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  • Sweaters

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  • Sometimes, the best tool for the job is the one you already have. Is she supposed to go out and buy a new missile launcher and all the consumables that go with it when she's got a perfectly functional stinger in the garage already?

    Consumer culture has gotten out of hand!

    /s ... kind of???

  • Started Degoogling last Sunday

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  • I keep mine in 2FAS and Vaultwarden.

  • Why is sleep so hard for laptops?

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  • Agreed, I disable sleep on all laptops other than my MacBook and my work laptop which manages to drain its battery and overheat itself on my bag semi frequently.

    The MB has never had negative issues with sleep.

  • Andrew Cuomo says he’ll run a third-party bid for New York mayor after losing Democratic primary

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  • Funny how that is only a thing when they're running a "practically a Republican" 'Democrat' and not when someone who's actually a leftist starts getting some approval.

  • How does usage of the N-word work?

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  • It might help to know that Mark Twain was satirically using that word to juxtapose its offensive nature with Jim being the ONLY good adult in the book. It wasn't simply "a product of it's time" or anything like that.

    I'm not saying to belt it out loud and proud while reading the book, but at the very least Mark Twain was being deliberate on his usage of it and it wasn't to be malicious and was in fact to highlight the humanity of Jim in the face of his oppression. Some will say that Twain fumbled on his execution by making Jim a characature of stereotypes, but, at least it was just mindless racism, for what that's worth.

    ETA: To actually answer your question though "n-word" gives all the context you need, no need to say the word, it's history is strong enough to be fully conveyed by "n-word" in almost all contexts when being spoken by a white person especially.

  • My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN...

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  • The security here is the WiFi password anything that connects to LAN gets a LAN vlan tag. but it’s not like anything that connects to any of the SSIDs can get the DHCP lease of some random device on any vlan cuz it got tagged before. Or am I missing something?

    That sounds accurate. I have all my devices assigned a specific IP address, based on their MAC address, but that's only per-interface. The other interfaces aren't aware of my assignments for each other.

    If I connect my phone to my LAN SSID, it'll get its assigned IP, but if I connect it to the NOT [network of things, no internet access] SSID, it'll get assigned a new address out of the DHCP pool because I haven't assigned it an IP on that interface, until I assign it an IP. But, which VLAN it's connected to will determine which IP its getting, and it still requires me to know the passwords for each SSID.

    I believe where you're getting confused is that a some businesses (or homelabs) might use a RADIUS server which will be more like this: ONE_SINGLE_SSID-Broadcast -> Device connects -> RADIUS Server detects account/certificate/MAC -> RADIUS Server assigns interface -> Device connects to VLAN the RADIUS server granted it access to

    So, in that scenario, if the ONLY thing that's being used to validate the access is the devices MAC address, just changing the MAC address will effectively grant a completely different level of access with nothing else changing. Most people in a homelab (and even plenty of larger businesses) aren't running the infrastructure to do this though, they're just effectively connecting a VLAN to a port and then that port can only be used to connect to that VLAN. They're doing the same with the WiFi SSIDs where each SSID connects directly to the VLAN.

    Usually though, for places that are implementing the RADIUS server, they'll also install a certificate on their devices and the certificate needs to be in place in order to get certain access otherwise the RADIUS server will authorize less permissive access or just won't allow access at all. Or, it'll also need a user to log in to gain additional access.

    For wired, the company may also implement port locking where the port will only allow a certain amount of MAC addresses to connect (presumably one unless there is also a VOICE VLAN with a phone being used, in which case it'd be two) where if you change your MAC address (or connect a different device), the port will lock and won't power POE devices and won't allow connectivity until an admin clears the lock. It's possible that they may have multiple VLANs allowed on the port and client side you can change VLANs, but, this isn't typically done on all ports, usually only on trusted ports or ports that need the multiple VLANs (my VM server for instance has access to a port that'll allow multiple VLANs and I just enter the tag I need when I create the VM). This would be similar to your WiFi scenario, the port with the WAP connected to it will have access to multiple VLANs and then those WLANs just connect to the VLAN that they're assigned to.

    TL;DR - Typically one wireless SSID connects to one VLAN and if you want to jump to the other VLAN you'd need to connect to the other SSID, so you still have the individual passwords protecting you. On wired, typically VLANs are assigned per port and you can't jump between then, but where they aren't, it should be in a planned way and not just every port having access to every VLAN. Bad implementations exist though, so, anything is possible.

  • Do gamers actually like the look of gaming computers and accessories?

