u/smontanaro

I feel a little like an interloper, as I'm not really a vintage Apple enthusiast (though I was an Apple user before this stuff was "vintage"). I inherited a bunch of Macs from a friend who never threw anything out. I got a few later Intel Macs running and passed them along. Then I encountered an iBook G4 which stumped me. I put everything away for a couple years, then returned to the pile, determined to free up the space they consumed.

I have a working iBook G3 and a non-working iBook G4 (disassembled, my apologies). I certainly don't follow the market for this stuff, so don't quite know what to ask. How about $100 plus shipping (continental US) for the working G3 and the non-working G4?

On my pretty new Pixel 10, I do not receive Signal notifications at all. They aren't delayed. They simply never appear. I only notice new messages when I happen to open the app.

I've been through the FAQ on troubleshooting Signal notifications, and despite trouble following the changing landscape of the settings hierarchy, I think it boils down to Adaptive Battery not allowing Signal to run in the background.

Is there no way to tell my phone to make an exception for Signal, letting it run in the background, even when Adapative Battery is enabled? I rely on that setting to keep the phone from fully charging at night, long before I wake up. I'd much rather wake to find the phone is only 80-90% charged than for it to have been fully charged for six hours.

I've seen references to filtering activities by the gear used (from activities page, select sport, then select gear), but that doesn't work for me. It just shows me the details for that particular gear choice (in my case, one of my several bikes). It doesn't actually filter my activities based on the bike I entered.

I'm a free user. Is this perhaps one of the paywall-hidden aspects of Strava?

I seem to be unable to get my eero 7 (192.168.86.1) to direct DNS queries to my Raspberry Pi (192.168.86.26). Under Advanced Networking, I set the Pi to be my primary DNS server and 1.1.1.1 to be secondary (both for IPv4). I have not servers set for IPv6.

If I query my Pi for its IP address, it works:

% host pi 192.168.86.26
Using domain server:
Name: 192.168.86.26
Address: 192.168.86.26#53
Aliases: 

pi has address 192.168.86.26

If I let things default or direct the query to 192.168.86.1 it fails:

% host pi
Host pi not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
% host pi 192.168.86.1
Using domain server:
Name: 192.168.86.1
Address: 192.168.86.1#53
Aliases: 

Host pi not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

I can't tell where the DNS query is going by default or when routed to the eero. It's clearly not winding up at my Raspberry Pi. This all used to work with my old Google mesh setup. I'm clearly missing something, but what?

We have cable Internet through RCN/Astound. I believe our plan is advertised to be around 800Mbps. When I connect my Raspberry Pi directly to my cable modem or my primary Google mesh wi-fi router via Ethernet (the router is connected to the cable modem using Ethernet as well), I get download speeds of 700+Mbps. Close enough. I measured download speeds using the speedtest CLI tool.

When I run the test via wi-fi, I only get 70-100Mbps download speeds. I get similar download speeds via wi-fi on my MacBook Pro, so I don't think the Pi is a problem.

Thinking my Google mesh was possibly out-of-date (first gen, pre-Nest, who knows if Google is even updating it anymore), I bought an Eero 7 system. I got similar download speeds with it (plenty fast enough via Ethernet, not so good via wi-fi). Am I expecting too much performance from wi-fi? It seems unlikely there's an obvious problem with the cable modem (Arris of some ilk, bought to support Gbit speeds when we upgraded a couple years ago).

We have a first generation Google mesh wifi router in our house. It's served us well, but seems to clearly be showing its age. I just bought an Eero 7, which should be here tomorrow.

I have a few settings which ideally I would want to move from the old system to the new:

• a handful of static IP mappings
• main network SSID and password
• ditto for the guest SSID and password

Any hope that I can extract these bits without resorting to the good old (mistake-prone) pencil and paper?

RedReader works and is set to "open by default" a whole bunch of Reddit links. It never does. I get a nightly summary email from Reddit. If I tap a link it's opened in my browser (Brave — I disabled Chrome). Generally, if I tap the post title (for text posts), RedReader then gets the call. If there are images to view, I tap them, they are displayed (again, in Brave) with a View Post button at the bottom. If I tap that, the post opens in RR. Annoying, but okay.

This morning, I am unable to get any Reddit links directed to RR. Previous actions which would have enlisted RR now open the Play Store, prompting me to install the Reddit app.

Pixel 10, up-to-date Android 16. RedReader was last updated over a month ago. The system was last updated a month ago. The sort of working behavior worked yesterday, but it's completely broken this morning. I see nothing which has changed which might have changed the behavior. I've tried disabling then enabling open by default in RR. I restarted the phone. After sending this note I will try reinstalling RR. Any other suggestions?