Tell me more about my “faults” and “condescension” and “ad hominem”, then reread your comments. Yep, there’s some condescension from me here, but you’re also once again trying to throw judgement. “Glass houses” and all.

You win, Have a nice day.

You’re assuming it was backtracking rather than a simple clarification.

That’s unnecessarily unpleasant, and it’s cool you want to feel like you won the argument, but if you add in the context of “new years eve” and then read it as “some other event external to the reason you want to make a change” it’s not backtracking.

In fact it’s just context you missed because of your own life experiences and emotions.

Which is cool, but you look like an ass when you try and secure a win by pointing out your own misunderstanding rather than hearing my clarification.

Neither of those are New Year’s resolutions.

“The day my niece was born” is actually exactly the type of thing I’m talking about. You didn’t wait until new years, or your birthday, or something else unrelated to your motivations. You picked “now” because that was when you felt the desire.

So yes, special days can matter, but the days that matter to YOU are way more important than a day some guy named “Gregorian” chose 2000 years ago.

Not waiting for a day like new years to make a change that helps you.

The best time to do it was probably years ago.

The second best time is today.

Because if you make it about “new years” or some event, then it isn’t about YOU.

Do it for YOU, because you know that you’re worth the same amount of effort and affection as the others in your life.

Would you want this change for your friend? Turn don’t you think you skills care enough about you to give it to yourself?

Well it’s using one to do the other, so yes

I would bet it’s a way to send money to Russia.

It can’t process 1/100th of what visa does in a day, let alone the other card processors on top of it

I’ll give you that, yep, sure.

But that doesn’t invalidate the data they did get, it’s just not a full picture.

Disagree, and i don’t think it’s the point.

As an average user, why am I paying a performance hit for nvidia’s own “recommended parameters”

That’s trash and a terrible experience, and they should be called out for it.

You look for the cheapest used car that you can.

Leases are really only designed for businesses so that the business can write off value and depreciation early in their balance sheets for tax purposes. Financially they don’t work out great for your average consumer.

Consumers can’t write off those monthly and yearly expenses like a business does.

Continuous Mozilla hit pieces coming out….

I wonder which company motivated only by greed and the fact that their entire business model is “obliterating your privacy” is behind them

Gotta pay the bills somehow, and I’m just happy they care about privacy.

It’s because they appear to be something they’re not.

They’re usually friendly and fun and do all sorts of employee retention activities like arranging go karting and such…

They seem like they’re there almost as union stewards, to try and help retain employees and ensure you’re treated well by management. This is not the case. They’re there to protect the company from lawsuits originated by you. This means that they’ll apply rules and such in ways that are not usually beneficial to you.

They’re actually really helpful if you have issues with a coworker! However, you need to remember that despite how friendly they seem, they’re not actually in your corner, they have their own agenda.

So the simple answer is that they aren’t bad at all, but it can feel bad if you thought they were your friend.

I’m very sorry that your life feels so out of control that you need to lash out so quickly with condescension.

Did you want to talk? Or perhaps explain where you think I misunderstand?

And if you “device type” that…. You’ll see a router likely.

Yes.

And they would ask “why is there a router on your network”

Probably just MAC address lookups, but also possibly something weird like “ttl “ stats

It’s a rarity afaik, I’ve only heard of one or two cases, but a concerning report to me personally.

Though I’m Canadian so it’ll be a few years before it filters here (assuming it catches on)

Yeah, they can still tell that you’re Nat behind another router.

But they don’t like it because it gives them less access to your network and more possibility for something to be wrong

Some isp’s have been detecting the second router and giving people shit for it.

But I’m with you on that, I don’t trust the isp’s backdoored router-modem. Hard pass.