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Raspberry Pi 500+ 10 months ago

But what if you're using mesh or running an AP? Won't the software out of the box allow you to set the regdomain to AU?

Raspberry Pi 500+ 10 months ago

If this is like the RPI4 with a single global model I'm wondering how it passes FCC regs, in that presumably the Wi-Fi is flexible enough to transmit on illegal US channels (i.e. Ch 12-14 on 2.4).

Am I missing something?

OpenWRT 22.03.4 3 years ago

The sweet spot in my opinion is to use an ordinary Linux box as the router and just wire up whatever wireless router(s) you have lying around for the APs (give them a static address in the appropriate subnet and you're done). No need to run OpenWRT on on the AP, since it's just mindlessly pushing packets around on the internal network.

For bonus points, block it from accessing the internet itself.

"If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement." (Mark Twain)

I have a perceptual problem where my mind quite quickly labels things as work as soon as I start doing a bunch of planning. Once something is 'work' that I'm not being paid for, I then don't feel like starting it. I rarely play computer games any more largely because I have too many _plans_ about what computer games I should play.

This doesn't mean I wouldn't have more fun doing the programming than sitting around browsing the internet.

Thanks!

JOSS is definitely one of those 'heh, this sounds fun' things, despite being pretty useless. I too am pretty obsessed with the colour changing; I'd love to implement it so it seemed like a typewriter terminal as well (e.g. slow speed, optional sound effects).

I started implementing it in Pony originally to make it truly shared, but then decided it made more sense to just run the code in the frontend and the shared bit would just be common storage (i.e. so you could easily load other people's programs, as you would on the original systems). Of course, haven't actually done any of this yet...

I imagine that from their perspective, they're trying to decrease overall fraud, not cater to individual preferences. They probably see (or imagine they see) more fraud attempts coming via email than SMS due to insecure email accounts; as you say, "I appreciate not all Ally's customers are technically capable of setting up their email in this way...".

Chrome is understood to be controlled by a profit-seeking corporation. If people are using Chrome, they're mostly ok with this.

Firefox is controlled by a not-for-profit which is dedicating to making the internet a better place. People who would also like to make the internet a better place tend to get quite worked up when they feel Mozilla is not doing what they'd do.

(Disclaimer: I mostly happily use Firefox)

I'm not convinced about Blink having won. Webkit is a significant factor which seems to be making it harder for Google to drag standards wherever they want, and Firefox still _works_ in 99% of cases (i.e. black swan could cause easily public perception shift, and there's an alternative right there).