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Dallaswho
| Favorite team: | Missouri  |
| Location: | Texas |
| Biography: | 5.5x Message Board Genius “I do think that Dallaswho MIGHT BE Drinkwitz, posting on SECRANT, not kidding.” -HRV |
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re: App building question for AI users in here
Posted by Dallaswho on 4/17/26 at 3:24 pm to SlowFlowPro
Exactly. Web2 set the internet back so far that we finally have a perfect use for cloud resource sharing and people don’t trust it.
I don’t care. I send free openrouter models pics of me naked almost every day.
I don’t care. I send free openrouter models pics of me naked almost every day.
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re: Outlook not accepting password
Posted by Dallaswho on 4/17/26 at 2:42 pm to Brosef Stalin
LDAP.your company.com might work. Or call your support guy.
re: 7700 ryzen 7
Posted by Dallaswho on 4/16/26 at 11:59 am to Clemson_all_in1979
Not a gamer but if you’re not getting a dedicated GPU, the integrated GPUs on mobile chips are about 4x larger than what is typically found on desktops. A little Core Ultra H mini might fit the bill without making the office look like a kid’s room or making noise or heat. AMD might have something like that too but I wouldn’t know.
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Some people have used teamtracker in HACS to trigger automations based on scoring, etc. but it's not likely going to be perfectly in time with the game on tv.
So true. Nothing like watching a game when someone in the room has a score app on their phone and we hear a ding two plays before every score. Thats with YouTube. I’m sure some services are slower than that even.
re: Saltwater pool - Calcium Hardness high
Posted by Dallaswho on 4/14/26 at 10:23 am to LanierSpots
Your hardness isn’t an issue. It is an issue that your alkalinity is way too high for that hardness level and pushing your pH to the moon. Higher hardness means Ph should be 7.2ish but you can’t keep it that low with too much baking soda.
CYA is higher than I like it but maybe that’s ok for salt pool.
I don’t see any reason to drain. One treatment of phosphate reduces can bring 700 to zero if you even care about that. Calcium isn’t a pool enemy, it just requires alkalinity be a little lower or else you go through a lot of acid.
CYA is higher than I like it but maybe that’s ok for salt pool.
I don’t see any reason to drain. One treatment of phosphate reduces can bring 700 to zero if you even care about that. Calcium isn’t a pool enemy, it just requires alkalinity be a little lower or else you go through a lot of acid.
re: Surprising number of techies still using air cooling
Posted by Dallaswho on 4/14/26 at 8:31 am to LemmyLives
Putting water in a computer sounds like a very gamer thing to do, not so much a techie thing to do.
Lots of shiny buttons. Dahua integrations are basically worthless but going through frigate yields 600ish sensors and endless ability to add more like classify if gate is open or closed or trash is out or what time mail came or where each dog was seen last.
I only tried Dahua integration to activate white illumination only when someone was in my driveway and then change max exposure to 16ms but it couldn’t even do one of those things right. Had to use rest_service instead.
I only tried Dahua integration to activate white illumination only when someone was in my driveway and then change max exposure to 16ms but it couldn’t even do one of those things right. Had to use rest_service instead.
re: Are POE cameras cross-compatible with other systems (reolink ->?)
Posted by Dallaswho on 4/8/26 at 5:20 pm to SaltyMcKracker
Using ONVIF protocols doesn’t help when the encoder isn’t tagging key frames or spacing them how a third party system expects.
re: Are POE cameras cross-compatible with other systems (reolink ->?)
Posted by Dallaswho on 4/8/26 at 5:08 pm to Randall Savauge
Define compatible. Most PoE cams will share a stream or two or more. Some share voice and audio channels. Modern cameras share detection metadata, face recognition, zone crossing, and most features with any pro grade VMS or NVR and are 100% interoperable. This is called profile M.
Look out for retail brands though. These are VERY stingy with their features. Ubiquiti is probably the absolute worst. Apple-like walled garden. They share nothing with third party equipment. You can technically pull a sub stream but you can’t configure it and it’s a shitty VBR stream that’s no good to run tools on anyway. Same with main, plus you need their NVR to pull either, just like the analog days. Reolink is in a very similar boat allowing streams out that are only lightly configurable and generally don’t meet requirements of third party systems. If you already have reolink, unfortunately, your best bet is to stick with them.
If you don’t mind running a server, there is an entire software ecosystem built around making Reolink suck less with other equipment. Check out go2rtc and scrypted. They can turn Reolink streams into solid interoperable feeds.
