Why would you want to take your vacation while kids are out of school? Anywhere you go will be overrun by kids…

Just go read up on networking and you’ll realize that wouldn’t make sense.

That right there is you being an asshole. If that’s who you are, that’s fine, but at least be honest about it. I know I’m an asshole, so you’re not hurting my feelings any by turning it back on me.

If you would like to not be an asshole, a good start would be to accept that you don’t know everything, and just because your experience differs from mine doesn’t mean I’m wrong. It’s fully possible what I observed between 30 and 15 years ago was unusual, or maybe it was common then but isn’t now- and if you had led with that, I might have conceded that you may at least have more current knowledge than I. It’s also possible I didn’t explain myself clearly enough, and we’re just misunderstanding each other- a layer 8 problem, if you will.

you think the modem is broadcasting your computer’s MAC address.

Well, considering I was seeing arp packets from mac addresses of every other machine on my segment pretty much continuously, what conclusion would you come to?

Yeah but I think this legislation is targeting consumer grade equipment, professional tends to be more expensive than consumers are willing to spend, so I wasn’t really considering it part of the equation.

I happen to know when my (now ex-) wife cheated on me, she raw dogged him… Never would have expected that from her, she’s such a germophobe otherwise…

Uncut here, never needed lube either.

I got a vasectomy because I don’t want kids. Unfortunately, when I got home, they were still there.

(I’m kidding, I love my kids. But I definitely don’t want any more)

My own head is capable of moving enough that my showerhead doesn’t need to…

I sit in an office all day, not much filth. But yeah, if I go for a bike ride and get all sweaty, I’ll shower after, but then I’ll usually forgo the next morning’s shower… only usually, because morning shower helps me wake up.

El Vez sings “en el barrio”

You don’t even need all that, if you’re just doing wifi routing, one wired nic and one wifi card will do, if you want wired routing too, just one more nic will do, then use a dumb switch to get the multiple ports.

How many strictly wired routers are there anymore? (Somewhat rhetorical question, but I am a little curious)

Be less of an asshole, it’s free. I’ve been sniffing packets from cable modems since the 90s. I even remember the mac address of my first network card - 00a0cc52cac7, because mediaone gave out persistent hostnames based on your mac address before they were bought by at&t. I once putty’d into my machine from Katmandu just because I could. Incidentally, when I called at&t support to find out if this would continue, their support rep had no idea what I was talking about, and after I mentioned mac addresses, he suggested I call apple.

Cleaning solar panels is quite literally spraying them with water, it takes about 5 minutes once a year. They do “wear out” over time, after 20 years they may only put out 80% of what they used to… Damage is possible, but the system I had at my old house withstood several severe wind storms and a couple hail storms with no noticeable lasting effects.

More generation than load makes voltage go up. More voltage has varying effects on equipment, ranging from no problem to exploding in a shower of molten metal.

Pretty common thing to say among white trash moms (and very possibly among non-white trash moms too, but my experience is limited…)

Every broadband connection I’ve had looks at the mac address of whatever is behind the modem, the modem essentially passes it through.

Yes. Linux can (usually though not always) drive a wifi card as an access point.

I did this 20 years ago, I can do it again…

And on the flipside, the ones that do get responses, the jobs don’t match your skills…

Thrive.