So the guy won’t have to complain about downvotes.

Rule of thumb. If you refuse to use sarcasm or joke tags, don’t complain when people take what you write seriously. It’s a gamble you have to take.

Good point.

Chinese speaking people are pretty good at memes, so I wouldn’t mind that as long as its not just more Tankie memes like Hexbear used to spam.

And why would paving the entire green space not be worse than only paving the paths people walk on?

Everyone needs the /s. It’s simply text, there is no tone to judge your sarcasm by.

Did you know that correcting grammar mistakes does not make you a grammar nazi? If the guy was being condescending when providing the correction, then he is one. Simply giving the correct word to use in a simple and concise way is completely fine. Your over-reaction to his comment is the unreasonable one in this case.

Well, let’s hope the second part of you is right.

Would that change anything in a country where Trump is re-elected?

Only if you wanna piss off Edna.

Oh, then thats the same thing. I thought you meant the routers can be accessed remotely by ISPs for the first time setups. In my case, the technician is just more involved while they perform the router setup by asking the users what the SSID and password will be. I suppose it makes it easier for non-technical users who’d probably never change their WiFi password after the first setup. The account password is still left as the default one shown under the router, though.

Fortunately, I’d risk. Let’s be happy for the smallest of things.

You’re right, it’s a good thing in general, but bad for story telling purposes.

ISPs here just connect the router, call back to their operations center to set it up and go.

Do you mean the technicians don’t setup the WiFi SSID and password for the user and that the router setup are done through the operation centre instead of on-site?

LMAO, that would be an interesting story to tell. Unfortunately, for now, all of my neighbours are at least technologically proficient enough to put in a WiFi password, or at least not stupid enough to not let the ISP technician add it during installation.

That might not actually be a bad idea. Telling them their open WiFi is easily connected to from outside might finally push them to put in some form of network security. Shouldn’t be too hard unless you have a bad relationship with them.

I haven’t tested that, since the main point was for me to access my home network. I would assume it should look like I’m accessing Internet from home, but cannot confirm at the moment.

So don’t connect anything from the same manufacturer to wifi and check if any of your neighbour has an open WiFi network, then? I’ve checked my neighborhood and hasn’t seen any open networks just yet, so I’m lucky.

It does for my OpenVPN connection. My laptop was able to remote to my home PC over my mobile data. Not sure if it works differently from commercial VPNs.

Is there a reason to go for a dumb TV as opposed to just not connecting your smart TV to wifi?

What do you mean, is it not possible? I use VPN with USB tethering just fine. Is the same not true for wireless hotspot? I assumed they work similarly.

Well, I didn’t stay because I couldn’t figure it out unlike with Lemmy and my feed is still barely showing me anything new.