I think it's more a case of don't use cheap consumer grade hardware in any kind of remotely demanding scenario.

I have "enterprise" TP-Link equipment for my house which I bought 3 years ago now and am very happy with it, in particular I'm using:

- 4x EAP245 Access Points

- 1x SG3428 Switch (the APs came with PoE injectors and I wanted a fan-less switch, hence why the switch is not PoE enabled)

I rent out a room on my property and have my tenant on a separate VLAN to the main house. I also have my IoT devices on a separate VLAN.

I use a generic PC with pfSense as my "router".

My only complaint is that their Omada Controller software doesn't want to run as a Windows Service (I'm not interested in trying to manage a Linux box). Fortunately, it's not required at all, but is useful for centralized configuration management and facilitation of handover of WiFi clients between APs.

Before I moved into my current large-ish place, I used "cheap" ISP supplied TP-Link routers with WiFi, and aside from limited speed capabilities, were 100% reliable for me, in particular I used the following two models:

- TL-WR840N

- Archer C20.

I also use a few cheap (but again fully reliable) 5 port and 8 port TP-Link 1GB/s switches, for example under my desk in my office to allow both my laptop and desktop to share the single CAT6 cable to the room.

Before buying the "enterprise" TP-Link equipment I considered Ubiquiti, but the TP-Link stuff was less expensive, I liked the controller being optional and considering all my past TP-Link equipment's reliability was a non-issue, I was happy "to take a risk".

Sir Alexander Dane: MINERS, not MINORS.

"Ahhhh... now you tell me" (Formerly Prince Andrew, at some point).

That actually confused me. I thought he he meant "the majority of the minority" while I was pretty sure it's just a simple majority

Many years ago I was using 12v passive homemade PoE at my house, manually had injection wires in on switch side of cable and manual break out on far end into barrel connector plugged into an AP.

Once I accidentally plugged the cable into a laptop and the port didn’t work until I powered the laptop off and on again, but no lasting ill effects on laptop at all.

Was curious and checked my own, 20 Nov 2004. Which was 4 days after the release of Half Life 2 and for which I made the account.

They don't accept delegated subdomains, at least not for .net and .com domains (I haven't tried others).

I don't see how it's "intrinsic to how CF works" that they need to host your DNS records, especially when they don't require it on more expensive plans.

That being said, I don't mind them hosting my DNS records, but it would have been nice if they supported importing zone files from Azure DNS.

These days I look somewhat disdainfully upon heavy drinkers, not only do they often disturb others when drinking (being noisy, obtrusive, drunk driving, etc.), but even ignoring long term health effects, I'm in my 40s now and it's definitely a factor too, but for at least a day after even very moderate drinking I know my mental faculties are reduced, so I can only imagine how much theirs are.

I very rarely have alcohol these days, it's just not worth the feeling of fatigue and brain fogginess the next day that's pretty much guaranteed for me afterwards, even from just 2 beers.

I suspect it's not unique to South Africa, but there is a somewhat pervasive culture here of excessive drinking. Back when I lived in a complex, I would often see people pitch up in the common area at midday with a cooler box full of beer, and basically sit there for the next 6 hours just drinking, what a waste of a day in my view. And most people don't even raise an eyebrow when someone casually mentions in the workplace this is how they spent their weekend. That the police here are both incompetent and readily bribe-able also makes the effects of excessive drinking particularly pronounced, like traffic lights being regularly knocked over.

I barely drink anymore at my age but I don't look down on other people for doing so. It's their time and their body who am I to tell them what to do with it?

> who am I to tell them what to do?

You’re an (apparently high functioning) member of society who has a moral obligation to help police individuals who negatively affect the people around them. People don’t drink in padded rooms.

You can make society better by policing individual choices. E.g., in part by policing alcohol and caffeine consumption, Mormon men live 10 years longer than white men in the U.S. generally: https://www.deseret.com/2010/4/13/20375744/ucla-study-proves....

