I see you've read my sig.

Goes back to the old joke

Q: How many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None. It's a hardware problem.

Q: How many hardware engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None. We'll just work around it in software.

Apparently, somebody remotely bricked the editors a long time ago.

Yo dawg, I heard you like dupes, so I duped your dupe, and put it in the dupe.

That's going far past anything I would know; I'm software, not hardware and it was a long time ago. All I remember is that there were a pair of uprights that helped hold the chip up and it went from the motherboard almost to the top of the case.

This reminds me of something that was done back in the (I think) 90s for one of the Pentium chips. Instead of it lying flat on the motherboard it had all of its connectors along one edge and stood upright on that edge in a special mount that kept it upright so that all of it was exposed to the air and didn't need a heat sink or special fan. Yes, it had its drawbacks, mostly that it couldn't be used in a laptop and needed a tall case, but it worked and worked well. I know, because I used one for several years back then and only replaced it to upgrade.

One good example is ModemManager. It can't exit until either the modem is on-line or it times out, generally because you either don't have one or it's not connected to anything. Why it doesn't start out by checking to see if you have a modem and if not exit right away I don't know. Personally, one of the first things I do is disable and mask it so it doesn't even try to start because it's been well over a decade since I last needed it and nuking it that way makes a significant change for the better in the boot time. HTH, HAND.

I happen to be a member of a social club that's organized as a 501-C. I've sent a copy of TFA to the club's treasurer so that she can be on the lookout for any funny business and not be taken unawares. If any of you know about any non-profits that might be affected by this, please give them a head's up!

One particular home is a brand new, probably a $25 million dollar plus creation, very modern and sleek. The entire house, HVAC, lighting, cameras, gates, door locks, etc. is controlled by a central service on a network. Things go wrong all the time. When the system goes down, nothing works.

Let me guess: that home, as designed and built had no built in batteries or generator to pick up the load when the inevitable power failure occurred. How long did it take for that brain phart to be corrected and how long was the house dark when the omission was first discovered?

Yeah, but this subthread was about getting rid of any Chinese spy/malware by installing OpenWRT on your TP-Link.

Personal responsibility is not the main cause of obesity.

You're right. Personal responsibility isn't a cause of obesity; the problem is lack of personal responsibility.

Not just computer stuff...

I share LA Kings season tickets with my sister. Any time I need to do anything with those tickets, I have to ask her to log in and do it. Even the Season Seat Rep admitted it's a dumb system.

Except OpenWRT is not supported on a lot of modern (AX) TP-Link devices.

Maybe you should have started out by checking Wikipedia. The second sentence of the first paragraph says exactly what I wrote.

Or hit the Waywayback Machine for the Know-Nothing party (yeah, I know, I know, but the fact that they considered it a badge of distinction is my point here).

If you actually knew anything about that era's politics, you'd know better. The Know Nothing Party got that name because members were expected to deny any knowledge about that party or its activities, not because they knew nothing in general.