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LOL.

Was going to say a cable sounds like it is loose... but yeah, plugged into the wrong thing entirely is the same thing :D

I wouldn't worry... I have been swamped this past week with work calls in the evenings for customers. So I've not looked at anything in about 10 days.

I mean... "this is what you need to get perfect audio, if you don't believe this you're wrong".

Along with the vocal of the video only being on the left channel because he can't figure out his mic audio setup 🤷

I see why Truss has been quiet for a few days now.

Shell-shocked and out of her depth.

That particular mic doesn't need phantom power (i.e. does not need a Fethead or Cloudlifter)... but... all mics need to be lifted from mic-level (low) to line-level (high). On non-dynamic mics that's done using a Fethead or equivalent with phantom power, but with dynamic mics typically you pre-amp.

I looked, and this Behringer audio interface https://www.behringer.com/series.html?ca­tegory=R-BEHRINGER-UPHORIASERIES does include a pre-amp. So it seems that's what they expect you to be doing here.

What you have in the Onyx is also a pre-amp... so yup, that should be lifting it to line level. It may feel weird to be amplifying that much, but so long as your software thinks it is in normal range than you're good.

You may need to push gain to max, and the OS to max for it to be the right volume... but that is OK.

If that is still lacking then frankly you're going to have to re-assess this line:

the volume is too low on the mic unless I have it right in front of my face and I don't really want to do that

Because if you read the website for it https://www.behringer.com/product.html?m­odelCode=P0120 :

XM Series’ cardioid pickup pattern captures the source signal, such as a guitar amplifier or vocalist, while shunning off-axis sound

That mic is designed to only pic up things directly in front of it.

By which... barely inches from it at most.

If you ever see a vocalist... the mic is virtually touching their lips.

If you've seen drum kits mic'd up... the mic is barely above the skin of the drum, or is totally inside the kick drum.

Dynamic mics are brilliant... but they really do need proximity.

Symptom is that the outbound AV drops so we have 30 seconds of people telling us they can't see or hear us. Then the whole connection drops and eh entire home network loses internet connectivity until I reboot the UDM or wait a LONG time.

This was what happened on my network and turned out to be packet congestion and packet loss, caused by the Unifi Edge Security Gateway having insufficient cooling. It would seemingly trigger the Gigabit network port to switch from Gigabit to Ethernet, that was what dropped connections, and then it would come back up and restore. Sometimes it came up as Ethernet, sometimes as Gigabit.

Adding cooling to the Edge Security Gateway cured it... it's been rock solid since.

You may want to Google around and see if the UDM suffers overheating too. It seems Ubiquiti consumer gear is sensitive to heat.

Coming back round on the U6-LR AP... it's not for me.

It's a super nice piece of kit, but in my case with the size of my flat (relatively small) and the problem I'm trying to solve (video doorbell with poor signal)... a boosted AP isn't the solution... in fact it may make things worse in my case.

The doorbell that I have low signal on, that only has 15dBm transmit power. If I boost the AP I can't solve that low signal as the client side isn't capable of going higher. But if I did boost the AP anyway (because long-range is nice) then the small size of my flat means it will just overlap my other AP too much and cause more congestion and the hand-offs get moved.

So I'm going to pass.

Nice bit of kit upon investigation, but not a solution for the problem I have.

Would really suit someone with a larger space.

Google has increased that department, they'd made Chromebooks to kickstart the market... the market now has a lot of Chromebooks. So now they can double down on the OS.

Also Germany has nationalized some parts of russian gas businesses

I mean... Russia nationalized some part of Western oil businesses.

For example TNK-BP was "acquired" by Rosneft. BP could only do business in Russia via the joint venture, and once BP had laid down enough technology and ability to extract oil from the fields Russia moved to ensure that Rusia Petroleum and Rosneft were the only ones who could then earn from those fields. BP were "paid", but really the payment was for the fields in Venezuela they already couldn't access.

It's complicated, as is the way of doing this stuff in a plausibly deniable way... but in essence, Russia nationalised Western interests in Russia.

Would consider... I wasn't in the market now (I'm supposed to be looking at my old hard drives long before coming back) but I have 1 device on my existing AP that suffers from poor 2.4G signal due to some brick walls... was curious to see if the LR version might resolve some of that... so if the price is right I might be in the market.

Edit: Of course I'm now looking at datasheets to see if it would actually make a difference. I have a UAP-AC-PRO today.

Looks like the three differences over what I have are the increase in Tx power from 22 dBm to 26 dBm, and then the additional aerial (4x4 over 3x3), and finally 802.11ax (WiFi 6).

What price are you looking for?

Banned from this forum (Misc & Meaningless) as the prior comments were clearly trolling and a bit unhinged (also illogical, but hence the interpretation as trolling).

Has Russia declared war yet?

Or are we still in special operation mode?

2 weeks in and the idiots have already broken the economy.

12 years in.

Their track record is pretty good on trashing the economy, trade, relationships with other countries, health system, transport, etc.

The last 2 weeks is just a continuance of the regard they've been showing to country over the last 12 years.

I'm also fine just taking things apart. i.e. the keyboard. No canned air, I just unscrew the top, pop-off all the key caps (they go through the washing machine), and again with the make-up brush and sensor blower thing.

Canned air always felt to me like a worse solution. It just blows stuff around, and in the case of some things can make stuff worse. It can blast all dust to the back of a heat sink where you can't remove it, or debris to under key caps where it causes problems.

