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    • O
      oyaji @Kilemall
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      @Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

      whaling

      kudos

      © 2015 - 2025 oyaji

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      • KilemallK
        Kilemall Careful, railroad agent @oyaji
        last edited by

        @oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

        @Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

        whaling

        kudos

        I gots vocabulary.

        https://i.imgur.com/hX2CMMZ.jpg

        Never go full Lithu-
        Twain

        No editing is gonna save you now-
        Wingmann

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          oyaji @Kilemall
          last edited by

          @Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

          @oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

          @Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

          whaling

          kudos

          I gots vocabulary.

          I have an enormous dangling participle.

          © 2015 - 2025 oyaji

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          • KilemallK
            Kilemall Careful, railroad agent @oyaji
            last edited by

            @oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

            @Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

            @oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

            @Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

            whaling

            kudos

            I gots vocabulary.

            I have an enormous dangling participle.

            Sexually aggressive grammar? Ew.

            https://i.imgur.com/hX2CMMZ.jpg

            Never go full Lithu-
            Twain

            No editing is gonna save you now-
            Wingmann

            http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/72217/DSC_2528.JPG

            http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/20416/PTOB 101_resize.jpg

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              oyaji @Kilemall
              last edited by oyaji

              @Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

              @oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

              @Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

              @oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

              @Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

              whaling

              kudos

              I gots vocabulary.

              I have an enormous dangling participle.

              Sexually aggressive grammar? Ew.

              How can grammar be aggressive, or even sexual? You mind is in the gutter!

              Besides, I said “dangling”, not “erect”! Do I need to post a screenshot?

              © 2015 - 2025 oyaji

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                oyaji
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                @Kilemall

                Yeah, you bet I need to post a screenshot!

                Dangling participle joke - Screenshot (12).png

                © 2015 - 2025 oyaji

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                • HogH
                  Hog
                  last edited by Hog

                  This could go in the China thread but I’m not convinced the non-Chinese smart-devices are all that much better:

                  This just makes me so mad

                  tl;dw: Chinese manufacturer repeatedly remotely bricks a guy’s robo-vacuum because he keeps blocking the address it was sending its spyware data to.

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                  • tiggerT
                    tigger
                    last edited by

                    I needed wifi-enabled sockets (I have 3 lights which are actually grow lights for the plants in winter, and I want them to be on not only when someone’s in the room), and it was quite difficult to get ones that don’t just send everything to a cloud in China.

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                    • JamJ
                      Jam
                      last edited by Jam

                      I have a number of WiFi enabled monitoring and control devices.

                      You guys worry about using Telegram, well, the Chinese probably own me.

                      The first remote devices I installed are Honeywell Thermostats. I also have Lyric and PROA7PLUS Honeywell alarm systems.

                      For years now I have been using TP-Link products, specifically WiFi extenders.

                      I decided to add WiFi monitoring for specific commercial AC powered devices and at first I ordered Govee Smart Plugs, but then I discovered that they have known vulnerabilities, so I returned them and went with TP-Link Tapo Smart Plugs instead.

                      Mostly it’s their routers that are known to be vulnerable:

                      Yes, TP-Link products have been reported to have significant cybersecurity vulnerabilities, which have raised concerns about their potential exploitation by threat actors. The U.S. government is considering banning these products due to these security risks.

                      Then there are Eufy doorbell cameras (I have six of those.)
                      There is my Security camera system from Reolink

                      Sonos WiFi connected audio systems

                      Schlage smart locks - I’ve got seven of those.

                      Light switches? I’ve got too many Lutron Caseta devices to count.
                      SafeSense temperature and humidity monitoring of my new wine cellar.
                      Residio hot water heater monitoring.
                      SmartHQ WiFi connected AC system in my cottage.

                      Eufy outdoor lighting

                      Monitor and control of my GMC Yukon

                      Jesus

                      These things were added gradually over a period of years.

                      But I do have a lot of safeguards on my browser!!!

                      One thing I do avoid are integrated systems.

                      If I lose control of something, I lose control of that one thing.

                      "laissez les bons temps rouler!"

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                      • Gators1G
                        Gators1
                        last edited by

                        Can we get a network diagram?

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                        • JamJ
                          Jam @Gators1
                          last edited by Jam

                          @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                          Can we get a network diagram?

                          No.

                          But you can ask some Chinaman to supply it to you, probably for a small fee.

                          "laissez les bons temps rouler!"

