Oh no…not upgrades…! And it might not stop there!? Oh no…

Yeah I live with someone who speaks another language. Shit isn’t easy and take longer than a few months.

I got into “home automation” during the initial rush. Everything was dependent on its own hub or cloud service. After using some of them, especially the voice controlled ones, I got interested in what all they can see/collect. I quickly dropped everything and have been in a dumb house for a few years.

What I’ve realized I need is cameras to watch my pets and a dumb keypad door lock to let people in when I’m not home.

What I want again is a thermostat I can control from my phone. I haven’t found one that doesn’t need cloud services.

If I wanted to get everything “smart” again I would isolate everything to its own VLAN with no internet access for the whole VLAN. I would have an electrician fix my no neutral drop situation and get wifi switches not bulbs. I would add temperature sensors in each room. Custom build a camera system server. Add network access to my Honeywell security system.

What’s the concern with EM radiation? Can anyone fill me in?

Ubuntu phone was close…just maybe a touch early in the market. Now that we are over 8GB of RAM in a lot of phones and 1TB storage is an option….all we need is more interest in it. Apple might not do first but as soon as there is one successful phone/laptop hybrid they might be forced too.

Give me 2 legit day battery life and a dock that can give a full desktop experience.

Give it 6 years. They will find a way to make you upgrade.

Where they are so good that improvement is pointless. Like trying to improve audio quality in music. We don’t need higher quality than CDs can provide.

$1,000 was too much already. Over $2,000 nope. Back to android unfortunately.

I wonder how long until eGPUs are baked into the monitor.

Great. Anyways…

The Del tower servers are pretty quiet.

Conflicting IPs on your LAN can cause things to stop working but fix itself fast enough you don’t catch what is going on. I mention it because it just happened to me. I had a static IP set but didn’t realize it was within my DHCP range.

However I was able to eventually catch it with a long running ping test.

Conflicting IP addresses on your LAN perhaps?

Can you run a long term ping from your EdgeRouter and see if it has issues too or if it is just things behind it?