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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I have a zojirushi rice cooker that’s similar and I love it!

Other then that my oven, coffee maker, kettle, kitchen fan all have the same shrill beep that’s hard to know what’s what.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I had this problem with Equinix! They limited our company to like 10kva per rack, and we were installing nvidia dgx servers. Depending on the model we could fit only one or two lol.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I loved synology, this is such a punch in the gut. After I adopted them myself like 10ish years ago, I converted my dad, and two seperate friends to pick one up too. Never going back now.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Characters from resident evil video game. At least in RE4, you play as Leon and there’s a mysterious woman in a red dress who drops in occasionally to mess with you.

Apparently she keeps taking care of herself afterwards, but Leon winds up as a bum lol.

Kind of similar to Ash in Pokémon who remains a kid, when Misty becomes an adult and moves on with her life but in reverse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Sami from advance wars definitely awakened something in kid me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I have a bpi-r4, it’s fantastic, totally recommended.

No idea about its wifi 7 though, I didn’t buy the addon board, and went with unifi u7’s instead.

Also, looking at the specs of the upcoming openwrt two devices, with only a single 10g port, it won’t work well if you’re getting 10gig service from your ISP, and have a 10g lan as well

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There’s an Interesting history of American cars in Japan. Ford had an incredible failure here, and had to leave with egg on their face, which is incredible because the mandatory vehicle inspections every couple of years make it the easiest country on the planet for dealerships to make money.

They tax vehicles by engine displacement though, so all those massive engines would be super unpopular, and as I understand it, they also shipped left hand drive cars here, which is absolutely unpractical.

One wonders why they didn’t just ship UK market fords here, they have the steering wheel on the right side, and the smaller size would be more likely to appeal to drivers with more narrow streets.

It is common to see chargers and mustang on the road in Tokyo though, but they’re all grey market imports.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

As a techy guy, I absolutely hate automatic updates, but for any network connected device, if they don’t have automatic updates most people will literally never update.

Speaking on behalf of my family, they’ll let Internet-enabled stuff go unpatched for 10+ years (I think I had some relatives still using XP within the last couple of years lol).

I would argue this leave it alone behavior would be totally fine, if it wasn’t for every device nowadays being some Internet of shit thing that demands a wifi connection before it can even be setup, which is the real problem as I see it, especially as most of these companies won’t support them with security updates for as long as people expect to use them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I do the same but with 2.5 inch sata ssd’s, and a hot swap bay in the front of my case. Swapping the OS is like using an old cassette player, now with 2TB of storage haha.

I kind of wish u.2 drives could take off in the same way, so I could do the same thing but with direct nvme storage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Jellyfin is awesome (I use it with my shield TV), but the reason I found plex worth paying for is their audio companion plexamp, and its integration with carplay.

I tested a ton of different apps and services, and other then plex the only good carplay experience was from online only services like spotify or similar that come with hefty subscription fees. Internet auth does suck tho.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

#travle #740 +0 ✅🟩🟩✅ https://travle.earth/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Not local, but I’ve been using my withings scale for at least 5 years, and I sync the weights with its home assistant automation from the withings api, then plot the data on a custom health dashboard I made.

I’d love a local alternative, but regardless I haven’t had any problems with my setup.

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I have found some very cool woodpecker magnet gatcha toys at a place in Tokyo. Gatcha are vending machines you pay a few dollars to get a random item from a set, and they change constantly.

I kept going till I had all four woodpeckers (took 5 tries), there are:

Now I just need to find the same ones in real life 😅

 

Thought these stamps were super cool when I saw them. I bought the cat and fountain pen, plus the hedgehog ink bottle one. They were selling for 650 yen each, so about 5 USD.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/12243261

I wanted to share my most recent delivery from AliExpress, an MCUZone MPS2242-POE A hat for my Pi 5, that combines an NVME controller, and POE circuitry. I couldn't find any info on these before buying, so I thought it would be good to share with the raspberry Pi community here.

I think these hats would be useful for merging the functions of both devices if you were planning to buy them anyways. You can already get the same functionality of this with combining a NVME base (ex. Pimoroni) with the Waveshare POE hat, but I didn't think the combo would fit in my little 1U pi rack, since the base adds some height (see attached photo album for checking our the sizes)

Costs seem similar to buying the hats separately, this combined hat was 3,980 yen with shipping for me, and the waveshare POE hat was about 3000 yen, plus 1500 yen for a NVME base (costs might be more or less depending on where you're shipping it to, I'm in Japan).

