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  • This actually reminded me of an actual instance of this I discovered for a family member.

    Their 2.4Ghz devices would just randomly drop connections at seemingly random times, and changing the router didn’t fix anything.

    So I fired up bettercap to take a look, and lo and behold it was a GE “smart” oven that would spam advertise its SSID with beacon frames on an interval and would block traffic because all the other devices would see a busy channel.

    The funniest thing is said family member specifically decided against using the oven wifi feature because he already knew it was not going to be useful or even reliable, but he had no idea the wifi feature was left on which was causing all the packet drops.

    Upon further investigation, we realized he actually did turn it off, but because the tap button was basically at elbow height, it was super easy to accidentally bump and flick back on.

    Conclusion is that some GE ovens double as a crappy WiFi jammer lmao.








  • TP-Link is excellent for cheap switching hardware which a ton of vendors overprice for the same quality. Its your OG made in China deal that works pretty well for the price.

    Otherwise, you should skip it as a router and instead opt for either a better AIO, or put in the 2 minutes of extra effort to get a cheap ethernet router and a separate AP because AIOs are still overrated in 2025 for the price per quality.

    Not to mention that 5 GHz channels are getting clogged these days even on the DFS channels which people shouldn’t be using all the time. I know its not possible for a lot of people, but you’re really better off on even bargain basement maximum cheapo Cat-5e cables.

    Gb WiFi speeds and MuMIMO not gonna matter when you have CSMA/CA throwing a metric ton of RTS and CTS packets causing increasing amounts of retries as you add stations.

    Probably worst scenario is if you’re living in an apartment surrounded by like 50 stations within range. No amount of 802.11 magic is gonna give you a stable connection.




  • Ubuntu and Docker.

    Really? Netplan alone disqualifies Ubuntu as a “friendly stable starter distro”, and I can guarantee you that your guide will somehow become outdated with a single new Ubuntu release, or some poor soul who accidentally selected an LTS release.

    Docker doesn’t matter as much, but there’s a reason beyond just FOSS licensing why podman exists.

    Would highly recommend Debian instead.

    I started on Ubuntu similar to this many years ago and both the server and desktop experience was not fun at all.





  • mlg@lemmy.worldtotechsupport@lemmy.worldWhat is this connector?
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    Many IDE cables used to come with 2-4+ daisy chained connectors allowing you to plug in multiple drives into a single cable on a single IDE bus.

    This meant that you had to ensure any downstream HDDs would be configured as slaves to show up properly to the system.

    You could either do this manually by setting the jumper to slave (usually just removing it) or setting the jumper to cable select which would automatically configure master slave drives for you.

    Example for a Seagate drive:

    In your case, you could either use the master select or cable select and it wouldn’t matter since you only have one drive.





  • Both. WIndows 8 added a ton of unnecessary operations, part in due to the horrendous new PWA system they made to replace all the proven software.

    NTFS meanwhile functionally reflects FAT32. It has no proper block allocation algorithm, so files get fragmented and placed in poor locations all over the physical disk. Tools like defraggler became super popular because they provided serious and visible IO gains from defragging your drives.

    Compare that to ext4 which only begins to fragment once you hit something like 95%+ capacity.