I only do the word jumbles in the physical newspaper I get every morning. 
No micro-transaction potential in that one.
Except when the kids get cocky, then I fire up whatever FPS it is that they’re playing and pwn their stroppy behinds… 
When you can take the pebble, punk…
Lol. I guess I’ve got mine on, all I get recommended is stuff I’ve already watched.
Must be A.I. (Artificial Idiocy)
I’d paste over that QR code with a Rick Roll one.
COMPOSTING NOT ALLOWED if:
Anything I’m missing?
ETA:
I’ve even had to replace my bundled torch app because it won’t run as I won’t let the fucking thing scrape all my data.
I’ve now learned to search [$type of app]+no permissions open source…
Fiber Internet is great, unless your ISP uses one of those shitty EERO routers.
It has no web interface. (And definitely no telnet one.) The only way to adjust things, change the password, fixed IP allocation, port forwarding, etc, is to install their app in your phone, and then register with the company, giving them your name and other details.
WTF?!
And, don’t know about the iPhone side, but their app only supports fairly minty fresh versions on Android. (Checking from Android Studio, I don’t think even 50% of the active base could run it, so fuck your three year-old phone, and certainly fuck mine.)
I’ll play nice a bit longer, and try to install their app in an Android emulator, but once my patience runs out, I’m going to yank the POS and use my own router with OpenWrt. (The fiber modem in front of the router should have the credentials to connect.)
Also, I have the feeling that it’s a gaping security hole, with some company in California having an open door into my network that I’ll never be able to directly audit through their app.
I did this a couple of years ago, and would never go back. OpenWRT isn’t quite as user-friendly as your typical stock router firmware, but it’s infinitely more powerful. I love it.
It did. I popped in my own router, and with a lot of configuration, it’s all working.
I’m not complaining about the effort. For 99% of the ISP’s customers, the plug-and-play Amazon router would have been fine. It’s just that I don’t trust a router that requires a janky proprietary app on a new phone to configure it.
Sooner or later, they’ll drop the bits needed to configure your own servers on the Internet, much of the freedom of the Internet will be lost, and most people won’t even know it. (Most people already accept cameras, thermostats, security systems, etc, that require a corporate mothership in the loop – until the company drops support or ups the rental fee on the product you own, and then it’s just more landfill.)
I need to do this at some point. I had to do a hard reset of my router a while back and none of the information that was posted on the router worked at all. I couldn’t reconfigure it and had to call the company to get them to do it. I don’t like not being able to reconfigure myself. Also thinking about a Pi hole eventually, but I’m a tad worried that’s beyond my skills.
I haven’t tried PiHole yet, surprising with my cloud of them, but it should be straight-forward, with lots of walk-throughs on YouTube and blogs, and easy to step back if it doesn’t work. Go for it!
Seize the means of Internet production!
I’m done with consumer router and WiFi equipment. I’ve got one box left, the radios on WiFi units seem to go first, so I’m leaning towards something like this for the next one (this is a shameless plug for a business I’ve bought from, but am not otherwise affiliated with).
(Edit: this machine is actually 
, and not 
…) This is built to run OpenBSD.
Prophylatic Counterenshittification is always going to be a bit expensive, or DIY, or both, I think.
(Edit: above brand explicitly intends to replace the old 
stalwart, PC Engines who are retiring in the face of the supply of AMD SoC for fanless PC’s going away.) 
I’m less intimidated by DIY than I used to be. Every now and then I have to open up my OpenBSD box and go down the ssh, pf and authpf rabbit holes. I added WireGuard to that lately. (Much to my delight it proved to be exactly what I needed.) Keep notes, allow an evening or two to get started.
