Search results for:

It is very white :)

Not quite that long, but close.

I'm going to bravely enter the car world again.

Going for a white car this time.

Hiding it from search is intentional :)

Ah... there we go. It was just something in a text field, I've edited it :D

Well that's surprising... given that I paid for the affiliation and it's showing as active in the Club dashboard.

What are the axes? How did we end up the middle-ground of anything?!

Still not memes though

I went for one of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06WGV8119/r­

No point going for the official... they're old and degraded too. So I figured I would get fresh batteries that fit the form factor well.

I used the power utils to do the conditioning and could get to their full capacity, and they've been fine.

I also left a review!

I run Linux on my X220 and tlp stat is my friend, so I can provide some insight into the battery you are likely to receive.

Here is my old original Lenovo produced 29+ Thinkpad battery stats:

+++ ThinkPad Battery Status: BAT0 (Main / Internal)
/sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/manufac­turer = SANYO
/sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/model = 42T4861
/sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/manufac­ture_date = 2011-06-14
/sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/first_u­se_date = 2011-06-20
/sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/cycle_c­ount = 156
/sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/design_­capacity = 57720 [mWh]
/sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/last_fu­ll_capacity = 35880 [mWh]
Capacity = 62.2 [%]

As you can see, last_full_capacity is only 35880 and as such it's only getting 62% of it's design_capacity... and it's old. Manufactured in 2011.

Now the Green Cell battery:

+++ ThinkPad Battery Status: BAT0 (Main / Internal)
/sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/manufac­turer = SANYO
/sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/model = 45N1023
/sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/manufac­ture_date = 2018-07-07
/sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/first_u­se_date = 2012-03-13
/sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/cycle_c­ount = 1
/sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/design_­capacity = 44000 [mWh]
/sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/last_fu­ll_capacity = 48820 [mWh]
Capacity = 111.0 [%]

The Green Cell is modern manufacture and has a design capacity which is less than the original ThinkPad battery.

This battery overcharges to give the advertised (in the Amazon listing) capacity... the real capacity being 44000mWh. The circuit has been designed to allow this, and overcharging Li-ion batteries is not a problem and doesn't affect the life span of the battery.

I'm happy with this. I would much rather have cells of more recent manufacture than risk the purchase of old cells that are still the original part.

I bought a spare battery via Amazon for the X220. It cost £30 and I get 8 hours average use (web browsing, casting music, screen medium lit) and 4 hours of heavy use (compiling software).

I'm also on old ThinkPads... I have an X220 I love, and an X1... both are doing well and I purchased the X1 off eBay as I thought the X220 was going to fail (I've had it 8 years maybe) but the X220 has not failed and the X1 is kinda waiting to be used.

I bought the X1 because I'd had a work X1 which I really liked, but unfortunately that was stolen in a bar. So my work machine is now a Lenovo T480s which is powerful, but larger and heavier.

Totally in favour of buying higher-spec older ThinkPads, they're extraordinary machines.

I had a really windy commute today

I hear you, it was pretty wild.

:)

Bear in mind not all clients are currently powered on... but still, so nice having a tidy network.

And I've ditched the Pi-Hole and am now using https://nextdns.io/ for DNS blocking... because I can also us it on my mobile phone, in Firefox at work, in addition to the entire home network.

I pulled the trigger, I love it all.

Now about to enforce VLANs across the whole thing.

13" XPS is a way better machine.

Not on specs, but on how it feels and what it's like to live with.

Having been through your process about a year ago (USG, UC-CK, 3*US-8-60W, 3*AP-AC Lite, 1*UAP-AC-M, 1*Netgear GS308) I'd consider the following:

Have a look at the Unifi Switch 8 US‑8‑60W switches instead of the US-8-150W's, they run 4 POE points, which looks like it might be enough on at least one of your switches, and cost about half the price.

Very good call, I've updated my original plan to go for the 60w switches and this shaves off almost £300.

I'll stick with the Pro APs though as I want the 3x3 radios, high bandwidth and high TX power... I fully intend to allow my future car to update systems by merely being parked outside, and I shift large files around my internal network on WiFi so that would be beneficial too.

