Oh, didn’t they make a new fw16 top plate that’s all one piece? Or is that not released yet?

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.

Reduced modularity to appease corporate purchasers doesn’t really sit well with me. Kind of the opposite of their ethos.

Like a dark path that leads to profits over sustainability, where framework takes their momentum and pivots into just another laptop manufacturer.

No thanks. I love my fw13 just the way it is.

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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.

Glad you’re on the right track!

My brother in law had this exact same problem with his breville. Cheater cup with aftermarket handle.

The problem is because the pressure is created by forcing all the water through the one tiny hole at the bottom, so it comes out at high velocity. The normal holder is designed to contain this, collect it, and let it run down into the cup.

The aftermarket one isn’t designed this way, so the high pressure steam hits the bottom of the diverter and shoots out to either side.

It doesn’t matter how much coffee or how you grind it. The pressure will be the same.

The solution is to not use the cheater cup (I use it exclusively). Or get the original handle and use that.

Or maybe you could put a bit of steel wool up there? Anything to break up that stream.

Hope you get it figured out.

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.

Height is might

Thanks, I’m aware, but it’s quite overwhelming usually. Also this is for hardware that supports openwrt directly, I’m asking about APs that don’t require external accounts to configure

Oh I didn’t know that. That makes sense.

Hmmm…

If Wi-Fi 7 isn’t compatible with wpa2, then it’s hard to have any kind of mixed network supporting legacy clients without a separate SSID. For anyone.

That’s kind of unfortunate, but I guess it’s the cost of progress.

You can mix Wi-Fi 6 and 7 though, correct? So theoretically I could catch most of my somewhat modern clients that way.

I should take stock of all my modern clients.

Thanks!

That’s definitely unfortunate.

If it helps, I’m in a suburb with fairly close neighbors. 2.4 is packed, so I was pretty much planning on giving it up as far as any “performance” clients are concerned. I was thinking of having only one 2.4 radio for the whole house, for legacy and iot devices.

It’s not a huge house, I was thinking I could get away with 2, maybe 3 APs on 5ghz, reducing power a smidge to reduce self interference, but I haven’t tried that yet.

Real world performance, testing with speedtest.net to a max of 500Mbps, shows 400+ Mbps on 5ghz in the basement, bedrooms and living room. With the weak zone being the kitchen at 200-300. Still plenty fast for what I need, though I won’t turn down free performance, and that’s without any of my own congestion.

2.4 maxes out at 30Mbps in most locations, significantly less in others.

That said, I’m really trying NOT to spend money upgrading my entire setup right now. I was hoping to drop $50-100 on one device to play with 6ghz. I’ve only got one client that can take advantage of it anyway. On the ubiquiti, can I just set the 5ghz radio to Wi-Fi 5? And the 6ghz to 7? I feel like that should work for now? 🤔

Just popping in to say it’s insane that a 750k house is positioned as reasonable in this scenario. The housing market is truly insane.

Before anyone else comments, I get it, the market varies depending on where you live. Around me, “reasonable houses”, that being 2 ish bedrooms, 1 ish bath, are somewhere between 250k and 500k. But that’s still disgusting. 10 or 15 years ago that would’ve been 60 to 150k, in my same area. I’m still kicking myself for not buying back then, not that I had the means, but I almost did. Now? Sheesh.

The crazy part is, renting isn’t even cheap!

Rent in my area is around 1.5k per month for 2 bedroom 1 bath… My rent has been lower than that thankfully, though climbing, but that’s the going rate.

With good credit, and 20k down, that could be a mortgage payment on an entire house twice the size. Still disgusting but at least then you’re building equity of some sort.

But who’s got that when 25% of Americans have no savings at all, and only 50% can cover 3 months expenses in an emergency?

Yet new housing is built all the time. Why? Because it’s lucrative for those with gobs of money, holding all the housing.

My landlord is no saint, but he has 2 buildings, 4 units each, with detached garages. They aren’t premium, slightly dated, but they’re miles better than slumlord stuff. Nice neighborhood too. I’d put my grandma in there. Yet he consistently keeps the rent at less than 60% of the local average.

Honestly he SHOULD charge more. But I’m not telling him that. He does it because he can’t stand the thought of gouging people to get rich. Though I’m sure he’s still making plenty, as his new truck would indicate. But still.

My neighbors complain about him, and one even left. Then begged to come back because other renters locally were more expensive, and less attentive. He let them back 🤷‍♂️

Thank you for this gem

Ours does the same, and very much appreciates the belly rubs. No bite.

That’s fair 😂