Wow. I might only be a little wise to this stuff but the average consumer is getting screwed.

Oh! Thats sneaky.

my guest network is in a different vlan by default.

Afaik thats standard for guest networks. They have internet access but not local network access. Otherwise whats the point in them?

I had a raspberry pi working as a router but when my provider gave me a zyxel router i didnt need it anymore as its super customisable.

Will i need to go back to my openwrt router to get this working? Since its saying github actions update the list?

Could connect the tv to the guest wifi network which would prevent it from accessing your local network. Plug in an android tv box of some variety and connect that to the network and you can cut the tv off f4om internet entirely.

If you set the pihole as your primary DNS on your router then all network traffic goes that way anyway. Set up google as a secondary in case your pihole goes down. Or configure a second pi hole for resilience and set that as the backup.

You whole argument seems to be “we didnt think it was bad in the past, so its not bad in the present and wont be in the future”

Its such a weak point of view. When we learn something is bad for us we should take steps to stop it. Regardless of whether or not we once thought it would be the best thing ever.

We grow. Priorities change. Fancy graphics got fancy enough that people stopped caring. Games got less fun so people took it upon themselves to fix that. A high number of indie games have done the rounds and made millions. Because they are actually fun.

You are right that we used to be happy when better gfx came along and we all would gladly shell out for the latest nvidia card. But those were different times. Back th3n we could afford it. Back then gfx were bad and every new generation actually made a tangeble and noticeable improvement.

These days there is barely a difference between a ps4 and ps5.

So stfu. Because you are just wrong.

Not sure if we really need more social media.

I still can’t believe this is a real sentence

Marketing has the polar opposite to the desired effect on me. I hate it so much that I actively avoid anything that is trying to sell to me. I make my purchasing choices based of a mixture of function, need and impulse (thanks ADHD)

I always check things out for myself and research carefully to find what I need.

This applys to tv as well. Which is why I set up jellyfin and put on an eyepatch.

I will take a look

Edit: installed and customised. Gonna try it out for a bit.

🤣 wait until you read the rest of my post. :)

Fucking pathetic! What a horrid waste of a life who was presumably a better person than the van driver.

Is ubuntu bad? I use mint as i am fairly new to linux.

Depends who you are listening to i think. Plenty of artists still writing albums instead of songs.

Agreed. A lot of work goes into deciding track order on an album, it is part of the process. Back when ipods and mp3 players were how people carried their music around i found it stressful when i was looki at someone elses collection and it was just 1 song per artist because mine was whole albums only.

Mint is mint

Wow…

I see your point. Do you not think it is fair to say that there are mid range PCs at the 3 to 400 mark? I bought my pc for 500 around 6 or 7 uears ago and its only just showing its age. However most phones dont last 6 or 7 years without being crippled by more intensive software and OS updates or breaking physically or having their battery become useless.

The pc is a better investment in terms of longevity at the same price point and is upgradable part by part. Unlike 99% of mobile phones.

I think its a relatively fair comparison and to be fair to me i was only musing. I hadnt given it more thought than just improving the comparison off the top of my head.

Funny, cause whilst its very pricey, i spent more than this on my phone. And most flagship phones cost about the lower end of this. But because i get my phone essentially interest free over a 4 year contract i somehow justify the cost without thinking too much about the fact that i spent 1500 quid on a small slab of glass and metal.

Maybe i need to rethink my grasp on the concept of money.

If i was from london then saying Nutted would sound like i was saying natted so that brings a whole new layer to this.