Why not just start using some simple, common piece of jewelry as a housing for the device? Most people are fairly good at avoiding losing them permanently, and they're easily replaceable if they're lost/stolen/compromised. Before getting into "slippery slopes" and other played out debates, doesn't it make something resembling sense to not make such a thing permanent? Do they have some massive overstock of pet chips to get rid of or something?
Second; find a (in the windows ecosystem) universally possible workflow as convenient as follows for making modest annotations on screenshots:
PrtScn/Alt+PrtScn -> Winkey+R -> mspaint/pbrush -> ctrl+v -> do your doodles -> ctrl+s.
Perhaps making it slightly less relevant, Windows 8+ allows saving screenshots directly to disk with WinKey+PrtScn
Also, for reference, Alt+PrtScn only captures the active window, which seems to not be widely known. It's very handy. I seem to remember it also working with the windows key, i.e. WinKey+Alt+PrtScn, but I could be mistaken there.
pfSense has WiFi-related capabilities (e.g. using a NIC that supports AP mode), but then you're at the mercy of FreeBSD kernel support for device drivers. I'm not really sure how their driver ecosystem stacks up to Linux, so I might actually be arsed to look into that.
That being said, folks that pretend that the pronunciation of a word causes it to make no sense, even when the context is unambiguous, are mildly annoying.
I go far, far out of my way to avoid WiFi, especially in congested areas, for this and many other reasons. If transmit powers should be tuned to near-zilch from the factory, and required a modicum of effort to increase, we might actually not be having these problems. There's also this pervasive mentality that wires are ugly and inconvenient; while true in some context, the higher speeds (try touching 500+ gbit/s on consumer wireless devices at 20m+ with an omni antenna) and stability make sticking with ethernet (when remotely possible) a good decision.
Second for routerboards, they're very nice, and won't usually REQUIRE a 3rd party firmware to be highly functional, though the possibility appears to exist.
Second; this is basically what it would take to get me recommending Ubuntu in addition to Mint for average users. Remember, the techie crowd is largely the bunch that winds up fixing stuff for family/friends using it, so making it less hostile to the grey-beards would be nice.
All too many; we need people that are willing to expound upon their reasoning why. If enough people raise a significant, intelligent stink about it, it has a much better chance of getting... resolved. To me, "eggs in one basket", the lead dev's user-hostility and apparent self-absorption, poor service start checking (fails to error out just because an old instance of the process is still running, context: debian SSH), damaged/broken logging, and, finally, the terrific bugs are all great reasons to have stayed the course with (insert something that isn't systemd).
Checking historical prices is always prudent; hiking prices before a "sale" is basically ubiquitous in retail. e.g. Radio Shack near me is currently disposing of inventory from stores that are closing; you could see the old price tags behind the new ones, and they had hiked the prices a good 30-50% before applying discounts. The end result was still abnormally good value for Radio Shack (and $1/ea for stuff from the parts bins!), I just wish retailers would give a straight price instead of playing games.
I do like the routerboards, but when someone asks for 'cheap', they get cheap. One thing the Tenda brings to the table is beam-forming (has 4 external antennas; I don't know how they're configured). Oh, and it looks like a space ship. All in all, seems to be totally acceptable for the money.
I may do just that; only one extreme example was included because it was the only one I had directly experienced in modern hardware, and I wanted to keep the submission away from TL;DR territory.
These were (limited) datapoints meant to suggest that there is indeed a trend, in the interest of keeping the submission within the attention spam of the average fellow. Just an example to show the extreme end of the scale. I can think of a fair number of purposes for masking, but have always assumed that prevention of casual shoulder surfing is indeed the primary goal. Good catch on "buy", I even proof-read that several times.
Hark, a shiny! Let us use it to jam 2.4GHz ISM band to the point that it's completely unusable!
In all seriousness, unlicensed spectrum needs some.. help. I know it doesn't make any money for anyone directly, but still... ISM gets a whopping ~380 MHz of bandwidth in bands under 10GHz, 350 of which is in 2.4/5.8GHz. All the acronyms (FHSS, etc.) in the world can't save you from the fact that everyone else is already using the band.
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This can't happen soon enough. Might see about getting placed in a medically induced coma until then.
Why not just start using some simple, common piece of jewelry as a housing for the device? Most people are fairly good at avoiding losing them permanently, and they're easily replaceable if they're lost/stolen/compromised. Before getting into "slippery slopes" and other played out debates, doesn't it make something resembling sense to not make such a thing permanent? Do they have some massive overstock of pet chips to get rid of or something?
