Parents need to take some ownership of this issue. My kids were not allowed full Internet access or a cell phone until they were 16 (they are now currently 24 and 25). They rarely use social media because as my one son puts it, "it's a retard fest wrapped in dogged poo." It also helps that I or my wife have never used FB, Instagram, TicTac, etc..I always preached to them that "social media" was actually anti-social in nature and not to get wrapped up in it's BS.

I found this little tidbit of information here: https://industrialcyber.co/cri...

"Currently, the FCC has the authority to revoke existing equipment authorizations under specific circumstances, but lacks a clear mechanism to rescind authorization solely because the vendor has been designated on the Covered List. This authority is limited to cases involving technical non-compliance, false statements or misrepresentation in the application, failure to meet technical requirements following subsequent testing or inspections, or unauthorized changes to the equipment that were not originally approved by the Commission. "

Perhaps installing OpenWRT is the answer here? I just checked their table of hardware and see that in TP-Link's case almost 200 routers are supported.

My fiber ISP places TP-Link routers in the home. Millions of routers installed by ISPs are going to need replaced too.

"All due respect to Microsoft, do you really want Microsoft controlling digital superintelligence?"

Yes please! It's guaranteed to fail if this happens, a blessing in disguise.

So AI is supplying the news articles I read on /. ?

That's the sound of a company having trouble treading water. GM has offered overpriced crap for too long. GM has done shady things to their customers. I'm all for buying American but GM has shit the bed. Bye Bye.

You screwed the pooch years ago and dugg your grave. Not interested in an AI News Aggregator (whatever the hell that means).

Jensen Huang is a tool.

Hey GM, fuck you and the rolling data collection machine you rode in on.

I was born and lived most of my life in Ohio. I can tell you, there are definitely men (and women) in Ohio that if placed in the woods at 4AM, would be misidentified as Bigfoot in a heart beat, smell and all.

Luckily when I purchase any NAS units I also purchase a spare drive or two right away as well. My 8TB Synology, which uses 2 of the 8TB WD red drives, is getting old in the tooth. I would hate to have to purchase a replacement drive at today's prices.

I have about 20 1TB WD black spinning rust hard drives sitting in a box. I stopped using them years ago when SSD prices finally became reasonable. I can't believe I may have to resort to these again if any of my 1TB or larger SSDs fail in the near future. Ugh. The IT world is a fucking mess.

Meanwhile, my i7-6700K with 32GB RAM I built many moons ago is still chugging along very nicely. Years ago I started "upgrading" my systems with used 3+ year old components. I saw no benefit in purchasing new components to chase the never ending need to stay "current". The Microslop push to have new PCs for Windows 11 over the last few years has allowed me to upgrade a few of my really old quad core systems dirt cheap. Fuck LLMs.

Just because you see pink elephants when you drink doesn't mean that they exist.