My fiber install last year came with a “free” eero router, I sent it back.

My fiber install this year came with one, this time I refused to let them install it.

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This is solid. I wonder if you could rig up a ddns somehow to keep it seamless?

I only just recently UPGRADED to 1080. I spent the better part of the last decade only dealing in 720p.

My TV has been 1080 forever, I plan on upgrading to 4k for HDR, miniLED. I might try some 4k stuff 🤷‍♂️

I’m in this same boat. Right now jellyfin just isn’t close enough.

I was at a buddies house last week, he uses jellyfin. We were having weird decoding issues, pink/purple flashes that looked like HDMI desync.

Resetting/reseating etc etc anything on the TV did nothing. Had to restart his server then it was magically fine 🤔

I’m fine dealing with that kind of stuff occasionally, but my family is not capable.

No worries, glad I could help.

I understand the frustration, I’ve had people do the same thing to me, make assumptions about what I was doing, putting words in my mouth and impugning my motives.

Text is hard to convey proper emotion, and even harder when you’ve got a bunch of people only typing half of their thought 🤷‍♂️

As for the design change, I honestly don’t know. It’s not actually my area of expertise, I just know enough to know what not to do.

I do know that the highest risk is in the connections themselves. A pair of insulated wires are unlikely to ever be an issue on their own, but where you connect the wires to the wiring of the house is the real issue.

Connections can loosen over time, through temp cycling or whatever reasons. And when they loosen, resistance goes up, and heat is generated.

So if it were my project, I’d probably try to find a small round electrical box that fits inside the decorative one. Either metal or the proper plastic. And then make those connections inside that box, and call it good enough.

Maybe make sure the edges of the pipe are smooth where the wires enter them, too, so the insulation doesn’t get shaved off when you’re moving it around.

Otherwise I really do like the project! Looks great! I hope you come up with a solution you’re comfortable with 👍

Listen man, you do what you want. I’ve done some sketchy stuff myself.

Most people don’t care that it’s illegal, heck most people on here are pirates anyway.

People care about you, and they want you to understand the danger of what you’re doing.

Most of them aren’t judging you, I’m certainly not.

Will using PLA for a light enclosure definitely cause a fire? Probably not. The odds are very low. In fact the odds are very low that normal wiring in a normal enclosure will overheat. You’ll likely never see it.

The problem is the what if. The chance. IF the wiring shorts out, overheats, whatever. A normal enclosure might contain it completely. Or at worst it will resist catching on fire, and fill your house with smoke first, giving you time to realize what’s happening and save your life.

PLA will do neither of those things. It will in fact do the opposite. So in the admittedly rare chance that your wiring falls, and gets hot, PLA will actually readily ignite. And then, worse, it WILL drip flaming plastic onto the floor, causing it to spread immediately and without warning.

Your time to notice a fire and save yourself goes from minutes to seconds. It’s potentially the difference from waking up to a smoke alarm and a smokey house, to waking up to a smoke alarm and a wall of fire blocking your only exit.

I’m not trying to be extreme, it’s just the facts. That’s why people say codes are written in blood. The wrong plastics have been used before, and people have died, so now in many lands it’s a law.

No one is making you follow the law. They just want you to be informed, so that if you choose to continue, you do so without ignorance to the risks.

I wish you well.

Edit:

Now, if you changed the configuration of the lamp, if you put all the AC wiring and DC conversion circuits in a metal enclosure, and then ran low voltage wiring to low voltage bulbs, that would be still unwise, but significantly safer.

The concern is that AC circuits, while only using enough power to run a lamp in this scenario, have access to more than enough power to run a space heater. If your AC wiring becomes a space heater in your ceiling, nothing will stop it, and PLA will make it worse 🤷‍♂️

This is the way

I looked into it, but I didn’t want to mess with rpmostree anymore than I need to, since I’m on bluefin. I’m really digging the forced stability.

This, so much this. I also run Fedora.

I can’t just close the lid and put it in my bag without worrying.

Honestly, most times of I’m not actively working on something, I just shut it off completely before packing it away. It starts plenty fast, and at least I know I’ll actually have battery when I need it. Instead of finding it dead or at 10%. So annoying.

You shouldn’t buy based on promises or assumptions. But if I had to guess, I’d say an OLED panel may come eventually. And it would likely be backwards compatible.

Original FW13 owners already had the original glossy panel, then the new matte higher resolution panel came out as a drop in replacement, and now this new touch panel is also a drop in replacement.

I already have a FW13 with the matte high res panel, I won’t be going to touch panel. But maybe if they do an OLED I’d jump to it.

My plan is not to upgrade unless I need to. If something breaks, it’ll get the newest version of whatever that thing is.

Unless I feel hampered by my 7040u in 3 or 4 years, then maybe I’ll do something about it? But I really don’t need that much horsepower in my life.

I’m just glad I have the option. And happy to support a company giving me the option.

Thanks!

Define beefy? Like 8 to 12gb vram? Or will an old 970 do the trick?

I have not been using community scripts, and I feel an amount of silly. Thanks!

Any suggestions for someone tech savvy enough to run a proxmox server for a handful of services, to get started with home assistant?

Can you replicate something like a Google home with voice commands?

I may or may not be getting a new house soon. I’m good with electrical to replace switches with wireless ones. But what do you get? Where do you start and where do you end? What about the WAF?

I saw LTT did smart switches in his house and it was a mess of incompatibilities.

Any good resources? I don’t even know what I don’t know haha

Openwrt is fairly secure, no? Otherwise people wouldn’t use it in their network stack?

What does eta stand for in this context? I’ve seen it before and can’t figure it out

Passthrough is smart if doing local, hadn’t thought of that.

Kden is better than it has any right to be. I’m not professional by any means, but it’s quite useful

Nice!

Also I love me some fedora, I run bluefin myself.

My friends likewise contact me with computer problems, usually I help them, Windows stuff I still know well enough.

One guy though, he’s been getting more savvy over time. So when he asked me about Windows ten EOL, I was honest with him. I gave him options. I told him about LTSC, and about forcing win11 to run on “older” hardware. And about Linux. And I explained the risks and challenges of each.

I didn’t want to force him because I worried that if he didn’t choose it, then when it got hard, he would blame me.

Since it was his secondary computer, and it only runs web, text docs, and Minecraft… He chose to learn Linux. So far he’s only ran into a couple issues, one of which was his display not scaling correctly because the default and available resolutions were too high. And when set to the correct resolution, things didn’t fit on the screen.

Well it was only half Linux’ fault, while it shouldn’t have given him 4k options when he didn’t have the ability to use it, he shouldn’t have been using a 720p TV as a monitor. We had a chuckle, and he found a better monitor with a modern resolution, and he’s been happy for months now. No questions asked to me, either it’s working or he’s solving his own problems.