That’s called insurance, and it’s law to have it

You’re being pretty stubborn about your positions but you’re misinformed/ignorant.

There are SO many Wi-Fi access points that aren’t routers, but a combo router is what most home users buy or get from their ISP. So that’s what you think is “most” when in reality the consumer market is dwarfed by commercial.

TP-Link has Omada which is not as enterprise as CISCO but it definitely supports small and medium sized businesses, which are at the greatest risk to vulnerabilities due to low IT department skills.

I agree that it’s more efficient to reduce the amount of new waste from entering waterways than to remove what’s already there, but at this point we need to do both.

Getting it out of the oceans is just more expensive, ton for ton.

Until ads are responsible and don’t carry risks of injecting malware and trackers, I will block them without prejudice.

Even back in the day they would try to hijack your browser, redirect you to some random page, destroy ability of your back button to take you out, and throw up a ton of popups.

I don’t think blocking them is an asshole move until ads are served responsibly, without threatening my security or privacy. When, and if, that day ever arrives I will stop blocking them because I understand that most sites subsist solely off ad revenue, at least in this current Internet model we live with.

Put a battery operated water alarm in the pan your hot water sits in and change the batteries when you change out your smoke alarm batteries (whenever there is a clock change). TRUST ME DO THIS

… Wut?

Not who you’re replying to, but I carry a good flashlight for use when it’s light, not when it’s dark.

Dropping something small on the carpet or a floor in a lit room can still be super hard to find, but take a bright beam and shine it sideways and you’ll catch the shadow immediately (just an example)

It’s crazy how much I use it. Super underrated tool.

I make my own and hate store bought. That’s not the point.

“Hummus SHOULD be like this and NOT like that.”

Cool if you like traditional or if that’s your preference or whatever… But people can put olive oil or peppers or beans or whatever they want.

Never seen so much hummus gatekeeping in my life.

Relax bud

You don’t NEED tap to pay. I literally never use it, ever, unless I have a card with a bad chip (happened once).

Forgetting your wallet like a dummy doesn’t mean you NEED tap to pay, it means you need to remember to bring your wallet.

Also, there is nothing you NEED the Costco app for, an org like that can’t lock things behind an app to function because their customer base is too broad, they will inevitably have old people with T9 Nokia bricks still. It might have been the most convenient way to achieve it, but it’s not a requirement - even if that particular sales associate didn’t know how and would have to phone a friend.

All that to say I’m not trying to convince you to use gOS; I fully recognize that security is on one end of the spectrum from convenience, and we all choose where we want to be on that spectrum. But I felt the need to counter your claims… Nobody NEEDS tap to pay smh. If you care about privacy at all you wouldn’t be linking cards to apple or Google, adding yet another layer of giant data collection to some of your most intimate data.

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