and paste between Mac and iPhone)?

> But we are sized for the 40 RPS architecture

Just in case anyone else (like me) didn't get the reference:

> This page describes the GitLab reference architecture designed to target a peak load of 40 requests per second (RPS), the typical peak load of up to 2,000 users, both manual and automated, based on real data.

https://docs.gitlab.com/administration/reference_architectur...

Germany, also seeing $1699 on there...

I agree, and yet this is reported on, over and over.

Same like any bullcrap Söder comes up on any given day, no matter how absurd.

From a distance, it seems like the whole world agreed it'd be a good idea to only come up with ragebait over and over again :(

My parents neighbour is a retired policeman and a hunter.

I think he has to discard 3 out of 4 boar due to contamination levels, he told us not too long ago.

Offpeak Supercharger use has even been reduced to around 25c in some places. I don’t think there’s one that costs 70c for members (I.e. Tesla owners or people paying 10€ per month).

> I don’t remember the German trains being this late, this often, a ~decade ago.

Except: they were - over 20 years ago, I did my „Grundwehrdienst“ in the German army, travel with DB from Nuremberg to Munich and back every weekend for 8 months.

The number of times the ICE was on time I can count on one hand. 15 minutes delayed regularly, sometimes more.

After a while we planned to use the last train to arrive in Munich, and having to go a bit further with S-Bahn, we most of the time missed the last one (on purpose).

We then went to the DB counter and got free coupons to head our final destination by Taxi.

Also already happening back then: broken aircon, often in comical ways - I.e. totally non working in one wagon, with everyone sweating at some 45 degrees Celsius or more, next wagon: freezing at 16 degrees…

If you haven’t seen the datamining DB talk by David Kriesel, you absolutely positively should!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0rb9CfOvojk

Mini PCs/uSFF with an Intel i5 6500 generally use about 8-10W with low to moderate load, WiFi disabled.

Having a Synology 2 bay NAS myself and also using the Time Machine feature - what do you find sucky about it?

From my experience it does work, although I never experienced it, say, using a Time Capsule or similar?

If switch changes state to on, set scene depending on daytime (or other conditions) - should suffice?

To change for another scene, have a button or voice command?

I’m with you here - make control „as usual as possible“, also saves a ton of money and annoyances - and most important: home automation is about automation, not controlling manually via phone…

My Apple Watch (Gen 6).

Really not getting much value out of it, despite being all-in on Apple otherwise (iPhone, Mac, AppleTV, Homepods).

I really feel like it absolutely should be more integrated into the other devices. Set a timer on the phone? Can’t see on watch. Stuff like this bugs me like hell. And I think there’s too much of it.

> a perpetual license to Office 2019 runs about $20 and will do that job for me.

Isn’t that only perpetual as long as the activation servers are up?

I recall having "Pinball Dreams" also similar (same?) tech - the soundtrack through the speaker was quite good!

> Perhaps one day some jurisdiction will have the wherewithal to implement legislation to stop this madness.

Oh, and to reply to that point: the EU will have mandated labels on packages that will indicate how repairable something is.

https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and-upda...

It seems to be in effect in France already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repairability

> Even I, as a very technical person, could not evaluate if something is "hackable" without a huge amount of work, and not before I've purchased it.

Teardowns, reviews etc… Of course, there is no silver bullet, but researching before buying really goes a long way.

Whatever I buy smart, I always check if I can flash alternative firmware to it or if it can be used locally only - for example.

Mostly by checking teardowns and reviews - that’s the one thing Amazon reviews are still good for - check them, especially the ones with a more negative sentiment and form an opinion based on that…

Also, certain brands more or less got similar issues over all the product ranges, for example power supplies giving up on Hisense TVs, compressors on certain fridge manufacturers etc - there are patterns to look out for - especially when the product has been on the market for some time.

Don’t tell me they’ve all three been Ecovacs?

The two times I had to open my Roborock S5 (once because our cat decided to vomit when the robo cleaned up and once to replace a broken Lidar motor) I actually was very delighted by its thoughtful design - basically none of what you describe, everything was very modular.

I mean, of course, you’re right - a different model can and probably will be designed differently - but that’s what teardowns are there for - fool me once, check the next time beforehand.