Thanks, I'll try to ensure i'm dealing with ali and not the seller.

Are you dealing with aliexpress or the store? Escalating is straight up necessary - one relay board I bought had the MC enable pin grounded and after fixing that the relay pin would flicker high on boot. No idea how that got to production as without modifications it didn't work at all, then with mods only worked badly. The store first didn't understand the issue then accused me of user error. Escalation was my go to

maybe i'm not asking nicely enough? hrmm

Damn, thats weird. I've had very good luck getting refunds from aliexpress, usually its very easy.

i'm on my third refund request! so far they have been quite negative, they are quite polarized on this current topic... but no point in being overly charged, I see the potential benefits here!

If all goes well, you should get a refund from Ali, and then you can rewire it anyway. Good luck

Sure, and if they used a type F plug on the device I'd agree with you, but they went with NEMA 5-15, which has polarity requirements.

Cut the plug of and rewire it?

Yeah, I can do that, but then what am I giving them any money for in the first place?

The live and neutral are both safely terminated inside the PSU’s, so you can’t accidentally touch live.

Depends also on how surge / overvoltage protections operate, they might throw open the neutral line and leave live connected to the device... so yes it would break a circuit, but it would leave the device hot.

In large parts of the world (at least most of Europe) live and neutral aren't distinguished. There is no coding or assignment on the outlet. Maybe that's where their experience came from?

Functionally it should be irrelevant.

Cut the plug of and rewire it?

At least swaped LN in a rack is slightly less of a problem, unless you have a rack mounted toaster. The live and neutral are both safely terminated inside the PSU's, so you can't accidentally touch live.

Now a portable cable throughput tester! The switch bridges the vlans just like in the bench setup above, just plug in any cable in on one side, and the other side into the portable switch. Perfect for testing long cable runs, or validating a new wall drop.

The man is trying to get you not to use VLANs!

Can i interest you in a plastic baggie of dubiously sourced sfp modules?

This feels illegal

Ah, the loopback network.

Edit: /j

You should see his neck trick

Am sorry, but proof for what?

that firefox profiles are not first class like they are in chrome, but that is moot now, they are just as easy to use now.

Thank you for the response! Am sorry, but proof for what?
The profile selector is empty because I used a temporary Kubuntu environment at https://distrosea.com/ for the screenshot, since I am currently on-the-go.

Holy smokes! 25 profiles! That's a profile for almost all possible 25 identities for the whole month of a spy job!

Just to clarify, what do you mean by “hidden”? It’s been having the options -P, -ProfileManager , -profile for decades now.

Yeah, that is a pain in the butt - you wouldn't use that in a normal workflow. Plus you couldn't tell which window was in which profile! you needed a extension to give the windows labels, but they still got mixed in the taskmanager/dock etc.. it wasn't really usable in normal multiprofile concurrent workflows. As proof, your example firefox profile manager is empty!

As a motivational example right now I have 25 profiles, for 25 services I use, and i swap between them all the time.

Just to clarify, what do you mean by "hidden"? It’s been having the options -P, -ProfileManager , -profile for decades now.

If you cannot disable extensions, you must create a new profile before upgrading to Firefox 0.8.
Source [2013-12-06]

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The following examples show the use of the -ProfileManager command, which will open the profile manager prior to starting Firefox...
Bypass profile manager and launch application with the profile named profile_name. Useful for dealing with multiple profiles.
firefox -P "Joel User" Source

And same for Thunderbird <3

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It's parallel, yeah - the anti government von is only for the download clients, my access from everywhere VPN is for, will, the machine itself - with the docker bridge having two interfaces.

In effect it's a gluetun docker network and Zerotier for the rest.

Although I’ve cheated a bit, the home layer is nixos native pretty much but qbittorrent runs as docker network layer because I really didn’t want to fuck that part up :D

That is the beauty of nixarr, they already prefucked it, so it's done out of fucks!

I've aggressively been monitoring the nixos vm, and nothing is leaking at all. Qubes would be a fun way to do it too, but ain't nobody got time for that.

so you nest the VPNs A(B()) or you run them in parallel A()+B()? I suppose parallel. I had but this on my test network so it was A(B()) for awhile (test network is forced over a vpn), but now I'm pretty happy with vlan firewall +A()+B() based on namespaces and packet tagging in the kernel.

This looks fun! I have a similar setup but I've two VPN layers: qbittorrent and slskd behind a commercial VPN (with port forwarding, because a pirate be illegal in these waters). and then a VPN layer to access jellyfin and jellyseer remotely from trusted devices.

Just as inspiration for others who want to dive even deeper!

Although I've cheated a bit, the home layer is nixos native pretty much but qbittorrent runs as docker network layer because I really didn't want to fuck that part up :D

Thanks for sharing!

Sorry, what?

1. the neural control of body temperature during heat stress is not altered by older age; (2) 7 days of passive heat acclimation improves the neural control of body temperature during heat stress in older adults; and (3) older age generally does not affect the ability of the thermoregulatory system to adapt in response to 7 days of heat acclimation, albeit it does blunt the improvement in sweating capacity.

young and old rejoice, if you want to feel cool all day you need to get really hot sometimes.

practical heat acclimation protocols to improve the physiological resilience of older adults during heat extremes. First, the results demonstrate that passive heat acclimation is equally effective at improving thermoregulatory function in younger and older adults. Second, the results demonstrate that at least 4 days of passive heat acclimation is required to observe an increase in sweating and a reduction in resting core temperature in older adults. Third, the results demonstrate that passive heat acclimation reduces heart rate during heat stress. This finding highlights cardiovascular benefits of heat acclimation for older adults, which may be important for preventing adverse heat-related cardiovascular events that are often the main cause of heat-related mortality (Bunker et al., 2016; Cheng et al., 2019; Liu et al., 2022) and are likely precipitated by heat-induced cardiac strain (Barry et al., 2024).

so yeah... daily sauna is a great way to ride out a heat wave.

They don't do an amazing job of tying penis health and erections into a early warning sign of metabolic problems, but they start to. if your penis don't work... your metabolism NEEDS work...

From my understanding of ketogenic metabolism and it's impactful direct improvements on cardiovascular health - it's all about hormones!