It supports disks of 2230 or 2242 size only. In the case of 2230, there's no standoff included for the hole, and you need to supply your own. I used a small bolt (M3 I think) to fix my 2230 disk in place. This hat does block the CSI/ DSI port, but there's a B version that has holes in the PCB so you can use these plugs, but it's taller then the A version I bought.

There's also a USB-C port on the board, I initially though this could be used for mounting the drive on another machine, but it doesn't seem to work for that. It's just there to supply power to other accessories (5V 3A according to spec-sheet)

I only installed it earlier today, but as a first review it works great. I have my Pi setup with two USB devices (zigbee stick and connection to a UPS) and power is working fine.

The tricky part for me was moving/ installing an OS on the NVME drive, as I don't have a NVME to USB reader to access the NVME disk from the normal raspberry Pi Imager tool I use on my laptop. To anyone in the same position these steps will work with any NVME hat for the Pi 5 to install:

  • Create a generic Rasperry PI OS image on any microsd card, then boot that up from the on your Pi 5 with NVME hat installed.
  • Use this environment to update the EEPROM, which depending on your version might be necessary for the NVME hat to work.
sudo rpi-eeprom-update
sudo raspi-config
  • You can then use the built-in raspberry pi disk imager tool to install whatever you want with the NVME as a target, or if you have an existing Pi 5 image you want to copy over you can do so with dd to clone it (In my case this was a Home Assistant image), as long as you can plug in your existing microSD card with a USB reader to the Pi5 so it can access both disks. (Check the names of your disks with lsblk)
sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/nvme0n1 status=progress
  • Once this is done, shutdown the pi and pull the microSD card (and USB microSD adapter if you were using one). If everything worked you'll boot up into your NVME environment. You can also use the raspi-config tool to setup nvme boot as a priority over microSD boot, but I left mine as default in case I need to go back to another OS quickly for any reason by just plugging in any old microSD installation.

Hope this info is useful to people here! If there's any questions about this guy let me know.

 

I wanted to share my most recent delivery from AliExpress, an MCUZone MPS2242-POE A hat for my Pi 5, that combines an NVME controller, and POE circuitry. I couldn't find any info on these before buying, so I thought it would be good to share with the raspberry Pi community here.

I think these hats would be useful for merging the functions of both devices if you were planning to buy them anyways. You can already get the same functionality of this with combining a NVME base (ex. Pimoroni) with the Waveshare POE hat, but I didn't think the combo would fit in my little 1U pi rack, since the base adds some height (see attached photo album for checking our the sizes)

Costs seem similar to buying the hats separately, this combined hat was 3,980 yen with shipping for me, and the waveshare POE hat was about 3000 yen, plus 1500 yen for a NVME base (costs might be more or less depending on where you're shipping it to, I'm in Japan).

It supports disks of 2230 or 2242 size only. In the case of 2230, there's no standoff included for the hole, and you need to supply your own. I used a small bolt (M3 I think) to fix my 2230 disk in place. This hat does block the CSI/ DSI port, but there's a B version that has holes in the PCB so you can use these plugs, but it's taller then the A version I bought.

There's also a USB-C port on the board, I initially though this could be used for mounting the drive on another machine, but it doesn't seem to work for that. It's just there to supply power to other accessories (5V 3A according to spec-sheet)

I only installed it earlier today, but as a first review it works great. I have my Pi setup with two USB devices (zigbee stick and connection to a UPS) and power is working fine.

The tricky part for me was moving/ installing an OS on the NVME drive, as I don't have a NVME to USB reader to access the NVME disk from the normal raspberry Pi Imager tool I use on my laptop. To anyone in the same position these steps will work with any NVME hat for the Pi 5 to install:

  • Create a generic Rasperry PI OS image on any microsd card, then boot that up from the on your Pi 5 with NVME hat installed.
  • Use this environment to update the EEPROM, which depending on your version might be necessary for the NVME hat to work.
sudo rpi-eeprom-update
sudo raspi-config
  • You can then use the built-in raspberry pi disk imager tool to install whatever you want with the NVME as a target, or if you have an existing Pi 5 image you want to copy over you can do so with dd to clone it (In my case this was a Home Assistant image), as long as you can plug in your existing microSD card with a USB reader to the Pi5 so it can access both disks. (Check the names of your disks with lsblk)
sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/nvme0n1 status=progress
  • Once this is done, shutdown the pi and pull the microSD card (and USB microSD adapter if you were using one). If everything worked you'll boot up into your NVME environment. You can also use the raspi-config tool to setup nvme boot as a priority over microSD boot, but I left mine as default in case I need to go back to another OS quickly for any reason by just plugging in any old microSD installation.

Hope this info is useful to people here! If there's any questions about this guy let me know.

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