Ah, yes. Quantum collapse, of course. What they mean is: "I think the double slit experiment changes its behavior because (ooooh) a human is looking at it, not because there's a fucking thing in the way triggering wave-to-particle transition."

THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE LEPTON OF CONSCIOUSNESS, ONE MOLECULAR ORBITAL OF SOUL. AND YET—AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME DIVINE ORDER TO THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME... SOME SPECIALNESS TO HUMANS THAT ELEVATES THEM OVER BACTERIA.

I am sick of physicists rediscovering gnosticism because they haven't read a philosophy book other than Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.

Doesn't the onion problem exist for any theory tho?

I mean, at the end of the day, something has to underpin the thing that underpins the thing that underpins the thing that our universe runs on? Whether it be a simulator, or another form of energy or whatever, there are rules which are goverened and set by something, which indicates that that level of reality also sits atop something else...

This really is one of those mysteries which will never be resolved, and we can only go so far with theorising.

I am considering Cudy products at the moment. They are well priced and seem like decent hardware. To some extent there isn't that much difference between many of the products now, they are all essentially a couple of reference designs for a handful of chips.

Might try one of their POE access points.

The is the OpenWRT One as well. The form factor is a bit awkward, with the ethernet ports and antenna jacks on the same side, and it could do with a cover for cosmetic reasons, but it has the big advantage of being reference hardware and thus extremely well supported. Maybe I could 3D print a case for it.

Yeah, that's a deal breaker for me. Web UI, ideally OpenWRT.

Ah, thanks, that's interesting. I will have another look at their stuff again then. I'm looking at access points. Looking for something WiFi 7 with tri-band and POE.

I know blaming people for being weak minded morons makes you feel warm and fuzzy, but the reality is that three quarters of Americans are overweight. It's the normal state, being a healthy weight is the exception.

There's clearly some environmental factor at play here.

I thought Ubiquity needed some proprietary controller app thing.

Yeah, about that... Here's a list of Linksys CVEs that are scored 9.0 or above:

CVE-2002-2159, CVE-2008-0228, CVE-2008-1247, CVE-2008-1268, CVE-2008-4594, CVE-2009-3341, CVE-2009-5157, CVE-2010-1573, CVE-2010-2261, CVE-2013-4658, CVE-2017-17411, CVE-2018-17208, CVE-2018-3953, CVE-2018-3954, CVE-2018-3955, CVE-2019-11535, CVE-2019-16340, CVE-2020-35713, CVE-2020-35715, CVE-2022-38555, CVE-2023-46012, CVE-2024-33789, CVE-2024-57223, CVE-2024-57224, CVE-2024-57225, CVE-2024-8408, CVE-2025-34037, CVE-2025-45487, CVE-2025-45488, CVE-2025-45489, CVE-2025-45490, CVE-2025-45491, CVE-2025-4999, CVE-2025-5000, CVE-2025-5441, CVE-2025-5442, CVE-2025-5443, CVE-2025-5444, CVE-2025-5445, CVE-2025-5446, CVE-2025-5447, CVE-2025-6751, CVE-2025-6752, CVE-2025-8816, CVE-2025-8817, CVE-2025-8819, CVE-2025-8820, CVE-2025-8822, CVE-2025-8824, CVE-2025-8826, CVE-2025-8831, CVE-2025-8832, CVE-2025-8833, CVE-2025-9245, CVE-2025-9246, CVE-2025-9247, CVE-2025-9248, CVE-2025-9249, CVE-2025-9250, CVE-2025-9251, CVE-2025-9252, CVE-2025-9253, CVE-2025-9355, CVE-2025-9356, CVE-2025-9357, CVE-2025-9358, CVE-2025-9359, CVE-2025-9360, CVE-2025-9361, CVE-2025-9363, CVE-2025-9392, CVE-2025-9393, CVE-2025-9481, CVE-2025-9482, CVE-2025-9483, CVE-2025-9525, CVE-2025-9526, CVE-2025-9527

Is there anyone else in the consumer/SOHO space you would recommend?

TP-Link don't seem to be worse than the competition for security issues. Certainly better than Cisco/Linksys and... Actually that's it for US manufacturers, isn't it? You can get a bit better if you pay a lot more, like some of the Unify stuff, but not in that price bracket.

Otherwise it's Taiwanese vendors like D-Link and Asus, neither of which I rate very highly. Neither offer very good security or support.

I wonder who is next. GL.iNet have a lot of very good products (their Flint routers are very well received, and run OpenWRT), but also based in Hong Kong...

TP-Link hardware is generally quite decent, and a lot of their gear can be flashed with OpenWRT if you don't like their firmware.

Their firmware isn't bad though. They update it when needed, and they don't disable features just to upsell you the next model, generally if the hardware can do it they will have that feature enabled.

"lock-in" is the word you're looking for.

People can't switch without considerable cost in money and/or convenience. That could be as simple as using two different systems at home and at work, which adds to the mental load.

Windows has been winning for 30+ years because it's familiar shit. Everyone knows it's shit, but at least you already know the taste. Consumers know that if they use Windos their skills trained at work transfer. Businesses know that if they use Windos then new hires don't need basic computer training. Software developers know that if they support Windos, there's a huge market that runs it.

Everyone is locking everyone else into the shit, and Microsofts sits in the middle and laughs.

I would bet that there's an internal competition among the various teams how much utter crap they can put into their respective parts of the OS before the public rebels against it.

Been a non-windows user for two decades now, and don't miss it one bit. Sometimes sad if a cool game is out only on Windos, but I anyway don't have as much time anymore as I used to.

It's not just Windos, though. DOS was equally horrible. I replaced MS-DOS with Novell DOS on one of my PCs for utterly different reasons (better to run a small BBS system on) and that was miles ahead of the Microsoft shit.

It keeps getting worse because we are not the customers anymore, we are the product. Your data is sold, your user habits are monitizied, and the main reason Windows still rules the games market is so kids grow up on Windows PCs and will demand them in their jobs (businesses are the main buyers of the OS).

And probably because Bill Gates is sad if market share falls. And who can stand old men crying?

Unfortunately it usually takes Google a few years minimum to deprecate any feature, and they are more likely than not to abandon the attempt before reaching the deadline. See 3rd party cookies.

I can see them adding further warnings, or disabling HTTP for non-local addresses, but if they announced it today it wouldn't happen for at least 3 years.

Chrome based browsers already made it a lot harder to use sites with self signed certs as well - I had a VSphere server on my local network that had a self provided self signed cert, and actualy accessing the server got progressively more and more difficult (and there was no way to change the cert). At one point I had to type in "this is dangerous" to get the browser to actually give me an option to proceed.

Facebook cookies being stolen via shared Wifi hotspots was also a big motivator for Facebook to move to HTTPS by default as well.