MacOS 26 (Tahoe) includes important audio-related bug fixes from Apple, and the recent 26.1 update is essential. We’re now confident in recommending Tahoe to you.
I recently bought the TP-Link NE200, one of the few outdoor 5G modems on the market. As I couldn't find any unboxing videos, and the product descriptions didn't specify what was included, I decided to make my first unboxing and installation video. It's quite amateurish, but maybe someone will find it useful.
@miroslavbucek Yes, it's a Chinese device connected to the Internet, but so was the previous Huawei modem. Not happy about it, but by the time my data gets to the modem, it's all encrypted.
Which 5G modem can be placed indoors and can be connected to an external antenna via an ethernet cable? The other two I'm aware of are Mikrotik ATL 5G R16, which is sadly much slower than NE200, and Zyxel FWA-710, which is sadly almost twice as expensive.
Note that although it's called router, I use it only as an antenna/modem. It's connected to Unifi Dream Machine, so isolated from the home network by NAT and UDM does all the heavy lifting.
I use the Ubiquiti U-LTE-Pro, and yes, a secure device will cost more. But you’ll get security updates for years. It’s not about encryption - what if the device gets remotely disabled? Imagine an information war breaks out, and China sends a magic packet that shuts down all Chinese devices, turning them into black bricks.
@miroslavbucek Ubiquiti U-LTE-Pro is sadly only LTE. I'm paying for 1 Gbps and get real speeds 550-650 Mbps. There are many LTE modems to choose from, but I don't want a device that can only run at 1/6 of the speed I'm paying for. At the moment there are very few 5G modems. Like 3-4 you can use outdoors.
I'm not much concerned about getting disconnected remotely. I have a fallback WAN connected to UDM (with a much lower speed, but useable) and 3 phones to use if necessary.
But yeah, as I said I'm not super happy about buying a Chinese device and I'm willing to pay 20-30% extra for non-Chinese, but if the only comparable non-Chinese option is 100% extra, it's too much even for me.
But in the end, it’s always cheaper to vote with your wallet than later with weapons. Why are Chinese devices so cheap? Because they don’t care about the environment or people - and the strategic ones are even subsidized by a totalitarian regime.
If it's matter of national security, it can't really be left on individual consumer choices. If Chinese products are a threat to national security, let's put tariffs on them and make them sell for a fair price.
Ondráš Přibyla had a really good point in his talk about decarbonization of Czechia at OpenAlt: it's pointless to appeal to individuals not to fly or eat meat when it would only save 4% of CO2 emissions if they all went with it. It's about making policies that make it unprofitable for a handful of enteprises that make up 40% of emissions.
It's the same here. I can beat myself for buying Chinese products, but it's meaningless if O2 comes and buys 100k Huawei modems because they're simply cheaper.
Teltonika is good, still expensive, but seems well maintained and produced in Europe. I will consider it next time.
Jirko díky za video. Jen za sebe důležitý 💡 tip na příště - dělat z videa natočeného na výšku video na šířku je na mobilu nekoukatelné. Na desktopu se to dá přežít.
Vůbec s tím nemám zkušenosti jako tvůrce, ale jako uživatel prostě když jsou videa na výšku, tak je to na mobilu naprosto v pohodě, dám maximalizovat a vidím je na výšku. Jenže u toho tvého dám maximalizovat a nevidím stejně "nic".
Většina lidí to asi přežije, ale třeba se náhodou najde ještě jeden další jako já, který se prostě na malý video koukat nedokáže a radši to vypne.
@kepi ahoj, jsem si toho vědom. Celé jsem to chtěl dělat na šířku, ostatní části videa tak jsou, ale půjčoval jsem si držák na mobil od @RezzaBuh a na poslední chvíli zjistil, že v něm může být mobil jen na výšku. Tak jsem to holt natočil s tímto kompromisem. Za úkol jsem si dal pořídit si držák, kde ten mobil bude moct být na šířku.
no... to přesně ukazuje, že se na to dívat nezvládnu, protože já sem se prostě dál nedíval a tím pádem mi nedošlo, že tam jsou pak části na šířku :) Pak ten kompromis naprosto chápu. @RezzaBuh
A few days after Christmas, a mom was tidying up in the kitchen while her young son played with his brand-new electric train set in the living room.
Suddenly, she heard him shout: “Alright, everyone off! Grab your junk and scram—this is the last stop! And if you’re getting on, move it! We don’t have all day!”
Her eyes widened in shock. She marched into the room and said, “Excuse me, mister! That is not how we speak in this house. You go to your room right now and think about your tone. You can come back in two hours and try again—with manners!”
Two hours later, the boy returned to his train set, picked up the remote, and started again.
His mom listened from the kitchen as he sweetly announced: “Ladies and gentlemen, we hope you enjoyed your ride. Please take all personal items with you as you leave. Thank you for choosing our train service today!”
