Shortstack

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[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Good argument for encryption and servers within a privacy respecting country

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 5 points 6 days 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.

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 25 points 1 week 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.

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 17 points 1 week ago

That would explain the heavy layer of eyeliner tbh

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago

Train whistle and the sound of the train rumbling by in the distance is deeply relaxing, doubly so if after nightfall or if I'm drifting off to sleep.

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Cool story bro. Guess you're okay with trump winning and he also supports genocide

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 19 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for making a great app purple man

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's just Mike Tyson calling someone sir

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 17 points 3 weeks ago

Jfc I thought everyone was just shitposting here but this is a real what the fuck moment

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 133 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)

Alright! Dystopian nightmare timeline is a go!

I especially like the part where cops are reported to heavily abuse these databases for personal agendas or to share with criminals. Truly ACAB

This is a very good reason to maintain the appearance of neutrality while facing your local community

This might even be an argument for putting those smoked opaque covers on your license plates even if it's questionably legal. There's more than a few people out there with definitely not legal smoked covers to the point you literally can't read their plates unless you're tailgating them, and cops don't give a shit because nobody is ever pulled over for illegal mods. I'd wager that the cameras can't read them either if you can't at 10 yards

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

Only if the octopus is into butt stuff

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 60 points 1 month ago (1 children)

About god-damned time someone did something about that.

Not great that it had to be California legislating it for the rest of the country but we'd pass out if we held our breath on Congress doing anything useful

 

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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