Image 1 — What’s this clear tube coming off my water pump?
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What’s this clear tube coming off my water pump?

There’s a diverter valve on it, the tube just dead ends under the sink. Is it for clearing out the water or priming the pump?

u/dbsoundman — 4 hours ago

Can I close up this vent behind my non propane fridge?

I was exploring my 2019 Jayco today and noticed there’s a vent open to the outside behind my refrigerator. Originally I think this camper had a propane fridge but now it has a 120VAC unit.

My questions:

  1. Should I seal up this air shaft? I can put a vent in place of the interior panel to dissipate heat from the fridge. Just seems silly to vent it outside like this.
  2. I was contemplating getting an inverter to keep the fridge running while we’re off shore power. Should I go that route, or pursue another propane fridge? I know there are 12VDC fridges now too but last I checked they’re pretty spendy.
u/dbsoundman — 4 hours ago

Docker compose health check for newt

I use one newt container for multiple docker containers. I would like each container to have a healthcheck that makes sure newt is up. I can’t find any documentation that indicates there’s a way to do a docker healthcheck on newt. Is this possible or am I going about this wrong? I didn’t really want to have one newt container for each docker stack that needs pangolin but I suppose I can do that if I have to.

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u/dbsoundman — 3 days ago

Brass plated hardware cleanup and replating

I’ve been gradually going through pieces of door hardware from my 1915 home, using the old crockpot trick to cook off the gunk. I had assumed that everything in this house was originally yellow brass, but I was kind of surprised to see the bright coppery color on some of these pieces. I assume that’s because the brass plating came off and the copper plating stayed on. Based on my rudimentary understanding of electroplating, when one wants a brass finish over steel one has to copper plate the item first.

Can I replate any of these as is or do I need to go some step further? Or should I treat them some other way? I tried doing spray paint and clearcoat on the bathroom handset to see how it held up, and it looks OK, but I think it’s starting to come off after a year.

u/dbsoundman — 6 days ago

Favorite AirTag collars?

I have an indoor guy that wants to be a wilderness explorer, so we’re going to try fitting him with a collar and see if he goes for it. I ordered an AirTag for him and see there’s lots of collar options. Wanted to see which ones you all like the best for your explorer cats.

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u/dbsoundman — 11 days ago
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Lose the fender flares?

NSFW for those not from the rust belt.

Seeing as I’m going to be doing bondo work on this thing for the foreseeable future (because no I don’t want to cut and weld both sides of the rear quarter panel), I’m thinking of pulling all the plastic fender flares front and rear so I can keep an eye on the rust. Is there any reason why I shouldn’t go through with this? I pulled the rears to work on rust mitigation back there but I’m definitely leaning toward leaving them off.

u/dbsoundman — 12 days ago

Paperless GPT prompts/config for Gemini?

I don’t have hardware capable of running LLM‘s with any useful amount of speed here, so I’m using Gemini with paperless GPT. Previously, I was trying to tune it to work with a tiny ollama model, so the prompts are more basic than the defaults. I think I have the proper API configuration with Gemini now as I can see successful HTTP codes in the logs, but when I ran “generate suggestions” I only got error messages in the results indicating I didn’t provide a document or something along those lines. Each document had a one sentence response indicating an error or problem but they were all a little different. Are there specific prompts or other configurations I need to use to make this work?

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u/dbsoundman — 18 days ago

Paperless-GPT prompts for Google Gemini?

I don’t have hardware capable of running LLM‘s with any useful amount of speed here, so I’m using Gemini with paperless GPT. Previously, I was trying to tune it to work with a tiny ollama model, so the prompts are more basic than the defaults. I think I have the proper API configuration with Gemini now as I can see successful HTTP codes in the logs, but when I ran “generate suggestions” I only got error messages in the results indicating I didn’t provide a document or something along those lines. Each document had a one sentence response indicating an error or problem but they were all a little different. Are there specific prompts or other configurations I need to use to make this work?

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u/dbsoundman — 18 days ago

Weekly income for monthly budgeting

Hi all, new to Actual Budget. I was working on my budget and realized I have a bit of an odd situation: I get paid weekly by my employer, which means some months I have 5 deposits and others I have 4. Is there some way to get AB to understand this so the income figures are automatically correct? For now it looks like I just have to put in a 4 week income figure in the budget and deal with the projected savings/overspending figure manually. I created a schedule for my income but it doesn't affect the "budgeted" value for the month. I would prefer it to look at the schedule and input my income for that month based on that month's calendar.

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u/dbsoundman — 1 month ago

Mortise lock issue - can’t turn inside handle when outside lock button is set

Don’t know the proper terminology here, but the tl;dr is if I press the button on the face of the lock which is supposed to lock the door from the outside only, it locks both the inside and outside at the same time. I’m not sure if I need a different type of ”handle shaft” or if I’m just missing a part. As usual when I took this lock apart initially it sort of exploded on the workbench so I had to piece it back together myself.

u/dbsoundman — 1 month ago

How do you manage SSL for internal only services?

For those of you that have https set up for all of your self hosted apps, how do you manage certificates for apps that you don’t put on the web? For example I don’t need my arr stack to be accessible via the public internet, so I access it using local DNS on my LAN like Prowlarr.myhomedomain.home. If I were to use a valid TLD like .xyz, what’s the best way to issue and manage certificates for Prowlarr.myhomedomain.xyz without having to run it through traefik, caddy, etc.? I want to keep access to the service simple but add https for compatibility with an oauth app in the future.

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u/dbsoundman — 2 months ago

Camera recommendation for zoom capability

I live one house down from a four way stop and kind of want to set up a camera above my second story window so I can watch the hijinks down there. (The only window that faces that direction is my bathroom and I don’t usually stand in there watching traffic often.) Can anyone recommend a decent camera that has a good fixed zoom capability? I have a Reolink PTZ camera I like but I don’t know that I need the PTZ or dual lens capability here so much as a good optical zoom that will stay fixed at a set value.

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u/dbsoundman — 2 months ago

RV king bed conversion?

Contemplating some new campers, and my wife found some newer units with RV or camper king beds and now she’s made that a requirement. There’s not a ton of those out there yet, and I looked up the dimensions and saw that it’s just a 72” wide bed instead of the normal 60” queen. My thought is that we could just extend the bed platform to make a king fit on a queen, at least in the right unit with adequate space around the sides. Am I missing anything here?

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u/dbsoundman — 2 months ago

I’m currently running frigate on a Lenovo mini pc with a USB hard drive attached for frigate media storage. I’m reorganizing some things and considered using a TrueNAS appliance as storage instead, connected via NFS. Are there any advantages or disadvantages to either strategy other than the obvious data redundancy advantages of the NAS?

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u/dbsoundman — 2 months ago