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So, now that I have a cheap (~$100) Motorola modem feeding the internet to my Asus RT-96U, life's good again. I looked it up, and it turns out a lot of people have seen that random 412.3 GBPS speed, but even more strangely, many have seen it with Wi-FI. In one instance, (techist.com/forums/threads/thi…) the person could actually operate internet out of their card listing this speed but probably not delivering it, which is so odd.
All I can say is that the 2.5 Gig port on the CAX80 got extremely, extremely hot when it went down. I tried pushing the factory reset pin for 8 seconds, nothing, then just smashed it 15 times, and it still wouldn't reboot until I unplugged it. The moment I switched that router into "bridged" mode, it kind of blew up in not a good way. I actually wanted a Wi-FI 7 router more for LG WOWCast to soundbars, which is nice, but for some reason the Cax80 didn't steer the TV and soundbars on the same band to make it work.
Then, with my external HDD on the router's USB as media server, it would stop indexing after 300 folders automatically with TwonkyDLNA, and I'd have to manually rename folders to get them scanned. What a quirky router.
Would never buy Netgear, ever again. The RAX80 is the Wi-FI only version of that modem and I bet it suffers from those oddities.
Finally, a dedicated router that's good will let you do everything. SSH, advanced WI-FI settings, bluetooth coexistance, all of it. Not the CAX80.
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Tamas G

the other thing that started to bother me was that as we got our home security system from Vivint, we added at least 8 to 10 new devices to the network. All of those added load, with channel utilization hitting 80% at one point across my network. Sadly if we ever add any more chimes, cameras, ETC, those all will also take up a slot in the Wi-FI bandwidth allocation. This is way more constrained on a Wi-FI modem combo, actually, since most of them (including, yes, that $400 Cax80) have built-in antennas. For the same price (RT-BE96U) you can really get the top of the line single-router device with external antennae, much nicer if you do want to point it towards a part of your home.
I'm not sure. I had the Cax80 for only about 2 or maybe a little over years, it really wasn't an "old" router by any standards, and for this migration to a dedicated router to be the thing to take it down, well, I didn't expect.
The other weird tip, I had to clone the MAC address of my desktop to the WAN port of the Asus router. Xfinity kept locking in the MAC within their cache and refusing any DHCP assignment. Oh yeah, that alone took me 2 hours to figure out, gosh darn it. Then I got it working briefly, rebooted devices, and boom, Netgear got stuck powering up and wouldn't factory reset. What a day, just, what a day. The only upside is still getting some work done over hotspot as the routers on my desktop were futsing around. Ugh.
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This is super hilarious because the reason I quit StackOverflow is because they sold my posts to an LLM company in countervention of the license, and then when I tried to remove my posts they banned me because they say deleting my own posts violates the license

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Attached: 1 image Stackoverflow bans LLMs: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/421831/1708801 I missed this but still important news.
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I'd like to share my #experimental #ambiant #avantgarde composition with you all. This is seriously a departure from my norm, but I was really inspired. You can read all about it in the description if you wish. #synthesis #synth #percussion #musicproduction
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Silence - Noise - Silence

As part of @sarah Belle Reid 's Learning Sound and Synthesis class, we have group discussions around “what is music” or “what is an instrument?” We were int...
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For an upcoming episode of our podcast #StroongeCast, @MoonCat and I want to know about things you say you'd *never* do, until circumstances dictate you just might have to, in order to survive.

I said I'd never eat dog food. The thought makes me feel sick honestly, but would I stick to that if that was literally all we had left?

Go wild with your suggestions, we'll try to readout as many as we can in the episode.

If you're new and haven't checked it out before, you can find us on all the regular podcasty-type places. Find some of them, plus our RSS feed here:
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Have words, sentences, or emojis that you have to type frequently on iOS, iPadOS, or macOS? Use Text Replacements, short snippets of text which are substituted with commonly used words, sentences, or emojis when typed, to improve your typing efficiency and reduce the number of keystrokes you regularly have to perform. #TipTuesday applevis.com/podcasts/speed-yo…

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In this episode, Dave Nason demonstrates how to create and use text replacements, short snippets of text which are substituted with frequently used words, sentences, or emojis when typed, on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.
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[Blog Post] Apple Previews New Accessibility Features Coming Later This Year: Accessibility Nutrition Labels, Magnifier for Mac, Braille Access Mode, and More applevis.com/blog/apple-previe…

Apple Previews New Accessibility Features Coming Later This Year: Accessibility Nutrition Labels, Magnifier for Mac, Braille Access Mode, and More | AppleVis

Ahead of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) Apple is offering a preview of accessibility features coming to its platforms later this year; including Accessibility Nutrition labels for App Store apps, Magnifier for Mac, Braille Access, and more…
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Great news! While Trump is busy dismantling the Library of Congress, the German National Library of Science and Technology (@tibhannover) is preparing for more to come: they've downloaded the entire 10 TB of the arXiv preprint server and safeguarded more than 2.6 million scientific articles. Thank you so much! This was especially needed since, last year, the arXiv decided to shut down its mirror network.