Second; find a (in the windows ecosystem) universally possible workflow as convenient as follows for making modest annotations on screenshots:
PrtScn/Alt+PrtScn -> Winkey+R -> mspaint/pbrush -> ctrl+v -> do your doodles -> ctrl+s.
Perhaps making it slightly less relevant, Windows 8+ allows saving screenshots directly to disk with WinKey+PrtScn
Also, for reference, Alt+PrtScn only captures the active window, which seems to not be widely known. It's very handy. I seem to remember it also working with the windows key, i.e. WinKey+Alt+PrtScn, but I could be mistaken there.
pfSense has WiFi-related capabilities (e.g. using a NIC that supports AP mode), but then you're at the mercy of FreeBSD kernel support for device drivers. I'm not really sure how their driver ecosystem stacks up to Linux, so I might actually be arsed to look into that.
Would mod up if I knew what ads were.
That being said, folks that pretend that the pronunciation of a word causes it to make no sense, even when the context is unambiguous, are mildly annoying.
Perhaps we should rename it something like "Quazi-intelligent Internet packet translocator" to avoid this issue.
I go far, far out of my way to avoid WiFi, especially in congested areas, for this and many other reasons. If transmit powers should be tuned to near-zilch from the factory, and required a modicum of effort to increase, we might actually not be having these problems. There's also this pervasive mentality that wires are ugly and inconvenient; while true in some context, the higher speeds (try touching 500+ gbit/s on consumer wireless devices at 20m+ with an omni antenna) and stability make sticking with ethernet (when remotely possible) a good decision.
Second for routerboards, they're very nice, and won't usually REQUIRE a 3rd party firmware to be highly functional, though the possibility appears to exist.
Second; this is basically what it would take to get me recommending Ubuntu in addition to Mint for average users. Remember, the techie crowd is largely the bunch that winds up fixing stuff for family/friends using it, so making it less hostile to the grey-beards would be nice.
Sorry I've got no mod points xD
All too many; we need people that are willing to expound upon their reasoning why. If enough people raise a significant, intelligent stink about it, it has a much better chance of getting ... resolved. To me, "eggs in one basket", the lead dev's user-hostility and apparent self-absorption, poor service start checking (fails to error out just because an old instance of the process is still running, context: debian SSH), damaged/broken logging, and, finally, the terrific bugs are all great reasons to have stayed the course with (insert something that isn't systemd).
Checking historical prices is always prudent; hiking prices before a "sale" is basically ubiquitous in retail. e.g. Radio Shack near me is currently disposing of inventory from stores that are closing; you could see the old price tags behind the new ones, and they had hiked the prices a good 30-50% before applying discounts. The end result was still abnormally good value for Radio Shack (and $1/ea for stuff from the parts bins!), I just wish retailers would give a straight price instead of playing games.
I've always worked with the 'list price' in any context as follows:
Is vendor selling it at list price? Don't buy from them.
I think a 2-3 day gap is enough to qualify as not-a-dup in slashdotland
Consumer hostility, gone plaid...
First thing I found; I imagine there are others: http://www.motherjones.com/pol...
Those are clearly the competitive shoulder-surfers; takes a little additional skill...
Same goes for basically any other streaming site. Also, pay attention to where your webcam is pointing.
I do like the routerboards, but when someone asks for 'cheap', they get cheap. One thing the Tenda brings to the table is beam-forming (has 4 external antennas; I don't know how they're configured). Oh, and it looks like a space ship. All in all, seems to be totally acceptable for the money.
Offtopic, yes.. but still very important to consider.
I may do just that; only one extreme example was included because it was the only one I had directly experienced in modern hardware, and I wanted to keep the submission away from TL;DR territory.
These were (limited) datapoints meant to suggest that there is indeed a trend, in the interest of keeping the submission within the attention spam of the average fellow. Just an example to show the extreme end of the scale. I can think of a fair number of purposes for masking, but have always assumed that prevention of casual shoulder surfing is indeed the primary goal. Good catch on "buy", I even proof-read that several times.
The same? More like neighboring values on the Bristol stool chart.
Hark, a shiny! Let us use it to jam 2.4GHz ISM band to the point that it's completely unusable!
In all seriousness, unlicensed spectrum needs some.. help. I know it doesn't make any money for anyone directly, but still... ISM gets a whopping ~380 MHz of bandwidth in bands under 10GHz, 350 of which is in 2.4/5.8GHz. All the acronyms (FHSS, etc.) in the world can't save you from the fact that everyone else is already using the band.