Just never touch the small rounds caps on the motherboard, and never use a vacuum directly on the motherboard (you can, but the chances a split second uncontrolled movement boshes something is non-zero).

I mean... I just use a vacuum cleaner on the removable case grills and bottom of the case, and then a photographers sensor cleaner (the blow bubble thing) for around caps and chips, and an old make-up brush (never used on make-up as you won't want residues on things) on fan blades and heat sink grills.

I'm not trying for perfect, it doesn't have to look like new. I only try and shift the majority so that cooling works. That last 1% is also going to be back there in a day or two, it's clearing 99% of the dust that matters.

You can bake the dimensions into your generated HTML

I don't know the size of images.

With additional processing I could know the size of attachments. But I can't know the size of third party hosted ones.

The image tags all lack a height and width, the browser determines the space to allocate by loading the image.

lazy loading of images

Which I covered already.

It delays loading of images until you scroll past.

But we use fragments # to jump to comments https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/1313­64/?offset=7350#comment16695421 so you get taken to the new comment.

If I add lazy loading, the act of jumping to a comment is to scroll past all previous content... trigger the loading of all images... and move the comment you were wanting to view downwards as each prior comment loaded.

I consciously didn't add that stuff to this forum... because the last forum software did that, and it's super frustrating.

I would truly appreciate it if you could go find the webkit bug posted on the prior page, sign up to the site... and add your information to the bug ticket.

The problem I have in resolving it is that I'm unaffected and cannot reproduce it myself.

Do you have extensions enabled?

If so, what ones?

Does it happen with the extensions disabled?

There's no problem with a 30MB PDF or MP4

Because those are just links.

And we have photography threads, bike tag of bike... both cases where people do indeed want to take a large JPG or a flagship mobile camera image and just upload it.

It's such an edge case, this just doesn't bother me.

When it happens, if others cared, they could just reply to the thread enough to bump a new page 🤷 . It feels like a non-issue, when every action I could take is just a regression on the usability for the vast, vast majority of users and scenarios.

. Also it affects only areas near Ukraine so they will not be sending people from big cities

Russian press is reporting that the mobilisation decree does not contain anything specific about the numbers called up, or where they come from.

It's basically a full national mobilisation, but the press broadcast added the 300K and "partial" elements... that isn't what is in the piece of law just signed.

So whatever the mobilisation is, is yet to be seen in practise. In theory, it's a full mobilisation.

RU state media keeps freaking out about ATACMS missile systems because they have the range to take out all the rail links and bridges to everywhere in Crimea

I really believe, without any knowledge of it, that the provision of those systems to Ukraine comes with a "do not use these across the Russian border (as the border stood a decade ago)" or something to that effect.

NATO do not want to be pulled in... have the tools, but moderate the use to avoid pulling NATO in.

But yeah, that Crimea bridge is going to be hit soon, as well as rail lines within Ukraine.

Could the preview thumbnails not be a low res or scaled down version of the uncompressed image?

Would help in most cases.

But wouldn't help on that page as still too many far too large images were inlined.

What would help is a "only load images in view". But as you scrolled it would still blow the memory. Additionally this would break jumping to specific comments, as the height of comments above the one you jumped to isn't known and the act of jumping would start loading the images (and scroll the effective jumped to comment downwards as large things load above it).

There's no real solution that produces no edge cases, because it's always possible to inline a third party hosted image that is a 500MB jpg... there would be no way I could know, it would still blow things up.

If I tried to think about measures for things uploaded, then the best I would have is:

1. Do not display thumbnails at all, just links to images.
   
2. Reduce maximum file upload size from 30MB back down to 10MB.
   
3. Detect on a per post basis the number of attachments inlined, and limit it to 1 (because there are 25 posts per page, so that still allows 25 images).
   
4. Do not actually inline images... instead just put placeholders. Have JS on the page look at the sum of all placeholders and decide whether to load things (based on assumption of file size).
   
   

These things are all a bit crappy.

They prevent native mobile phone uploading of images (bike tag of bike would need post-processing to reduce image size).

They would prevent classifieds from just showing all of the images inline (lots more clicking to see what you're buying).

They would require JS for every page rather than supporting older devices (albeit with more RAM). Arguably login already does this, but I want to undo that and all JS-less browsing to function.

And it is an edge case... we have tens of thousands of classifieds threads with photos inlined, we have bike tag of bike, we have project threads... and this is the first time it has arisen.

That it's so rare an edge case and is going to be solved by time... the upgrade of devices with less RAM, the emergence of SOC CPUs with better RAM capabilities, etc... has me not feeling any urgency or priority to solve it.

It's a single page... it's viewable on desktops (assuming your computer is from the last 20 years)... and the impact to people browsing is very limited. Edge cases happen, but the only question is whether it's acceptable... for me it is, it's an edge case.

In the last 5 years the number of times that has been reported across almost 2B page views is once... that one page. That's well within my bounds of acceptable.

so is kinda like a desperate move

Not totally desperate, but a continued doubling down on the whole thing... so escalating rather than de-escalating.

This takes us further from "special operation" and closer to "war" for the Russian people... one of these didn't have to be painted in terms of victory or defeat. As they are now mobilising, this is essentially war... and that makes it much harder to find a political path out of this mess soon, and more likely to see continued escalation in the short/mid term.

AFAICT, that's what it is.

Russia stock market is down more than 10%, searches on search engines for how to leave Russia is at a record high.

It's a mess, but Putin continues to paint himself into a corner.