We are on Fidelity. But self-directed on all the big ones are no fee and free trades these days - Vanguard, Fidelity, Merrill and probably others. Just need to watch the fund/ETF fees to have a total cost.
That's better for sure. Still too much for me. Our all-in investment cost is 0.05% now. That's a lot of free compounded yield compared against guided investments which are themselves no better than the average market (on average).
Better to represent it as a 64-bit unsigned fixed-point number, in seconds relative to 0000 UT on 1 January 1900. It's how he would have wanted it.
No. 1970 is 0 in Unix time. The NTP RFC specifies 1900. I had to look it up!
That and the shrinking ability to grant access to device storage. If that becomes an option only on rooted phones (which seems like the directly Google is heading) it will make the audience for such an app much smaller.
Keep the tv dumb. Don't connect it to the internet.
I like to check rtings.com for model specs and comparisons. Like, some panel types work well in a bright room, some work better than others when you are watching with a bright light source behind you. The warehouse clubs (Costco, BJ's, Sam's) tend to have good deals on midrange tvs.
Then pair it with a streaming stick of your choice. A generic Android TV stick/box would work.
Obligatory: Debian.
But I'd be tempted to put Proxmox on it and then run containers for each function. Then you get purpose-crafted solutions for each use case, but can easily plug new functions in or shut them down based on what you decide later.
LULd for sure.
OsmAnd will do that. If you edit the destinations you can manually specify their order. Click sort there and choose door-to-door to get the most efficient routing.
The app takes some getting used to, but it works very well, and can act as a front-end for contributing to OpenStreetsMap.
You should probably dampen your expectations on this one.
It's amazing that they can measure the speed of sound at all given this. They must need to line up a bunch of eardrums.
Yeah, I get what you're saying. Definitely. It's not complicated for one pair of speakers in one room. For one music source. For one person controlling it.
There just haven't been any better cost-effective solutions with multi-room, control from your any phone convenience. And that's a big plus for how we listen to music. Today there are a few contenders, but many of them are also cloud dependent. Really the small number of good options in this space is proof of how good Sonos was for a long time. Well and also of Spotify causing people ditch the idea of a offline digital music library.
Edit: And to be clear, aside from the "any computer networks" part, this is what the original Sonos device did. It could work without a home network, but worked best with a shared music library on a PC. Didn't need cloud anything, internet connection, account, etc. You just hooked your normal speakers to it and it played music.
Ha! Well I was just having a laugh. Expecting that you would prefer "you should damp your expectations" and that my construction should mean "make your expectations wet." And it turns out dampen is ambiguous. It means both moisten and dull, deaden, make weak.
Not only that, but most every form carries both meanings, and the "weaken" sense for the word damp predates the "humid" sense. Because the noun came first and it was specific to suffocating fumes in a mine that would extinguish candles, and people.
So my take now is that dampening means both "making weak" and "humidifying, moistening." Only damping is specific to motion/energy. And I can't recall encountering anyone using damping to mean "making wet."
That's my take too. Short for "this requires you to follow a steep learning curve, even if it is not easy to do so."
I like LibreOffice Draw for this.
That's a great point. Water heaters heat hot water much more often than cold water. Maintaining the already elevated temperature.
Cacik! It's a Turkish chilled soup with yogurt, cucumber, mint, garlic, etc. Very refreshing in hot weather.
I appreciate your hill. But several sources disagree with you.
Wikipedia: "In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid."
Oxford: "1. vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear."
Webster: "1.c: mechanical radiant energy that is transmitted by longitudinal pressure waves in a material medium (such as air) and is the objective cause of hearing"
Cambridge: "something that you can hear or that can be heard"
These don't seem to require the ear for the vibrations to be sounds in and of themselves. Only that it would be detectable by an ear if an ear were present.
Upon what do you base your assertion that it is the hearing of the thing that is the most essential requirement? (And given the thread I think it's perfectly reasonably for the answer to be something like "because it's my hill dammit!")
AT&T is the same. And the last time I looked they don't give you enough address space to host your own subnet. You get a /64 instead of a /56. And it's slower than ipv4.
Every few months I try it out, complain and then switch it off.
I tried draw.io, but ended up liking LibreOffice Draw better for hand-drawing.
If you want to get a live map of the connections on your network you may want to check out netdisco.org or librenms.org. Both are open source network management tools that have mapping.
The WiFi icon with good connection+ exclamation on Android means the connection to the access point is good, but you don't have a path to the internet. I would start by connecting a PC, wired, directly to your router. Make sure that's working. If not, get some specifics on what's failing and troubleshoot.
Then connect to the switch. Repeat. Then connect to an app, repeat.
LibreNMS hasn't been mentioned yet, and it's very good. It does take some setting up, but its use of SNMP for data collection means that it's easy to collect data from a wide range of network hardware as well. A wide range of alerting is available.
Went through a lot of playback apps over the years, and Plexamp is definitely the best of them all. Reliable downloads, good quality, eq settings.
