SwizzleStick

At that point I would expect control of it, or at least for it to respect the configuration it is given. If neither are true, then it just doesn’t go online at all. If that’s part of the main function, then I find an alternative or live without it.

Nothing on the inside should be sending anything to the outside that can’t be inspected before it leaves, with the exception of stuff that is directly driven by a human (guests browsing, etc).

This is the best way, really. Generally, you have much more control over what you plug into it.

A display shouldn’t have anything even approaching what can be called an ‘OS’ on it. Yet here we are.

Sometimes even that’s not enough. I’ve had some questionable kit before that would just ignore the DNS settings fed to it if it thought they were no good, and fall back to something else preconfigured.

pfSense is a wonderful tool for situations like that. Anything intended for local use only here just doesn’t get outside at all. Handy for stuff like a fire stick that only needs to be calling up a local media library.

It can also mangle any DNS requests going out to a different server and redirect them to itself instead. You could do this without it with iptables/nftables on a generic Linux box, but pfSense makes it much friendlier.

There are other packages that can do the same, but physically all you need is one piece of hardware as a bouncer that manages connections between inside/outside.

I usually get up by 5. If breakfast isn’t out by 6, I will certainly know about it.

They are a useful backup to have.

Also good, thanks.

Not that there’s much to maintain, it’s a one-and-done thing. This would resolve the unsigned extension though :)

Thanks for the hint on libredirect/redlib, that looks very serviceable.

I’ve frankensteined a horrible unsigned extension that’s half bad human code and half AI garbage that autoredirects reddit links to their archive.org version.

Does the job, if a little slowly, without this little shit getting in the way:

Aftermarket OS options are getting better as time goes by, which is nice. Come a long way since the old Cyanogenmod days.

But yeah, Sammy won’t be keeping the bones patched beyond what they already have. The risk for me is acceptable, and preferable to shelling out for new hardware every few years. It works and I’m not too stupid with it.

Only 128 here and I’m not even using half of that. Every now and again I’ll transfer what I want to keep to other storage and purge the rest.

Primary use is this, chat, music player and remote control for the house smarts. Occasionally it’s a phone too :)

I don’t think I’ve used a microsd in a phone for about 6+ years now, so I couldn’t really care less. Not a photographer and I don’t travel enough to need so much offline media on the go. Just a few albums for the commute.

Still using an old Galaxy S10 and appreciating the 3.5mm jack though.

Half the shit I actually want I just run directly these days, rather than nosing through either.

• ncpa.cpl
• diskmgmt.msc
• devmgmt.msc
• control userpasswords2
• cmd
• mstsc
• regedit
• taskmgr

Just to name a few.

It’s utter bollocks. It used to be the OEM crap that had to be removed or clean installed over. Now you have to spend time unfucking fresh installs.

My 11 image is just about usable, but only after a lot of gutting, reg entries, powershell scripts and openshell.

The railroading to sign in with an MS account has become worse too, but still just about bypassable.

Sounds like capitalism at work, pricing to suit demand :( Not a great idea to let a domain fall out of grace if there’s ever a chance you’ll want it again.

In work we still maintain domains for arms of the parent company that are long defunct. Less for us and more to prevent others registering.

I’ve had one personal domain go out of grace, but the reactivation price wasn’t too bad. Cheeky, yes - but not bad enough to get something new.

Could be worse, could end up at auction like hexbear did…

Welcome.

Wishing you well wherever you end up :)

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Thankfully I don’t deal with enough domains to need to wrangle them with an API.

Appreciate the warning for if I ever I do though - what’s so bad about it?

Namecheap have served me well, for both personal and work.

Alfred Henry Lewis

There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.

There was a special time in the XP heyday before WiFi routers (hell, just routers even) were common for home users. Without some kind of AV, loads of folk were basically just rawdogging the Internet with ADSL modems.

Simply being connected this way long enough at the height of the MS Blaster worm would almost guarantee a drive-by infection.

Used FF forever, even though the birth and rise of Chrome.

We’re done. The company I IT for therefore is also done. As are friends and family I sort computers for.

The shit now stinks and must be taken out.