At the end of the day users have to police their instances by leaving if the policies are too draconian for them. Casual users on a big enough instance might not care too much at first, but I think there would be a slow but ever-increasing migration off-instance.

It really depends on how many users disagree with the policy. My last instance defederated Threads and I didn’t agree but didn’t care enough to leave. It was database issues that lingered for months that made me leave and I don’t know my current server’s policy on Threads.

I could use one of those…

Kinda shows there is a limit to how far you can get simply ingesting all text that exists. At some point, someone is going to need to curate perhaps billions of documents, which just based on volume will necessarily be done by people unqualified to really do so. And even if it were possible for a small group of people to curate such a data set, it would become an enormously political position to be in.

Um… my dude… I’m going to need a lot more water pressure than that…

That being said, I wonder if you could make an adapter for a battery powered paint sprayer… or just give zero fucks and leave a pressure washer in the stall. Obviously not full power, but pressure wouldn’t be an issue then.

I appreciate it.

Now, instead is reaching out to have conversations with folks, you’re expected to just read up on what they’re doing and thinking for yourself. That’s not interaction. It doesn’t make for a fulfilling friendship and honestly most of us aren’t really interesting enough to study up on.

My imposter syndrome would never let me do that. I’m not good at this, I’m terrible, it’s just that 98% of the people I’ve worked with have been even worse, and that’s a terrifying realization.

Well the resistive heater isn’t enough for her here lol. But she’s a perpetually cold person.

It’s all well and good that heating efficiency means more range, but it has to also actually put out more heat to appease her. I could deal without the extra heat and rely more on the heated seats and wheel and maybe a 65 degree cabin, but she won’t. That’s why I was saying it’s two issues.

I think there is specifically a YouTube 3D. Maybe it’s an app. I was pretty unimpressed by most of the VR stuff. Blurry and distorted. Rollercoasters are fun. Nature documentaries would be neat but the quality is so low you can’t really see much detail, just the grand vistas.

I personally find VR porn really meh. I want to like it, but again it’s blurry - especially when they shove genitals in your face and your eyes can’t focus, and you have this really awkward view of someone simulating oral sex that just hurts your eyes, and it’s not even as stimulating as it would be to watch someone else doing it from a reasonable distance. At least for me.

That said, all my shit is a few years old and maybe the resolution and frame rates are better with newer stuff than oculus 2, but I think VR works better with simple shapes than video. Beatsaber is a great experience in VR and there are some similar rail shooters but most everything else has been disappointing.

Minecraft should’ve been fun but it made me sick. Skyrim VR was pretty fun. Especially because you could still mod it, but again the resolution and frame rate are too low for the level of detail in the game.

I know 1.1.1.1 as primary and if I have a secondary set, it’s Google which is either 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4. I’ll check in a bit but I’m exhausted after work.

It was changed at one point, but not at the same time as the service was changed. I went from a nighthawk to an Orbi 3-way mesh probably a year before switching to fiber.

To a degree, yes. Like I was saying, some of the symptoms do seem to have gone away, but I do still have what appears to be intermittent loss of domain name resolution. Maybe I have so many devices phoning home that the service freaks every once in a while.

Unfortunately, now that I’m using the router to handle all of this with the stock firmware, I don’t have as good of logging as I did when I was running all of that on my Pi.

I know the resistive heater in my Volt can’t compare to the heat put out by the ICE. Often in the winter we’ll have to run the ICE to keep the cabin warm enough. It does have heated seats and wheel, but my wife is the type to set the heat to max until it gets too hot rather than just picking a temp and hitting auto to let the car manage it.

If the heat pump can put out more heat for less energy, that would be a boon. That might be the second biggest issue (next to range) that has my wife vetoing an all-electric car. She gets the next vehicle, but I want the one after that to be a full EV.

It can be hours between dropouts. Not saying that’s not a really good idea, but I’ll have to add stuff in groups. It would take me months just adding one device a day.

Since I got my new fiber connection a few months ago, I couldn’t say whether the modem stays connected or not. The cable modem dropped connection, but Comcast swore it wasn’t any problem on their end. Until I got fiber everything was self-owned inside the house and everything was replaced at least once: wiring, cable modem, router/wireless AP.