That SATA port is what you need. You can use that to connect an external eSATA drive enclosure (external jbod).
For a clean install, get a SATA to eSATA adapter - the kind with an expansion slot plate. Something like a STCESATAPLT1LP. Unscrew the eSATA end from the plate, cut a matching hole in the PC case and mount the port to the hole. This is better than going straight from the internal port in my opinion.
It looks like you have a mini-PCIe slot as well, probably intended for WiFi. That may work with an mSATA to SATA adapter to give you a second port. Or it may work with an mSATA SSD. I would test with something cheap or get confirmation it works from other users of this PC before investing in an expensive SSD.
Induction is where it's at for temperature control. Gas is good, but a lot of the heat is lost to the sides of the pot/pan, and to the air around.
Traditional electric radiant cooktops use resistive heating elements that work much like the old coil electric burners that have been around for 70+ years.
Induction works by putting out a strong switching magnetic field that heats the metal molecules of the pan. Handles stay cool because there is no excess heat blasting the sides of the pan like with gas and radiant electric. It does cycle on and off, but it does that quickly. It heats the pan much more quickly than gas (water boils in a quarter of the time vs gas), and you can drop the heat more quickly too. And the cooktop as a whole stays much cooler than other types. Simmer and melt settings let you maintain very low temperatures as well.
If there is a down-side it's that you must use pans that heat up in the magnetic field. So aluminum and glass/ceramic are out. You need induction-ready cookware. If a magnet sticks to a pan it will work.
See what's using the space. This will list any dirs using >100MiB:
sudo du -h -d 5 -t 100M /var
Blue Valentines - Tom Waits
107 Steps - Björk (this one is best after watching the movie "Dancer in the Dark")
Gone Away - My Brightest Diamond
Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday Or Gloomy Sunday - Sinéad O'Connor No comparison vocally, but if you like Sinéad the second has a lot of emotion.
A Night Like This - The Cure
Traveling Light - Leonard Cohen
Looks great! I just had a very disappointing black bean burger out at a restaurant the other day. Might need to give Kenji's recipe a try.
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For flexibility and size I like external m.2 enclosures. I have some from Sabrent, Orico and Rosewill. Of them all the Rosewill is the smallest, has the nicest build quality, and seems to dissipate heat the best.
So I would recommend a Rosewill 9SIA072GJ92919, and add an NVMe SSD of your choice.
I think your MacBook is Thunderbolt 2, so you won't get full speed but it should still be plenty fast. And this enclosure will give you TB3 speeds if you upgrade your PC later.
I tasted the rainbow 🌈
It makes sense. But as a US speaker it just makes me want to stick to my guns and generalize our second syllable stress on these units. I'm team kilogram now. And centimeter.
Found a new hill!
Neat. It has a wikipedia article as well.
True, but wouldn't those scattered devices already be down because of the power outage? If they are in a different room they would probably need to be on a different UPS anyway.
It can help to download your local map for offline use. The default basemap doesn't have details like house numbers, but the downloaded maps should.
I will gladly die on this hill.
Obviously! Well done. Your definition is delusional and at odds with science and common language use, yet you won't back down. That takes commitment. It also has me questioning whether you believe in light outside human perception (since it's also measured as a wave). You are the embodiment of this fun thread! And I genuinely enjoy thinking about both positions.
But I think I'll stick with the Wikipedia and dictionary editors, and the likes of Britannica which states:
Sound, a mechanical disturbance from a state of equilibrium that propagates through an elastic material medium. A purely subjective definition of sound is also possible, as that which is perceived by the ear, but such a definition is not particularly illuminating and is unduly restrictive, for it is useful to speak of sounds that cannot be heard by the human ear, such as those that are produced by dog whistles or by sonar equipment.
Newegg is unfortunately not as good a source as in years past. I have two good friends who got burned by them with very suspicious defective product return problems. When it happened I read about many more similar complaints.
I use LibreNMS, which is a fork of Observium. It is primarily SNMP polling, so if you haven't worked with SNMP before there can be a bit of a learning curve to get it set up. Once you get the basics working it's pretty easy to add service monitoring, syslog collection, alerting and more. And since it's SNMP you can monitor network hardware pretty easily as well as servers.
The dashboards aren't as beautiful as some other options but there is lot to work with.
Nice, I'll check it out! I remember LMS and Squeezebox. Didn't know it would sync between rooms, and I didn't know it had been open sourced, that's excellent.
At the time we started in the Sonos ecosystem we wanted easy, and it provided that. Now I've got multiple servers running, self-hosting services for the family, slowly working on removing our cloud service dependencies. So this would fit right in.
That's all fine, but just be sure you know how much you're paying them for that service. Before we switched to self-managed a number of years ago our guys were taking 1.4% off the top of the whole account just to pick a bunch of index ETFs. Market goes up 5% and I only see 3.6% of it. Not good. Plus the ETFs they picked had higher expenses than just going with a whole market choice.
They offered to get us on a plan at 1%. Ha, no thanks.