It’s that thing that won’t let you watch videos in the quality you paid for if they don’t like the device or browser you use.

Mesh should be an option of last resort. It reduces the speed and increases the latency quite a bit. The only thing worse is power line networking, which has the side effect of turning your whole house into an RF jammer.

The cell carriers don’t need more bandwith. 5G is already quite fast with the existing allocations. The only times I’ve used 5G and thought it’s too slow has been in rural areas where the issue is a lack of nearby cell towers, not a lack of bandwidth. The cell carriers already have loads of millimeter wave bandwidth available for use in densely packed, urban areas where the lower frequency bands are insufficient.

It’s WiFi that should be getting more bandwidth. Home internet connections keep getting faster. Multi gigabit speeds are now common in areas with fiber.

So how do you determine if your headphones have the vulnerable chip in them?

My watch runs for years from a coin cell. There’s no way that I’m replacing it with an internet connected spy device that constantly needs to be charged.

It’s certainly not an ideal solution, but it’s an option that will usually work.

I’ve used Optar. It works a lot better than just printing some QR codes. It fits 188 KiB on a sheet of letter sized paper after error correction. It does require a laser printer and a flat bed scanner though.

There are HDMI splitter boxes you can get from China that conveniently strip out the HDCP.

Maybe people will start torrenting youtube rips if they somehow manage to kill ad blockers.

The goal is to get away from US tech companies.

The main issue is the lack of software support. They keep making each new Android version more bloated so you can’t update more than once or maybe twice. If it wasn’t for that, you could keep using the same 5G phone until they shut down the 5G network as long as the battery is replaceable.

I wish Android was more like Debian where it’s lightweight, uses stable versions of software and runs well on old hardware.

like “only update X when on WiFi”.

Most Linux software only updates when the user tells the package manager to update it.>

If anyone except you has the private key, then your private messages are not private.

An IP camera may stay in use for a decade or more without any firmware updates. You shouldn’t trust any sort of authentication that’s built into the camera to be secure. Keep them on an isolated LAN and only allow access from the server that’s running the DVR software.

Without researchers like that, someone else would figure it out and use it maliciously without telling anyone. This researcher got Google to close the loophole that the exploit requires before publicly disclosing it.

My main issue is that LLMs are being used to flood the internet with AI slop. Almost every time I search for something, I have to go through a lot of results to find one with any usable information. The SEO spam before AI was bad enough, now it’s significantly worse.

There are adapters, but you only get 1 or 2 lanes and can only use short SSDs. If there is a BIOS whitelist, it won’t work though.

Better keep a big furnace full of molten steel ready just in case.

They didn’t make it out of brominated ABS, so it won’t turn yellow with age though.

FCC emission requirements are very lax below 30MHz, so something can pass FCC part 15 yet still jam the entire HF band.