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Comment on [Home networking] Setting my Ruckus APs to DFS channels manually, any chance of running afoul of the FCC? in ~comp
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Comment on [Home networking] Setting my Ruckus APs to DFS channels manually, any chance of running afoul of the FCC? in ~comp
jaylittle LinkDFS channels can be used, but there are rules around them and the software in your AP is probably coded to follow those rules:...DFS channels can be used, but there are rules around them and the software in your AP is probably coded to follow those rules:
https://wifinc.net/dfs-channels-and-why-to-avoid-them-even-though-you-say-you-cannot/
I used to only use DFS channels for 5ghz networking in my house, but eventually I came around and now avoid them like the plague. Largely due to the issues detailed in the blog post above. When your APs are forced to switch DFS channels, it takes... forever. Whereas if you use non-DFS channels things happen way way quicker.
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Comment on US athletes are taking full advantage of free healthcare in Olympic village in ~sports
jaylittle LinkOn a totally unrelated note, the si.com website is absolute trash. I read the story and once I scrolled to the bottom, it changed the URL in the address bar to the one for the next story even...On a totally unrelated note, the si.com website is absolute trash. I read the story and once I scrolled to the bottom, it changed the URL in the address bar to the one for the next story even though I didn't even see it. So I copied the URL from my address bar to share with a friend and shared the wrong story. To make matters worse, when you scroll back up it doesn't change the URL back.
Garbage.
Edit: Also come on US. Get with the fucking times and fix our shitacular healthcare system. Compared to the rest of the so-called civilized world healthcare in America is basically like a never ending version of "Mad Max: Thunderdome"
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Comment on What are the most effective ways to help get Joe Biden re-elected in the US? in ~society
jaylittle Link ParentBiden is done. If you follow politics closely in the US and are paying attention you can already see the signs. Donors are cutting loose and swing state polls have shifted to Trump over the last...Biden is done. If you follow politics closely in the US and are paying attention you can already see the signs. Donors are cutting loose and swing state polls have shifted to Trump over the last week.
Kamala will take over the ticket because that’s the only financially viable option as her campaign will basically be an extension of the old Biden one and her team will be able to use all the cash Biden and Kamala already raised.
Can she win? Who knows. All I know is that the longer Biden pretends this isn’t a problem, the less time his replacement has to get his/her bearing in this thing.
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Comment on At some point, JavaScript becomes indefensible in ~comp
jaylittle LinkAgreed. Good luck convincing the legion of largely clueless front end devs though.Agreed. Good luck convincing the legion of largely clueless front end devs though.
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Comment on Ubisoft shut down The Crew. Here is what we can do about it. in ~games
jaylittle LinkYou can't do a damn thing about it except vote with your wallet and stop buying online only games. Or at the very least stop acting so surprised when a company shuts it off. It will eventually...You can't do a damn thing about it except vote with your wallet and stop buying online only games. Or at the very least stop acting so surprised when a company shuts it off.
It will eventually happen to every last one of them. Stop rewarding poor design decisions.
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Comment on Can old, poorly wired electrical outlets cause a PC to freeze? in ~tech
jaylittle LinkThe best way to protect any desktop PC from power issues is to buy a UPS and hook it up through that. That will guarantee the quality level of the power. Years ago I used to have a PC that would...The best way to protect any desktop PC from power issues is to buy a UPS and hook it up through that. That will guarantee the quality level of the power. Years ago I used to have a PC that would destroy GPUs:
- Install new GPU
- Use it for a month
- GPU starts going bad
Turns out the power delivery in my apartment at the time was shit. Adding a UPS into the mix totally resolved the issue. Since then, the only PCs I run sans UPS are laptops and I have never had an issue like that since.
Does any of this apply to your situation? Hell if I know. But yeah, UPSes are not optional equipment IMHO.
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Comment on Former US President Donald Trump will speak at the Libertarian National Convention in ~society
jaylittle Link ParentYep. This pretty much just underscores how most Libertarians are essentially full of shit. Trump represents the exact opposite of everything they claim to value.Yep. This pretty much just underscores how most Libertarians are essentially full of shit. Trump represents the exact opposite of everything they claim to value.
