Youtube caught wind of some research I was doing on whole-home surge protection
For fun, I watched it, immediately skipped over a ton of the blathering nonsense and found that they're worthless for actual protection on a home and pointless for a car.
Looks like someone took the assignment literally for installing high, mid, and low band antennas
Just joined the Mesh and some buildings I’m in are too dense to reach the repeaters vs. my car outside usually can hit
When I set my spare node for repeater in the app, it changes to 918mhz and stops answering pings.
Is this for ad-hoc networks only?
About once per summer, there will be a gnarly storm and the 240V chargers are now casualties.
So far:
Nissan OEM
BMW Turbocord
Both of them still work on 120V, it’s just inconveniently slow some days…
A whole home surge protector was installed before I got the turbocord, so it’s strange to have it get zapped too
Is it ground strikes causing the issue or something else exotic with the fire from the sky?
The Squee Gees
Rich Solar's 8k inverter does not like my power setup as it would fault out hard in full sun without any sort of predictable pattern and it wouldn't autorecover the AC bus when it got upset.
With that, they elected refund than fiddling with it further.
It's a nice unit, but it needs a full overhaul in power logic to gracefully restart DC and AC side systems for transient flux.
With that, which brand/inverter model has been absolutely rock-solid for you?
Needs:
Grid input
7-8kw output
48V battery support
2-3 MPPT's
IP65 would be nice, but I can do indoor ones once the garage is framed in.
I rescued a Jeep from the trash (Blue wrangler) and it's behaving in a very weird way/the wiring doesn't make sense.
The left motor spins fine, but the right doesn't work.
If I put power directly on the right one, they both spin
Replacing the switches has fixed reverse, but not dual wheel drive or low speed.
I can fix it really quick with some alligator clips and before I pursue that, are there any other hacks/tweaks to get it to behave?
I had a clever thought the other day as another avenue to fully removing Flock's illegal presence in our great states is to leverage the tourism boards.
Tell your state's tourism and subsequent revenue depends on the freedom of movement of The People and Flock adversely affects this freedom of movement.
Any city without Focking flock should get priority in recommendations and hidden gem recommendations over ones that do flock up the people and their freedoms.
I gave a flockian staff member some grief on Twitter a while back…
Found out that Garrett openly admits to everything about Flock lying about “safety”
By submerging them
That reminds me of a story...
From Whirlwind Computing - a fictional service provider so good it will really blow your socks off
The company affected is one we can regiomize is a care-home of sorts...
Actors:
$Me - Calling the shots... remotely
$Nerds - My minions... experts in their craft
$Phone - Calling the shots... onsite
$Director - Also calling the shots... onsite
Scene:
This place started bubbling up to the top of the support queue with multiple requests of something is just really off with the network with reports of it being slow, dragging, and just being an absolute dog when it comes to being on wifi.
That's weird because wifi coverage was very good as the wire-flavoured spark wranglers made sure it passed muster and the mustard.
We sent techs multiple times to bless the creaking network and also to make an assuring presence that nothing was being a problem.
Murphy clearly had other plans as we were wrong about what was wrong the first four times they went out.
The Director got involved and told the reps to fix the network or he's replacing everything as it's impeding actual business operations and making the whole team very hot, cross, and bothered.
I grabbed the laptop and camped out staring at the all-knowing Shark of the Wires, filtering by Arp, Dns (always DNS) then Dhcp... wait a second!
Why is 192.168.4.27 sending out DHCP ACKS to DHCP requests?
I took a closer look at the Mac address which showed it was a phone, but why on earth would it be doing the DHCP thing?
I assembled the Nerd Herd^(TM) and they swept the building with the precision of a highly trained black-ops team as there were 20 of them to check, so I give them full credit for finding it within 7 minutes.
One reboot later and things started to swim back into service while the phone was off-hook and strangely, it hasn't been a problem ever since.
We have well 1500 phones deployed, this is the first and hopefully last time one of them became the embodiment of DHCP with a flair for the dramatic.
The lesson here is that if there's ever an event for what feels like a rogue DHCP server, check the phones, you never know what you might find.
PS:
If it helps, I did remember the lessons from previous stories of various laptop docks randomly becoming port mirrors and how they wreaked havoc on the network, so we covered both in that sweep.
I want to level up the garage and deck in a renovation project, but my interviews with the credit unions and local banks has not gone well.
My regional bank only does Equity-Mortgage options at 7.9% or whole-home/new build construction loans which sounds like I'm going to be paying a lot more than needed.
With that, who is a good lender for this kind of construction loan?
$15,000 is the reported build price from the garage team and $7000 is from the decking crew
We all know that Marsha is not a viable option...
Right now, I'm not asking for people's opinions on the candidates as it will not be a productive time.
Objectivity is key, describe the candidate that has what it takes or advertises to that degree based on X, Y, and Z criteria - like time in the political sphere, campaign promises that are reasonable, legitimate tax plans, etc.
