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Cake day: September 21st, 2023

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  • I wonder how phone size, battery placement, and materials play into this.

    Being able to dissipate more heat while charging will help significantly too.

    I’ve had a phone with a ceramic back that would die in minutes in cold weather if I didn’t keep it in my internal coat pocket. It charged much faster than another phone that had a plastic back with a similar battery size and charging capability, even using “slow” charging (using a lower power charger). I can only assume the heat dissipation made a difference as the ceramic one never got even very warm while the plastic one did.

    So maybe a combination of everything mentioned here - charge control in the phone, how the controller manages cells, location of battery in phone/heat dissipation, power optimizing while charging (do all of these phones support pass-through? That would influence charge time), etc.



  • I hadn’t read the regs before. Interesting.

    And while I very much agree with the intent (and will be glad to see it being much easier to replace a battery), I wonder what manufacturers will do to mitigate the impacts.

    Like for the 7 years of parts thing, will they manufacture/sell a phone for just 3 months, to minimize that window?

    I really like the OS support for 5 years. Again though, will they do things like charge for that support, tie the update package to a specific device, etc? (Guess we’ll see).

    I’m not saying this isn’t a great improvement over the non-existent rules - it truly is! I’m just cynical, so I’m concerned to see how manufacturers will attempt to minimize the impact to them.


  • Ubiquiti?

    You can’t give me that garbage. I despise it, after setting up a single access point (plus also watching friends deal with it at client sites).

    Besides the discovery issues and slow performance when trying to manage it, I had a random open network on it after setup. This network didn’t appear anywhere in the control panel. I could turn off the access point and the network disappeared.

    It didn’t show up in the guest network config (which was turned off anyway). It had the same name as the WPA-protected network, it was just open - no security at all.

    I had to reset the access point to get rid of this weird random open network.

    What kind of garbage product does that?

    Now let’s look at cloud keys. One has a hard drive in it. Just one drive, 3.5", which besides storing data also stores the OS. What? Why is the OS not on some firmware or at least an M2, since the drive is really for storing surveillance data (did I mention it’s a single drive?), what a joke. Why would I bother with such an expensive device that has zero fault tolerance, when I could simply buy a cheaper real machine, run multiple drives, and host the software there?

    I lack the vocabulary to describe how bad Unifi is.


  • If you can, just do one pot of something that makes leftovers that hold well and are easy to reheat. After you get one thing, it gives you some breathing room for the next couple days.

    I try to make a big pot of something on Sundays, so I don’t have to think about cooking Monday, maybe Tuesday. That gives me a little breathing room. I also make stuff I can portion and freeze - again, gives me a little breathing room.

    Last week I was under the weather for 4 days, I just grabbed stuff out of the freezer and threw it in the toaster oven. Zero effort for my sick self. Now I need to restock what I used.



  • Your health says avoid pre-made mixes as much as possible. I’m no salt-phobe (insufficient salt is a greater concern for 99% of people than too much), but even I shy away from the insane amounts of salt/sodium in anything packaged. Some stuff has more sodium in it than anyone should have in a day.

    Plus, pre-made mixes often aren’t anywhere near as good as making something yourself, and usually more expensive, even allowing for your own time.

    There are exceptions of course, but I have spreadsheets to calculate costs of mixes, meals, you name it, and it’s rare when something is cheaper to buy pre-made.

    Dishwasher detergent powder is the same cost as making myself. As is onion soup mix, gravy mix powder, etc. Most other mixes I make as I go along - making chili uses a mix of different spices which I keep on hand. And I have 3 different chili recipes that use different spice mixes, and the end result is very different. I have a few recipes like this (creole/Cajun for example), that technically use the same spices, but not the same mix, and are very different for it.

    I don’t understand people like your wife (or one of my siblings) that seem to view eating as just something necessary, (bless their hearts 😁, as my southern family would say)…good food is crucial to me, it’s not just something I do to get by. I mean it’s something we have to do a few times every day of our lives. I want that experience to be as good as I can as often as I can.









  • Look at it this way, $30 per machine is a helluva lot cheaper than mitigating whatever 11 will break.

    Not to say don’t update, but Enterprise works on this stuff in advance, testing their systems with the newest versions as their Betas are released, to develop their mitigation strategies (including staged deployments).

    Even there, $30 is cheap insurance if they need a little extra time to address issues.

    For the home user, fuck that. Just ensure your security model includes layers, e.g. Don’t run as admin, isolate systems that are at risk, etc.

    Hell, at home I run different VLANS for my own stuff (cause I do risky things), one for TV (because those things are terrible about security), another one for everyone else, and a guest network.