Imagine having a router with an AP built in. We don't use that consumer tier stuff around here. 😎

The factory must grow.

Older? Poor kid might forget to eat or drink water if you get him hooked on Factorio

Paying for Factorio and letting their engineering career pay for your retirement home is way cheaper than saving for retirement!

My sister-in-law let her 10 year old daughter play it with zero supervision. When we found out we told her she should be watching what her daughter’s doing so she went in to check and found the kid talking to some grown man from Azerbaijan.

I played Roblox with my kids for years and didn't find any shady shit. Not saying there is no shady stuff on there, but after 100s of hours either it's suddenly gotten worse, we somehow dodged all the shady shit or the media have exaggerated the issue. Take your pick.

I played with my kids because they desperately wanted to join in on the fun but the reports of it being pedo land made me create a rule of "you only play when we play together". We had great fun, have many fond memories of our time on there.

To me, the original post was riddled with "verbal" irony - they were saying things whose words meant one thing but the overall post was actually making fun of the ideas the words were presenting.

My comment serves to state that I agree with the point the words are making and not the meaning through the lens of irony. Ie, unironically.

I respect the pushback though. I have similar gripes with "sarcasm" being used when "irony" is correct and vice versa.

hey don't blame us, we learned it from the brits

Imagine not having an opnsense firewall deployed as an IT professional

IT professional doesn't have local DNS? LOL

Wait 3 to 5 business weeks while the 16-bit ARM microcontroller they put in these things serves a web page like old people fuck.

This also goes for some NAS appliances and the in-dash console of newer cars. Underpowered ARM implementations are the scourge of this decade.

It auto-inserts 192.168.0.12 because that's the IP address of your NAS, and you've logged into it to adjust something at some point in the last six months. You register it has done this as you're releasing the Enter key.

I avoid this by having my router interface on 1) a double digit IP. And 2) a non-standard port

They’re specifically talking about Zero Trust though and treating it like a corporate device as the joke. This means authenticate at every layer, RBAC, and endpoint security compliance before allowing access to a service. Putting the device into an isolated guest VLAN works too of course.

Not for the kid.

Are you my boyfriend/roommate?

Edit: he and I are both IT folks, but he handles all the Windows issues in the house. I handle Linux issues. He handles the router because it's closer to his desk so it's easier for him to threaten.

I think it means they setup new tech on their homelab to learn how everything works and how to break it. Then when a problem arises where one of these solutions is needed at work, you can implement it without any large issues. It makes sense if your hobby is close to or adjacent your day job, and you are on Salary, and your boss treats you right.

Our opsec is pretty well managed, but I try to squeeze anything I'd need at home to work tasks. I get paid to learn the stuff at work and then I can just implement it on my own environment.

Nah, I could afford nice shit but I'm still using a ubiquity edge router 8 from 10 years ago.

There is probably something to be said that there is an in between to those two extremes. The "my network is made of a Hodgepodge of shit my employer threw out that still seems to work and brand new things I replaced because I had to"

No, it's 'my life is IT and i never stop working" guy, and "IT is just my job" guy.

I just order a new router on Black Friday to replace my 10 year old one. I also only console game now because PC gaming is too much of a headache. I spend my money on outdoor gear and pets, not technology. My new router is $90 bucks. I can't fathom why I'd ever need a wifi 7 quad band router with 9Gbps of throughput for a home network, other than pure bragging rights. All my devices are like 5-10 years old and barely support wifi 6 anyway.

A couple of my co-workers are the former. They will be doing penetration testing at 2am form their home lab in the morning because they their default mode is work work work. If i'm up at 2 am i'm watching TV and snacking.

I monitor security updates, but my co-workers like get excited and ramble on anytime a new patch/attack is documented. I don't get it. They revel in doing updates and rebuilding their VMs fresh every few weeks, I groan and clone.

I used to be the first, but because of a shitty landlord I was forced to move, and I only had 30 days to find a place. I bought a house because no one would rent to me with a large dog and she’s been with us for 10 years now.’my homelab is sitting disassembled in the basement with nowhere to even plug it in, because in order to get an outlet wired I’d have to replace my entire breaker box which is probably hanging on by a thread. I’m too house poor to even consider getting the work done over paying the bills I need to and providing my kid with food and clothing.

The place is nice enough and my family lives well, but I was the first guy and now I have to be the second guy for who knows how long.

In other words; fuck landlords

I spent way more time than I care to think about figuring out how to get my porch lights to come on at 7am and turn off 10 minutes before sunrise without breaking when sunrise happened before 7am. I tried some serious Rube Goldberg nonsense in multiple iterations, until finally I decided to just add another "turn off the lights" at 9am every day. Most of the time it doesn't do anything because the lights are already off, but on DST day it accomplishes my goal of making sure they don't run all day, since 9am is always after sunrise.

"tomato" is an open-source router firmware package. You can use it to access settings that the manufacturer intentionally hides away, or to set up features like UPnP more easily. Some versions even enable features like a built-in NAS (just bring your own drives), networked printer support, or running a publicly-facing website on your router.

Along with packages like DD-WRT, it's a pretty common modification for a lot of tech-savvy users to make.

Though, to be honest, I'm not entirely certain that a 2011 Belkin router would be compatible with Tomato (probably?).

Or, wait, are you saying that my original comment that you're replying to is ChatGPT? Because...lol, sadly, no, I'm just like this. "This" meaning pretty much everything I write is way too overwrought.

Or just copypasta.

I figured it was made up ("@it_unprofession" probably ran out of content ages ago), but it doesn't look like actual AI content to me. The sentences are too short, for one thing.