USSEthernet

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[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reddit obviously. Pretty much any corpo controlled social media in general though. Deleted my FB account about 5-6 years ago and never looked back. Deleted my barely used Twitter account after muskrat took over.

Blizzard. Haven't played a Blizzard game since 2012 ish. I was deployed and would play WoW in my downtime until a major update came out and completely broke me, blizzard was no help in the multiple tickets that I submitted. Tried every fix I could find on the internet at the time. I asked them if they could send me an install disc, I'd even pay for it. Hard no from blizzard. It was clear they didn't care about a long time player like me. That was it for them. Now over the years we have seen all of the scandals and games rampant with microtransactions. I'll never play another one of their games unless I pirate the shit out of it.

I'm becoming increasingly intolerant to all of the tech price increases so I've been ramping up my self hosting capabilities. I just need time which is a hard commodity to come by for me anymore. This is really the only thing preventing me from cancelling Netflix right now because Netflix is easy for my kid to access across devices.

I have wanted to cancel Amazon for months now, but that's a battle I've lost to the wife. She gets everything on there. I've tried the argument that we can just order stuff when we have a cart over $25 for the free shipping. I've mentioned about how many late shipments we've got over the last few months. 2 day shipping has become a straight lie at this point. We don't watch Amazon prime video at all.

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago

This is what I missed in television. I missed the episodic shows.

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I recently rescued a baby RES from falling into my crawl space access. Little guy was all dried up and barely moving. I've owned reptiles in the past and my wife loves turtles so we decided to keep it. A lot of research and learning was done to figure out what it needed and how the tank needs to be kept along with all of the chemical balances. Both of my children were made aware that they need to wash their hands before and after handling the turtle. There is a lot of tank maintenance weekly. We've had it for over 3 months and no one has gotten sick.

MOST reptiles carry salmonella which is why you should wash your hands before and after handling. It bothers me that they say turtles with shells smaller than 4" are worse. The only reason that they say that is because smaller turtles are cute and more likely to be picked up by children. A turtle under 4" is not more or less likely to give you salmonella than a larger turtle.

C.L.O.U.D. - Complete Loss of User Data

You do realize that streaming companies have been looking at ways to prevent people from subbing and canceling constantly. That won't be an option much longer. Just like the password sharing crackdown and price increases, they are constantly looking for ways to keep that revenue.

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I work in IT and I've been against the cloud for over a decade and I always got looks like I was crazy. We still have vendors pushing us to buy into the cloud, I'll fight tooth and nail all the way. Unfortunately, a lot of vendors aren't giving much of a choice anymore by making their services cloud only. We'll have to start building custom applications soon to keep everything on-prem.

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago

I constantly think of the ObiWan meme. They were supposed to be the chosen ones. They were supposed to be better with tech, not worse.

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago

Luke is always tossing him looks on the WAN show. I'm not sure how he hasn't taken the hint by now.

This happened to me as well. I just didn't go as far as the lawyer bit. I just sent all of their emails to spam for auto deletion.

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bridge mode isn't necessary as long as you make sure the IP of the new 3rd party router is different than the ISP router's. Although bridge mode would be best, in OP's case, they said that the router is locked down and they don't have access to it.

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