Nebulous warm-fuzzies mean there is no plan, we need to see who has put the work into seeing what Tennessee needs and what it would take to keep things moving
For example, Monty Fritts has a tagline of liberty and less government
Awesome!
But what is the actual plan in order to achieve this?
Background:
Running a file server as a staging ground to drop data ingests by a set of servers, process-massage the data into something cute and adorable, and then export off into the database of wonders and miracles called /dev/null
The service account has full SMB access to the share to Read/Write/Delete the data and it's supposed to automagically remove post-process, and it does mostly until we get in these weird folders with a strange set of permissions and attributes that are completely unreadable by the Local/Remote/Domain/Super Admins.
We've tried setting the owner and granting the privs to the folder, but it kicks back with access denied.
Escalating things to takeown/icacls on the offending folders & files with every /force /recursive switch still gets permission denied
I even ran PSexec as NT/System and I still get permission denied on those two commands.
With that, what is the nuclear option for this kind of force-delete or attribute replacement where Windows does not ask questions, it just does it.
Two hosts are fine, the third one just drops the Netapp (AFF220) the moment I try to vMotion to it or create new VM's
They all have the latest round of 8.0.3 updates
Replaced the DAC cable on Host3 to resolve if it was a Layer1 issue, but no improvement, the MTU is 9000 on all VMK + Netapp interfaces and all plugged into the same 10gig switch
VMKlogs complain about massive I/O latency and a constant loop of dropping and reconnecting to the datastore
NFS41VolumeLatencyUpdate:7622: NFS41 volume VM Data performance has deteriorated. I/0 latency increased
Average value of 0(us) to 2749149(us).
Exceeded threshold 10000(us)
cpu2:2098343 opID=ec9b475)WARNING: NFS41: NFS41FileIOSync:790: Synchronous IO on obj 0x43093df9b00 (fh 0x4314eee13aa8) failecon #0
NFS41: NFS41_ConnectionRemove:1307: Connection: 0x43171020c040 [1] addr: tcp 10.10.20.20.8.1
NFS41: NFS41ClusterDestroy:2578: Destroying cluster: 0x43171020d690 flags: 0x10
WARNING: NFS41: NFS41FileIOSync:790: Synchronous IO on obj 0x4309e3dc5940 (fh 0x431710210a7) failed
WARNING: SunRPC: 4847: fail all pending calls for client 0x4310b8601370 IP 10.10.20.21.8.1 (socket half closed)
2026-06-1718: 33:11.998Z Wa(180) vmkwarning: cpu9:2097761)WARNING: NFS41: NFS41FSAPDNotify:6856: Lost connection to the server 10.10.20.20,10.10.20.21 mount point VM Data,
mounted as 371560c8-ba89eb8b-0000-000000000000 ("/VM Data")
cpu®: 2097759)NFS41: NFS41ProcessSessionReset:3942: Session Reset - XPRT UP, Issuing EXCHANGE_ID with Random Backoff
cpu®: 2097759)NFS41: NFS41IssueExid:1899: Issuing EXCHANGE_ID on Connection tcp:10.10.20.20.8.1 with 13834 US delay cpu2: 2097759)NFS41: NFS41ProcessExidResult:2397: clientid fbd5d30000004e20 roles 0x60000
cpu9:2097761)NFS41: NFS41ProcessClusterProbeResult:4349: Reclaiming state, cluster 0x431710204d80 [0]
cpu9:2097761)NFS41: NFS41ClusterReclaimState:3934: Reclaiming state for fs 0x4317102058c0 on cluster 0x431710204d80 [0]
vmkwarning: cpu3:2097764)WARNING: NFS41: NFS410penReclaimDoneWork:6138: Failed to reclaim objDesc 0x43093d5770 open status: Failure; rqst
0x43171020c0f8 cmpd status: NFS4ERR NO GRACE
vmkwarning: cpu3:2097764)WARNING: NFS41: NFS410penReclaimDoneWork:6138: Failed to reclaim objDesc 0x4309e3de6ff0 open status: Failure; rqst
0x43171020c918 cmpd status: NFS4ERR_NO_GRACE
vmkwarning: cpu11:2097766)WARNING: NFS41: NFS410penReclaimDoneWork:6138: Failed to reclaim objDesc 0x43093d5940 open status: Failure; ras t 0x431710215198 cmpd status: NFS4ERR_NO_GRACE
vmkernel: cpu11:2097766)NFS41: NFS410penReclaimDoneWork:6158: FS:0x4317102058c® reclaim completed on cluster:0x431710204d80[®]
vmkernel: cpu9:2097761)StorageApdHandler: 1304: APD exit for 0x43171020320 [371560c8-ba89eb8b-0000-000000000000]
vmkernel: cpu9:2097761)NFS41: NFS41FSAPDNotify:6921: Restored connection to the server 10.10.19.21,10.10.19.22 mount point VM Data, mounted as 371560c8-ba89eb8b-0000-000000000000 ("/VM Data")
vmkernel: cpu3:2097358)StorageApdHandler: 500: APD exit event for 0x43171020320 [371560c8-ba89eb8b-0000-000000000000, 01
vmkwarning: cpu1:2098357)WARNING: NFS41: NFS41FileOpGetFileAttributes:4681: Failed to get file attributes for object 0x43093de1380 name 37
1560c8-ba89eb8b-0000-000000000000: I0 was aborted
Two hosts are fine, the third one just drops the Netapp (AFF220) the moment I try to vMotion to it or create new VM's
They all have the latest round of 8.0.3 updates
Replaced the DAC cable on Host3 to resolve if it was a Layer1 issue, but no improvement, the MTU is 9000 on all VMK + Netapp interfaces and all plugged into the same 10gig switch
VMKlogs complain about massive I/O latency and a constant loop of dropping and reconnecting to the datastore
NFS41VolumeLatencyUpdate:7622: NFS41 volume VM Data performance has deteriorated. I/0 latency increased
Average value of 0(us) to 2749149(us).
