Still sounds easier than getting my roborock on valetudo. I had to take the entire thing apart to get to the other side of the mobo to flash the thing. Felt like I needed 3 hands to ground one place while doing a bunch of other things just to get it to flash. My workspace was a mess of screws and tiny robot parts I only half remembered taking out.

In the end it worked and I’m very happy with it. Was sweating for a bit though. It was a $400 vacuum iirc.

That’s fair. It should be optional. Having made plenty of charitible donations, it’s likely so they can send you thank you cards and solicit more donations from you.

So long as it’s not used for billing, I’ve used plenty of fake addresses for stuff like this. Usually 123 Fake St. Springfield IL in honor of the simpsons.

Unless you mix it up thoroughly, it might count as a roux.

Tis the season for doing WHAT now?

Hard agree!

Ahhhh but those devices don’t have ‘the ecosystem’. You know, that bloated software that locks you into apple everything by making a handful of tasks marginally more convenient for the tech layperson.

Apple anything

I suppose the ai thinks he’s going to give her gas?

Especially mesh wifi.

Why is he holding the gas hose with his finger sticking out like it’s the nozzle now?

maybe because it’s usb? fiber/ethernet sfp+ transvievers are about the same price ~$15 each. But ethernet modules consume a lot more power and have higher latency.

We should ditch ethernet, coax, and copper completely for data transmission. Everything should be fiber cable. Fiber internet to the house, fiber throughout the house, etc.

It’s likely just a bot. It’s a common tactic to claim an identity of authority and then make a statement. Almost always bots.

“I’m a liberal and I can’t stand x, so I’m voting for Republican!”

“I’m a doctor and because of x I don’t recommend to my patients to do y.”

They’re trying to steer public opinion with these posts. Some try to get fancy and use LLMs to make them so they’re not all identical. And so you get rediculous statements like the above. No human would vote for someone who killed their husband. Hence the disgusted reaction.

I honestly don’t think about it a ton. I think about Everquest more than WoW. I set up my own Everquest server once upon a time and had a bunch of fun being alone on a server with custom settings.

I did read about hosting my own private WoW server, and I might do that. I’m normally a single player gamer type except when playing with my wife. Had her try WoW and she didn’t care for it. We are currently playing Satisfactory together.

I had mostly played WoW because my bro played (10 yrs older) and wanted to hang with him. We did, it was a lot of fun. I was in his guild and made some temporary friends. Went on a date with one of them. It didn’t work out.

I do remember spending way too much time playing it. It felt like sometimes I waited more in game than played. I don’t really miss it though. I have a large steam backlog I’m working my way happily through.

Mine is. I have one and tried. I can’t even see it. I also have a similar looking antenna at the end of my street.

My smart electric meter has a zigbee symbol on it. It’s likely a locked down encrypted proprietary network, but it’s there. I spoke to the installer and he didn’t know what it was but did say they were on their own network. Mesh makes sense too. You can have one of these pick up a neighborhood, and each house connects to all the rest. Can even be flaky, they just need it to connect once per billing cycle.

Yep, we have smart water and electric meters. I’m pretty sure these are for communicating with each house’s meter and gathering usage data.

Its fine. It’s what I use when listening to music on my tv. But on my phone I use navidrome/ultrasonic. I love navidrome, ultrasonic is fine.

Absolutely boycot the crap out of us.

I think they’re just keeping their heads down and not poking the bear. He’s already blindly striking out at imaginary percieved insults. They’re just riding out the next few years and hoping to not make anything worse.

Plus, it’s not their job. It’s the US’s job to clean up the bed they shit in.