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Die Wissenschaft schützen: TIB baut Dark Archive für arXiv auf - TIB-Blog

Forschung und Wissenschaft sind international, nicht umsonst spricht man von internationalen Fachcommunities.
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#math #physics #arXiv #unplugtrump @TIB
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Ned Yeung

I have used the contact link in the email.

"You recently sent me an email announcing a new Liberal cabinet.

However, your link sent me to your X post, which is NOT a public post accessible publicly by the Canadians who would want to read it.

I, along with many other conscientious Canadians, have deleted our accounts off Twitter (mine was over 14 years old) or later X, because of the incredible data insecurity created by Musk, and hostile anti-humanitarian environment under Musk. It is incredibly irresponsible for our government to make public announcements on such a platform.

Regards,
Ned Yeung,
A Concerned Public Citizen of Canada"

Subject: Please do not send me links on X. Comments and Questions: You recently sent me an email announcing a new Liberal cabinet. However, your link sent me to your X post, which is NOT a public post accessible publicly by the Canadians who would want to read it. I, along with many other conscientious Canadians, have deleted our accounts off Twitter (mine was over 14 years old) or later X, because of the incredible data insecurity created by Musk, and hostile anti-humanitarian environment under Musk. It is incredibly irresponsible for our government to make public announcements on such a platform. Regards, Ned Yeung, A Concerned Public Citizen of Canada 598 of 600 max characters CAPTCHTA I'm not a robot Submit ->
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Just further proof than gop and Texas doesn't actually believe in free markets and deregulation.

> geekdom.social/users/Fantastic…

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Texas is trying to make solar power plants buy energy equal to their daytime output from coal power plants. It's almost like politicians are owned by #FossilFuel companies, or something. https://thehill.
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Deve ter ouvido umas verdades e sentiu-se mal. Ele é fraco, não lida bem com isso.
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André Ventura sente-se mal e é retirado de comício no Algarve

O líder do Chega foi retirado do local para o exterior do Parque das Feiras e Exposições de Tavira e está a ser assistido por elementos dos bombeiros de Tavira e por técnicos do INEM.
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FBI Warning on Messaging Apps
The FBI urges Americans to ditch SMS for encrypted apps—then demands backdoors via “responsible encryption.”

Big Tech resists.

Law enforcement wants access.

There’s another way:

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Mircea Kitsune

Be careful of anything those snakes say! No offense to actual snakes.

The FBI is scared they can no longer spy on and control people: They've been propagating horror stories about crimes (especially against children) being caused by the internet, to scare everyone into giving up even the right to have private and secure communications. As they don't get their way they're going to ramp up the fear campaign, knowing there's always a supply of people who will fall for it.

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LillyPip

Just so these dipshits know, I’m already feeling the cuts to Medicare/Medicaid staffing and services.

I live in the US and rely on Medicare because I’m fully disabled, to the point of being homebound.

Apparently the division that deals with remote visiting technology has been cut, so they can’t legally fill my prescriptions anymore unless I physically travel nearly an hour to their office every 3 months to remain eligible, and my doctor can’t legally renew medications that I’ve been on for 20 years. Within a couple of months I’ll have to stop taking all of my long term maintenance meds because I cannot travel to their office.

This will remove all my quality of life and will kill me slowly. I don’t want to die slowly of neglect, so I’ve got a decision to make, and I’m putting it off because I really don’t want to die yet.

I don’t know what to say except I have a name. I’m Lilly Piper. I’m a very good user experience designer, a pretty good writer, and decent friend.

We’re not faceless or nameless. I just want someone to remember that there are names behind these policies.

I’m good at sewing; I make period correct corsets from the 1800s and before (proof and more proof).

I’m actually great at sewing. I do embroidery and am a great listener. I’m also a good writer and editor. I didn’t need to die like this, but I won’t be homeless again, and I won’t beg in the streets for medicine. I just won’t.

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Amazon.com

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Manual testing with a screen reader will help you catch and fix accessibility issues that can't be identified by automated tests. Sara Soueidan has a great guide on various screen readers and how to set them up on your computer.

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Setting up a screen reader testing environment on your computer

— The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive Web UI engineer
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