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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Pour one out for all the unfortunate souls actually named Karen who aren't Karens

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I just want you to know that your comment wasn't blatantly disrespected at least by this internet stranger.

It's a thoughtful reply to some asshat that was asking you questions in bad faith, he was not open to a different point of view from the outset.

And also that's pretty awesome stance to take. I wish more folks were this mature about their relationships

[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Whoever called the cops is a dick

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

That’s true, possibly. I’d hope that whoever translated it would phrase it to preserve the original intent but that’s assuming it was actually a person doing it. Wild times we live in

[–] [email protected] 87 points 4 days ago (3 children)

“I apologize for those who were offended.”

‘I’m sorry you’re offended by my abhorrent opinions’

Notice he’s not actually apologizing. At all. He’s just sorry he’s catching flak about it

[–] [email protected] 163 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

She IS peasant class. Working for a living is peasant class

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Reminds me of 2016. All the polls and guesses were Hillary had it in the bag. Woke up that morning feeling like someone sucker punched me.

I've been wary of predictions since then if for nothing else than to save me from developing a drinking problem to cope. Expect the worst and you'll never be surprised.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good argument for encryption and servers within a privacy respecting country

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago

Sounds like an endorsement to take the law into your own hands and shoot the marauders yourself

Sheriff is an elected position so nobody should be shocked that a bastard cop would go there

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I'm in the middle of it right now but I've got an old plug in oil heater that I decided to pop open the cover and have a look-see before condemning myself to buying another for probably $100ish.

I am so far from comfortable working on electronics or woodworking or traditional guy stuff, but this radiator is old in the sense of it's built like a brick shit house and hooked up to a simple mechanical switch with 3 wires, one of which is the power cord that finally disintegrated from the heat.

It's so simply built even I can feel confident swapping out for a new mechanical switch and some new wiring.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fun video but man watching that gave me anxiety.

This is like those hikers that go out with a small water bottle and flip flops on a mountain trail.

I'm really glad he's upbeat and had the barest of essential tools but he could so easily have ended up stranded.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

I know it’s not the answer to your question, but you should really consider getting a bidet installed to not piss off your hemorrhoids.

Speaking from someone who also has them and who got a bidet during covid. Life changing for my cinnamon ring.

 

I have a family member living on my property in a separate but adjacent living space, close enough together to share my router's wifi. She likes to let her youtube app endlessly autoplay talking head news videos at full volume due to her hearing loss, and this goes on for a few hours in the mornings. The sound through the walls is annoying but headphones block enough that it's a non-issue as long as I can load something to play through them. The real rub is that I also would like to do something on the laptop during breakfast and her neverending news autoplay eats up all the bandwidth I am paying for when I want to use it. I can't cut off her internet, but I could prioritize my traffic over hers in the morning so that I can load an episode of something and listen through headphones. Yes I know this would be a bit unscrupulous but I have already suggested she not doomscroll via youtube all morning, to no avail.

Setting up a separate ISP account for the adjacent space isnt an option for the time being. The router/modem combo is ISP-issued and locked down by default due to too many service calls from people breaking stuff in settings. As far as I know it is not able to be swapped out to an off-the-shelf due to this being fiber optic internet, plus I'm only so-so in tech knowledge.

Which leads me to the title, can I put the ISP-issued router in a faraday cage, connect my own router via ethernet and be able to control settings via that route? Any reason I shouldn't/couldn't?

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