Does Netflix have a Nazi Entertainment category?

You can install a W11 VirtualBox VM on an old, unsupported processor without any special configuration. I have it running under Linux on a 10 year old AMD processor and it works fine.

For the washer a smart plug with power monitoring. The current draw goes to almost zero when the cycle’s finished. A Zigbee vibration sensor for the dryer (or another smart plug if it’s a gas dryer) and temperature sensor for the fridge. All in they were less than $20.

The timers on washers are notoriously inaccurate and moisture sensors make drying timers useless, but if you had your own washer and dryer you might know that.

Your extreme cognitive bias is indicative of someone completely lacking in a sense of sonder. (Look it up, it is certain someone with main character syndrome has never heard the word before.)

Anyway it’s been fun, but we’re done.

Egocentric bias - the tendency to focus excessively on one’s own perspective, leading to a distorted view of reality where individuals overestimate their own importance and fail to adequately consider others’ viewpoints. This cognitive bias affects how people recall events and interpret situations, often making them see themselves as the center of attention.

LOL! You actually believe all fridges work exactly like yours? You believe everyone’s laundry is installed within hearing range exactly like yours? Some people even have washers & dryers without audio alerts. The laundry notifications allow us to get 6+ loads done in 1 day rather than 2.

There are millions of households in just the U.S. and nearly every single household is very different than yours. You need to get out more and stop admiring your own navel.

I had very similar problems with Realtek wifi on an HP laptop.

A possible fix:

Run “iwconfig” and check your adapter power management setting. If it’s on turn it off: “iwconfig [interface] power off”.

This solved most the wifi problems on my system.

My HA smartified washer & dryer save us more than an hour every week because we are informed immediately when their cycles are complete. My refrigerator temperature monitor has alerted us more than once that the door wasn’t completely closed saving us hundreds in spoiled food costs. It would do the same if the compressor fails.

Everyone has different needs and sometimes those needs include smart appliance features.

Upon installation LG’s app helpfully informed me that to be notified that my LG refrigerator temperature is high or my washer’s cycle is complete I am expected to inform a Korean company of my exact location at all times. The reason LG gives for this bullshit is “analytics”. There is no way in hell.

I disconnected my LG appliances from wifi, deleted their spyware from my phone and duplicated the functions with Home Assistant. A couple of inexpensive sensors and a power monitoring plug provide almost all same functions without getting Korea (or the Internet) involved at all. Surprisingly this setup is much more reliable than LG’s spyware too.

Maga and Trump: It’s a false flag operation that was started when the suspect was 10! The pictures are photoshopped! He’s secretly a Democrat! It was the deep state! We’re under attack from the liberals! What about his trans roommate?

One of the primary characteristics of malignant narcissism is someone else is always to blame.

Says another guy who probably has staff to cut his toenails.

It’s inspiring how giving and generous the rich are with other people’s lives.

This is an amazing story. Here’s a link to a New Yorker article about the building if you don’t want to Youtube it.

I used DD-WRT for 9 years and had no reason to switch until I was forced to. At some point after a firmware upgrade my routers began to occasionally lose their configurations after power failures. Months of troubleshooting, logging errors and recreating configs made no difference. I had been concerned for some time that the project seemed to rely on one guy, and although what he’s doing is amazing, it is not possible for him to thoroughly test each firmware release. When one of my routers lost its config when I was 200 miles away and I lost alarm monitoring I was forced to make a change.

Open-WRT has been a really pleasant surprise. It’s completely stable on the same routers and the feature set is unbelievably broad. The learning curve was a bitch though.

Who needs Death Panels when we’ve got Trump and the GQP?

And Apple shareholders will revolt if Apple revenues drop by $10 billion because they’re having a tantrum. I hope EU regulators call Apple’s bluff. The U.S. is a corporate hellscape, the EU doesn’t have to be.

Apple sold well over $10 billion worth of Iphones in the EU in 2024, but rather than deal with the annoyance of EU regulation they’re just going to take their ball and go home.

They must think EU regulators are imbeciles.

I’ve been to Oklahoma City and lawdy mercy. It’s the only place I’ve ever been where they could call me “Tiny”.

Even escalators have weight limits. 400+ pounds stepping on all at once is bound to cause some problems.

I haven’t set it up that way, but the options are there. Here’s a forum entry that covers it.

A mini-PC is ideal but you don’t even need that for SyncThing. It also works just fine with a laptop or desktop that you use regularly. My photos and important files are backed up to several different computers every time they’re booted up.