Then he continued, “For our new passengers, welcome aboard! Kindly store your bags and find a seat. Just a reminder—this is a no-smoking train. We wish you a safe and pleasant journey.”
The mom grinned, feeling proud of the improvement… until he added:
“And if anyone’s mad about the two-hour delay, please see the rude and angry woman stuck in the kitchen.”
It's a tradition at least 5,000 years old (when Egyptians started the Bastet cult), that people love cat pics. So we said, why not – and let the cat in:
* Lumi: lets you fetch cat photos of Minky 🛡️
RB status: 747 apps (57.9%)
Will we make the 60% this year? will Minky help? Find out more at… err…
Related, it's insane how bad Google's account handling actually is.
My "primary" account is the personal one, but I also have a secondary work account logged in. Whenever I click on a Google Meet link from Calendar, I'd expect it to open with my work account automatically (as that is the only one that has access). That... does not happen.
NEW: Apple is planning to use a custom 1.2 trillion parameter Google Gemini model to help power the new Siri next year. The iPhone maker will be paying the search giant roughly $1 billion annually for it. Details on the partnership here bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
#prosba Kdyby jste někdo zahlédl dobrou slevu na 'BOSE Soundlink Micro 2nd Gen, pošlete prosím odkaz. Sice si to hlídám scripty v několika obchodech, ale slevy nic moc a jsou jen na první generaci, Vlče po tom touží, ale ač Vánoce v nedohlednu, už jedu v mínusu.
Peter Buchner übernahm die Berliner S-Bahn, als sie am Boden lag. 16 Jahre arbeitete er unermüdlich, um sie besser zu machen. „So einen wie ihn gibt es kein zweites Mal“, heißt es in der Belegschaft.
📱 ¡Descubre Ecobox! En este vídeo de AliBlueBox te presento una aplicación única, diseñada especialmente para personas ciegas o con baja visión.👨💻 Desarr...
To make the open web safer, Google is launching *website owner verification*. Starting in 2026, Google will require all websites to be registered in order to be opened on Chrome.
All website owners are encouraged to sign up for early access. This is the best way to get ready and stay updated.
To get verified, all you need to do is providing your personal details, upload an official ID, and pay a 25$.
For hobbyists, Google is working on another console so you can add every Google accounts that are allowed to see your website.
And as Google is committed to keep the web open, they will provide a command line interface to open a single page of a non-verified website, but it's very dangerous and your Chrome will lose its certification. This will allow banks to forbid access to their website from non-certified Chrome.
When you call Vispero, please show extra kindness to their sales and support staff. As someone who provided support full-time and who still takes support calls when needed, I can only imagine how rough it must be for them to be dealing with confused, resentful and angry customers. Remember, they don't make top-level decisions. They might not even agree with them but please don't ask them what they think about them as they can't tell you, they surely won't tell you and it's likely that calls are being recorded and they're trying to be professional and to represent the company and its products in the best possible light. Please thank them for their service.
Testing #ClaudeCode for web. It's all great and good, but it would be nice if there were a setting not to spawn Git branches per session. I want Claude to co-work with me on a branch I've already created, so now I need to first make a PR to that branch, then merge to Master. #Claude #AI
We've covered how Meta Ray-Bans could have been worn by CBP during ICE raids, how it's being modded for facial recognition, and how it's being used as a spy tool.
Every time Meta argues: What is the difference between Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and an iPhone?
A woman was carrying a large basket of eggs when a passer-by bumped her and she dropped the basket and all the eggs broke. The passer-by asked how many eggs there had been.
Wanted: a lightweight open-source OCR engine, ideally as light as the OCR engine built into Windows 10/11 (apparently intended for mobile apps while MS was still trying to play that game), so not one of the current heavy deep-learning-based implementations, but also as good at handling color screenshots (particularly those with a mix of background/foreground color schemes) as Windows OCR. In my experience Tesseract fails on that latter point; would love to know if I'm just missing some trick.
Mamdani thinks that Hamas are "freedom fighters". The fact that the right caricatures him as a monster makes it seem false. It isn't. New York elected someone who doesn't hide their hatred for Jews and the lesson is that the younger generation apparently doesn't remember what happens when that happens.
If you're celebrating his win, you're celebrating his hatred. It's okay to give a shit about socialist politics but if you're willing to buy that at the expense of bigotry, you're no different than the republicans who hold their noses and vote Trump.
There are various CAD challenges out there that come with bragging rights. Some, like the Certified Solid Works Professional Exam (CWSP) might actually look good on a resume. [Deltahedra] is appare…
Apple follows EU Digital Markets Act by introducing hefty fines for independent software developers. Expensive fees will restrict the use of alternative app installation.
a settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing & it's not the same as losing your case. Honestlly don't totally understand why settling out of court is allowed, other than "money makes the world go round" & to free up court resources. 🤨 if its important enough to bring to court it should be important enough to reach a decisive ruling.