Honestly since switching to fiber I haven’t done the deep troubleshooting I had with my modem, and I suppose there could’ve even been a couple of issues and switching to fiber fixed one but not the other. Some symptoms are the same: my phone will stop working with anything Internet until I disconnect or wait a while and my PS5 will complain that it has lost connection. Other symptoms are different: I haven’t noticed my white noise streams stopping abruptly in the middle of the night, my work meetings don’t suddenly drop.

It’s almost like before the whole internet would drop and now only DNS will, so existing connections work fine (like through vpn, existing streams) but new requests like refreshing Lemmy won’t work for a couple of minutes.

Sorry, it wasn’t until you asked that I started thinking maybe the symptoms had slightly changed when I switched to fiber because the most obvious symptoms are the same. I need to do more investigation on my end. But thanks for asking the question that made me give that some thought.

I think I saw one on Disney plus of all places. I saw it at 9 PM (I was tuning in for Skeleton Crew) and unless I read it wrong it had already been running for three hours. WTF? But I’m fifty. I have seen enough balls drop in my lifetime. I watched my Star Wars and was in bed by ten.

I’ve replaced all the wiring out to the service box on the outside of the house. At one point I noticed the network drop coincided with a log message that a different IP6 address was trying to take over (or be handed off) DHCP provider (or maybe it was DNS, it’s been a while since I just gave up and accepted it). Then it will apparently timeout and go back to normal and everything comes back up. That’s why the duration is so predictable.

But at the time I was using a raspberry pi running pihole as my DNS/DHCP providers. I gave up and removed it, thinking I had misconfigured something and that was the cause of the issue, but it’s gone and the drops remain. Now I’m just running everything off of my Orbi mesh. And it’s all acting just like it did with my old Nighthawk (which I’ve left up on a different channel to divide up some of the smart device load but before anyone thinks they are interfering, this issue far predates me blowing $500 on a new router mesh that fixed nothing).

My TVs got really pissed off when the pi was hooked up and I wouldn’t let them call home. Maybe it’s one I’d them, but idk. We have probably 100 different smart devices from 20 different vendors between lights, cameras, thermostat, motion sensors, plugs, vacuums, Alexa’s, TVs and phones. I don’t think it’s sheer volume but I can’t rule it out. Having two different WiFi networks ought to lighten the load but idk.

Anyway, I appreciate the stab. It’s a hard problem, and I’m probably up to the task if I really get pissed enough, but as you can tell by everything I’ve done I’ve already been there a couple of times.

Right now the real annoying thing is, when the network drops, my daughter’s school laptop connects to someone’s Xfinity router (to which we don’t have creds) and never goes back to ours when it’s back and it’s administered by the school so I can’t make it forget that damn Xfinity SSID. She knows how to fix it but I think she tries too fast before it’s back up, then just assumes Internet is down despite the fact that I’m 20’ away on a freaking slack huddle for work…

I’m just venting at this point. Thanks, man. Don’t worry about it unless something I’ve said makes it really obvious.

Oh I have questions. I’m not going to ask because thread and because I’m smart enough to know it’s not an easy problem, but that sure wouldn’t be the escape you think it is if we were friends lol.

I hate networking issues. But I’ve replaced every foot of cabling, every networking device, and my ISP and I still get intermittent 2 minute network drops a few times a day. I am to the point of suspecting a rogue smart device is doing something malicious. I need a networking guru friend to annoy.

This sounds like money, except harder. And every time there is a transaction, it takes place on an infrastructure that isn’t free, so there is a necessary cost involved. It seems like this would make it require more effort, have more (breakable) moving parts, and be less efficient than just using money.

The only difference between a vigilante and a murderer is state of mind. Luigi got it right. No dead bystanders. No redeeming qualities of his target, who is probably responsible for a far greater number of deaths. He put work into planning this and it shows, but he got really lucky, too.

If we had a bunch running around, we’d all be less safe. And a hell of a lot of them would probably target villains we don’t all agree deserve it. So I don’t condone it. But in this one case, I think it worked out.