Site seems offline now, says “Closed Jan 30th”

Something to be wary of when interpreting the datasheet:

• Act10 = LED blinking when Ethernet packets transmitted/received at 10Mbps.
• Act100 = …
• Act1000 = …

Bad wording on their part. What they really mean is: “LED blinking when Ethernet packets transmitted/received AND the link is currently in a XYZMbps link speed mode”. The mode is negotiated once after you plug a cable in and usually does not change after that, regardless of how much data you try to send.

Technically each linkspeed/mode is a whole ethernet standard of its own, but we mostly gloss over that and pretend to end users that they’re backwards compatible.

Similar here.

Family is mostly OK on it. We used to have issues with iOS devices not noticing some new messages & calls, but that seems to have stopped a few months ago. Family is usually impatient about me getting to my phone and rings me using 3 different services in a row, one of them Snikket xD

Have not yet managed to get any friends onto it.

My boss told me this is due to the skills shortage.

Thing is, its EOL, per Asus. Does this mean that it won’t be supported on OpenWRT for much longer?

OpenWRT tends to support devices longer and better than the OEM, but it depends on the popularity of the chipset inside the router.

Many different routers by different companies are almost identical internally, because they use the same chipset. Eg the RT-AC3100 seems to be a bcm53xx variant, of which OpenWRT supports a few dozen products. Support will probably only be dropped when every single one of those devices goes EOL and several years pass (ie no people left contributing/maintaining it and the builds break somehow).

Router chipsets can be very long lived. Many new devices use decade old chipset designs. Some chipset families have almost identical chips released every few years with slightly different peripherals, clocks & pinouts; but are supported by the same kernel drivers.

(This is all much better than the world of mobile phone hardware support. Maybe it’s because of different market pressures? Not to mention you don’t have a monopoly that benefits from keeping the hardware fractured. Imagine if people could make a competitor to Android that works across most devices out there)

Size is the interesting bit for me.

• Honda Super-ONE is a kei car
• BYD atto (the “$24K” one) is bigger, but not by too much.

I wish the backrooms were real. The monsters are no match for realestate agents, so it’d be pretty safe to rent.

As far as I understand, wireguard is designed so that it can’t be portscanned. Replies are never sent to packets unless they pass full auth.

This is both a blessing and a curse. It unfortunately means that if you misconfigure a key then your packets get silently ignored by the other party, no error messages or the likes, it’s as if the other party doesn’t exist.

EDIT: Yep, as per https://www.wireguard.com/protocol/

In fact, the server does not even respond at all to an unauthorized client; it is silent and invisible.

I’ve had some other friends mention only a tiny increase. Surprising.

don’t worry about it

reaches for flamethrower and glyphosate

I have too many questions about how the teleportation works, like what happens if you instantly (or over a small time t) transition from one location’s air pressure to another?

Had no idea about this, ty. Usually my local bees enter a drug-fueled rolling-around state inside my magnolia flowers (it’s a sight to behold), will have to watch and see if any beetles also visit mine.

I do not think a single one of your photos shows flowers or spores. Prude!

Cycads? Disgusting.

As a Magnolia man I’m feeling left out.

EDIT: Just showed my mum, she agrees on every point, including Cycads being gross. “Tell them I’m on the warpath and I’m coming after you”

T9 keyboard

Do you have to tap multiple times for each letter?

Similar layout, but flick your finger in an orthogonal direction instead of tapping multiple times: https://f-droid.org/packages/es.ideotec.t16fling/ . I have been using it as my main keyboard the past year and it’s OK. No haptic buzzes though and it’s incompatible with one app (Aurora store, causes random crashes, have to temporary swap keyboards).

“boosting the immune system” is a marketing term, not a medical term. If you care about your health then have a chat to your doctor and ask them for advice. Supplements are unlikely to give you any health benefits, unless you have a specific deficiency.

The psychology and marketing of supplements is very interesting. They’re easy to take (easier than making behavioural change like diet, sleep or exercise). Pills are seen as something that makes you better, even though the supplements would do the same thing in powder form. They cost a lot so they must be good. They are advertised on TV as being a good thing, in association with imagery of doctors and healthy-looking people.

Ostensibly supplements are designed to be harmless, but that’s not always the case. Vitamin B toxicity on the federal gov’s healthdirect site:

B6 toxicity can occur even at recommended doses

Love the new image on the main page sidebar. Looks to be from 2017? I hope they kept that up every year.

Ditto. I don’t block any captchas though.

I wanted to complain about how hard it was to find the forecasts. At the time it required clicking through unrelated items, they have changed it now. Tried to give feedback and was then chucked in the bin.

This part of Gary Larson’s “new collection”, released this year and made on a computer.

https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff

Also tried giving feedback, pile of errors and wouldn’t accept it.

Huh? It’s https now for me. Auto-redirected from the http pages.