Posts by Telesphoreo

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    Get an Epson. They come with ink and even the cheap ones print decently and the quality of the drivers is light years beyond HP. I made a thread about mine, but it's definitely way out of your budget. Laser printers and the ink tank ones are the best, but are more expensive. It's just a sacrifice. If you're only looking for something for a year than go ahead and get the cheapest that comes with ink. Just buy a new printer instead of ink and you'll probably last a year

    Hey guys so basically at second sky Porter Robinson debuted a live only side project called Air to Earth. He released a super awesome chill ID https://youtu.be/PAJLGBHtUK0

    I'm wondering if it's possible to remove all the cheering and background noise from it. The lucky thing is, the audio is already pretty clean and the crowd is quiet most of the duration. So I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to get rid of the crowd noise. This might be one of the best cases of it actually being possible since it's not that much on already good quality audio. I'm kind of clueless so any help in the right direction would be awesome. Paging the God himself Steven. Not asking anyone to do it for me, just any ideas or software since I'm not too sure. I've seen some websites that claim to do it but surprise surprise you have to make an account and pay up

    Windows 11 is just 2000 with some new lipstick. If it's due on October 5th, I don't have high hopes for it. It should be delayed until at least next year. I have the Insider build on my computer and while there aren't any bugs, everything just feels slower to do. The new context menus in explorer genuinely feel like they take more time to open, and you have to click on the "show more options" to see the original context menu. This is just making Windows 11 look good for the promotional pictures, but when you try to actually get work done, it now takes twice as long. I'll be staying on 10 for my desktop. My laptop is running the ARM64 version of Windows 11. It's pretty fast especially for being in a VM, but the lack of thought into the new design really makes things slower. Windows 10 may not have looked nice, especially compared to some Linux distros or macOS, but it certainly was functional for what it was. Apple is in a really good spot with their Macs, especially after ditching Intel for their own chips. For the first time in a LONG time, when you buy a Mac, you actually get what you pay for.

    Also, Microsoft can't even seem to center the taskbar

    So basically this is a Linux moment

    I literally just installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my M1 MacBook Air with Parallels. And when I say just, I mean just. I booted it for the first time, applied updates, and now it's stuck here:

    It literally just hangs here. I had this problem on Ubuntu 21.04 also, so I just reinstalled 20.04 only to find out it has the exact same problem. I haven't found anyone with the same problem as me. It looks like it eventually boots, but not after a good minute and a half. This didn't used to happen. Any suggestions?

    Edit: note that this problem isn't happening on Kali Linux

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    So I've been stuck for a while on this. Basically I can't even get a basic page working. If you go to https://telesphoreo.me on a desktop, you'll see that the footer looks fine. But if you go to a mobile device the footer looks cut off. The height appears to be fine though which is weird. I've tried fiddling with the height and switching it from px to vh as someone suggested. I tried fiddling with a million things but this is the only way I can actually even get it to the bottom for some reason. Any idea of what I should do? I'd also like it to be modular so I can comment out the footer and it doesn't show, but I can also uncomment it if need be. So I want it to be flexible, but I cannot seem to get it to be responsive. I also tried using Bootstrap but the problem was that you would have to scroll down to see it. It didn't cover the page like this header does (I think?), it just put it after absolutely everything else. Obviously Bootstrap would be better but regardless I have no idea how to fix it. Does anyone know how to fix this? Also is it just me or does the text look a little bit too high??

    @'Ryan' I wouldn't invest a penny in Protect. The cameras are really hard to get, they're seemingly always out of stock. Also, they completely killed off UniFi Video for UniFi Protect. If you bought into UniFi Video, you were out of luck and were forced to switch. Also, they require a cloud account and is dependent on the cloud. If UniFi has an outage, you can't even connect locally. It's cloud based whether you like it or not. Also, many people have been reporting their cameras randomly disconnecting. This is a pretty widespread issue and I don't think Ubiquiti has even acknowledged it as an issue. I would 100% look elsewhere for a security system. Ubiquiti is trying to do way too many things. They have networking, cameras, a door access control system, a phone system, and now an ID system. That's on top of their smaller things such as their smart plugs and lighting

    So a long time ago I wrote a thread describing my experiences with Ubiquiti's UniFi. I actually had to write it twice as both were under Seth's forum and the data got lost twice. UniFi is basically prosumer networking equipment. I'm not going to gloss over everything or how it's exactly setup but here's the general idea.
    I have a USG as the router, an 8 port 150W switch, a cloud key gen2, and 5 access points. The reason I went with UniFi is because we have two houses on our property. Our ISP wanted to charge both as separate connections. That may not have been the end of the world except for the fact that the prices are over $200 a month. So buying UniFi has saved us $200 a month which obviously paid off the initial cost of the equipment very quickly. Our house is extremely large at 4000sqft so we have 3 access points in the house. So I'll go over every product now

    1. The USG. I didn't quite realize it's over 10 years old when I bought it, so it certainly is showing its age. It can do a 1 gig connection both ways but only do IDS/IPS at 85 mpbs. IDS/IPS stands for Intrusion Detection System / Intrusion Prevention System and basically scans all network traffic for threats. The USG is the cheapest and I'm actually glad I went with it. There are newer products such as the Dream Machine Pro, but they've been plagued with firmware issues since it came out.
    2. The switch. It's a switch, not too exciting. I have one in each house and they work fine. They do run hot, but I'm getting fans to help with that. It does the only two things I need it to do which is lock an Ethernet port to only one device and assign different VLANS to each port.
    3. The access points. By far the best thing Ubiquiti makes. The access points are really good. I got the AC Lites which are the cheapest at just $99 each. They aren't the best, but they certainly exceeded my expectations. The range isn't amazing but the speeds are really good. I should have gotten the AC Long Range instead. Ubiquiti has come out with their WiFi 6 access points (U6) but I haven't tested any of them. I did buy one AC Pro and the difference is apparent in range. But seriously, for just $99 it's a pretty dang good access point.

    The problem unfortunately is their buggy firmware. I used to upgrade every release. My initial version was 5.14.23 for the controller and 4.3.20 on the access points and switches. I upgraded to the new 6.x versions for the controller and 5.x versions for switches and access points. It got buggier and buggier every update. I actually took down the entire network for a day to redo the entire thing from scratch. I went back to 5.14.23 and 4.3.20 for everything and all the issues went away. I apparently bought my equipment at the right time as it was actually the last good firmware update released by Ubiquiti. Ever since July 2020, the entire software quality went down the garbage. That sort of explains why I had such a bad experience and why people said it was so good. Now that I'm back on the older versions, it actually has been trouble free. There were so many issues and UI changes in the new firmwares, but the old versions are rock solid. Ever since downgrading the equipment has been running continuously for 2-3 months. I would have had to reboot every week on the newer versions.

    So that's basically one year with UniFi. Do I recommend it now? No, not really. I was lucky to get everything before it all went downhill but I wouldn't recommend investing in it now