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    Mesh network of wireless thermometers/sensors

    I would expect that running a TCP/IP stack is beyond the scope of Arduino class hardware. There's a somewhat similar RPi Zero W solution I was first looking at. My first inclination was to find a wired Ethernet solution, but I didn't turn up anything I felt was practical to have a bunch of...
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    Mesh network of wireless thermometers/sensors

    So I had the bright idea :idea: to setup a mesh network of wireless thermometers in my house using Arduinos (or clones) and RFM69 915MHz wireless transceivers mainly with the intent of datalogging the temperature of the various rooms over time. My primary interest driving this project is to see...
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    New phone time: old-school

    Personally, I find the phone isn't so useful after putting it in a Faraday cage. YMMV...
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    Curved Ultrawide Monitors

    It's not that large. It's just really, really wide. It's basically the same as a QHD 27" monitor, just MUCH wider. The 34" I have at work and the 35" I have a home are the same way 21:9 vs 16:9 at the same vertical height and resolution as the QHD 27" instead of 32:9 like this new 49" Dell...
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    Something Random

    Why did you use such a tiny motherboard?
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    Curved Ultrawide Monitors

    Not all of us love having to use the Windows GUI scaling which makes a mess of some things and flat out doesn't work for others.
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    Audio Equipment

    Well, I bought it used for $350 from a guy I know locally. My other Denon AVR-4520CI that I'm using in my Great Room to drive my 7.1 system I bought was new, but was a closeout at $1100. Unfortunately you can't get anything like the feature set I want in anything with that sort of form factor...
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    Audio Equipment

    Ugh... That would be a total non-starter for me. Proper bass redirection and a single volume control that keeps things balanced correctly is a must. Time alignment and dynamic EQ are like to have features also. Hence why I have a Denon AVR-4520CI driving my 2.1 system in my office/library.
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    Audio Equipment

    Where's the volume control and the crossover(s) in your setup?
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    Nvidia RTX 2080 & 2080Ti announcement

    Clearly you need to up your game. :bomb:
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    Audio Equipment

    Why does it need to be on the desk? It has a remote so it seems like you can put it elsewhere in the room.
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    Audio Equipment

    What do you mean by "desk use"? How close are you planning to sit to them? I wouldn't want to sit close to the Emotiva Stealth 8 if they haven't improved the amp from what's in my pair. They have an audible hiss that would be much more apparent if I were sitting closer. Are you planning to...
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    Windows 10

    So I didn't remember correctly. The tab is just missing. I believe I have edited the registry correctly to make it all work using the pool.ntp.org servers.
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    New phone time: old-school

    My Moto G5S+ is upgrading to Oreo 8.1 from 7.1 right now as I type this. Then again, I don't know what you mean by "old". Further, Apple isn't exactly benevolent with their upgrading of old phones as they systematically degrade the phone's performance by stuffing the new OS version designed...
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    Windows 10

    I'm pretty sure. It's greyed out in Windows 7 on my work computer and you can't enable it. There's some message about the computer being connected to a domain.
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    Windows 10

    How long did it take to get off 25 seconds? The clock on my Lenovo T470s drifts pretty quickly. More than a minute per month. Windows 7 won't let you use internet time (NTP) if you log into a domain.
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    DJI drones - New Mavic 2 pro announced tomorrow

    But is that actually significant? Is the Mooney M20 a good representation of a typical airplane wing? Is the DJI Phantom 2 a good representation of a typical drone an aircraft is likely to strike? Is the leading edge of an aircraft wing the most likely part of the plane to hit a drone?
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    Windows 10

    But you don't understand. 1-2 seconds of absolute accuracy is just not good enough for him. I mean glancing down in the system tray to see what time it is VERY important.
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    dSLR thread

    But no one knows what you do (aside from work for the CIA). Your posts assume we have the same requirements you do. We have no idea what your requirements are or if they're actually legitimate for your use because you're obsessed with being vague and cryptic. We don't know if you're a...
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    Windows 10

    It's already come and gone. Did you miss it?
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    Something Random

    Well, you'd be the envy of all your time-traveling friends from 1980. At least until they find out about XP or Windows 7.
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    Home NAS

    Are you going to make one big drive or have multiple arrays/pools? I don't see the point of 2.5" bays in a NAS. Then again, I don't really see why someone is going to use a SSD for caching either. The disk subsystem should be able to outpace the network interface if you stuff a reasonable...
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    Windows 10

    Which screwed over laptop users with early generation Intel graphics by not being able to adjust the screen brightness. My Dad's T410 was affected.
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    Buying an electric shaver!?