@lanodan @hj I tried to setup pipewire but it wasn't working right so I reverted. There are ongoing discussions about how/when it will officially be switched as the default in FreeBSD
@pertho IIRC FreeBSD's OSSv4 implementation is very very good with support for per-application volume, low latency, yadda yadda. It's just that nothing knows how to use it because the entire Linux world went a different direction.
![Tom Baker episode. (Aren’t they all?) A middle aged man in a nice grey suit is sitting in a big lovely castle, in a truly excellent looking chair. He looks unimpressed by the conversation he’s a part of. He says, “Doctor, are you a party to this militaristic nonsense?” The Doctor is putting his hat on a knight armor statue, and says, “I’m not a party to any kind of nonsense, your Grace.” [citation needed]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/721576 "Tom Baker episode. (Aren’t they all?) A middle aged man in a nice grey suit is sitting in a big lovely castle, in a truly excellent looking chair. He looks unimpressed by the conversation he’s a part of. He says, “Doctor, are you a party to this militaristic nonsense?” The Doctor is putting his hat on a knight armor statue, and says, “I’m not a party to any kind of nonsense, your Grace.” [citation needed]")
Miroslav Buček 🌳
in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •In my opinion, you made two mistakes. You bought a Chinese product connected to the internet.
You didn’t use an internal device and an external antenna.
Jiří Eischmann
in reply to Miroslav Buček 🌳 • • •@miroslavbucek Yes, it's a Chinese device connected to the Internet, but so was the previous Huawei modem. Not happy about it, but by the time my data gets to the modem, it's all encrypted.
Which 5G modem can be placed indoors and can be connected to an external antenna via an ethernet cable? The other two I'm aware of are Mikrotik ATL 5G R16, which is sadly much slower than NE200, and Zyxel FWA-710, which is sadly almost twice as expensive.
Note that although it's called router, I use it only as an antenna/modem. It's connected to Unifi Dream Machine, so isolated from the home network by NAT and UDM does all the heavy lifting.
Miroslav Buček 🌳
in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •Jiří Eischmann
in reply to Miroslav Buček 🌳 • • •@miroslavbucek Ubiquiti U-LTE-Pro is sadly only LTE. I'm paying for 1 Gbps and get real speeds 550-650 Mbps. There are many LTE modems to choose from, but I don't want a device that can only run at 1/6 of the speed I'm paying for. At the moment there are very few 5G modems. Like 3-4 you can use outdoors.
I'm not much concerned about getting disconnected remotely. I have a fallback WAN connected to UDM (with a much lower speed, but useable) and 3 phones to use if necessary.
But yeah, as I said I'm not super happy about buying a Chinese device and I'm willing to pay 20-30% extra for non-Chinese, but if the only comparable non-Chinese option is 100% extra, it's too much even for me.
Miroslav Buček 🌳
in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •But in the end, it’s always cheaper to vote with your wallet than later with weapons. Why are Chinese devices so cheap? Because they don’t care about the environment or people - and the strategic ones are even subsidized by a totalitarian regime.
A great manufacturer is the Lithuanian company Teltonika:
teltonika-networks.com/product…
Their devices have inputs for external antennas.
Teltonika Ethernet and 4G/5G Cellular Routers
Teltonika NetworksJiří Eischmann
in reply to Miroslav Buček 🌳 • • •If it's matter of national security, it can't really be left on individual consumer choices. If Chinese products are a threat to national security, let's put tariffs on them and make them sell for a fair price.
Ondráš Přibyla had a really good point in his talk about decarbonization of Czechia at OpenAlt: it's pointless to appeal to individuals not to fly or eat meat when it would only save 4% of CO2 emissions if they all went with it. It's about making policies that make it unprofitable for a handful of enteprises that make up 40% of emissions.
It's the same here. I can beat myself for buying Chinese products, but it's meaningless if O2 comes and buys 100k Huawei modems because they're simply cheaper.
Teltonika is good, still expensive, but seems well maintained and produced in Europe. I will consider it next time.
Miroslav Buček 🌳
in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •Sorry, but that’s pretty hypocritical.
portal.nukib.gov.cz/pruvodce-n…
Jiří Eischmann
in reply to Miroslav Buček 🌳 • • •Kepi
in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •Jirko díky za video. Jen za sebe důležitý 💡 tip na příště - dělat z videa natočeného na výšku video na šířku je na mobilu nekoukatelné. Na desktopu se to dá přežít.
Vůbec s tím nemám zkušenosti jako tvůrce, ale jako uživatel prostě když jsou videa na výšku, tak je to na mobilu naprosto v pohodě, dám maximalizovat a vidím je na výšku. Jenže u toho tvého dám maximalizovat a nevidím stejně "nic".
Většina lidí to asi přežije, ale třeba se náhodou najde ještě jeden další jako já, který se prostě na malý video koukat nedokáže a radši to vypne.
Jiří Eischmann
in reply to Kepi • • •Kepi
in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •