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    Israel attacked by Hamas...

    This Israel-Palestine debate reminds me, structure-wise, of something I was involved in. One time when I was a t-ball coach, kid #2 hit kid #1 on the head with a bat. Cut and dry who's innocent and who's guilty, right? Wrong. Digging deeper, #1 had done something nasty to #2, preceded by #2...
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    Israel attacked by Hamas...

    I have a theory why USA isn't mentioned in the Bible. It will be annexed by Israel. We're pretty far down that road already.
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    Israel attacked by Hamas...

    Opinion stated as fact? bigred already beat me with a few details of the opposite point of view. With all of the shit propaganda flying around, I doubt that any of us here know squat about the real truth for both of the US's wars right now.
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    Solar Farm economics....

    Pacific Power offers optional renewable energy plans. At first glance it sounds like you're being a good citizen to use green energy. When you drill down to the details, it's just solicitation for donations to fund green energy projects, and in one case, fish habitat. I don't understand why...
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    WTB WD Western Digital Purple Hard Drive

    Plus I'm confused if this is talking about storage capacity or physical size. Then I'd ask why mess with a used one when the new ones are relativey inexpensive?
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    The problem is that no sane person would want the job, we therefore never have the opportunity to vote for a sane person. Applies also to most of congress, governors, and mayors.
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    Solar Farm economics....

    I keep track of these solar issues because I'm one of the leeches that has a PV system subsidized by the non-solar customers. Oregon still pays the retail rate for power pushed into the grid. Over time, other states have pulled away from that, paying the lower wholesale rate instead. I...
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    S3 animal detection

    http://192.168.xxx.xxx/cgi-bin/configManager.cgi?action=getConfig&name=VideoAnalyseRule Look at ObjectTypes under IVS-1, IVS-2, etc. Example: table.VideoAnalyseRule[0][6].Name=IVS-2 table.VideoAnalyseRule[0][6].Num= table.VideoAnalyseRule[0][6].ObjectTypes[0]=Human...
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    Solar Farm economics....

    If Grok thinks that the electricity produced is worth what the consumer pays, it made a big mistake. The only quick example I have is my own bill, where about half of the kWh rate pays for the electricity itself. Most of the rest is the "Delivery Charge", followed by fees and taxes.
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    Does it matter if you use CAT5e for a long run?

    Oregon provides a great example for how lightning can vary a lot within a few hundred miles. No hurt feelings to not read, it's a bit off topic. The weather is defined in a major way by the ocean on the west and the Cascade mountain range about 110 miles inland. The stretch from the ocean to...
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    Does it matter if you use CAT5e for a long run?

    Thought I said that: " I'm not in one of the heaviest lightning areas of the country, so that helps" Just one of many factors in the risk/reward equation. I do happen to be in the most lightning-prone part of the state, and when it happens, it happens big time. One example: "Central Oregon...
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    The official "WTF" thread

    Heck, if you have a paid off typical middle-class house in Oregon you're likely a millionaire. True in some other states of course, but what's special about Oregon is the death tax exemption is a million, established decades ago and not indexed. That means that heirs might have to sell a...
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    Does it matter if you use CAT5e for a long run?

    Could we frame this as opinion or level of risk tolerance? I've used thousands of feet of unshielded UTP in buried PVC for 7 years, have lightning, and have lost exactly one driveway sensor to lightning. To me it's all about risk and probability. I'm not in one of the heaviest lightning areas...
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    Does it matter if you use CAT5e for a long run?

    Even though I have a few thousand feet of riser cable in buried PVC, I don't disagree with anything TonyR stated above. While the cost difference was certainly a factor, my main motivation was to have the wires color coded. One of several conduits leaving the house carries 8 cables, all...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    It will suck, but no tax on social security should make up for it.
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    HUGE RUMOR: Unifi Protect will support ONVIF cameras (like from HIK/Dahua)

    Thanks for the correction. 400% error on my part, sheesh. If this were a one-time purchase I'd try it, but with close to 20 cameras I'm not going to take on yet another annual assessment.
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    Connecting NVR and two POE Switches to Main Switch

    I think the way you did it originally is the best. What you have in the previous post is OK too. I use a "monster" POE switch, 28 ports, connected to the NVR. Then I ran out of ports (not all used for cameras) and chained an 8-port switch off of the POE switch for things around the house.
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    HUGE RUMOR: Unifi Protect will support ONVIF cameras (like from HIK/Dahua)

    Something like 50 bucks per camera per year.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    It's not worth taking any of the statements seriously any more. Try not to expend much energy thinking about them and just wait and see what really happens in the end. It's feels like the statements are coming from a random sentence generator. I do wonder what the libs think of all of this.
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    Trump Administration to Wind Down mRNA Vaccine Development This is a Time magazine article posted on yahoo "news". The interesting part for me is in the comments. I read a lot of them, and every single one I read praised the shots for ending the pandemic, saving millions of lives, or this...
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    Does it matter if you use CAT5e for a long run?

    I think this will turn into an opinion poll. Mine is that for that distance, use cat6 to get awg23 conductors instead of awg24 conductors in cat5e. Make sure the cat6 is awg23, not all are, and of course solid copper conductors, not CCA. Running some ballpark numbers is easy if you assume a...
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    Progressive Liberal Hypocrisy

    I know this doesn't exactly fit here. We know that different media outlets contradict each other. How reputable is one that contradicts itself? WalletHub says San Francisco is the healthiest place to live n the US. While at the same time it's dead last on the best run cities. Pretty...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    RFK Jr. Announces Repeal Of Policy That Rewarded Hospitals For Reporting Staff Vaccination Rates
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Stolen from another forum: It's like Trump got offed and they have someone using a latex mask, filling in for him.
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    Money & Economics

    But, but, I keep hearing there's a housing shortage.
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    easy way to make a small trench?

    I totally agree. I'm just being cautious about advice being posted that readers will interpret as "official" or "legal". I have however just discovered that there is a lot more specific info in the 2023 NEC than when I last paid attention. These are all my non-expert interpretations, i.e. use...
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    easy way to make a small trench?

    Am I misreading the NEC that says for wires carrying over 30 volts (which would include POE), the minimum cover depth is generally 18" if in conduit and 24" direct burial? I know there are some special exceptions, like for under concrete, and not all jurisdictions are covered by NEC. But for...
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    Camera Feed Just Turned All White

    I've had moisture problems with those female couplers. So far, the solution has been to lightly grease all of the gasket and compression washer surfaces. Mine are in underground connection boxes and it's drippy wet most of the time.
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    Progressive Liberal Hypocrisy

    I wouldn't have been surprised. This is how USA trains were when I was a teenager.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    May I cheat with a 14-monther? I nominate obamacare. Ruined the medical system, enriched big pharma, enriched the insurance companies, and bankrupted many. Nothing DJT has done can compete with that!
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