Why do I have a moral obligation to police individuals who negatively affect those around them?

That seems awfully subjective and likely to devolve into vigilante anarchy.

There was a time when having a tatoo would mean you were negatively affecting those around you. Where do we citizens police draw the line?

There's "police" and police.

I don't think anyone's recommending you pull on black tights, a kevlar vest with molded nipples, and a black cape and go knocking beers out of strangers' hands.

There is, however, such a thing as noticing if your friends and loved ones are suffering from addiction and intervening to see what can be done before the addiction becomes someone else's problem. And speaking from some limited personal experience? Sometimes the problem someone is trying to medicate out with alcohol is feeling like nobody cares if they live or die. You might be surprised how much someone going out of their way to care does for a person's psyche.

Tattoos don't generally correlate causally with vehicular manslaughter; overindulgence in alcohol does, we have the numbers on it.

Yes. And a society that does gentle moral policing is a society that needs less harsh and impersonal government policing.

tragedy of the commons strikes again

I really don't think you (as an apparently high functioning member of society) are in a position to lecture other people on their moral obligations on how to improve society. Mote, beam etc. Op is modest enough that they know their limits, that's a virtue, not a defect.

>You’re an (apparently high functioning) member of society who has

I'm sure I'm low functioning on some other axis then.

>a moral obligation to help police individuals who negatively affect the people around them. People don’t drink in padded rooms.

You saying that doesn't make it so. I could just as easily say you have an obligation not to interfere in other's matters except in the most flagrant cases of it directly affecting you.

Except mormons don’t police it; they make it shameful and morally wrong.

Most western societies rely too heavily on laws to govern every aspect of their society when laws and police are there for the extremes; the rest must be managed by shaming and talking to people who break the unwritten moral rules.

The reason for this is that societal morals evolve, change and adapt more organically than any rigid bureaucratic processes can. You don’t want law based dress codes beyond a certain bare minimum (ie. naked), but instead you want people to govern themselves and be encouraged to tell others off for dressing inappropriately around others in the community.

Western liberal societies in particular have slid down into depravity because we’ve made it _immoral_ to be individual moralists. If it’s not against the law, it’s all acceptable. A man that abuses drugs and lives off welfare all his life is as lawful as a man that works hard every day for himself and his family and pays taxes that contribute to supporting the former’s lifestyle. But they are not morally the same, and it’s obvious to most of us. But we risk losing our livelihoods if we say so out loud.

Philosophically, what do I owe society if I exist without my consent? What is actually morally wrong about opting out and choosing to live on the kindness of society, if society is willingly kind to me through charity or laws? The social contract is a good place to start to think about this but still doesn’t address where someone’s debt to society comes from, besides not actively harming other humans.

For you to live comfortably off society without contributing anything back means someone else is paying for your comfort both monetarily (like taxes) or with their time and energy, maintaining all the services to facilitate your lifestyle.

If you don’t see that as at least a little immoral that’s up to you, but I would never be comfortable doing so. It goes against my fundamental character. Society only works through cooperation, it’s not about a “debt”.

Obligations taken on through consent are only a subset of all obligations. Obligations also arise out of the nature of a thing and its relationship to other things.

I'd be genuinely interested to hear about the other types of obligations, even if you just linked some reading material

As soon as a hangover shifted from an acute headache to a day or more of drowsiness I started to substantially limit the amount I drink. You can't tackle that with paracetamol or caffeine and it's not worth it any more, and that's just from what would consider casual drinking (a few pints at the pub) in the UK.

I can't imagine how badly drunk you have to get to swallow something like a toothpick without knowing.