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  • I haven't bought anything pre-built besides an Alienware laptop a decade or so ago, so, I have absolutely no idea what OP is talking about with:

    • crystal-facet enclosures
    • overall showiness

    My cases are clean and I guess you could see the font on the video card if you looked into the case, but, the RGB just shines out and you don't really have a reason to look in. The other two gaming systems I have in the house, I disabled the RGB and again, I'm not looking into the case frequently, so I don't know that tacky fonts even register on my radar.

    Keyboards/mice - again, RGB is all that's really noticeable and that can almost always be turned off.

    So, my guess is people don't care for OPs prompt, but it kicked off their desire to talk about the only bit that is actually noticeable and that's the RGB, if they didn't disable it.

    ETA: And that's assuming people actually read the whole two sentences that OP wrote and didn't just stop at the title.

  • Gavin Newsom is heading to a key 2028 state

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  • Agreed & my problem with "least bad candidate" or "blue no matter who" is that someone like Trump is the inevitable outcome when that's the only thing they're running on. Many of us have been voting "the lessor of two evils" for our entire adult lives and all its done is continue allow the right to get even more batshit insane and then the Dems follow right behind, just being less crazy and happily taking advantage of minorities for votes (but, look at how they actually treat Trans people when it matters, all of a sudden it "doesn't poll well" to continue treating them as people).

    They just expect to get votes because "we're less shitty than the other candidate!" as if that's the only thing that matters as they continue to give in to Republican whims at the slightest sign that actual work will need to be done to oppose them (can't be too obstinate, ya know, you might offend the fascist voters you're trying to court!)

    They had weeks of forewarning for Rowe vs Wade being overturned due to the leak and had NO PLAN at all to oppose them when the news dropped other than "give us some money so we can continue to do absolutely fucking nothing to fix this", no unified message, nothing'. Say what you will about Republicans, but the second women and black people started being treated like people under the law, they started thinking to the future and were determined to make sure they could roll that back no matter how long it took.

    ETA: I'm not saying don't vote or both sides are exactly the same. They're not at all the same. One is clearly better than the other, but the one that's 'better' won't actually fight to keep you having rights and will only fight back just the minimum amount to keep donations rolling in from individuals while actively trying to court the rich and corporations for their donations instead and I really hate the lack of good options we have.

  • Stethoscope: $300 + $120/year subscription. Files will be saved to the doctors personal device. What can go wrong?

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  • Conveniently, you would have already gotten the doctor and the AI's, no need to look any further! /s

  • goodbye plex

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  • VMs can also be live migrated to another server in the cluster with no downtime and backups don't need to take the VM down to do their thing. If in the future you want to move to physical hardware, you can use something like Clonezilla to back it up (not needed often, but still, something to consider).

    Both have their places, but those factors are the main ones that come into play of when I want to use a VM or LXC.

  • I don't want to be a....

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  • "I'm just not a tech person! ::most annoying giggle imaginable::"

    You don't have to be a tech person to know how to use basic features on your damn phone! You're not a mechanic because you know how to use the radio!

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  • To make it worse, it'll quickly get figured out and people will be calling in "oh my God! he's trying to kill me", get transferred to a person and be like "so, it's 3pm in a Saturday and my neighbors are playing their music too loud!"

  • Nationals’ bat-retrieving dog Bruce laps up pregame attention, makes MLB debut

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  • Bruce the Batdog, gotta love it, someone must have had a sense of humor and liked Batman!

  • What's your fav Nicolas Cage film and why?

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  • Con Air ... why? No clue, I would have thought I'd go with Lord of War, but Con Air immediately popped into my head when I read the question, so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

  • Trump Blocks California E.V. Rules in Latest Move to Rein In the State | California leaders said the state intends to challenge the move in court, and to find new ways to move drivers toward EVs

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  • And a States right to force other States to return their runaway slaves

  • When we microwave in our house we say we're going to "zap it". What do you say?

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  • 'Nuke it' or 'microwave it'

  • If you were the CEO of a small game development company would company field trips be a good thing?

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  • I despise the ones where it's basically like "get on the bus, we're having mandatory fun!" and then you get going and it won't finish until 2 hours past your quitting time, but it's totally cool, because it's a good time!

    OTOH, I'm not at all interested in sports and I've had a good time going to a baseball game and once a company took me to an arcade which was a lot of fun. Alcohol provided by the company.

    For me, as long as quitting time stays quitting time, I'm more or less happy even if I don't actually like the event, but if you keep me away from my family, I'm unhappy and I can't imagine how pissed the people who pick up their kids from work/school/etc... must have been.

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    Roommate refuses to use my body wash cause it's not "manly"

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  • Yeah, nothing says "I just don't like that scent" quite like "I ain't no bitch"

  • Which of these is the least evil option?

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  • Looks fine for me with mobile app, Interstellar, fwiw, not even a little bit blurry.