Not a newt

Different regions have different channels available. And original access points didn’t have any congestion detection capabilities (didn’t need them, because at that time there weren’t so many people using access points), so it was left up to the owner to pick one and stay on it.

On the other hand, people who don’t know enough about how WiFi bands work will look at the channels used in the area, see that they tend to “crowd” on channels at specific intervals (e.g. channels 1, 7, and 11 for 2.4GHz networks), and think they’re better off picking an in-between one because hey, it’s not used. However they don’t realize that by doing so they make everyone’s WiFi worse including their own, because those “crowded” channels are preferred so that they don’t overlap with each other. If everyone picks channels 1, 7, or 11 then they will only conflict with signals from those channels. Someone then picking e.g. channel 4 will conflict with everyone on channels 1 and 7.

Oh definitely. Like I said, I don’t begrudge others the things that bring them joy, and I will make reasonable effort to not spoil it for them. But it drains my social battery to be masking all the time, which further degrades any second hand fun I might have.

I don’t hate Christmas, but it’s a holiday that relies on tradition and I derive no joy from traditions. The whole “we’re doing this because it’s been done every previous year of our life” schtick just rubs me wrong. I recognise that for some people there is comfort in tradition. For me however it feels more like indoctrination.

Rebuild: no. If the software itself is unmaintained, it gets replaced.

Patch: yes. If the base image contains vulnerabilities that can be fixed with a package update, then that gets applied. The patch size and side effects can be minimized by using copacetic, which can ingest Trivy scan results to identify vulnerabilities.

There’s also repos like Chainguard and Docker hardened images which are handy for getting up to date images of commonly used tools.

Aaron Earned an Iron Urn

The nostalgia comes from the context that dialup involves: the early decades of the Internet, the pre-commercialization optimism about ubiquitous connectivity. Hearing the dialup sound evokes memories linked to those feelings, just like hearing music you heard in your youth evokes memories of that time.

“Military grade leather.”

Getting Shuttle PC vibes from the form factor.

Soda Stereo was the pinnacle of Argentine rock. Their farewell tour concert sold out and was televised. “De musica ligera” was their most popular song, and the last song they played https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX-us7PEfkc

NFC, probably.

Assets. That’s what I get for trusting the phone keyboard.

Find companies that resell EOL corporate arrest assets like refurb.io

Cat had a habit of licking plastic grocery bags. Didn’t care two bits for catnip, but would go gaga for plastic bags. Well, one day the goober got so into it that she got her head into a bag handle, noticed that something was off, and panicked. So you have this cat sprinting all over the house, running away from the bag that’s billowing and making scary noises just behind her… In the end she started running up the stairs, got the rest of the bag stuck under her paws, and just stood there in self-pity because she’s pinned herself down.

13/21 here. Mostly got hung up on several “this was valid in earlier RFC, and later removed” kind of situations. There are several where I picked the correct answer, but where I know many websites that won’t accept it as valid, and that’s not even the more esoteric ones.