Look out for retail brands though. These are VERY stingy with their features. Ubiquiti is probably the absolute worst. Apple-like walled garden. They share nothing with third party equipment. You can technically pull a sub stream but you can’t configure it and it’s a shitty VBR stream that’s no good to run tools on anyway. Same with main, plus you need their NVR to pull either, just like the analog days. Reolink is in a very similar boat allowing streams out that are only lightly configurable and generally don’t meet requirements of third party systems. If you already have reolink, unfortunately, your best bet is to stick with them.
If you don’t mind running a server, there is an entire software ecosystem built around making Reolink suck less with other equipment. Check out go2rtc and scrypted. They can turn Reolink streams into solid interoperable feeds.
re: Update pg 3 - 43" bar information home assistant display now in beta!
Posted by Dallaswho on 4/8/26 at 9:45 am to bluebarracuda
Migrating machines in PVE is super easy, as long as the destination is also QEMU (or full blown PVE if you’re using its features). That’s the trap.
Ya PVE was super great when I ditched the big gpu machine and went to minis, I just threw the hard-to-migrate, non-accelerated VMs right onto an old nuc. It took just a few minutes.
Problem is a year later I was still running this loud old nuc8 up in the IT area. It took the ram apocalypse to finally motivate me to migrate off of PVE because that old nuc had 32GB ddr4 and I got double what it used to be worth within 3 hours of posting it.
Problem is a year later I was still running this loud old nuc8 up in the IT area. It took the ram apocalypse to finally motivate me to migrate off of PVE because that old nuc had 32GB ddr4 and I got double what it used to be worth within 3 hours of posting it.
Yes. I’m so happy I finally got rid of it. I got started that way a long time ago but after time it became much more of a burden than an asset.
1. I run 2x core ultra minis and running mostly NPU, GPU and media accelerated tasks.
2. None of these tasks benefit from ZFS or virtualization and mini pc acceleration usually requires LXCs with a long list of permissions to manage and are marginally less performant and more error prone.
3. PVE creates a mess of files and services. Impossible to know where things are. The little notes section in the UI is nice though.
4. PVE is nearly impossible to escape. It’s just like the Unifi cult. You can move the VM to another machine super easy as long that other machine is also running PVE. That’s not flexibility. HAOS needed a full rebuild to migrate to docker.
I have full on docker addiction now. No more complex file systems. Everything just lives in /srv. I even put ddclient in docker so it’s easier to back up. I have a webhook listener that just resets dispatcharr from home assistant. I went ahead and made a container for that too because why not? Everything is just so easy and clean now.
1. I run 2x core ultra minis and running mostly NPU, GPU and media accelerated tasks.
2. None of these tasks benefit from ZFS or virtualization and mini pc acceleration usually requires LXCs with a long list of permissions to manage and are marginally less performant and more error prone.
3. PVE creates a mess of files and services. Impossible to know where things are. The little notes section in the UI is nice though.
4. PVE is nearly impossible to escape. It’s just like the Unifi cult. You can move the VM to another machine super easy as long that other machine is also running PVE. That’s not flexibility. HAOS needed a full rebuild to migrate to docker.
I have full on docker addiction now. No more complex file systems. Everything just lives in /srv. I even put ddclient in docker so it’s easier to back up. I have a webhook listener that just resets dispatcharr from home assistant. I went ahead and made a container for that too because why not? Everything is just so easy and clean now.
I mean if you’re using a mesh system, and it’s not wired, there is a much higher likelihood that the problems you experience are manifested by the local network as opposed to a service provider.
Diagnose your home network first. Wire decos together if possible.
re: College Laptop
Posted by Dallaswho on 4/6/26 at 6:58 pm to pittmanmt63
I’d at least step up to air with Apple. M3/m4 is fine. Don’t need m5. Neo is crippled by a 8GB RAM on a 64bit memory bus but only heavy media, gaming, and AI are really going to be affected. I wouldn’t want it but it’ll probably be fine for school work.
If she’s doing data analysis on an Neo, even with python, she’ll be limited to a couple million rows and have to get really good about deleting unused frames.
