GreatBlueHeron

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[–] GreatBlueHeron@piefed.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

yeah, I need a TPU - my CPU is 5 generations too old

 

In my home network I have a UniFi Dream Router connected to an EdgeRouter X. The UDR is not being used as designed - I'm using it as a combo WiFi access point and 4 port switch. It also runs my UniFi Network application to manage my other UniFi APs. It complains that it has no internet access, but still does the job I need it to do.

I'm seeing fairly consistent 1Mbps traffic being generated by the UDR. I say it's generated by the UDR because when I look at the ethernet ports and connected WiFi devices I can't see it coming from anywhere - I can see it going out the port connected to the EdgeRouter X, and on the EdgeRouter I can see it coming in from the UDR but I can't see where it goes from there - it's into my main Cisco switch and mixed with all my other traffic.

I was hoping to be able to identify it by turning on Traffic Analysis on ERX, but I see nothing at all. I suspect because the ERX is not routing - it's configured as a switch? Similarly, when I ssh into the ERX and run tcpdump, I only see the broadcast and multicast traffic from the UDR - I can't see anything that might be this 1Mbps.

As I was typing this I thought maybe it's the UniFi Network application updating the browser page I have open to it all the time so I closed that and it made no difference.

Any suggestions what this traffic might be or suggestions for how to identify it?

[–] GreatBlueHeron@piefed.ca 3 points 10 hours ago

but not really sure what you are doing?

I want to install one of these in a machine that doesn't have an M.2 slot.

 

This isn't specifically Home Assistant, but so many people seem to be using Frigate with Home Assistant it feels close enough.

I recently got my first camera. I tried ZoneMinder for a while, but have given up - just overwhelmed with false positives for fog, rain, insects etc. and not being able to tune them out. Most people seem to be going Frigate so I'll give that a go.

I don't really want to use a USB TPU (no real reason) and my current server has no Mini PCIe or M.2 slots. I recall seeing people say they had bad experiences with PCIe M.2 adapters.

Does anyone here have any experience to share about any specific adapter?

[–] GreatBlueHeron@piefed.ca 2 points 11 hours ago
[–] GreatBlueHeron@piefed.ca 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yes - I should have noted that I'm using "Compact UI" = "Yes - thumbnails only".

I should also add that the current layout has advantages. When scrolling other platforms in "mindless meme mode" it's frustrating to click on a thumbnail expecting to expand the image and instead following a link to an article.

Ideally Image posts and other posts should appear subtly different in the feed - different enough that you know what you're clicking on, but not so different that they interfere with the visual flow of the feed page. I have no design skills and can't suggest how that might be implemented, but I'll know it when I see it :-)

 

Just started using piefed yesterday and something I immediately miss from lemmy is the ability to toggle between All posts or just Unread/Unhidden posts. There's a really convenient spot for the buttons right between the view selection buttons and the topic selection buttons.

 

I've had a bit of a play and configured custom CSS to move the image preview, for Image posts, to the right, rather than centre. What I'd really like is for the preview to be smaller and up, inline with the header text, like the preview image from a Link post. In the attached example, I'd like the 4chan image text to appear similar to the whitehouse logo in the post below it. This would remove a lot of whitespace and condense the whole feed.

This is beyond my CSS ability. Is it even possible with custom CSS on the settings, or would it need a change to the backend?

[–] GreatBlueHeron@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I got mine to import. I'm not averse to a bit of NSWF content, so have Lemmy set to show NSFW, but most of it did not appeal to me so I just blocked the communities as they came up in my feed. I had 567 blocked communities! Once I edited the JSON to remove those and the import worked.

[–] GreatBlueHeron@piefed.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

migrate your user JSON

Is there howto for that?

Edit - answering my own question. On Lemmy go to user->Settings->Import/Export Settings, on Piefed to Settings -> Import&Export.

The export was almost instantaneous, the import ran for a few minutes and crashed Piefed. I'll try one more time and maybe manually edit the JSON to make it smaller if it crashes again.