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Comment on Red and blue US states: dichotomized maps mislead and reduce perceived voting influence in ~science
jaylittle LinkAs a socially liberal person living in a very red state, let me be clear: My vote is less than meaningless. Doubly so in a presidential election. After dutifully voting for more than two decades,...As a socially liberal person living in a very red state, let me be clear: My vote is less than meaningless. Doubly so in a presidential election. After dutifully voting for more than two decades, I recently decided to basically just opt out because since I stopped voting for Republicans in 2004, I haven't voted for a single winning candidate (in this state) since.
I will be voting in the upcoming Republican primary though. Anything to help curtail Trump's march to the Republican nomination. It also helps that since I live in SC, I figure Nikki Haley ought to at least have a snowball's chance here as she used to be our governor and was reasonably popular.
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Comment on We don't do DST at this company in ~comp
jaylittle LinkThis was an interesting post, but the author is incorrect about how time is handled in Windows. By default Windows syncs the hardware clock to whatever the users local timezone indicates. Windows...This was an interesting post, but the author is incorrect about how time is handled in Windows. By default Windows syncs the hardware clock to whatever the users local timezone indicates. Windows can be configured to do what Linux does which is sync the hardware clock to UTC and then use the timezone offset to adjust date/time displays however via group policy / registry hack.
I only know this from wasting years of time dual booting between Linux and Windows on the same hardware and having to configure one or the other upon reinstall to work in such a way that it would match what the other one was doing so as to avoid the hardware clock getting skewed as part of switching OSes.
The reality is that storing time as UTC is the correct approach, its DST that is abhorrently idiotic. Shifting times twice a year for precisely zero good reason is a tradition that needs to go out the window sooner rather than later.
EDIT: Arch Wiki has a great summary of how the OSes handle this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_time
The standard used by the hardware clock (CMOS clock, the BIOS time) is set by the operating system. By default, Windows uses localtime, macOS uses UTC, other UNIX and UNIX-like systems vary. An OS that uses the UTC standard will generally consider the hardware clock as UTC and make an adjustment to it to set the OS time at boot according to the time zone.
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To dual boot with Windows, it is recommended to configure Windows to use UTC, rather than Linux to use localtime. (Windows by default uses localtime [2].) -
Comment on People who manage small websites, how much does it cost you in time (and finances)? in ~comp
jaylittle (edited )LinkBeen running my own blog as an independent website since 2001 using my custom written blog platform. Currently host it on a Debian shared VM at Linode / Akamai which costs me 24 USD a month (a bit...Been running my own blog as an independent website since 2001 using my custom written blog platform. Currently host it on a Debian shared VM at Linode / Akamai which costs me 24 USD a month (a bit overkill but I like having access to more resources than I need, just in case).
I'm a firm believer in personal blogs. Carve out your own corner of the web if you want to ensure that you'll always have a place to express yourself.
EDIT: Realized I skipped the time aspect of the question. This takes very little time on my part. The blog platform is pretty mature and does what I need it to do. Debian requires very little upkeep until I need to perform a major upgrade and even that it's only a few hours of my time. Backups and updates are scripted jobs so I don't manually deal with any of that.
So the vast majority of my time is spent on content rather than the technical aspects of the thing.
EDIT 2: Keep forgetting that Akamai recently raised their prices... so I corrected my monthly hosting cost
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Comment on Your Fitbit is useless – unless you consent to unlawful data sharing in ~tech
jaylittle LinkEvery single product Google makes relies upon unlawful data sharing. Duh.Every single product Google makes relies upon unlawful data sharing.
Duh.
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Comment on It’s official: Cars are the worst product category we have ever reviewed for privacy in ~tech
jaylittle LinkShit like this is why you'll have to pry my 2012 Avalon from my cold dead hands. Modern cars are a raging dumpster fire in so many ways....Shit like this is why you'll have to pry my 2012 Avalon from my cold dead hands. Modern cars are a raging dumpster fire in so many ways....
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Comment on David Brooks: Nikki Haley is the best Donald Trump alternative in ~society
jaylittle Link ParentCouldn't agree more. As a regular PBS News Hour viewer, David Brooks has basically become the poster child of what sane conservatism used to be for me. He's a breath of fresh air. Sadly he's also...Couldn't agree more. As a regular PBS News Hour viewer, David Brooks has basically become the poster child of what sane conservatism used to be for me. He's a breath of fresh air. Sadly he's also a constant reminder that the days of sane conservatism are also in the rear-view mirror and getting further away with every passing second.
