Oh no. Of course not.

We can’t actually show ways to defeat government overreach, we can only allude to its existence!

Good.

Hell, windows itself does it.

I can tell you that Mediacom cable will cut your service off for it, and you have to call in and get scolded before they turn it back on.

And, if it happens 3 times, your service is disconnected permanently.

What’s crazy is that Trump claims to be against the current ruling in Sony’s favor, and is siding with Cox.

We have a choice between T-Mobile 5G, 3M ADSL, coax docsis and Starlink.

Of those, the most reliable is the DSL, then Starlink, and it’s a tossup whether the T-Mobile or the Mediacom DOCSIS is the least reliable

I worked for Mediacom for 5 years. It wasn’t reliable then either, but at least then, I didn’t have to play the “first we have to send out a tech that may not actually show up the first time because it’s working at the exact moment he checks before he cancels the call” game.

When I left them, we switched to DSL, which was … painful, but we managed for a couple of years. Then the pandemic happened, and the kiddo went to remote schooling, and the DSL just couldn’t handle it. So we used the “reduced cost” internet plan for going back to Mediacom.

Except after months of fighting to actually get the reduced price plan we were supposed to be getting, we were told the T-Mobile now serviced our area, and switched with glee.

And for almost 3 years it was GREAT. But in the past year or so, we began having horrendous service issues. Speeds were no better, and sometimes even worse than the DSL we had previously.

Finally, I had enough, and bit the bullet and switched to Starlink.

Now, our service is great. The bill isn’t, because let’s face it, $120 a month for 200ish Mbps down and 50ish up is nuts, but at least we have fast, reliable service now.

Eh, IoT devices typically use 2.4ghz, or even 933mhz…

No shit? The thing security geeks have been warning about for years with all the cameras everywhere actually happened?

No way! Whodathunkit?

Why is it that so many people do absolutely zero maintenance on their computers, and think that’s completely normal?

Clean that bitch out at the very least. Allowing dust to build up in all the little books and crannies means it’s not getting enough air flow.

It’s typically common sense that when your AC isn’t working well, you clean/replace the filter(s) to keep it operating at peak efficiency, and if you don’t, you risk burning up fan and/or compressor motors.

Same thing with your car’s cooling system. Keep that radiator grill clean of mud and dirt, or it’s more likely to overheat and burn up your engine.

Why the fuck don’t people think of that when it comes to their computers just blows my damn mind.

A tube of Arctic Silver thermal grease is less than 10 bucks. A can of compressed air is like 20 bucks, and will typically last for months.

Once a month, take the PC case outside, and blow out all the damn dust.

Every year or so, replace the thermal grease/paste.

“My computer runs slower and slower as times goes by!” Yeah no shit, it’s trying not to burn itself up. Clean the fucker.

Because why have 3 devices when one can do it for less cost?

You did WHAT with them?

They don’t GO there…

You can find adapters that can charge while still having a 3.5mm back

There’s just enough disagreement and “infighting” to make people think their guy is the good guy and the other is the bad guy.

When you look at the overall picture, however, things start standing out.

There was much complaining and gnashing of teeth by most Democrats, and even a few Republicans, when the Bush era Patriot Act was pushed through. One particular Democratic politician even ran on the promise of eliminating it.

Guess what? It wasn’t eliminated.

Same thing with war and attacking other nations on their own sovereign soil.

It’s still happening, and it never stops, no matter which party is in control of the US government.

“But the other side does it more than we do!”

HOW ABOUT NEITHER SIDE DOES IT! HOW ABOUT WE MIND OUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS!

Tell me again what the voter turnout percentage was?

The vast majority of us are so used to our voices not being heard that we don’t even bother voting. It doesn’t change anything.

You keep talking about how they voted “for” this and that, without even understanding that most people in the USA didn’t vote for anything at all.

Election results say it doesn’t. Because they’ve alienated a huge majority of the working class. Because blue collar workers overwhelmingly vote against the Democratic party in the US.

You can call them all uneducated buffoons all you want, but in doing so, you are only proving my point that the Democratic Party has alienated them totally.

Why do you think the Democratic party, once well known as the party of the working class, no longer holds that distinction?

Do you have any idea what you’re talking about? No.

It doesn’t matter what rural areas vote for. They’re all gerrymandered to shit just like the cities are.

The political elite on both sides have a good chunk of us fighting each other instead of them. So, congrats on falling for the same bullshit.

I dunno, what does burnt Spock smell like?

My right? Indeed.

That I’m not sure of, I know MASS uses snapcast internally, and can stream to LMS/squeezelite players.

I also wouldn’t call it 100% flawless, but it works well enough for me.