Notices by Ben S. (hunterz@mastodon.sdf.org), page 2

@systemd I know it's a shitpost, but nano literally showing you at the bottom of the screen what its important commands are is one of the reasons I like it so much better :p

@thomasfuchs looks like projection to me

@thomasfuchs it depends. Most of my almost 2 decades at work has been spent on the same code that originated in the late 1990s. I wish I could rewrite it from scratch, but it's too big.

@joeo10 but that would inconvenience investors in the shipping and/or insurance companies, who we have decided as a society are more important than the general public!

@thomasfuchs people rave about UniFi, but this stuff looks totally overkill for my needs. We're talking maybe 2 dozen devices on my home LAN in a mix of ethernet and WiFi.

I don't want a rackmount anything lol.

I think it would be nice to have something that supports a mesh of 3 APs: 1 at (or combined with) the WAN router, 1 at the far end of the house via Cat 5e, and maybe 1 upstairs and/or at the front of the house via WiFi only.

Networking nerds, give me home LAN upgrade advice!

Current situation (needs are in post #2) is as follows:

I have 1000/25 internet now, and my R7000 FreshTomato router + WiFi AP only supports that WAN speed if I overclock it to 1.2GHz.

A Cat 5e run connects that to an Asus RT-N66U at the opposite end of the house, which acts as a secondary AP+switch.

These are both downstairs, but we have a second floor. The kids complain about unstable WiFi upstairs.

What I'm looking for:

- A router + WiFi AP with proper 1Gbps WAN support, and the ability to redirect DNS to a pihole instance on the LAN

- WiFi mesh networking for seamless roaming around the house, which can take advantage of - but not be limited to - Ethernet backhaul (would like the option to put an AP at the front and/or upstairs parts of the house, where Ethernet isn't currently an option)

@thomasfuchs you'll likely get magically upgraded to 100/20 because otherwise your ISP is going to lose out on some of that sweet sweet federal funding.

I just read that the Biden FCC bumped up the US "broadband" definition to 100/20 Mbps minimum. My rural-edge suburban Xfinity service has been something like 250/15 for years, so I just tested again and it's now magically 350/25 without any hardware changes (I own my own modern and router).

Some of this may also be due to Verizon offering wireless Internet in our area, but cell service is so awful here that I'm guessing it would be a joke.

Bold of Mastodon to assume that instance admins who aren't engaged with their own instances are going to bother to install some update that will contain the effects of their poor moderation on the wider fediverse.

"Pray we don't update it any further"

This deal is getting worse all the time...

@thomasfuchs having long been aware of your history as an Apple user, I respect your willingness to call them out when they deserve it.

@joeo10 it would probably help a lot if the US wasn't so impotent when it comes to regulating tech.

@joeo10 @Techmeme ah, so EU regulators probably forced Apple to do some good things, and Apple decided to make sure that nobody outside of that region will benefit.

@joeo10 what did Apple do this time?

@g Electron is the software equivalent of wanting to watch a film at home instead of at the movie theater - but you're too intimidated by the idea of learning how to hook up a Blu-Ray player to your TV, so you pay someone to build an entire movie theater in your backyard instead, allowing you to watch movies the way you've always done it before (but now at home!).

I think remodelers manhandled the Cat5e cable one too many times that runs under the house to bridge my family room and office, as it's no longer working :(

I would try putting a new RJ45 connector on the roughed-up end, but I can't find my damned crimp tool. I could've sworn it was with my soldering kit, but clearly they got separated at some point. Argh.

@joeo10 @pluralistic yes, all of this. It's also why I don't begrudge folks using things like GamePass - if companies are going to force gaming experiences to be ephemeral anyway, accessing then via a Netflix model makes as much sense as anything else.

It's all going to lead to a dark age for preservation though, depending on how much pirates can accomplish.

@joeo10 @pluralistic console games are a lost cause at this point, as many require online accounts/activation - or even day-one patch downloads - from servers that will eventually be shut down, rendering them useless or full of bugs.

Someone is going to try to play Breath of the Wild in 15 years and realize that it's not the game they remember because all of the patches are gone (yes, even that random example received 6 patches!).

@thomasfuchs this happened in a rental house my wife was living in - turned out one phase had gone out. Of course this was at night in winter, and they had to dig a box out of the ground to fix it.