xyguy

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[–] xyguy@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I don't have a ton of faith in tplink to continue to support omada over the long term. They've also been somewhat slow to fix security problems in the past. For the same price as the omada ap you can get unifi u6 lites.

You can still run your own controller and i can vouch thaf a couple of them can cover an entire moderately sized house. I run 2 at home with pfsense on an ewaste tier dell optiplex and have for years without trouble.

I've never messed with opnsense but I assume it works just as well.

Also what type of connection are you getting from your ISP? If its a fiber connection you may be able to buy an SFP network card and replace the modem altogether.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You are correct that this is technically in code and would protect against shock hazards in a neutral error situation but you also get the opportunity for the outlet to pop during the day when nobody is home and the battery to die.

We had a situation in our old house where someone who was technically correct but didn't think it through had a gfci outlet upstream of the refrigerator outlet. Thankfully it popped while someone was home and we got everything corrected before we lost everything in the fridge.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

AFAIK you should be able to do most of your cleaning with alcohol and compressed air. Its not normally difficult to get to the parts you need to clean if you remove the top cover. (Unplugged of course.) If you're getting a good image already and the video isn't having a bunch of audio dropouts you're probably ok for the time being. Most likely the cleaner tapes would work but I personally am always nervous to put a non-standard item into an old mechanical device that you may or may not ever find parts for again.

If you're wanting to keep this up, looking term its definitely worth seeking out the service manual for your vcr model if you can find it.

The other thing to make sure of is your capture settings. The deinterlacing algorithm can make a pretty significant difference.

After its captured there are a lot of AI "improvements" that can be made that will manufacture detail. Topaz AI for windows is kind of the gold standard at the moment but there's an open source project called video2x that might also work. Both would require a fairly decent gpu.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

This is the concept of an episode of Nathan For You. Well, its a part of an episode about making real a fake story so he doesn't get "A Million Little Pieces"-ed. Its a great show.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Does it count if i used to work in IT?

I still work in IT but I used to too.

In my youth I worked at a 24 hour gas station/restaurant for 2 weeks. It was robbed twice (not while i was there) and someone hit and ran and smashed up my car all in 2 weeks. But i did get unlimited coffee, pop and donuts (after 6pm) so overall I'd give it a 3/5.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Ladder logic?

The Horror, the horror.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

If you say it loud enough you'll almost sound precocious.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

EXTREME WARNING if you have something important to do today. The above link is to TV Tropes. It's too late for me, but you still have a chance to be productive today!

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hello, I would like to complain that filling out a form to complain is exactly the kind of thing that Gene Roddenberry would be against so I refuse to do it. /s

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Jellico did nothing wrong. His great great great great grandfather in Detroit however.....

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 29 points 1 year ago

Checks to see what serverless services are running on?

Kubernetes Server Cluster.

Server

Mfw.

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