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Virgin Media Warns UK Broadband Users Not to Switch Routers Off at Night - ISPreview UK
  • Not illegal, but the ISPs are seemingly under no obligation to give you those details. In Germany, there’s the “freedom of routers” embedded in the telco law. So they HAVE to give you everything you need to get your custom router online via their wire/fibre.

    Bridge mode is just using the ISPs router and bridge that into your router. It’s not the same - you still need the ISP’s access device instead of just yours.

  • Virgin Media Warns UK Broadband Users Not to Switch Routers Off at Night - ISPreview UK
  • Yep, after moving from Germany to the UK I was pretty surprised that in the UK you’re not supposed to get this kind of information from your ISP.

    In Germany you can get your own DSL/cable/fibre modem and your ISP has to give you the necessary information to get these devices into their network.

  • Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after months
  • The IODD is basically a small drive enclosure, not a "stupid" USB drive.

    I was more thinking of devices like this, this or this. Which have the simplicity of a normal USB device (just plug it in and go) and come with an automatically updating label so you can find the correct dongle.

    But yeah, nowadays, I'd probably prefer the IODD thing.

  • Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after months
  • I remember various different concepts of USB flash drives with integrated LCDs that would display a label and the remaining capacity. Then they vanished and the only thing left were the Lexar Echo drives. Until a few years ago, when they have been pulled from the markets. Probably, because they didn't work with the now default GPT and its many different partition types.

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    Opinion: The FOSS Community Should Fork and Abandon HA Before The Project’s Dictator, Frenck Decides To Cash In
  • Maybe try to understand his point first?

    From what I’ve gathered, Nix will create an immutable state of HA, but HA requires for additional packages to be downloaded - which NixOS doesn’t support/allow.

    So users will end up with a broken HA install.

    And guess where they will file bug reports about this? (Hint: It won’t be Nix…)

  • What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without?
  • Yep, my DS415+ is still going strong and fell out of DSM support, so I’m stuck with DSM7.1. However, people successfully converted their xx15+ to a xx17+ model and were able to update to DSM7.2. So there’s no technical reason to not support these older systems.

    Also, I had a very bad experience with Synology support when the C2000 bug hit my DS415+. Once this thing dies, I’ll definitely won’t get another Synology.

  • iFixit wants to fix the soldering iron
  • Since the Pinecil is running IronOS, it’s just a matter of time for it to also get the fall detection. And apart from the LED ring gimmick, I don’t see any huge advantages over IronOS.

  • E-bike rage in Brent, the borough that's had enough - and how it might be solved - BBC News
  • Problem is: For these companies, the numbers of customer growth are far more important to their shareholders than anything else. So they won’t kick misbehaving customers and have no interest in identifying them in the first place.

  • Getting Your iPhone Repaired Could Ban You From Snapchat
  • I can’t see what was posted above anymore, but the DeviceCheck API lets app developers store 2 binary digits (that means 4 different states: 00, 01, 10 or 11) per device on Apple’s servers. So, no, these don’t get erased during a Factory Reset as they’re stored on Apple’s servers. But your phone will.

  • Recommend me a scripting language
  • Sounds like you want MicroPython. It’s definitely available on OpenWrt and AlpineLinux and has a very small footprint.

    If you don’t like Python, have a look at Lua/luajit.

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