Clusterfck

The bottom line is and always will be in almost any industry some variation of “we already set up hardware that was developed solely to use this ancient thing that’s a standard. Once this new thing becomes industry standard, then we’ll switch.” With the big issue there being, the industry standard will never change until somebody makes the first change and nobody wants to risk the amount of money it would cost to switch.

Oopsie whoopsie!

Says the party that has been trying every way imaginable to make it harder for certain demographics to vote.

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Am I doing it right?

They used our taxes to pay back our taxes!

So switches are able to do a lot of interesting things.

Think about in a business, you want to have credit card machines, users computers, and maybe a security system and cameras. There have been so many news reports of how awful the cyber security of security cameras are that maybe you don’t want them to be on the same local network as the thing taking your customers payments. So, you could buy another router and switches and pay for a second internet service. But you know you don’t use all the bandwidth you currently have and you have extra ports on the switch. What if you could create a second local network? Have it on the same physical hardware but logically separate in the router and switch. Like a virtual local area network.

This is exactly what a VLAN can accomplish. Now though, you have to tell the switch what port is using what VLAN, so you build a GUI into it.

Some switches are also able to supply power to those cameras and the access points around your business, but that takes more electricity going into the switch, so you need to keep heat down, so slap a fan in there. Also, what happens if you want to power cycle a camera? Well, you could go find the cable and physically unplug it, or you could just reboot the whole switch, but hey, you already have a GUI for VLAN config, why not slap the ability to turn a port on and off in there too!

The same goes for a home network, maybe you have a few cheap smart lights that have a questionable level of security… they’re fun though! So instead of risking your whole network, slap them in a dedicated VLAN and now some sweaty neckbeard doesn’t get to know what Christmas present you bought for your one favorite coworker.

These are just a few examples of the top of my head. There’s plenty of other reasons for a GUI and fans.

Depending where the water goes, a truckload of dead fish isn’t the greatest for an ecosystem either.

Still better than bleach or something, but possibly not great.

So, the Kindle OS is really basic.

If you’re able to jailbreak, look at installing KUAL and KOReader and that should change your experience enough to not need an entire new OS.

Kindle Fire was the original name of Amazons Android tablets. They later became just “Fire Tablets” and dropped Kindle from the name.

You’re seeing a lot about flashing the Kindle Fire because they still come without Google apps installed and some users believe that makes them very hamstrung. A custom ROM like LineageOS makes it a “real” Android tablet.

I love Dashlane, someone tell me why it’s bad.

That’s only on Windows 11 Pro.

It’s some kind dumbass idea that AI won’t be trained with the comment now. Because you know, billion dollar companies ALWAYS follow the rules.

Dual booting Windows XP and Ubuntu 12.04 on my parents desktop.

I broke the boot loader so many times that my mom learned what GRUB was just so she was sure she could yell at me and it wasn’t just our ancient desktop finally dying.