To be fair, if you make pasta sauce from scratch you’re going to be using a fair amount of sugar to balance the acidity of your tomatoes, so I don’t find pasta sauce a useful demonstration.

But you’re still making a good point. Once you start making stuff yourself, you really see what isn’t required.

Ubiquiti?

You can’t give me that garbage. I despise it, after setting up a single access point (plus also watching friends deal with it at client sites).

Besides the discovery issues and slow performance when trying to manage it, I had a random open network on it after setup. This network didn’t appear anywhere in the control panel. I could turn off the access point and the network disappeared.

It didn’t show up in the guest network config (which was turned off anyway). It had the same name as the WPA-protected network, it was just open - no security at all.

I had to reset the access point to get rid of this weird random open network.

What kind of garbage product does that?

Now let’s look at cloud keys. One has a hard drive in it. Just one drive, 3.5", which besides storing data also stores the OS. What? Why is the OS not on some firmware or at least an M2, since the drive is really for storing surveillance data (did I mention it’s a single drive?), what a joke. Why would I bother with such an expensive device that has zero fault tolerance, when I could simply buy a cheaper real machine, run multiple drives, and host the software there?

I lack the vocabulary to describe how bad Unifi is.

The personally identifiable information has largely been anonymized in these models

This tells me all we need to know about you.

You’re an apologist for these companies. It’s been repeatedly demonstrated such anonymization can be pretty easily reversed.

Are you me? The only difference is I just switched to a Pixel 5. My 2006 car should run for many more years, 10 at least.

Just this month I finally moved off my 2017 flagship… Only because my cell provider stopped supporting it (for no fucking reason).

I was running the latest version of Lineage too. Thing was great. It did need a battery (which I may still replace for about $7).

And like you said, sometimes you need to replace a phone.

Maybe it was lost, or destroyed.

Searx.space

You first! 😁

Quite often double click on the close button will kill a hung app on Windows. Not Al the time, maybe 70%.

Can you just flip it over and leave it upside down? Cause I certainly would.

And didn’t poop for 3 months

Look at it this way, $30 per machine is a helluva lot cheaper than mitigating whatever 11 will break.

Not to say don’t update, but Enterprise works on this stuff in advance, testing their systems with the newest versions as their Betas are released, to develop their mitigation strategies (including staged deployments).

Even there, $30 is cheap insurance if they need a little extra time to address issues.

For the home user, fuck that. Just ensure your security model includes layers, e.g. Don’t run as admin, isolate systems that are at risk, etc.

Hell, at home I run different VLANS for my own stuff (cause I do risky things), one for TV (because those things are terrible about security), another one for everyone else, and a guest network.

The contacts were surprisingly robust. Mine just died, sadly.

New ones are crappy knockoffs, but they’re cheap enough.

LaCie IAmAKey. No longer made. Current ones are made from aluminum and bend easily. Originals were stainless and rigid.

My 2006 one just died, and I’m so frustrated with the new ones. Fortunately they’re pretty cheap, so who cares.

Power consumption? Takes more power to make a net connection to go to another site, and takes a LOT longer.

Plus, following links drives traffic and provides even more tracking.

Proton sucks.

I had an account, way too many problems. Apps sucked ass.

Read into that what you will…

Here here!

Best mouse I’ve ever had. Lasted 10+ years. Just can’t justify $100 for a new one

Type (machine/wood/bolt) , then size (diameter of shaft), then head type (pan/flat/pancake/countersink) then pitch (for machine screws) then length.

A screw organizer is crucial. I tend to split things up between different organizers by Type first (one organizer for Wood, etc).

I have a small organizer for “around the house” screws.

Those HF organizers are the way to go. I’ve never seen them cheaper anywhere else. And they often have coupons for them.

HF Coupons app for Android https://www.hfqpdb.com/android-app/install.html

It still exists! (Or did about a year ago).

When I got my first Android (2009 ish), I searched high and low for a way to run Hamachi on it. There have been solutions, but always clumsy and difficult to implement.

I miss Hamachi, it was so simple to use.