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Sadly I did not time my transition to Usenet to take advantage of Black Friday sales, but I did research enough to choose a provider with maximal retention.

> 64TB NAS priceless

Gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers in this racket.

Usenet: $84/yr.

Two NZB indexers: $80 total, one-time.

Storage and Electricity: Probably half what I'd spend subscribing to everything but #datahoarder.

MyQ had a HomeKit bridge... which they cancelled [1]. My experience with it was that, aside from eliminating the Internet/cloud dependency, it didn't make the MyQ experience any more reliable overall and I'm much happier with ATHOM's ESPHome-based kit.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/23/23318157/chamberlain-myq-...

I've tweaked the bookmarklet to be more single-click.

https://gist.github.com/psitem/eb84d433c1ef40a3a9b80b98994f9...

Where I grew up, an automotive noise citation was easy to beat in court because the law incorporated a complicated and exacting standard for measurement.

What sucks is those sensors are designed so you can't just jump a wire to permanently defeat them.

You can, however, tape the sender and receiver together.

They're all bad but I'm reasonably certain that any car company not ran by Musk won't respond to public complaints by combing through my data and publishing whatever they find to Twitter and calling me names.

I've always thought CLAs were a strong indicator that an organization doesn't actually want one's free labor.

RK3566? Any chance we could get Soquartz support for the Yellow?

Oh, and as others mentioned, VRRP or CARP is how you can get high availability for your new routers. Both Mikrotik and EdgeRouters support VRRP.

The part you're missing with your idea of putting another router in the middle is that the LAN clients won't know and don't care about the router's next-hop(s). The LAN clients will always talk to router on 192.168.1.1 and the router will decide how and where to forward the packets.

You'll definitely need to get the one WAN device re-numbered off of 192.168.1.1 and probably all of them should be on unique subnets.

From what I know of Mikrotik, I think it'd be much easier to configure on a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter product (not UniFi or UISP). There are also routers from TP-Link, Peplink, and others that specifically market themselves for multi-WAN and may be easier still to understand/configure.

They definitely have Meraki MRR envy but nothing they've tried so far has really stuck. However, aside from network gear, every product line is an island that does not interop with anyone else's products.

UniFi Protect only runs on their NVRs and "Dream" routers and only works with UniFi cameras. The wireless cameras only work with Protect because otherwise there's no way to get them on the network. Once a camera is paired to Protect, you cannot get a standard RTSP stream directly from it (but you can restream RTSP from Protect). They've got a Doorbell camera that doesn't send ring notifications or video to HomeKit / Alexa / Google Home.

There's hack-y stuff to make Protect work with standard RTSP cameras. And a HomeBridge plug-in to get HomeKit. But it's all subject to breakage and YMMV.

All that said, Protect is pretty great. I'm a (mostly) happy home user.

Eufy, the company who'd send your footage to their cloud unencrypted even if you didn't have cloud storage enabled?

https://gizmodo.com/eufy-local-security-camera-cloud-unencry...

Only 11 years behind Windows 8 making BitLocker w/ Secure Boot easily accessible to the masses. Presumably not supporting TPM 1.2, which is why my oldest hardware runs Linux under Hyper-V instead of bare metal.

If you'd already built out the automated "Some stranger on the Internet ripped it for me" workflow you could say that usenet is your backup.

A buddy just gifted me a decomm'd Synology RS2416+ w/ expansion unit full of drives that could, just, back up what I have... and I am definitely not going to do that.

That would be bad but I read that as 38.7c.

Ouch. I'm am grateful to have picked up the "When in doubt, back it up anyways" habit before getting burned.

Is 42C even hot for an NVMe? I recently started collecting SMART stats for all the drives in my home fleet and that seems about typical for the drives I have when idle-ish. I've also seen it suggested that keeping NVMe drives too cool is bad for performance.

But more importantly, this is a reminder TO HAVE BACKUPS. Many of my friends love their Synology systems. I am thrifty so I use urbackup and it has saved my butt a few times.

https://www.worldbackupday.com/

Usenet is my backup. I've tried to make Backblaze my backup a couple times but the ETA on completing the first pass is always right about never.

I'm thrifty, I buy drives that businesses already cycled out after 3-5 years.

Sounds like you need a bigger NAS. I throw a fresh 10TB drive in mine every 3-4 months.

_vti is the mortal enemy of anyone involved in web hosting during the mid-90s to early 2000s. Those are the server-side scripts and configuration for FrontPage, originally developed by Vermeer Technologies Incorporated.

Yeah. Another thing that changed during that period where Utah was deliberately sabotaging iProvo was a bunch of states made it illegal for a municipality to use debt financing for buildouts.

In another instance of politicians intentionally harming rural broadband, over in Tennessee, EPB was extending their fiber network to neighboring communities outside their electrical footprint that wanted it, and they made that illegal, too.

Don't write off the Utah incumbents yet, they convinced the politicians to sabotage iProvo and take a massive loss.

Article III.

It has been around since Windows 7! The hover on the maximize button they added in Windows 11 definitely improves the discoverability and usability vs the original display edge snap behavior.

I do wish it provided more layouts for vertical tiling on wider displays.

32:9 is amazing, the Snap Windows feature on Windows gives me exactly what I want for tiling options. But, whew, physical real estate is killer. I've got a huge desk (Biomorph Pro) and the 49" double-wide display makes it feel cramped.

I need an "I Survived the Syndication Format Wars" t-shirt.

What's the story for multiple devices being triggered by a single utterance of the wake word?

I have a Alexa or Google device in nearly every room so that '[wake word] lights [on|off]' or whatever does the right thing for that space. Alexa devices are pretty good about processing from the 'right' device when multiple are triggered. Google, not-so-much.

(Also a gap in both platforms is that they don't pass along the triggering device information)