I wish that were the case, but I also have a VLAN’d virtual interface with a different SSID on the 2.4 radio and it’s not discovering that or the other SSIDs around the neighborhood that I’d normally see. But it’s an interesting point, I hadn’t encountered that one before.

PerfectAire bought via Home Depot online.

Very quiet. Like almost unnoticeable, even the compressor unit is almost silent. Maybe that changes when it gets hot but it’s been rainy and cool for the last week so it wasn’t exactly getting a workout. Can’t be any noisier than the PAM unit it replaces.

It has wifi with some app called ConnectLife that has a Home Assistant integration available, but I couldn’t seem to get it to hook up to my wifi, it just sets up an AP I can connect to with the app, and then fails to find any wifi networks to let me connect it to permanently. It says in the manual that it’ll only connect to 2.4GHz networks, but I have both frequencies active on my router, and no dice. I’m not really heartbroken about that, I can use the remote. I might try turning it off and on again and see if it smartens up.

The extra lineset is just coiled next to the condensor, you can’t shorten it or you’d have to flare-fit the ends, and evac and charge it. It’s fine where it is, I had maybe 6’ of extra which is a couple coils. They’re ziptied to the joists of the decking above it.

Might have taken 8 or 10 hours to put in with the electrical since I had to rearrange my breaker box a bit to free up a slot for a 20A double pole. I do have to anchor the unit down yet but it doesn’t vibrate or anything so I wasn’t too worried about it. It would have been much faster if I could have just gone through an outside wall and had the condenser mounted on the wall or a sidewalk block under it. But I had to open up a hole in the stairwell ceiling and work inside a cramped spiderwebby cubbyhole, then crawl under a deck to put the condenser under there and lay on my side to do up the connections and wire it. I’d say 6 hours if just going through the wall and if electrical was easier.

Say 2800 with the time? Which is less than just the install price I was quoted to put one in, let alone the cost of the unit.

The coupling system seems pretty robust compared to the run of the mill flare fitting that you’d find on a normal install. Also, they are not just quick couplers, they’re inside a JIC so there’s a backup seal there. Maybe not as good as brazed, but flare fittings work well enough on equipment. It does have ports for charging so I could always refit with brazed lineset some day and recharge.

We’ll see. Typical charge for installing one of these things around here is upwards of $4000, on top of the $4000 they charge for a $1500 unit. I’ll take my chances since I’m all of $1800 into it. And compared to my old 4t AC PAM unit, I’m pretty sure I’ll save that in a year.

Completely charged. The linesets are evacuated and the compressor and head unit are precharged. If you use more than the 25’ lineset they come with, then you might have to add freon. While I do have the tools and freon around to add some if I needed as I often do AC work on my ag equipment, I didn’t have to use any. They recommend adding a certain amount if you have to use additional lineset though.

The fittings all have a dual o-ring sealing system and you can hear them pressurize when you tighten them up. Once you have it all together, you open the valves on the compressor to open the loop.

You basically check for studs, tape the pattern for the head unit to the wall where you want it, drill the lineset hole and screw the mount on. Push the lineset bundle through the wall and clip the head unit to the mount. Bend the lineset carefully so you don’t kink the copper but that seems harder to fuck up than you would think. They bend fairly nice.

If you aren’t familiar with electrical, you might want to have that done for you, but I’ve done my own electrical work for years so I wasn’t too worried about that. But you definitely don’t need to be an HVAC tech to put these in, it’s dead simple.

Birds.

They include a drainage tube that you bundle along with the lineset, making sure to keep it on the bottom of the bundle all the way and through the wall.

I was pretty careful to make sure I had a constant slope so it didn’t leave a belly to collect condensate, and I taped the joints in the tubing. I did have to go through a dead space over my basement stairs so I’ve left an access panel to be able to check that periodically. Ideally, you’d just mount it on an outside wall and there wouldn’t be any place at risk other than through the wall itself, but I didn’t have a place close enough to mount the pump unit where it wasn’t ugly.

Mir wasn’t adopted and is now a Wayland compositor.

I think they’ve made those for years with bushings instead of bearings on the impeller shaft, and when it’s clapped out, it’s done.

Goddamn, be careful. That sort of temperature can wreck more than your glasses.

It’ll work for quick bash scripts and one-off things like that. But there’s not usually enough context window unless you’re using a 24G GPU or such.

I prefer that Walther band, they’re edgy.

Well, if I have a deer, I usually bone them out on the hook. Moose or elk, I usually do the primals and steak them on the bandsaw and then work on them inside. So a 24x48 surface works fine.

Don’t have a Harbour Freight here but I might see what I can find from our usual suspects.

Thanks for the idea.

It’s actually got me thinking. I was going to stick with stainless for butchering game on, but that would work too.

You have a woodworking bench in your kitchen?

I’ve had a couple grizzly encounters that thankfully went fine. I don’t want to meet this guy.

I must have been mistaken about the spreadsheet, but Joe Ressington (Alan’s cohost on 2.5Admins) came back with this:

https://diskprices.com/

Though it doesn’t target Serverparts it does give a good list to get part numbers. He suggested Seagates since you can check the SMART data on them and nobody has figured out how to spoof it yet on Seagate drives (supposedly).

Sorry about that.

I could swear I remember Alan Jude had built a spreadsheet specifically like this, that got all the current prices of drives from Serverparts and organized it exactly that way.

I’ll email him and see if I was just imagining that.

Gnome terminal got tabs? Last time I used that piece of shit, it didn’t even have that.

I swear, if this was 50 years go, this thread would be people talking about keeping their typewriters, dagnabbit.

The Wireguard mode is very interesting. Thanks for that link.