u/GotNoRice

My Galaxy Ring worked wonderfully for a year until the battery degradation hit suddenly, and overnight my battery life went from one week to one day. Even then, I was ready to charge it as often as needed to keep using it as long as possible. But after a short while of being able to charge it once per day, it stopped being able to make it through the night. I got another week or so out of it by charging it to 100% right before I went to bed, but then at that point it still would not make it through the night. However that is when the problem shifted from being an issue of simple reduced battery lifespan to an issue of the ring now turning-off before the charge reached 0%.

I learned the hard way that the battery degradation is not just about reduced battery life, but also reduced output, even while still "charged". At first, the ring would only turn off at lower charge percentages. Now however, it's to the point where I can charge it to 100% take it off the charger, put it on my finger, and the ring will turn off in 5-10 minutes, before it even depletes below "90%". That means it's no longer useful for the one thing I was still using it for every day, which was as a backup while charging my Watch.

Right now I still have it on the charger, and all it does is spam my phone all day with Wear App notifications, alternating between "Ring fully charged" and "Ring Disconnected". It's no longer useful as a wearable device.

I am considering if I should do a factory reset on the Ring while I still can, or just disconnect it from my phone.

I've been keeping it on the charger for now because at least that keeps it accessible from my phone. Extended-duration full-discharge is the ultimate death-knell for a Lithium-ion battery, so I think that there is a strong possibility that if I kept it off the charger for even a few days, the ring might never actually turn back on again. So if I'm going to do a factory reset or something, I might want to do that first. I'm also holding out a slim hope that perhaps Samsung will offer some kind of trade-in option or even a basic discount for first-gen ring users who purchase a next-gen ring when they are released, and perhaps if my ring still "worked" at that point it would be helpful.

What did you do with yours at the end?

I've never been able to Direct Play DTS when using Plex on my Firestick, even though my receiver supports DTS.

Using the old version of the Plex App on Firestick would result in the audio always being transcoded to Dolby Digital, which was fine because it worked and preserved the multi-channel audio.

The new App is allowing DTS content to "Direct Play", even though it still doesn't actually work. It only outputs Stereo to my receiver.

I don't know why DTS doesn't work. I think it might be a firestick limitation. I've pretty much given up on that. But how can I at least get the new version of the app to transode DTS to Dolby Digital again? The new UI is so terrible, I can't find this option anywhere, if it even exists.

I'm looking to upgrade my pfSense router for multi-gigabit speeds. Looking to use an Intel X520-DA2 (10Gb, 2x SFP), as it's a known reliable card and I already have one ready to go. The LAN side is already covered as I have a spare SFP port on my main switch and plan to use a DAC cable.

On the WAN side, I need to be able to connect one of the 10GB SFP ports on the X520 to a Cablemodem with a 2.5GbE port. I suppose the correct way to do it would be to get a copper ethernet SFP module for the X520 that supports 2.5GbE and connect that directly to the Cablemodem. Problem is, they are expensive, not all of them are compatible with the X520, and they generate a lot of heat.

What if I simply got a cheap (~$30) 2.5GbE switch, one of those that has 4 2.5GbE ports and 2 10Gb SFP ports, ran a DAC cable from my X520 to one of the SFP ports on that, and then an Ethernet cable from one of the 2.5GbE ports on the switch to the Cablemodem (nothing else plugged into the switch obviously). Effectively using the switch as nothing more than an adapter between the router and modem?

Other than being a bit of an awkward hodge-podge solution, is there any reason why this would be a bad idea?

Thanks.

Recently our area underwent a fairly significant upgrade. My IP actually changed for the first time in years.

The problem is that, despite the fact that I'm in Northern California, ever since the upgrade, everything online seems to think that I'm somewhere in the Florida/Georgia region.

Mostly it's an annoyance. For example, if I go to do a Speedtest, it will automatically find a server in Florida or Georgia as the "closest" severs. Websites automatically show me the weather for Florida or Georgia now unless I manually input my location. But it's also more problematic in some respects. Streaming recommendations that might otherwise contain local content now contain non-local content in many cases. Hulu also totally flipped out. It forced me to "change my home location", warning me that I can only do it 4 times per year, and then began showing me local channels and sports games from that region. I had to call and spend hours with Hulu sorting that out.

It's actually kind of crazy how many services rely on this IP-address-based location detection to try to determine your location.

Is there anything I can do on my end to get my "new" IP address actually associated with my correct location? I know that I can use a VPN as a workaround in some cases but I shouldn't have to do that, and I certainly don't want to have to run a VPN on every single device.

Mediacom just completed a big upgrade in our local area. They sent out a text saying that this was for new "Multi-Gig" Service, which I assume probably refers to 2Gbps+ plans.

While I might look into 2Gbps in the future, I'm more interested in faster upload speeds. We are on the 1000/50 service plan right now. On the rate card, there is now a service plan for 1000/100 for the exact same price.

Given that the local "Multi-Gig" upgrade just occurred, Is my 1000/50 plan going to be automatically upgraded to the 1000/100 plan at some point, or will this be something that I need to manually initiate via contacting Mediacom?

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