My Linux box seems to have audio issues, weird things that sound like since kind of gated compression that I can’t quite figure out. Will this help?

Personally, I think the dumbest person would be the one that took the time to be snarky about a comment someone wrote about a screenshot of something dumb.

Made harder by brightness being perceived non - linearly. We can detect a change in brightness much easier in a dark area than a light- if the RGB value is 10%, and shifts to 15%, we’ll notice it. But if it’s 80% and shifts to 85%, we probably won’t.

You won’t be running an additional router. If the WAP you use has a router function, disable it. Searching the openWRT docs for ‘dumb AP’ should put you in the right direction.

See my comment below.

I’ll preface this with stating that I only know enough about radio frequency transmission to know that I barely know anything. As far as I’m concerned, it’s black magic, and the more I learn about it, the more I’m convinced the world isn’t real.

To answer your question, it might will work, but I doubt it doubt it will be a good value option. WiFi 6 uses Multiple User Multiple In Multiple Out, MU-MIMO which basically means the signals from each antenna don’t just get added together. Crazy algorithms manipulate the signal to give better reception based on how the other antennas are acting, so the radio waves interact with each other. If the antennas aren’t close enough to interact, these algorithms won’t be optimal.

Also, the cost of running good quality RF cable, finding an appropriate antenna, and terminating cable ends can add up, especially compared to how cheap cat5 cable is, and how easily you can get simple access points. OpenWRT makes it easy to create a mesh network with an additional WAP.

TL,DR: keep the antennas on the device. If your signal ends up being not as good as you want, go get a cheap second hand wireless access point, either wifi 5 or 6, and run some network cable.

Wait until you get some Thai friends… 555555!

Long standby shift at a hotel (think Hilton style). My employer (not the hotel) had a storage room that was just an old hotel room with all the fittings taken out- No bed or couch, just storage racks. I got super bored, took a nap in the old bathtub.

The staff bathroom of an abandoned diner on top of a mountain in Japan. I was cycle touring, didn’t want to put up the tent if I could just go inside. The big windows and proximity to the road meant I didn’t want to be using a flashlight inside, so I went into the staff bathroom, no windows. Also no toilets or anything, just a bare tiled room. Weird place to sleep, but I went into the main area to make breakfast, it was an amazing view. Bonus for not getting the tent wet.

Oh, yeah, I understand now, thanks. That thing is UI/X design gone too far.

I’m a noob, so check in with the Discord, but it sounds like that’s a good use case for a router. Especially if you can connect it to the public MQTT server, which allows some communication between seperate meshes, and adds the location to the mesh map. Take note, this is sharing your home location with the world.

Router mode does make a big difference. It’s best not to do that, unless you are sure you are the only one on that frequency within range, and you have an excellent antenna position. It’s kind of meant for dedicated setups on mountaintops.

To deploy an effective repeater, just leave it in client mode- clients pass on messages without risk of saturating the mesh.

It starts with understanding what you’re spending money on. You can’t control what you don’t measure. Get some idea of what you are buying, be aware of the cost of things.

Even if you don’t set down a full budget, you want to be able to go to the grocery store, say ‘x dollars is all I need to spend’ and then come out having spent less than that. If you don’t know how much you spend on an average shop, that won’t ever happen.

Second to this is any purchase that is a ‘want’ above ‘y’ dollarydos, sleep on it. Steam sale? Put what you want in your cart. Is it more than twenty bucks? Ok, no problem, I’ll buy it tomorrow. Half the time you wake up and forget you ever wanted it. Sweet, money saved. Nice pair of shoes at the shop? Cool, I’ll come back tomorrow and try them on. Gives you a chance to find it elsewhere, cheaper.

Normally I’d link MapsWithoutTasmania but this threw me for a loop.

I haven’t daily driven OSX for a few years now, but I still miss it every time I use a control panel on any other system. It’s so functional, intuitive, logical, consistent, and not a pile of dogshit to look at. If I want to change my IP address, I go to network, ethernet, IP address. If it’s greyed out, there is a lock icon right there. I click it, put in admin details, and then I can change the IP. All in the same window, in a consistent, logical flow.

I don’t think I understand what you mean with the right click menu. Do you mean when right clicking, the menu that appears with things you can do there? Like right clicking a file, and being able to rename, or open with a different program, etc? Right click the desktop and get an option to change the desktop background? What’s the problem there?

It’s because the gui is designed to be navigated with the mouse. The idea that someone would use the mouse to select a file then use the enter key just didn’t cross anyone’s mind. If someone is using the keyboard in a GUI navigation, it’s probably for text entry- such as search, or renaming a file.

I’m firmly in both camps. Window snapping is much more flexible on a single monitor- I can’t really do quarters on a side-by-side setup, but I can on an ultrawide. However, I love having a second monitor in portrait.

Until they make T shaped displays that I can mount sideways, to get the best of both worlds, I guess my best option is a single massive screen, where I only use a thin strip of one half.

If comfortable with noise was also charted, Japan would top that list as well.

I’ve never experienced such auditory and visual assault as I have there. The busy visitor centre for a national park had a door that chimed when it opened, a little doodad that sung a tinny electronic song every thirty seconds, two televisions with different audio tracks playing about the various peaceful natural wonders you’re about to experience, a vending machine that had a little ditty it would chirp out, the toilet spoke to you, saying what I can only assume to be was “Hello! Thank you for choosing me to take care of you today! I hope you had a good shit! Have a good day!”.

Is data on when I turn the oven on, and how long I run it for, even worthwhile? Or do you think it’s sniffing out other info from my network?

There is usually free tier packages available on the big cloud providers. You’ll get pretty limited resources, but you will get a static IP, and the ability to run a tunnel. There will be a couple extra steps, but nothing major. You’ll likely have the ability to run a couple services from there as well- maybe something to kick-start your home server if it falls over for whatever reason, or even your URL shortener.