On the Cloud Key... I prefer the form factor of the gen 2 and the little info screen, and the fact that it's a bit more powerful. And am hoping that the gen 2 just means a longer life too.

So thank you... I've got it to a price I'm willing to accept, and will pull the trigger.

I did, and noticed on Reddit and a few other places a mixed reception for the capabilities, and confusion around DNS override and a few other things.

I want more control than it seemed to offer

I can merge, but tempted to keep that separate given it's a distinct question.

Controller... fair point, but I'm kinda done running so many Raspberry Pi's, thinking of replacing my pi-hole with nextdns.io

On switches, I'm going to need PoE everywhere too, if not just for the APs given that I'm already maxed out on power sockets at both ends and have split the power as much as I'm comfortable doing so.

If it weren't for the PoE I'd skip the switches and just get the APs for the meantime.

Cannot unsee those toenails!

I have 2 rooms with wired equipment.

Room 1 (wired network):

• Philips Hue
  
• Storage server
  
• Media server
  
• Raspberry Pi x 2
  
• Backup server (literally for taking backups)
  
• EdgeMax
  
• Amplifi WiFi
  
• UPS device
  
  

9 items... natch, 8 port switches need 1 in and 1 out as I then run to the other end of the house... hence 2 switches in that room.

Room 2 (wired network):

• TV
  
• Nvidia Shield
  
• Printer
  
• Amplifi WiFi
  
• Playstation
  
  

5 items... natch, Amplifi only has 4 ports and needs 1 in... hence 1 switch in that room.

Additionally via WiFi:

• Laptop x 4
  
• Phones x 3
  
• Vacuum cleaner
  
• audio devices x 4
  
• display devices x 2
  
• Doorbell
  
• Thermostat
  
  

So that's another 16 WiFi devices not including any guest devices.

Now I'm reflecting on how old my entire system is... probably pushing 6 years old across the board on my entire setup. Which is OK... but if I'm going to update the WiFi and add a controller, then I'm probably going to revisit the very old EdgeMax router and the mis-mash of switches I have.

So...

Now I'm thinking of this:

• 1 x Unifi Security Gateway USG £106 https://linitx.com/product/ubiquiti-unif­i-security-gateway-vpn-firewall-router-u­sg/14177
  
• Controller UCK-G2 £168 https://linitx.com/product/ubiquiti-unif­i-cloud-key-controller-gen2---uck-g2/154­97
  
• 3 x Unifi Switch8 US‑8‑60W £108 https://linitx.com/product/ubiquiti-unif­i-8-port-60w-poe-gigabit-network-switch-­us-8-60w/14957
  
• 2 x Unifi AP AC Pro UAP‑AC‑PRO £133 https://linitx.com/product/ubiquiti-unif­i-ac-pro-ap-wireless-access-point-uap-ac­-pro-(with-poe-injector)/14525
  
  

Avoiding the Dream Machine as I'd rather have control of my DNS, and avoiding the video capable things as if I want that down the road I'll buy that separately and won't over-invest in that now.

That's a mere £864 on building a new network at home! :D

Who here has multiple Unifi APs running the same SSID?

Did you need to use a Unifi Controller to configure this? Or can you manually just name them the same SSID and it just figures it out?

Reason I'm asking... I've discovered a very crappy "feature" of the Ubiquiti Amplifi HD wifi mesh network... namely that when you operate the router in Bridge mode (required to prevent double-NAT) it disables hardware NAT... but this also means it drops from Gigabit ethernet to 100Mbps ethernet... which results in the WiFi maxing out on the 100Mbps. So whilst nothing is hardware limited to 100Mbps, simply running Amplifi HD in bridge mode will cap the WiFi and anything attached to the LAN points on the Amplifi HD.

Now I've already got an EdgeMax, an EdgeSwitch, and gigabit cat 7 cable laid everywhere... and my internet is 350Mbps... so this is damn frustrating.

Solution then... remove the 2 Amplifi HD routers provider backbone ethernet capped at 100Mbps... replace them with 2 Unifi APs.

But I want the Unifi APs to hand off seamlessly, and the question is... does this just work? Or does one need a Unifi Controller to make this work?

Nope... I've looked.

The system correctly deleted the files when the comments were deleted and a period of time passed, and none of those files remain in any of the cache layers I have.