My fiber install last year came with a “free” eero router, I sent it back.

My fiber install this year came with one, this time I refused to let them install it.

The texture is definitely a concern, and still gets me a bit occasionally. But the flavor is quite good, so I deal with the texture

Good on you for trying haha. It’s ok to hate things 🤷‍♂️

Notice it was on my list of things I USED to hate. Now I’ll put raw tomatoes on my burger if I’m in the mood. And big chunky stewed tomatoes are good in chili or goulash. I like them in many pasta dishes, even on a margarita pizza.

I’m still not down with eating them straight, though. We’re planting a small raised garden this year, maybe I’ll like them fresh 😁

Mushrooms, raw tomatoes, onions, peppers, spicy stuff, bleu cheese, wine that isn’t syrup sweet, probably more stuff I can’t think of at the moment.

What made me change? Me. I forced myself to try these things occasionally, over time. Over years.

My feeling is that while it’s ok to not like things, it’s dumb to not expand your horizons, or at least try to.

One of my biggest pet peeves is when I’m showing somebody something new, and they THINK they’ll hate it, so they scrunch their face before they even try it. They’ve already decided they hate it, whether they realize it or not. Either they struggle to open their mind, or they subconsciously try to defend their initial statements that they don’t think it’s good, to save face? IDK. Drives me batty.

Again, it’s fine to not like it. Whatever, I hate lots of stuff. But every so often, I try it again. And I mean REALLY try it. I force myself to imagine what it would taste like if I liked it. I look for the good qualities in whatever it is. If I still don’t like it? Ok, maybe another time.

I admit to still not liking raw onion on my burger. And I only tolerate it on my pizza. But many other dishes wouldn’t taste good WITHOUT onion, in my current opinion. So it’s still progress.

Isn’t there something about your eyes focusing further away stereoscopically, but individually they are focusing closer? Like a single lense doing a macro focus on an up close image, rather than two cameras adjusting their angle to make their images line up for an object far away.

There’s a word for this but I can’t think of it right now.

Anywho, I thought focusing up close was still bad for your eyes in the long term?

I love tower climbing. I do it as a hobby, not for work. But I considered a career in climbing when I was younger.

That’s fair 😂

Can you burst shot with flash on modern cameras? Honest question, I don’t professional photography

I can’t find a movie by that name? There’s a TV show though

This is solid. I wonder if you could rig up a ddns somehow to keep it seamless?

I only just recently UPGRADED to 1080. I spent the better part of the last decade only dealing in 720p.

My TV has been 1080 forever, I plan on upgrading to 4k for HDR, miniLED. I might try some 4k stuff 🤷‍♂️

I have FB for marketplace a couple times a year, I don’t install the app unless I’m buying something.

I watch a LOT of educational YouTube, and some tech news on there, using GrayJay.

Otherwise, this is it.

Used to have insta years ago.

I guess I technically have Marco Polo, but it’s literally my immediate family only 🤷‍♂️ and that’s more chat app than social media.

Edit: oh and discord for the couple of friends who use it. Plus I’m on a couple of servers for my hobbies, very specific, I hardly look at them unless I’m active in a given hobby at that moment.

I’m in this same boat. Right now jellyfin just isn’t close enough.

I was at a buddies house last week, he uses jellyfin. We were having weird decoding issues, pink/purple flashes that looked like HDMI desync.

Resetting/reseating etc etc anything on the TV did nothing. Had to restart his server then it was magically fine 🤔

I’m fine dealing with that kind of stuff occasionally, but my family is not capable.

“honkshoo mimimimi”

I heard this in my head perfectly, nicely done

No worries, glad I could help.

I understand the frustration, I’ve had people do the same thing to me, make assumptions about what I was doing, putting words in my mouth and impugning my motives.

Text is hard to convey proper emotion, and even harder when you’ve got a bunch of people only typing half of their thought 🤷‍♂️

As for the design change, I honestly don’t know. It’s not actually my area of expertise, I just know enough to know what not to do.

I do know that the highest risk is in the connections themselves. A pair of insulated wires are unlikely to ever be an issue on their own, but where you connect the wires to the wiring of the house is the real issue.

Connections can loosen over time, through temp cycling or whatever reasons. And when they loosen, resistance goes up, and heat is generated.

So if it were my project, I’d probably try to find a small round electrical box that fits inside the decorative one. Either metal or the proper plastic. And then make those connections inside that box, and call it good enough.

Maybe make sure the edges of the pipe are smooth where the wires enter them, too, so the insulation doesn’t get shaved off when you’re moving it around.

Otherwise I really do like the project! Looks great! I hope you come up with a solution you’re comfortable with 👍

Listen man, you do what you want. I’ve done some sketchy stuff myself.

Most people don’t care that it’s illegal, heck most people on here are pirates anyway.

People care about you, and they want you to understand the danger of what you’re doing.

Most of them aren’t judging you, I’m certainly not.

Will using PLA for a light enclosure definitely cause a fire? Probably not. The odds are very low. In fact the odds are very low that normal wiring in a normal enclosure will overheat. You’ll likely never see it.

The problem is the what if. The chance. IF the wiring shorts out, overheats, whatever. A normal enclosure might contain it completely. Or at worst it will resist catching on fire, and fill your house with smoke first, giving you time to realize what’s happening and save your life.

PLA will do neither of those things. It will in fact do the opposite. So in the admittedly rare chance that your wiring falls, and gets hot, PLA will actually readily ignite. And then, worse, it WILL drip flaming plastic onto the floor, causing it to spread immediately and without warning.

Your time to notice a fire and save yourself goes from minutes to seconds. It’s potentially the difference from waking up to a smoke alarm and a smokey house, to waking up to a smoke alarm and a wall of fire blocking your only exit.

I’m not trying to be extreme, it’s just the facts. That’s why people say codes are written in blood. The wrong plastics have been used before, and people have died, so now in many lands it’s a law.

No one is making you follow the law. They just want you to be informed, so that if you choose to continue, you do so without ignorance to the risks.

I wish you well.

Edit:

Now, if you changed the configuration of the lamp, if you put all the AC wiring and DC conversion circuits in a metal enclosure, and then ran low voltage wiring to low voltage bulbs, that would be still unwise, but significantly safer.

The concern is that AC circuits, while only using enough power to run a lamp in this scenario, have access to more than enough power to run a space heater. If your AC wiring becomes a space heater in your ceiling, nothing will stop it, and PLA will make it worse 🤷‍♂️

That’s true, that should just work. I guess I just hate the dongle life haha.

But that’s no fault of the deck or the controller. I’m just glad it has Bluetooth backup. Options are nice.

That’s fair

Bummer. But full features otherwise?

Depending on how much lag, I could deal with that