voyagerfan5761

Jerks do push all the buttons to make everyone else wait. It's why newer elevator systems are often configured to ignore those if too many floor buttons get pressed at once.

For this, I blame Reddit.

Yes, I thought the same when I was new.

Shouldn't have to replace the aircon/heat-pump components, only the controller hardware. OP indicated that a new control system would be about $1700 (I assume AUD), or 14-17% of their 10k-12k estimate for the whole build.

Unless this scummy manufacturer also works with the aircon makers to lock those to their controllers. (That would be a great lawsuit to watch.)

You got all the same answers I did, which helps me determine how good my sleuthing skills are. I used exclusively strings, either API routes, error codes, or version/build numbers.

Thanks a bunch to you and thenickdude for the test command and config to change.

I have an old VPS that isn't worth trying to update to a newer OS image, because I'm already (slowly) migrating things off of it before the current paid-up term expires, but it definitely won't get the newer glibc. Disabling the vulnerable character encoding works for me, since no legitimate user of the server will need these conversion pairs.

Oy. The morally correct way would be to, at minimum, allow subscribers to opt out. It might even be acceptable if opting out was a "feature" of their paid plans.

The tiniest consolation is that the revised TOS doesn't apply until subscription renewal for paying customers, which is pretty much the bare minimum "ethical terms change" approach I can think of.

Some modern clients (or clients-as-services) build in image/file sharing.

As an example, the options where I am right now (thankfully temporary) are:

- $55/mo. 3 Mbps DSL

- $80/mo. 300 Mbps cable (or even more expensive, faster cable)

- $120/mo. 100+ Mbps (if you're lucky) Starlink

- A few other heavily restricted, very expensive satellite options (e.g. HughesNet), to which the aforementioned fleet of ill-trained carrier pigeons might be preferable

Only one of those is practical and (mostly) reliable for anything remotely approaching something like remote work.

Back home it's such a luxury to be able to choose DSL, cable, or fiber. I can only dream that all markets will have an actual choice between Internet service providers someday.

Self-promotion.

Ooooof, at least in the genres I tend to listen to, SME (and numerous sublabels thereof) are basically impossible to avoid.

I can take advantage of how low streaming payouts are, I guess? It's almost like refusing to buy their stuff.

They might be preventing new malicious actors from signing up. Maybe. Catching a lot (anecdotally, from this thread) of legit users along the way.

Meanwhile, what have they done to catch and ban malicious actors who passed verification long ago and have been abusing other services on the internet from the safety of Hetzner's network for months or years?