One of the things that interests me is that, by all accounts, people used to drink ENORMOUS amounts of alcohol prior to the 20th century. The most common figure I saw is that Americans used to drink like 7 gallons of PURE alcohol per year. That's 26 liters of pure alcohol. I dunno what beer is like in the US, in Switzerland 4.5% alcohol content is standard. So they were drinking like 577 liters of beer a year, 1.6 l per day. 500kcal or so (so like 1/5 of reference for a "normal" man) coming from alcohol.

for better or worse, a combo of cheers and zbiotics actually seems to work to reduce hangovers

My friends group has gone down the ZBiotics route. Some of us swear by it, others don't find much help. I've taken it a bit further by adding a handful of other products that purport to have similar benefits via different mechanisms.

My experience as someone deep in their middle age is that it seems to have turned the clock back about 10 years or so in terms of the next day effects.

Spending all day drinking and socialising is a waste of a day? As opposed to what, working? Or maybe watching Netflix at home?

Commenting on the internet is the best way to spend the day. Obviously.

Socialising is good, but consuming large quantities of alcohol as part of that seems wasteful to me as you're also intoxicating (which is another word for poisoning) yourself at the same time, which probably means you have less time afterwards due to possibly sleeping in more the next day and even after that still not as inclined as you normally would be for doing anything else (perhaps like at least chores).

Then you're possibly putting on weight from drinking (having lots of beers definitely contributes to getting a "beer belly"), which is another potential health issue, which although can be mitigated by doing physical exercise (which you should be doing anyway), part of your time exercising is to just undo the "damage" from the drinking meaning you need to spend even more time exercising now.

Perhaps instead consider other healthier (or at least less unhealthy) forms of socializing, like board games, multiplayer computer games, outdoor physical group activities, etc.

As a business owner, I ultimately get more money if I manage to get in some extra work in on weekends or after hours, but between family, friends, children's extra murals and generally managing that I don't burn out, I absolutely don't have time to waste sitting around intoxicating myself for half the day.

Oh, and most people I know aren't proud to say they spent all day watching TV, although I confess that I used to do it on occasion when I was younger with less responsibilities. TV watching can be as good an activity as any when you need to take a break from anything mentally or physically challenging and the negative health effects do pale in comparison to the consumption of large amounts of alcohol.

A router is connected to multiple networks and for networks running on Ethernet, yes, each device on those networks has a MAC address its interface connected to it.

The headers of IP packets wouldn’t be affected by MAC addresses, Ethernet packets carry IP packets as their payload and would have their own headers as appropriate.

A router’s job is essentially to “pass on” or relay IP packets based on its routing tables, they are what connect networks together.

As someone who is very experienced primarily as a C# dev, I wouldn’t say Java is “nearly 1:1”.

At a syntax level they’re practically the same and they both use GC, but in terms of ecosystem they’re very different.

It might not seem like it to people who are just starting out at programming, but syntax is probably the easiest part of it.

Sure, I would probably be productive in Java if I had to start using it fully tomorrow, but it would take me months or years to get that same nuanced knowledge of its ecosystem to be as effective with it as I am with C#.

The presentation helps a lot too, the way I was told it was something like:

“Did you know that computers actually run on magic smoke? Once the magic smoke comes out though, it stops working.”

If it makes an appreciable difference to how much money he makes on YouTube then I can’t begrudge him for doing it.

Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

Just to add context — I've been experimenting on my 2nd channel (Level 2 Jeff) with titles that are straight/barebones exactly describing the content of the video, vs a slight bit of clickbait (never untrue, but certainly more intriguing and not describing the exact topic of the video).

The ones that are dead straight with no clickbait are 10/10 (the worst performers), and usually by a massive margin. Even with the same thumbnail.

The sad fact is, if you want your work seen on YouTube, you can't just say "I built a 10 node Raspberry Pi blade cluster and ran HPL and LLMs on it".

Some people are fine with a limited audience. And that's fine too! I don't have to write on my blog at all—I earn negative income from that, since I pay for hosting and a domain, but I hope some people enjoy the content in text form like I do.

FWIW I like Level 2 Jeff more and I would watch the videos with or without the clickbait-y titles. As you've said I've never found your titles deceptive so if they bring you more money, then more power to you

Thanks for the transparency. Much respect to you.