I’ve had N40L and N54L, still running one, and I would absolutely not suggest buying one. They’re too old and underpowered, and they’re honestly quite inconvenient to service. If you get one for free, then sure, but if you’re going to spend money, you can get something cheap, more powerful, and easier to work on, like a used optiplex.

I was just thinking yesterday that I should replace my one remaining N40L instead of waiting for it to die.

I’m not sure why you were downvoted but you’re right about the origin. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wait-its-all-ohio-always-has-been

Do they include “fighting with anti patterns and dark patterns” as broken? It’s pretty insane how much misalignment there is between what most people want their computers to do and what the companies want people to do, which seems to largely be “look at ads literally everywhere”.

you can’t convince me everyone is recycling their used electronics.

Amazon bricks your expensive new-ish device and now you have to pay to have it recycled? Hell no people aren’t recycling them, and that too should be illegal. Amazon should be legally required to take responsibility for recycling those devices, and how the device is recycled should be part of the device design process.

The lawyers are just loving this AI bloodbath.

Fuckin seriously! I worked on WiFi back then and when I saw that my jaw hit the floor. Mad hacking skills, as in mad ability to find a solution within a crazy landscape.

In binary, when you add one more numeric place, things double. Not doubling would be like having two digit decimal numbers but only allowing people to count to 50.

I use an rpi2040 with circuitpython and usbhid. Plug it into anything and it shows up as a mouse and moves the mouse in a tiny circle every few minutes. You can get one for $6.

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Oh yeah, exactly. USG and aps and stuff do not. The dream router does, so I would caution against it.

Also, they may force it in the future. Their past behavior does indicate that direction.

Ubiquiti website says that dream router must run unifi.

https://store.ui.com/us/en/collections/unifi-dream-router/products/udr

*Consists of UniFi Network plus two of Protect, Access, Talk, or Connect.

What router do you have? If it’s a dream router, how did you join it to your unifi running in docker on another host?

I have been using ubiquiti for years, and I would strongly caution against using them. They are forcing some devices to sign on to ubiquity cloud and synchronize with their cloud services, and are forcing those sign ins to use MFA. I really miss the ubiquity from 2020, where it was all local. Next time I upgrade my gear, I will probably not buy an ubiquiti router/gateway.

Also the upgrade process from Usg to dream router was awful. Also they don’t let you run unifi in docker with a dream router, you are forced to run it on-device.

Does xmms fit the bill?

Edit: oops. It had its final release in 2007. Shows how much I use Linux for multimedia lately! Around 2000 this was my go-to. I had it hooked up to an Inspiron laptop in my car with a usb game controller to switch tracks and stuff.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMMS

A few months ago my wife wanted to buy an electronic picture frame and I had a hard time explaining this to her.

Edit: an internet connected picture frame.

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If the human eye doesn’t see the train crossing, how a camera can see it?

If Elon Musk wasn’t so anti-lidar then that would be the answer, but here we are.

What new concerns? All I see are preexisting concerns.

When asked how he spent the time that he was supposed to be coming up with a new company name, their head of marketing replied “honestly, I spent the week sitting around holding my dick.”