Ugh, how could I forget?

I want to see a seamless roaming standard so a grandma can buy a random brand’s wifi extender, plug it in, connect it to her ISP router’s wifi and have the same ssid through the house. No needing to jump to NANA-SWIFI-EXT.

I would happily dedicate a corner of my garage for a big sodium ion battery.

Also, fun fact they can charge and discharge faster than lithium ion. Also, their chemistry doesn’t lead to spontaneous combustion. Perfect for a house backup.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/trump-and-congress-finalize-law-that-could-hurt-your-wi-fi/

Tldr: different countries wanna do 6g differently. Actually a big problem is the big beautiful bill that just passed in the US. Wifi6e/7 6ghz spectrum that was reserved for wifi got approved to get auctioned off. But it’s already a global standard. If us cell cariers buy it up and use it to make faster 6g cell speeds (short distance very high speed). That’s going to fragment standards globally.

Cell carriers don’t currently use anywhere near all their spectrum they already own.

Hello

Work came down with a new github copilot mandate. Based on the features available it’s got hooks into all the code in your project and your git history at the very least.

I don’t watch them obsessively, but once or twice a month I’ll take a look to see if there’s been any errors pop up (sometimes lists go dead) and everytime I’m floored by the %s. Just looked and 74.4% of all my dns queries are blocked. 3x the number of legitimate requests are blocked. Feels like just a few years ago it was closer to 50%. Makes me wonder how much worse things will get.

Ask work for a windows VM image/key. Alternatively have you tried running the windows application in wine/proton?

Seconded obsidian + syncthing. My phone and my wife’s phone sync the obsidian notes folder to each other. We have shopping/grocery lists. So when one of us thinks of something we put it on the list, and when one of us goes to the store we have a combined list. It’s very nice.

I use FireDragon. Not on your list, but it’s yet another Firefox fork to look at.

Unsure, does this answer help?

https://community.netgear.com/discussions/Orbi/what-is-vlanbridge-and-should-i-enable-it/1934301

If what that says looks right, then that’s probably not what you’re looking for.

Disclaimer: I’m not a networking guy, but I’ve worked with them.

If you’re looking for security, you set up vlans. I don’t know enough about your setup to know if you setup a vlan, or just a separate subnet.

The goal is to have separate vlans, to block all traffic between the two networks, and then add exceptions in the ACL. The ACL is essentially a firewall between the two vlans.

With this in place the smart device can’t scan your network to gather info. Also, if it gets infected, it can only attack through the opened routes or the other devices on the vlan.

DACs are great, agreed. However try telling that to the guy next door. The reason ethernet got to be so popular was because of how familiar it was and similar it us to telephone wire. There were several other competing standards befofe ethernet won.

10GbE cards and switches help regular folk upgrade without needing to learn about DACs.

Right?! Most affordable 10G switches are SFP+ which requires a lot more research to make sure you get the right modules and cabling.

Removing your data as a normie won’t be flagged. If you’re a celebrity, yea, you’ll may hit the Sreisand Effect. But as a normie, nah, plenty of people remove their data for a load of reasons all the time.

Like moat things I do, I recommend trying half-heartedly. It seems like it’s bothering you at least a little, or you wouldn’t have posted about it. Try, and if it’s too much work don’t worry about it, but at least you tried. it’s the rare person that doesn’t have any personaly info on the web. Even rarer the person who’s data hasn’t been leaked by PSN, OPN, T-Mobile, or hundreds of others.

Great, I recommend having two Adguard Home instances.

Yep, if you have somewhere to put a docker container or VM you can have redundancy.

Right, I never said two raspberry pis, I meant two instances. Like one pi and a container run elsewhere.