Cause his brand is dying out, not growing. Damn shame.
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Comment on David Brooks: Nikki Haley is the best Donald Trump alternative in ~society
jaylittle Link ParentEvery Friday evening, I watch the PBS News Hour and they have a segment in which an anchor and two columists cover the weeks political events. David Brooks has been a columnist on that segment for...Every Friday evening, I watch the PBS News Hour and they have a segment in which an anchor and two columists cover the weeks political events. David Brooks has been a columnist on that segment for quite a few years and frankly... you are living in a different reality than I am.
He's definitely one of the more sane conservatives. I have never heard him refer to either Marxism or Loose women either. He's hardly a moralist. Just a traditional conservative who happens to despise Trump and the complete and utter decline of the Republican party into a populism fueled mob of fools and conspiracy theorists who have no actual principles to speak of.
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Comment on Madison Reeve explains why she quit Linus Tech Tips (CW: self harm, slurs, sexual harassment) in ~tech
jaylittle Link ParentReturning prototype hardware to partners who loaned it to you for purposes of a review instead of auctioning it off to random third parties is something LMG should absolutely be doing 100% of the...Returning prototype hardware to partners who loaned it to you for purposes of a review instead of auctioning it off to random third parties is something LMG should absolutely be doing 100% of the time.
This isn't about the review itself (which in and of itself was fucking terrible for numerous reasons that GN covered) but more about just basic professional courtesy.
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Comment on Failures in accuracy, ethics and responsibility with Linus Tech Tips and LMG as a whole in ~tech
jaylittle Link ParentYeah Madison's story basically tells us that the problems at LTT are coming from the top down and the culture inside the company is incredibly toxic. Linus' response thus far indicates that there...Yeah Madison's story basically tells us that the problems at LTT are coming from the top down and the culture inside the company is incredibly toxic. Linus' response thus far indicates that there is no intent on actually changing anything.
If your culture is all about going as fast as possible, quality be damned, then you either have to commit to changing the culture or own it. Linus isn't doing either which indicates to me that as far as he is concerned, everything is still business as usual.
Fuck LTT.
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Comment on Madison Reeve explains why she quit Linus Tech Tips (CW: self harm, slurs, sexual harassment) in ~tech
jaylittle LinkHaving read all of this, I have to say: LTT is dead to me. They don't care about the quality of their data (e.g. many many errors) They don't care about their partners (e.g. Billet Labs) They...Having read all of this, I have to say: LTT is dead to me.
They don't care about the quality of their data (e.g. many many errors)
They don't care about their partners (e.g. Billet Labs)
They don't care about their employees (e.g. Madison's story)
They don't care about their customers (e.g. just trust me bro)Even if you view LTT and their associated media brands solely as a source of entertainment rather than a source of education, at some point enough is enough.
I have reached that point.
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Comment on Famed hacker Kevin Mitnick dead at 59 in ~tech
jaylittle LinkThis one needs some more up votes. I guess Kevin is truly freed now. RIPThis one needs some more up votes.
I guess Kevin is truly freed now.
RIP
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Comment on Apple Vision Pro headsets will require a head scan and vision prescription to customize the headset for each user in ~tech
jaylittle Link ParentNot by the metric of capitalism. Most if not all of those Quest headsets were sold at a loss. I got at least four nieces and nephews that each got their own... and guess what? After the novelty...Not by the metric of capitalism. Most if not all of those Quest headsets were sold at a loss. I got at least four nieces and nephews that each got their own... and guess what? After the novelty wore off three to six months after they received em, fuckers ended up in a corner gathering dust. Meanwhile those ass old Nintendo Switches are still going strong.
The only people winning in VR land is whomever is making bank off Beat Sabre.
Yeah so I live about 10 miles from the local airport and depending on the DFS channel I used, sometimes I would actually get radar events which would force everything to drop and to switch to another channel. The Unifi Network software is good about recording and relaying information when things like that happen, so I was eventually able to find DFS channels where these incidents occurred way less often.
Despite that, I still ended up dumping them because the rules around DFS channels make your network much slower to react and reconfigure itself when something does go wrong with a DFS channel and that was excruciating at times. Switching to non-DFS channels gave me a much better experience, though my wifi speed isn't quite as fast either (presumably due to non-DFS channels being more congested).