Honestly I just run Alpine Linux on a mini PC (router) or Raspberry Pi (NAS). I don’t like to screw around with outdated, bloated Debian-based distros.

Probably because I’m vegan and eggs already creep me out. What looks like a coconut with a misshapen yolk gives me bad vibes regardless of whether the image is computer generated or not.

I was alluding to the creepy AI-like imagery. I’m not really interested in the choking hazard debate.

I don’t know what it is but the uncanny computer generated misshaped yolk is what gets me.

The image on the left gives me the creeps.

I bought my current one because IPv6 failed to provision on the one they gave me when I moved to a bigger apartment just two units away. I found some post on Reddit about the problem and it mentioned one that “ignores” the lack of IPv6 provisioning and does it anyway (I’m a programmer and IT geek but I don’t really understand cable/DOCSIS well).

If the modem they provided is just a modem and it works well, I don’t think there’s much reason to get rid of it. But personally if it’s an all-in-one box that has “bridge” mode I’d still run away and just go with my own modem.

I’m on Spectrum and have tons of friends that always complain they’re shit. Spectrum itself isn’t shit, it’s the garbage equipment they set you up with.

Make sure whatever you get works well with IPv6. For whatever reason IPv4 can go out at random but their IPv6 has never failed me (in the Los Angeles area at least).

mesh network

Or traditional network with Ethernet backhaul and lots of access points. I really wish mesh networks would die off honestly.

This is actually why I usually install a VPS in whichever country I’m physically in—my end devices always appear to be connecting to something innocent in-country (like a corporate VPN). That VPS then does the double-hop out of the country so that the VPS also seems pretty innocent too.

I don’t think it’s actually more secure though since the VPS is in my name and it’s technically decrypting everything. But I’m a bit less paranoid about that. (I’m not doing tons of illegal shit anyway.)

You have friends?

I had to look it up, what I was thinking of was MQA. Looks like they discontinued it last year though.

What I didn’t like about Tidal was their weird format being advertised as lossless when it wasn’t. It didn’t really sound all that great.

There was an application called requiem (if I remember correctly) that could rip music from older Windows XP versions of iTunes; it was only available over Tor quite some time ago. I’m not sure what people would use these days (maybe just a [modified] DAC?).

This gives me Arizona flashbacks

Almost got me, I didn’t realize which community this is. Was about say “just drink it from the bottle/can?”

Love your self-awareness.

Here we go

Linoleum floor in a supermarket? Haven’t seen that in the US nor Mexico.

For some reason I read this in Bill Maher’s Trump voice.

The penguin symbolizes Linux

Hate that you’re downvoted for this. Tailscale is incredible software but it is buggy as hell.

I gave up on 90% of the fancy features and just do most my routing from one node with good ol’ nftables and ip route/ip -6 route.