Router is a bunch of old PCs I frankensteined and put opnsense on.

Ended up i5-7500, 8gb mem, 500gb SSD.

Put in a dual-port SFP+ NIC and a dual port 2.5GbaseT nic.

One of the 2.5gb ports goes to my cable modem.

One of the 10gb ports takes Twinax to my dumb LAN switch, the other to my dumb server switch, which right now is really just my storage network…the link to the firewall isn’t doing anytuhing.

The dumb switches I have here, though, they’ve got some sort of weird MAC learning disability. It cannot handle macflaps, which I found out about because I had a hard time roaming between APs.

So I got a Netgear GS108T and put OpenWRT on it, and that switches between my APs.

My APs are Linksys MX4200v1’s. Also openwrt. Got four of them…one upstairs, two in the ground floor, one in the basement. Can get very close to 1Gbps anywhere in the house on wifi. Not the best platform for openwrt (ipq807x), as I’ve found out…but it was a hella cheap deal for tri-band AX APs.

Nah they like shooting cans.

Ya know. Mexi-cans, Domini-cans, Puerto Ri-cans?

I swear most of mine are but nobody will admit it.

Simple Syrup.

If you want to sweeten a cold beverage (lemonade, iced coffee, whatehaveyou), regular granulated sugar will not dissolve effectively.

Some people ask for their iced coffee with the sugar melted…that is, they put the sugar in and essentially make an adhoc simple syrup with hot coffee instead of hot water, then fill with ice and chilled coffee.

I personally think that’s disgusting, because that automatically waters down the coffee. I’d rather have any of the flavor “shots” they offer, which is essentially just simple syrup plus flavor.

Or I’d just get artificial sweetener, because most of them dissolve better in cold beverages than regular sugar.

Eh you might need the allibi…which is why I charge everything.

I remember Barnes and Noble asking for my phone number to buy a paperback copy of 1984.

I was like nah man.

Yeah, I get it.

I’m preaching to the choir.

This is an interesting perspective. I kinda like it, even though I hate it.

Idk man, when a pope gets cancer that sounds like a bad omen.

And then accepting modern treatments? That shows a lack of faith. God wouldn’t have given you cancer if he wanted you to get rid of it.

It’s really amazing how many people knew that they were destroying the world…and not only continued to do so, but accelerated it and covered it all up…just to see their wallets get fatter.

Kinda just makes you want to accelerate the decline faster. “Intelligent” life my ass.

Edit to add: remember the villains in Captain Planet? They were over-the-top cartoonishly evil, even for a cartoon. But I’m starting to think they were closer to reality than I wanted to believe.

Also there were some cool as actors among those villains. Dean Stockwell, Tim Curry, Jeff Goldblum…and then the regulars like Jim Cummings and John Ratzenberger…just a cool cast)

What does it mean when gods right-hand man gets cancer?

Not if you use FIPS kernels. Nvidia makes sure of that.

Only issue I’ve had with Bluetooth in Linux is that Microsoft made me upgrade the firmware in my Xbox controllers to use it…

I’ve only used windows at work in the past 10 years or so but my windows experience with sleep was far far worse.

My laptop would always wake up in my bag on my hour+ commute. The laptop would be scorching hot and the battery dead by the time I got to the office. Every time.

Never experienced that in Linux.

Recently I switched to a Linux computer at work and it’s much better in every regard.

My personal desktop (runs arch (btw)), did have some trouble with sleep recently tho…I replaced my 5700G with a 5600X3D and it would refuse to wake from sleep, necessitating a hard shutdown (by PSU switch!)…but I think that was a bios bug. My bios was already very close to latest but I think upgrading that was what ultimately fixed it. Now it works fine.

This is fascinating and the way you plan to weave science-fact into science-fiction reminds me a lot of Crichton.

a lot of the issues people experience on windows can be mitigated by disabling certain things or as you said “neutering” it.

Wouldn’t it be great if an operating system just worked properly out-of-the-box?

There are Arch distributions that do that better than Windows 11. What’s Microsoft’s excuse?

They should’ve renamed themselves from “Nintendo” to “Baten”.

…quietly puts away record collection…

Yeah, but investing in infrastructure pays out big for everyone…investing in war pays out bigger, and just for Trump and his buddies. Which would he choose?

Whatever it is it’s probably h.264.