So I have this recently-bought router from TP-Link which replaced an old Asus router that wasn’t cutting it anymore. Anyways, it has the ability to create a separate “IoT Network” for connected appliances/devices.

But it isn’t a separate network. It’s just another SSID with potentially weaker security. Devices can still access both the internet and your local machines. It is totally useless security theater.

Oh, and if I want to isolate any of my “smart” devices from the wider internet while still letting things on the LAN connect to them? I can’t! There is literally no way to do this within the router, except via a really hacky workaround where I add a device as one of my “children” and then use parental controls to restrict Internet usage to one minute per day. (Zero minutes per day is not allowed.)

Not that it matters, because my smart TV locked up if on a network but not on the internet. So I lobotomized it via factory reset. As a dumb TV it works great.

#iot #enshittification #oldManYellsAtCloud

I kinda want to create a blog series that explains the stuff we were never taught, or were so academic it was unappealing. Like Money, Faith, Race, Politics, geopolitics, persuasion, etc from an objective non magical thinking perspective. Like a tl;dr for life.

#random #oldmanyellsatcloud #midlife

Salí hace un rato de un concierto que me hace unirme a la arenga y extenderla: Del mismo modo que el ecologismo sin compromiso político es apreciación de la jardinería, el arte sin reto estético o conceptual no pasa de ser decoración.

Esto es más relevante y crítico si la obra dice hablar de ecología y se presenta como arte.

#oldmanyellsatcloud

Is there a way to set Mastodon to filter out anything with a link that doesn't show what the link is?

Far too many people link dump "This is so cool!" and a link that doesn't show anything, making the one line over it meaningless.

#FediHelp #OldManYellsAtCloud

Soooo looking forward to her gig in cologne.
(Also: this is why vertical videos suck #oldmanyellsatcloud)

RAYE – Skin and Bones LIVE | Łódź, Poland 2026
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BKSs2zaIdM8
#leyrerplaylist