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                            oyaji
                            last edited by

                            I’m looking at going off-grid.

                            © 2015 - 2025 oyaji

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                            • GustafG
                              Gustaf @tigger
                              last edited by

                              @tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                              I needed wifi-enabled sockets (I have 3 lights which are actually grow lights for the plants in winter, and I want them to be on not only when someone’s in the room), and it was quite difficult to get ones that don’t just send everything to a cloud in China.

                              @tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                              I needed wifi-enabled sockets (I have 3 lights which are actually grow lights for the plants in winter, and I want them to be on not only when someone’s in the room), and it was quite difficult to get ones that don’t just send everything to a cloud in China.

                              Weed grower!!!

                              "Let's give it a week! Still a disaster? Let's give it another week…" -Tazz

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                              • HogH
                                Hog
                                last edited by

                                Windows Notepad is getting support for tables and streaming AI:

                                https://windowsforum.com/threads/notepad-on-windows-11-gains-tables-and-streaming-ai-features.390631/

                                Gators right now:

                                a man in a suit and tie is dancing in a living room while a woman sits on a couch .

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                                • KilemallK
                                  Kilemall Careful, railroad agent @Hog
                                  last edited by

                                  @Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                  Windows Notepad is getting support for tables and streaming AI:

                                  https://windowsforum.com/threads/notepad-on-windows-11-gains-tables-and-streaming-ai-features.390631/

                                  Gators right now:

                                  a man in a suit and tie is dancing in a living room while a woman sits on a couch .

                                  Fucking hell that’s exactly what I don’t want. Notepad should be the clean stupid text scrubbed of codes editor. They can do word pad or textpad for jacked up utility stuff.

                                  https://i.imgur.com/hX2CMMZ.jpg

                                  Never go full Lithu-
                                  Twain

                                  No editing is gonna save you now-
                                  Wingmann

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                                  • HogH
                                    Hog @Kilemall
                                    last edited by Hog

                                    @Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                    @Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                    Windows Notepad is getting support for tables and streaming AI:

                                    https://windowsforum.com/threads/notepad-on-windows-11-gains-tables-and-streaming-ai-features.390631/

                                    Gators right now:

                                    a man in a suit and tie is dancing in a living room while a woman sits on a couch .

                                    Fucking hell that’s exactly what I don’t want. Notepad should be the clean stupid text scrubbed of codes editor. They can do word pad or textpad for jacked up utility stuff.

                                    Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Its bog simple, no frills text editing without fancy features actually was its main feature. I was also thinking, I wonder how long before they realize that and recreate the simple notepad and maybe call it “note” or “pad” but then I remembered they released this back in May:

                                    f947ad92-ec29-4c25-95ac-f20909bac532-image.png

                                    It’s a.command line program so most normies will never find it or use it but I guess it might be handy for devs and tech people for quick edits. Since it’s open source, I’m kind of hoping it replaces nano as the default command line editor on a lot of Linux installs. I install nvim for any machine I’m going to be using a lot but I’d much prefer the above edit program to nano.

                                    GitHub - microsoft/edit: We all edit.

                                    GitHub - microsoft/edit: We all edit.

                                    We all edit. Contribute to microsoft/edit development by creating an account on GitHub.

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                                    • Gators1G
                                      Gators1 @Hog
                                      last edited by

                                      @Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                      Windows Notepad is getting support for tables and streaming AI:

                                      https://windowsforum.com/threads/notepad-on-windows-11-gains-tables-and-streaming-ai-features.390631/

                                      Gators right now:

                                      a man in a suit and tie is dancing in a living room while a woman sits on a couch .

                                      M$ is so hell bent on embedding AI in everything in Windows that I am more and more likely to join your Linux cult. Have fun being my tech support.

                                      @Poo, my joystick drivers are broken again…can we get on a Zoom call and fix them?

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                                      • TheMouseT
                                        TheMouse
                                        last edited by

                                        i must admit to tinkering with that idea … but slightly put off by how it will effect my gaming

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                                        • Gators1G
                                          Gators1
                                          last edited by

                                          There is the old favorite Notepad++. It has a lot of other shit in it, but I mostly use it for notes and random shit. I got addicted to it years ago because the tabs persist and you don’t lose everything when you accidentally shut down notepad. It took M$ I think until Win11 to match that feature. It was also very useful long ago for syntax highlighting and previewing very large CSVs, but you can do that in IDEs now.

                                          Notepad++

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