Sounds like an earlier version of this

Yeah. I basically focusing on nitpicky professional details and missing the “is this movie entertaining/fun” part.

My favorite is still the “I can’t swallow this” pill meme

One of the things it asks permission for when hooking up Bluetooth etc is “call history”, “contacts” or “text messages”

I’d assume the system needs those to read it messages or call/redial. It wouldn’t need OCR to do other things with that data

I can’t recall if I limited to Google’s IP’s or not actually. Just that I wanted to prevent their devices from ignoring the DHCP provided hosts

I setup a NAT rule that redirects anything going to the Google DNS IP’s send sends it to my own DNS server.

I generally only drink instant for late night decaf, though the premixed Korean instant coffee packets are a treat every hour and then

We kinda do though, we just don’t often see them as having magnets but most electric motors work on principles of magnetism.

I’ve had windows do this to me randomly before, especially if it’s an interface that comes up a bit late. Be careful that it doesn’t change back on you

That’s a great explanation of the terms. Thanks for that.

Given this, can you think of a word that would describe those who are hostile to the concept of a deity? Antitheist, perhaps?

Yeah, I don’t find any religion I’ve ever run across appealing, but I have no beef with those who do good under the umbrella of their religion and don’t try to beat on others with it.

And? You could take the same data and say- “religious persons are less likely to speak out againstmessaging that potentially promotes harm” (likely also dependent on the religious affiliation of the messenger)

The preceding message that this makes atheists the more “intolerant” group is a pretty massive reach, consider that the messaging they may be against could in itself be one of intolerance as per my example.

Also, what is the relation of “a speaker” to religion? If somebody comes in to speak and starts talking about how we need to gas more jews, stop women from voting, and put the blacks back out in the cotton fields then fuck yeah I’m gonna support cutting them off and sending them packing.

Sounds like what should be called an “open box” product to me

Have you ever used PFSense? How do you find it compares to Opnsense, and - for anyone with experience - how hard would it be to migrate from one to the other these days?

GL-Inet AX1800

OpenWRT, accessible via the advanced (LUCI) interface. You can define a bunch of SSID’s including guest networks and/or bind them to VLAN’s

Yes and no. These are AC/DC adaptors so they’re rectifying the AC current (+/- AC to DC) and using transformers, resistors, etc to step down the voltage. Watts is V*A

On a power brick, the numbers of a matter of how many volts it pushes out and how fast it can push them out (amps).

The components inside your laptop need a relatively fixed amount of power at a variable amount of current. If it’s working harder, it may pull power now quickly using more watts of power. The components within the laptop are designed with that amount of power in mind and the resistance is fixed within a certain tolerance.

The brick is similarly designed to provide a relatively constant amount of power at a maximal rate. You’ll notice that a brick heats up with use. Pull power through it faster than capacity and it’ll overheat and die.

If you compare to home electricity, think of it like this.

• 110V, 15A appliance in 220V, 15A circuit. That appliance is gonna melt something and catch fire. This is like a laptop with an over-voltage brick

• 220V, 15A appliance in a 110V, 15A circuit, it’s probably not going to start or run properly. This is a laptop with an under-voltage brick

• 110V, 30A appliance on a 110V, 15A circuit. It may run for a bit if it doesn’t immediately draw over the 15A, but when it does the breaker trips or a fuse pops (if they’re working). If you have a bad breaker or fuse that doesn’t trip in time, the wires in your wall will actually heat up and either burn out or set your house on fire

In the home circuit, that 110V is the constant voltage and 15A is a maximum. You can plug in a 1500W (110V@13.6a) microwave, or a 20W (110V@0.18A) wall wart. Just like the circuit from the wall to your panel, your brick has a fixed volts and max amps. Your laptop has a fixed volts and variable amps.

Most stuff will draw what it needs for amps. A power supply that provides insufficient amps may fail to start the device, or the power supply will overheat.

Supplying too many volts will fry many electronics though.

If you have a 19V 3A laptop it’ll be happy with a 19V 5A brick, but probably not so much with a 25V 3A brick which may overload a component and release the magic smoke

Tracks? Where we’re going, we don’t need tracks!

I’ve tried to deal with several vendors regarding abusive domains and it’s pretty terrible in general. Everything is a webform with a generic responder - if any at all - and then weeks or months or nothing. Even domains impersonating proper commercial entities.

• GoDaddy: here’s the real domain, now here’s the domain registered via you, cloned from the real domain (including text, corporate logos, etc with some additional chinese crap) and being used for phishing/scams. Their response: “fill out this bullshit form that goes nowhere”
• CloudFlare: “uh, we don’t actually host the site (just the DNS and “protection” service that hides who does) sorry” Google: “we’ll continue showing the scam/phishing domain in top search results after your reports because apparently accurate search results aren’t actually our thing”