If she’s doing data analysis on an Neo, even with python, she’ll be limited to a couple million rows and have to get really good about deleting unused frames.
re: College Laptop
Posted by Dallaswho on 4/6/26 at 3:09 pm to pittmanmt63
I’d be wary of snapdragon. A year ago I was sure they would be the greatest because of how much support Microsoft was supposedly giving them at the time. It turned out to be AI hype. In reality, that support faded off and almost no software supports their hardware acceleration making them kind of a lost cause. Could have been really great but nobody put in the work.
If sticking with windows, get core ultra preferably V series. Intel is putting in serious work for hardware support and the v series has Apple like power and portability. Bonus: it’s not made by Intel.
If she’s doing graphic design, then Nvidia is still recommend but those machines aren’t very portable at all and schools will usually furnish cloud solutions rather than make students buy bulky $1500 laptops.
If sticking with windows, get core ultra preferably V series. Intel is putting in serious work for hardware support and the v series has Apple like power and portability. Bonus: it’s not made by Intel.
If she’s doing graphic design, then Nvidia is still recommend but those machines aren’t very portable at all and schools will usually furnish cloud solutions rather than make students buy bulky $1500 laptops.
re: 18k Gallon pool maintenance Q
Posted by Dallaswho on 4/6/26 at 12:22 pm to SwampCollie
If you don’t have trees over the pool or a lot of exposed rock/concrete, then maintenance is extremely easy. Keep 1-2 tabs floating and a couple ounces of cal hypo or sodium hypo every evening is all you need unless it gets out of hand. No need to shock much unless miss routine or storm fills pool with junk.
The Walmart 6 strips are fine. I use cal hypo because it’s cheap on marketplace. Download LSI calculator all to determine balance. Acceptable ranges are complete crap without balance calculator.
Only big warning is don’t let cya get too high nearly everyone screws this up at some point. Cya is in tabs and dichlor shock. Use moderately or as needed to keep stabilizer levels around 50.
I spend average $20/mo and I have tons of trees over the pool and it fills with tree material constantly. Would be 4x more if bought from store though. I have about 20k gallon plus spa.
I also keep alkalinity on low end and PH stays at 7 year round with no acid. My calcium is obviously super high but it’s balanced.
The Walmart 6 strips are fine. I use cal hypo because it’s cheap on marketplace. Download LSI calculator all to determine balance. Acceptable ranges are complete crap without balance calculator.
Only big warning is don’t let cya get too high nearly everyone screws this up at some point. Cya is in tabs and dichlor shock. Use moderately or as needed to keep stabilizer levels around 50.
I spend average $20/mo and I have tons of trees over the pool and it fills with tree material constantly. Would be 4x more if bought from store though. I have about 20k gallon plus spa.
I also keep alkalinity on low end and PH stays at 7 year round with no acid. My calcium is obviously super high but it’s balanced.
I just paid more than that at the landscape yard, and had to hose out my truck.
re: College Laptop
Posted by Dallaswho on 4/3/26 at 9:16 am to LemmyLives
Exactly, if at all possible or unless a deal is just too good to be true, never buy retail laptops.
The only “positive” is they can usually be fully reset from the system firmware just by holding esc at startup and going through the menus. Everything else is a negative.
The only “positive” is they can usually be fully reset from the system firmware just by holding esc at startup and going through the menus. Everything else is a negative.
re: College Laptop
Posted by Dallaswho on 4/2/26 at 7:52 pm to pittmanmt63
Ouch. 2 minute search, that’s a tough range.
Dell pro 13 238v/32 for $800
Ebay
Dell pro 14 236v/16 $590
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HP pavilion 14 125H/16 $440
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Lenovo thinkpad e14 125u/16 $390
Ebay
Edit: if you don’t need usbc charging or thunderbolt docking, then you can go much cheaper. I have a like-new 4GB i3-1220p asus laptop I’d let go for $120. Super capable if you spend $30 and add another 8gb of RAM.
Dell pro 13 238v/32 for $800
Ebay
Dell pro 14 236v/16 $590
Ebay
HP pavilion 14 125H/16 $440
eBay
Lenovo thinkpad e14 125u/16 $390
Ebay
Edit: if you don’t need usbc charging or thunderbolt docking, then you can go much cheaper. I have a like-new 4GB i3-1220p asus laptop I’d let go for $120. Super capable if you spend $30 and add another 8gb of RAM.
re: Outdoor ceiling fan recs
Posted by Dallaswho on 4/2/26 at 11:43 am to Buck Dancer
Wha went wrong with them? Mine have been fine for five years. If it’s motor drivers or something like that the I guess I’ll have a project in my hands. Would have to add some features though.
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