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Anyone here know anything about how to fix intermittent internet outages?
  • If I had to take a wild shot in the dark my best guess is that your router's upstream connection settings are a bit messed up and whenever your ISP gives you a new ip dhcp is taking a long time for whatever reason. You could try to pay attention to if your outgoing ip changes whenever this happens https://www.showmyip.com/

    I guess also I'm assuming you're using a router with a built-in either cable or fiber modem? If you have a separate modem you might want to see about resetting it as well.

  • Anyone here know anything about how to fix intermittent internet outages?
  • Wow that is fucking bizarre.. this isn't using powerline networking (ethernet over your power system via little wall sockets) or anything like that is it?

    I'd definitely start with a factory reset of your router. Some routers have a little pin you need to hold down with a paper clip. With others you'll have to do it from their web interface...

    You can usually get to the web interface by entering your default gateway in a browser. Something like http://192.168.0.1 or http://10.0.0.1 are common. It might be written on the back of your router. You can also usually find your default gateway in your connected network settings pretty easily: on my android phone it's just called "Gateway".

    Once you're in the web interface you'll probably need to put in login info which is almost always written on your router. Then navigate that hellscape until you can do a factory reset.

    Also if you're in the US and have a router provided by one of the big ISPs like Comcast, Verizon, Frontier, etc you're almost certainly renting your router for like $10 a month from those bastards. So call them up and make them fix it or get you a new router if they can't figure it out. You might as well try this before spending money buying a router. I saw your other comment that you've actually bought this router yourself. Resetting it might be slightly more tricky since you might need to configure the modem settings a bit, but it's usually pretty easy. Probably worth looking up and downloading a pdf of the manual for your router before you reset it though in case you need to read it without internet.

  • Anyone here know anything about how to fix intermittent internet outages?
  • Is it happening at consistent times? Also next time it goes out, see if you can plug an ethernet cable into the router and see if you're getting a connection over ethernet. Also is the connection like completely severed or just a very high rate of dropped packets / slowness?

  • Retailers are replacing price stickers in aisles with electronic shelf labels. The labels prices can change as often as every 10 seconds. Hot outside? They can raise the price of water & ice cream.
  • I don't know the current status on this, but it worked by recording your phone's mac address (or bluetooth address) when your phone scans for wifi networks. So it could track you without you even needing to join the network. AFAIK this particular tactic was countered by Android and IOS randomizing the mac address it sends out (your networking stack can simply lie about it).

  • bye bye youtube
  • Sadly this approach is very likely impossible to block. It's much more computationally intensive for google, which is why they haven't done this in the past, but it is essentially impossible to block if done well.

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    You want to order from a local restaurant, but you need to download a third-party delivery app, even though you plan to pick it up yourself. The prices and menu on the app are different to what you saw in the window. When you download a second app the prices are different again. You ring

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    For my comrades with old shitty phones
  • Incredible! That's pretty much what I was gonna say. Might throw this dockerfile in the extras folder.

    Yea the hexbear specific stuff basically boils down to the taglines, the emojis, and the header in home.tmpl. There's quite a few things I could do to make it a lot easier to use for other lemmy instances ... there's not a lot of configuration right now, but I tried to leave a lot of comments in the code.

  • For my comrades with old shitty phones

    My phone barely manages to load the site. Pages crash and when they do load it's around 10-15 seconds. Pretty much all newer js-dependant websites are like this for me. I simply don't use most newer websites on my phone. Maybe eventually I'll buy a new phone, but things work fine on my laptop so I mostly use that and having a phone from this decade is bourgeois decadence.

    A while back I thought maybe I should take a crack at writing a fast and simple read-only frontend that I can use on my phone similar I guess to nitter, invidious, bibliogram, etc.

    So I went ahead and did just that: https://diethex.net

    Hilariously, I actually wound up doing this TWICE. The first time I finished it up last June and then the site migrated to lemmy v3 so I had to rewrite almost everything which I just now got around to this month. Here's the code in case anyone wants to read it: https://git.sr.ht/~kota/hex

    When a page is requested all of its data (comments, posts, etc) are cached for the next 20 minutes which dramatically reduces requests to the actual website when you're browsing around. Also every page is statically generated from simple html templates on the server; so javascript isn't required. I wound up adding a tiiiny bit of optional js to allow opening and closing comments. So you can swipe to the left on a phone to close a comment.

    If hexbear is already fast for you then there's no point in using this, but figured I'd say something in case there's anyone else with my issues.

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    Does anybody use Mastodon? If so - what are its good points, bad points, vibe, etc.
  • It's cool for some stuff, I follow a lot of artists and indie game devs on there and it's nice and chill. The people I follow are supportive of each other and it feels more like a community than like a marketplace. I was never into twitter though so I dunno if people looking for that will like it.

  • Alright Hexbears, Give Me Comedy Podcast Recommendations
  • https://worlds-beyond-number.simplecast.com/

    It's a "d&d" podcast, but without marvel vibes some of big ones give off. The world is very creative and feels more like a fairy tale than your standard lotr style fantasy, it's got subtle sound effects and music edited in, and the dm calls himself a socialist (okay he's certainly not an ml or anything, but the show isn't full of cringey anti-communist tropes).

  • Do you drink coffee daily? If so how do you make it?
  • I have a relatively nice grinder and an aeropress. I've used traditional presses, moka pots, a v60, and so on but I definitely prefer the aeropress. It's extremely easy and consistent. Once you have your recipe dialed there's almost nothing you can do to fuck it up so I just never get any astringency or acidity.

    That said the grinder is definitely more important than the brew method. If you have $70 to spend; get a $65 grinder and get a $5 press or v60 at a thrift shop. You definitely want an electric grinder with nice ceramic burrs if you can afford it.

    I used a hand grinder for years. A very nice and accurate one. The idea of using a hand grinder + moka pot was very romantic to me, but in practice it's a huge pain in the ass and the coffee will never come out as good as a silly looking plastic aeropress.

  • Microsoft working with Intel and AMD to start "locking the bootloader" and preventing you from running non-approved software
  • In general the high end "flagship" devices have unlockable bootloaders, but the devices that the vast majority of people can afford do not. I expect to see a similar thing in laptops. If you can throw down 2-3,000 USD on a new XPS or Thinkpad X1C you'll likely get the privilege of an unlockable bootloader. For most of the non-US world that's a huge chunk of everyone (including developers) salaries.

  • Microsoft working with Intel and AMD to start "locking the bootloader" and preventing you from running non-approved software

    TLDR: Microsoft worked with Intel and AMD to develop Pluton which is basically a TPM chip designed to prevent running non-microsoft approved software. It will likely make it impossible to boot un-approved linux distros, bsd, and likely will make it very hard to run any un-approved software in the future.

    This CPU "feature" is very likely to be a requirement for Windows 12 in 2024. Meaning nearly every computer available will have this and the majority of manufactures will not allow you to unlock the bootloader.

    Similar situation to running LineageOS or PostmarketOS phones. For now, it can be "disabled" in bios on most of these computers, but that's simply a choice the OEM is making and will no longer need to make once this has become prevalent without any real pushback.

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