Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
The wrapping has started! Made good progress on wrapping last night. More to do tonight but hopefully pretty much done then.
Also an update on the updated version of Lemmy, apparently lemmy.ml is having issues with outbound federation, so I will hold off the update until that’s been investigated.
Woke with a migraine this morning. Popped a couple of tryptans which have kicked the migraine but I’m now left with the ‘off’ feeling (and hypersensitive nerves) of the tryptans. No hot coffee for me this morning…
RANT So NIB update their stupid website and phone app. Now I can’t log into the account because it says my email address is unrecognised, despite having sent the access code to my email address…WTF. So, log in with wife’s email and I get in after having her text me the code she received. Ok, all good, let’s update my details because they discarded my address and set it to hers. Nope. It won’t change. So I set her address to mine, and it updates my email address with mine. Ok, we’re getting there. Log out, log in, it works.
Now it won’t let me set my wife’s email address, so now she can’t log in.
For something fundamental as logging in, one would think they would have tested this. I’m sure I’m not alone. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
Nib health insurance? If it makes you feel any better, they are bottom of the list for customer satisfaction, so you’re definitely not alone 😆
Yup. Nib health.
My condolences.
@ColonialSpore@lemmy.nz I’d recommend moving to another health insurance, as Dave said NIB is at the bottom of the list. We moved to SC from AA Health (underwritten by NIB). A bit more expensive but I feel much better now. When I need it, hopefully never, I don’t want issues with the insurer.
Problem is, my work pays for it. So I’m kinda stuck
@TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz My network switch arrived! I plugged it in and on the surface it’s working, but something is up with the internet.
I have a pi-hole on a raspberry pi, now connected directly to the ISP router as a troubleshooting step. I have two mesh APs, on directly to the router another to the switch. Have plugged cable from router into the first port of the switch. Plus a desktop and my home assistant Pi plugged into the switch.
For some reason, the internet is really spotty. Like full speed perfect then suddenly nothing. ISP router reports it has internet. Plus I seem to have a lot of trouble accessing the ISP router over the mesh network. Plus I have trouble connecting to the network from the ISP router.
My guess is maybe an issue allocating IP addresses? I’m not really sure how to troubleshoot this. It might not even be related to adding the switch, hard to say.
Any tips?
Edit: Actually I don’t think it’s the switch, I think the two mesh points are having trouble. I unplugged one and now it’s working… how do I troubleshoot that?
Interesting. A lot of the UniFi gear boots with its own static IP for management, usually in the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet. If that’s the same network as your router is providing IPs in then I wonder if it clashed with one of your APs IP addresses. They’d commonly just use DHCP to get one; and were already on the network so then you’d have two devices trying to listen on the same IP that could cause problems.
If its a DHCP conflict like that, the easiest way to fix it is to leave that AP unplugged until the DHCP lease on the router expires and gets cleared. But the challenge is you don’t know how long the lease is configured for and the AP might request the same IP when it boots again (because it will remember what it was); and as the router doesn’t know about anything with its own static IP configured it would just give it out.
I think that’s probably the most likely scenario off the top of my head; the switch won’t be doing any other L3 stuff, and if everything is back to normal with that 1 AP unplugged it sorta lines up.
I’m now almost certain it’s not the switch but the mesh points not being happy. They work over wifi, and have been using wifi up until I recently decided I wanted full speed and switched them to ethernet backbone. It worked fine for a while but broke when I moved things around to add the switch. Unplugging one was enough to restore the connection for everything else.
I will have to have more of a play to work out what went wrong.
A lot of the UniFi gear boots with its own static IP for management, usually in the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet
It is the same range as my router is allocating. Do they not request an IP from the DHCP server (my router) which should avoid conflicts?
They should try DHCP first, but usually have an option to defer to the static as a fail safe for troubleshooting adopting the devices into the controller etc.
I think the switch is working fine. All quiet for the last 24 hours or so, with the mesh network using wifi only (slower speed because half is used for communicating between the two). I’ll need to find some instructions on how to use the ethernet backbone as plugging in and switching on in the app apparently isn’t enough.
Interesting, i’d have thought that would have been fine too; might have a read on how amplifi works myself - its a Ubiquiti product line i’d kinda forgotten existed.
Last week of work for the year, first week of school holidays means we’re trying to work from home while the kids murder each other.
Also, Jerboa keeps crashing so I’m trying Boost and I think it’s better?
We managed to ship the school kids to their grandparents for this week! Their problem now 😄
I never settled on a good lemmy app. I have yet to find one that can show me a recent comment feed like the website can. And for some reason I always just like the website better, even on mobile. I know that many people think it’s terrible but I guess I’m just used to it.
I’ve tried many, but sticking with Liftoff. By default it shows New Comments for me.
A comment feed? If you go on the website, on the front page you can choose posts or comments. For example, if I choose comments in combination with Local, it will show me new comments on lemmy.nz communities regardless of which post they are in.
I can’t seem to find this in liftoff. I also noticed it hasn’t been updated since July, the month it was released. Is it still in development? it might not work with lemmy 0.19
Ah sorry, thought you meant sort by.
Yeah it still works.
The github repo doesn’t seem very active indeed. Well I’ll jump ship when it breaks :)
Anyone know if you can install a spell checker on Firefox/Fennec for Android?
I’m also making ice cream today. Orange chocolate chip.
I may make a second batch before christmas, anyone got any great recipes?
Made a bloody good sorbet yesterday. Can of pears, 50g sugar, 1/4 tsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp citric acid. Came out fantastic. Also works with ginger instead of cinnamon
Thanks! I haven’t made sorbet before, do you just throw those ingredients in the ice cream maker?
I don’t actually like pears, but I presume other fruit works just as well.
I guess so? I use a Ninja Creami so your mileage may vary
Hmm, I think perhaps I need to look up a sorbet recipe for ice cream makers, I doubt it would work quite the same as that.
I’ve read two “new” webtoons in the past three days to clear my minds. Just because I watched the movie “The Boy and the Heron”.
This movie it’s far beyond my expectations, makes it hard for my brain to digest. It’s a good movie but I expected something like " Princess Mononoke" or “Spirited Away”
Would you recommend it? Especially to someone that hasn’t watched a lot of Japanese animation outside of Pokemon?
Sure…
from Hayao Mizayaki / Ghibli :
- My Neighbor Totoro
- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (T)
- Kiki’s Delivery Service
- Princess Mononoke (T)
- Spirited Away
Also from Hayao Miyazaki but I haven’t watched them
- Ponyo
- Castle in the Sky
- Howl’s Moving Castle
- The Wind Rises
Makoto Shinkai :
- 5 Centimeters per Second (T)
- Weathering With You (T)
- Your Name (T)
- Suzume (T)
Other directors :
- Paprika (T)
- A Silent Voice (T)
- I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (T)
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
There many others usually I have no interested in their genres, but they are popular
- Inuyasha
- Cowboy Bebop
- Detective Conan
- Ghost in the Shell
- Clannad
- Naruto
- One Piece
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Dragon Ball
- Bleach
- Berserk
- Chainsaw Man
(T) = at least for teens
Wow! I meant would you recommend the movie “The Boy and the Heron” but since you’ve given me a big list I feel obliged to watch a few!
Sorry I think I need to re-watch “The Boy and the Heron” when my brain is ready 😂
It’s a good movie, with a lot of messages and It’s hard to enjoy it if you’re not prepared. If you want a story that’s a little heavy, I would prefer Princess Mononoke or Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind for starters.
Thanks, good to know! I will put those others on my to watch list.