Exceeded threshold 10000(us)
cpu2:2098343 opID=ec9b475)WARNING: NFS41: NFS41FileIOSync:790: Synchronous IO on obj 0x43093df9b00 (fh 0x4314eee13aa8) failecon #0
NFS41: NFS41_ConnectionRemove:1307: Connection: 0x43171020c040 [1] addr: tcp 10.10.20.20.8.1
NFS41: NFS41ClusterDestroy:2578: Destroying cluster: 0x43171020d690 flags: 0x10
WARNING: NFS41: NFS41FileIOSync:790: Synchronous IO on obj 0x4309e3dc5940 (fh 0x431710210a7) failed
WARNING: SunRPC: 4847: fail all pending calls for client 0x4310b8601370 IP 10.10.20.21.8.1 (socket half closed)
2026-06-1718: 33:11.998Z Wa(180) vmkwarning: cpu9:2097761)WARNING: NFS41: NFS41FSAPDNotify:6856: Lost connection to the server 10.10.20.20,10.10.20.21 mount point VM Data,
mounted as 371560c8-ba89eb8b-0000-000000000000 ("/VM Data")
cpu®: 2097759)NFS41: NFS41ProcessSessionReset:3942: Session Reset - XPRT UP, Issuing EXCHANGE_ID with Random Backoff
cpu®: 2097759)NFS41: NFS41IssueExid:1899: Issuing EXCHANGE_ID on Connection tcp:10.10.20.20.8.1 with 13834 US delay cpu2: 2097759)NFS41: NFS41ProcessExidResult:2397: clientid fbd5d30000004e20 roles 0x60000
cpu9:2097761)NFS41: NFS41ProcessClusterProbeResult:4349: Reclaiming state, cluster 0x431710204d80 [0]
cpu9:2097761)NFS41: NFS41ClusterReclaimState:3934: Reclaiming state for fs 0x4317102058c0 on cluster 0x431710204d80 [0]
vmkwarning: cpu3:2097764)WARNING: NFS41: NFS410penReclaimDoneWork:6138: Failed to reclaim objDesc 0x43093d5770 open status: Failure; rqst
0x43171020c0f8 cmpd status: NFS4ERR NO GRACE
vmkwarning: cpu3:2097764)WARNING: NFS41: NFS410penReclaimDoneWork:6138: Failed to reclaim objDesc 0x4309e3de6ff0 open status: Failure; rqst
0x43171020c918 cmpd status: NFS4ERR_NO_GRACE
vmkwarning: cpu11:2097766)WARNING: NFS41: NFS410penReclaimDoneWork:6138: Failed to reclaim objDesc 0x43093d5940 open status: Failure; ras t 0x431710215198 cmpd status: NFS4ERR_NO_GRACE
vmkernel: cpu11:2097766)NFS41: NFS410penReclaimDoneWork:6158: FS:0x4317102058c® reclaim completed on cluster:0x431710204d80[®]
vmkernel: cpu9:2097761)StorageApdHandler: 1304: APD exit for 0x43171020320 [371560c8-ba89eb8b-0000-000000000000]
vmkernel: cpu9:2097761)NFS41: NFS41FSAPDNotify:6921: Restored connection to the server 10.10.19.21,10.10.19.22 mount point VM Data, mounted as 371560c8-ba89eb8b-0000-000000000000 ("/VM Data")
vmkernel: cpu3:2097358)StorageApdHandler: 500: APD exit event for 0x43171020320 [371560c8-ba89eb8b-0000-000000000000, 01
vmkwarning: cpu1:2098357)WARNING: NFS41: NFS41FileOpGetFileAttributes:4681: Failed to get file attributes for object 0x43093de1380 name 37
1560c8-ba89eb8b-0000-000000000000: I0 was aborted
This guy highlights The Flock Problem in detail
This guy was able to realize the errors of the hate-first religion
It also highlights how fact-checking unverified claims goes a long way in establishing a moral boundary with logic
The Youtube Algo was kind to me tonight, the Hawkstone Choir did a thing and knocked it out of the park
Every day is a good day for a cuppa