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Red Squirrel

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The last port on the KVM I have at work failed, rendering it completely useless. I have 2 more of these Tesmart KVMs at home and they've all done the same. The USB ports just die one by one over the years. I had to try to find a spare keyboard and mouse just so I can get my 2nd PC going and it's a pain since I have to physically move them around each time I want to switch PCs.

Seems really hard to find a reliable KVM, they're mostly all trash. Lot of them also don't do proper emulation, so when you switch, the PCs see it, and often go haywire. Especially the video. These ones do proper emulation, they would be good if it was not for the ports randomly dying.
 

highland145

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The last port on the KVM I have at work failed, rendering it completely useless. I have 2 more of these Tesmart KVMs at home and they've all done the same. The USB ports just die one by one over the years. I had to try to find a spare keyboard and mouse just so I can get my 2nd PC going and it's a pain since I have to physically move them around each time I want to switch PCs.

Seems really hard to find a reliable KVM, they're mostly all trash. Lot of them also don't do proper emulation, so when you switch, the PCs see it, and often go haywire. Especially the video. These ones do proper emulation, they would be good if it was not for the ports randomly dying.
Welcome to cheap china.
 

Red Squirrel

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Pretty much, nothing is good quality anymore. I remember wanting to design and build my own KVM until I found these, which seemed to work well at first, but I might revisit that idea now. They are expensive too so I don't want to keep having to replace them.
 

Red Squirrel

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I may open one of them up just to see if there's anything obvious as to why its failing. Like if the USB interface chips are what is dying, maybe I can just replace those chips. But still, why is this happening in first place.
 

highland145

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Pretty much, nothing is good quality anymore. I remember wanting to design and build my own KVM until I found these, which seemed to work well at first, but I might revisit that idea now. They are expensive too so I don't want to keep having to replace them.
How about design a bluetooth thermometer for an electric start generator. Thermometer goes in the fridge, temp hits a set point, generator goes on. Same for a low point. Right now, we just guess and waste a bunch of gas.
 

Red Squirrel

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How about design a bluetooth thermometer for an electric start generator. Thermometer goes in the fridge, temp hits a set point, generator goes on. Same for a low point. Right now, we just guess and waste a bunch of gas.

Actually a modular home automation system is on my bucket list. All sensor/controls would be ethernet and PoE and be plug and play. Then you can configure events based on sensor values. So if power fails and temp in fridge goes above a certain threshold it could start the generator. What I want to do is automate transferring some loads to solar, based on solar battery voltage. I also want to automate turning off the inverter if battery voltage goes below a certain threshold. All stuff like that.

There's some automation I want to do with my wood stove too, like automate open/closing the damper to keep the flue temperature optimal.

I would do everything wired though, it's more set and forget. No batteries or anything to worry about, everything is just powered by a PoE switch and a Raspberry Pi or something talks to all the sensors.

I have some basic home automation stuff now but everything is hard wired, it's a bit ugly. It was suppose to be a temp solution, well it's been running since like 2013 now lol.
 

highland145

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Actually a modular home automation system is on my bucket list. All sensor/controls would be ethernet and PoE and be plug and play. Then you can configure events based on sensor values. So if power fails and temp in fridge goes above a certain threshold it could start the generator. What I want to do is automate transferring some loads to solar, based on solar battery voltage. I also want to automate turning off the inverter if battery voltage goes below a certain threshold. All stuff like that.

There's some automation I want to do with my wood stove too, like automate open/closing the damper to keep the flue temperature optimal.

I would do everything wired though, it's more set and forget. No batteries or anything to worry about, everything is just powered by a PoE switch and a Raspberry Pi or something talks to all the sensors.

I have some basic home automation stuff now but everything is hard wired, it's a bit ugly. It was suppose to be a temp solution, well it's been running since like 2013 now lol.
I expect royalties.
 

Red Squirrel

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This is one of the automation boxes, it does UPS voltage and AC fail detect as well as mouse traps. There's another box that does hvac and has a relay controller.

Super sketchy but been working for literally a decade lol.

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lxskllr

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I was laying in bed this morning in that glorious place halfway between consciousness and dreamland, and startled full awake thinking "What time is it?! Am I late for work??", look at the clock, and think "Ok, not much time to spare, but I'm good...", then realizing it was Sunday :^S At that point I was wired, so I just got out of bed. I only get two good mornings a week, and I got fucked out of one of them... :^S
 
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Red Squirrel

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I was laying in bed this morning in that glorious place halfway between consciousness and dreamland, and startled full awake thinking "What time is it?! Am I late for work??", look at the clock, and think "Ok, not much time to spare, but I'm good...", then realizing it was Sunday :^S At that point I was wired, so I just got out of bed. I only get two good mornings a week, and I got fucked out of one of them... :^S

Sometimes I get this, where I wake up freaking out that I have not been checking alarms, then it's like "oh wait I'm not on the clock right now".

Or wake up, then start to think about school, and like "wait, when is the last time I went to math class, have I been missing class?". Typically I'll get a dream like that first, wake from the dream but still think about it and start to panic a little until I realize I'm done school and feel relief.
 

MrSquished

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Sometimes I get this, where I wake up freaking out that I have not been checking alarms, then it's like "oh wait I'm not on the clock right now".