    Panasonic ES-LA63-S Arc4
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    Windows 10

    I think you mean Windows 8.1
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    Something Random

    Do you know something we don't?
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    Windows 10

    Thanks for joining our forum to share your 2.5 years of first hand expertise and experience on Windows 10. I am going to sleep better tonight knowing it's passed your rigorous testing.
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    Curved Ultrawide Monitors

    So I got the monitor today. The fit and finish of the rear housing and the stand are not so great. It's not really on par with any other LCD monitors I've bought, but it's functional. From the front it looks fine, so it's not a big deal. Thankfully it comes with an IR remote because the...
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    Curved Ultrawide Monitors

    I'm so confused... On the one hand you want a calibrated monitor, but you also apparently don't care about getting accurate color and like garish inaccurate over-saturated colors.
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    Low powered computer thread

    I should point out that DietPi did have video output from the HDMI port on the Rock64. I think I had a HDMI handshaking issue initially. After power cycling everything it showed video output. It wouldn't boot into the GUI. It gave some X error. I guess the config section/script for DietPi...
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    Curved Ultrawide Monitors

    I'm of the opinion that for general computer using wide color gamut is useless. In fact it's worse than useless. It's a negative that causes needless problems. Nearly all computing assumes a sRGB color space. That means nearly all colors are wrong when you have a WCG monitor. I have a WCG...
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    Pi-hole - whole house ad-blocking via DNS

    Isn't that more of a firewall function?
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    Something Random

    *sigh* Audacity is stuck in the stone age. It can't directly work in more than 2 channels. You can have lots of tracks and map them however you want in a multichannel wave file when exporting, but you can't make a 5.1 mix and preview or play it in 5.1. The only preview and playback options...
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    DJI drones - New Mavic 2 pro announced tomorrow

    How's the Mavic Pro 2 doing Handy?
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    Curved Ultrawide Monitors

    Why wouldn't I want a monitor like that at home? I seem to be missing something here.
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    Curved Ultrawide Monitors

    No, why?
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    Curved Ultrawide Monitors

    Well, 21:9 is like dual 10.5:9 screens which are pretty well suited for for viewing PDFs, documents, webpages, etc. Further, because the pixel pitch isn't super tiny like the "4k" variety of monitors you don't have to us any font scaling and can leave all the GUI elements at 100% and not strain...
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    Pi-hole - whole house ad-blocking via DNS

    Yes, I overlooked setting my router to use the IP of the Pi-Hole as the DNS server instead of the one I'm currently using. It ads an extra hop, but would keep local hostname resolution working. I'm not sure why I thought this wouldn't work initially. Still, I currently don't plan to use Pi-Hole.
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    Curved Ultrawide Monitors

    Like?
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    Pi-hole - whole house ad-blocking via DNS

    So I decided to give it a quick test on a RPi3 basically following this guide. Note that Raspbian defaults to a UK keyboard layout and you can't enter a | character from the keyboard until you change it to a US keyboard by running sudo raspi-config. I didn't do a full network integration. I...
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    Pi-hole - whole house ad-blocking via DNS

    How would you fix resolving local hostnames with a Pi-Hole? With my current network setup most of the systems are DHCP. Their hostnames resolve on the local network because the router handles DHCP assignments and DNS. Local hostnames are automatically put into the DNS table and resolve...
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    Pi-hole - whole house ad-blocking via DNS

    How does this really differ from adblocking and blocking scripts in your browser? It seems like it would be less effective, but I have a number of Raspberry Pi 3's I could try it on. Edit: Plus, if it breaks a website, you have to change your DNS setting to fix it or try to fix the...
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    Curved Ultrawide Monitors

    Well, I ordered one through eBay. $489.99 - 15% off using the eBay coupon from today = $416.49 shipped. So much for waiting... :bomb:
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    Something Random

    You warmed up alcohol in the microwave? :erm:
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    Something Random

    :scratch: That's the filename from the camera.
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    Something Random

    :scratch: Maybe taking the picture was the time passing activity... Not on holiday. Here for work.
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    Something Random

    What you do when you're bored in eastern Europe and have a camera with you...
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Well, it came from Dell with a NVME M2 SSD. I was just looking to get a larger one. It's not like I can drop in a 2.5" SSD. I don't know if it's setup to run from a SATA M2 drive.
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    Curved Ultrawide Monitors

    So, as I mentioned in another thread I got a 21:9 34" LG monitor for my desk at work. The Resolution is 3440x1440. I like it and was noodling over getting one for home, but was thinking a curved one would be better suited for typical computing since it's so wide. This Monoprice 35" model...
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    Media Player Appliances

    Your explanation makes sense. Thanks!
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