lka1988

You need to readjust your point of view, friend. It's not a skill issue. It's a "most people don't have the kind of experience necessary to even begin to understand what goes on inside the magic internet box" issue. You're speaking on a completely different level.

1. The average Joe doesn't possess that capability in the slightest. It's just Joe from Finance. The only time they interact with a computer in any meaningful capacity is at work, where IT fixes their problems.
2. The average Joe is someone who declares "the wifi is broken" when they forget the password to their online banking portal.
3. The average Joe will take their kid's stick-drifting Nintendo Switch to the Geek Squad at Best Buy and get upsold a Switch 2 instead of listening to their kid and getting it fixed at the local repair shop next door for $50.

Do you see where I'm going with this?

That's an auction, my dude. It's already at $26, not including the $22 shipping charge.

It takes a special kind of router to have such settings

Eh, most good quality routers from reputable companies can handle separate VLANs just fine. My old Asus RT-N66U had that capability right out of the box.

But, as already stated, most people don't even change the default password on their router, much less know what a VLAN even is.

A door to what is arguably the most valuable item you own.

ZigBee

I have multiple smart plugs in my house that monitor energy usage for various devices. I have them set up on Home Assistant via ZigBee. All completely local, works without internet.

Some webpages have a bad habit of automatically appending tags to the URL, or outright changing it, as you scroll down.

At least they quoted it.

Costco already creates the perfect hotdog.

I say they should invest in bringing back the Polish dog. That was fucking delicious.

I would love to work remote, but the nature of my job kinda conflicts with that (field service engineer).

That said, I actually like my coworkers quite a lot (there's only 4 of us). This is the first place I've worked where I genuinely feel like we all care about each other's well-being. I was in the hospital for a few days back in March and they texted periodically just to check how I was doing. Wishing each other happy father's day/birthday/anniversary/etc, congratulating baby births, invited to kids' birthday parties, and other things of that nature. Not just surface-level stuff, either. I would hang out with these guys.

Oh for sure. If it does actually exist though, it's definitely gonna be a $40 Chinese whitelabel model.

Oh it's 100% gonna be an MVNO, it's expensive as fuck to roll out new infrastructure, and something like that certainly wouldn't go unnoticed anyway.

It's just gonna be the worst shit-tier kind of MVNO. Like Cricket back in the 2000s. Service = maybe.

There are numerous errors on the page, from a processor section that doesn’t list a processor

Shit-tier Mediatek. Calling it now.