Or wake up, then start to think about school, and like "wait, when is the last time I went to math class, have I been missing class?". Typically I'll get a dream like that first, wake from the dream but still think about it and start to panic a little until I realize I'm done school and feel relief.
You should be saving that money on energy and planting trees on that disgusting empty lot you created in the middle of nowhere - to live on a treeless piece of land.

I mean you can't make this shit up, it's amazing.
 

pete6032

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3 sports events I would like to watch tonight - 49ers vs Seahawks, Lynx vs Liberty, and Yankees vs Royals. All on cable or streaming. Not on broadcast TV.
 

MrSquished

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I'm in a hotel room with the pedaling peeps, and the only working channel with the Yankees game on is in Spanish. I heard that's probably better than Bob Costas though.

Unfortunately I could give zero shits about baseball in any language.
 

Red Squirrel

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They did some changes over the long weekend which killed corporate internet access. Who makes changes before a long weekend? Long story short it required having to reboot in order to get internet back for some reason, which is a huge pita to do especially on a weekend shift as you're basically down for like an hour until you get into everything.

Fast forward to around 1am... my whole PC locked up, now I'm going through a reboot process, again. I guess I can't complain too much, this is the most amount of work I typically do on this job lol. I swear like 90% of my job is logging in to stuff, or making sure stuff doesn't time out.

After this 2nd incident though one of my applications won't work... I have a feeling they must have did something to do with Java. It's so dumb, all it is, is an RDP, but instead of just giving straight access to the server you have to go through this Java applet thing that is super sensitive, it doesn't take much to break it. It requires a very specific version of java and very specific config for it to work. I hate Java.
 

pete6032

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It's been so warm and green here this fall that I completely missed all of the fall lawn care stuff I was supposed to do and now it's too late in the season to do any of it.
 
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Why isn't there an easier way to remember the number of days in each month? That stupid poem is no use at all.

Had to work out a date today and was going "Thirty days hath October....no wait, is that right?...Thirty days hath November, Feburary, June and December...no that can't be right...Thirty days hath September, and the rest I can't remember...."

Nor could I remember how to do the knuckle-counting thing either, before someone suggests that.

Why didn't they (the Romans or the Anglo-Saxons, or the early Christians or whatever fools were responsible for this mess) make it something simple, like "the first five months have 31 days the rest have 30" No, they had to make it all unnecessarily convoluted so nobody can ever remember it.
It used to make more sense.

Fortunately, the person responsible was stabbed! But Julius and Augustus Caesar both named a month (betcha can guess which ones) after themselves, and borrowed a day from February to make "their" months longer. Fortunately later emperors saw fit to keep the calendar consistent.

They're also why September, October, November, and December are the 9-12th month instead of the 7-10th.
 
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Indus

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May 11, 2002
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13 years. Died. Mouse at the house is a 3 button.
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I had that same mouse and it died around 2015.

I've wasted like a shit ton of money trying to get logitech mice that work good but they all start double clicking when you want to single click after a year or 2. Like basically got 1 mouse.. it'd go bad after the 1 year warranty expired, then another, then another..

Realized Logitech now is garbage. (Same thing with their keyboards btw)

Finally said fuck it and went to Elecom in 2021. I bought 2 when they were on sale but the first one is still working amazingly. Oh and they're a fraction of the cost of logitech!
 
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snoopy7548

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It's been so warm and green here this fall that I completely missed all of the fall lawn care stuff I was supposed to do and now it's too late in the season to do any of it.

With climate change, you could probably push out your fall lawn care to November and it won't make a difference.
 

pmv

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May 30, 2008
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Feel exasperated with some people's tendency to give useless advice. E.g. the suggested solution to my mislaying things is 'in future always remember where you put things'.
 

lxskllr

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Feel exasperated with some people's tendency to give useless advice. E.g. the suggested solution to my mislaying things is 'in future always remember where you put things'.
If you want a solution to mislaying things, try to be methodical about putting things down. Always put them in the same place at the same time, and don't vary. eg when you walk into the house, hang your keys on a hook by the door. For your phone, when it isn't on your person, put it in a designated spot(or two), For random stuff, I dunno. I'm good for losing tools that seem to evaporate into the void. I'll sit on the floor to work on something, put a tool or part down, not move a single foot, and the item disappears :^/
 
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Motostu

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If you want a solution to mislaying things, try to be methodical about putting things down. Always put them in the same place at the same time, and don't vary. eg when you walk into the house, hang your keys on a hook by the door. For your phone, when it isn't on your person, put it in a designated spot(or two), For random stuff, I dunno. I'm good for losing tools that seem to evaporate into the void. I'll sit on the floor to work on something, put a tool or part down, not move a single foot, and the item disappears :^/
I can't tell you how much time I've wasted looking for tools or parts I just set down and can't find a few seconds later. I swear it sometimes doubles the time it takes me to work on my vehicles.
 
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MrSquished

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If you want a solution to mislaying things, try to be methodical about putting things down. Always put them in the same place at the same time, and don't vary. eg when you walk into the house, hang your keys on a hook by the door. For your phone, when it isn't on your person, put it in a designated spot(or two), For random stuff, I dunno. I'm good for losing tools that seem to evaporate into the void. I'll sit on the floor to work on something, put a tool or part down, not move a single foot, and the item disappears :^/
I did teach myself to do that and have spots for things. For example I created this little grab and go area with all the things I need to leave the house with at times, right by the front door Wallet, keys, shades, earbuds, shopping bags, and other things potentially. This has been streamlined but this was just after I set it up. I get home, everything goes back in place.

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