AI: becomes sentient and malevolent

Me: “You’re connected to an 8 year old ASUS router and the 5GHz band and 2 ports are fried from a lightning strike a while back. Anyways I’ll be in the other room if you need anything”

Why is this so real? [Cries in poor]

If it ain’t totally, wholly, and irreparably broke, don’t fix it is my motto. My router is really that jacked up but it still has 2 1gbps ethernet ports and the 2.4GHz wifi so it’s mostly whatever

Why wouldn’t you just have your ISP send you a new one at that point

Surely you’re just an “it broken” phonecall and 2 days of shipping away from a better time?

Do most people rent the ISP provided router these days? I’m a network engineer so I would never ever do that but obviously not everyone wants to deal with it. I just assumed most people would buy their own since doing so would eliminate that $5/month and pays for itself pretty quickly.

Spectrum around here tries to mandate that you use their combo modem/router, it was a legit PITA to get them to accept the modem their website said was supported, because god forbid they don’t get that extra $10/mo or whatever.

Frontier fiber gave us an Amazon Eero, which I promptly gave to a friend, and installed my Ubiquiti gear.

I messed with the spectrum router my parents got a few months ago and that thing made me so mad. They intentionally locked the gui so that you had to call them to make any real changes. You even had to download their app to change the SSID and password. I wanted to throw it in the garbage so bad.