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Date : February 2021

Got a new WiFi mesh system to try.

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Published on: February 14, 2021

Well I returned the Deco, as that was a waste of my time, I am glad I got my money back, as it would have been a waste of my money. So I picked up a Eero to try out, there are a few kinks in the system still, but it is looking more promising.[…]

Well the new Deco devices came

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Published on: February 13, 2021

The new Deco WiFi mesh devices came, and they are having the EXACT same issue. And they don’t even let you try with a web interface you have to configure it with a stupid app. They were being too cleaver for their own good on this, and that probably part of the problem. I will[…]

Well the replacement Deco devices should be here today.

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Published on: February 13, 2021

Well as noted before the WiFi devices I bought before did not work, they just failed to work. I hope the new ones work. I will set them up with they come Amazon says they should get here between 4:30pm and 7:30pm (it is 2:45pm as I type this) I am hoping that these 2[…]

Well the Deco mesh devices did not work out.

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Published on: February 12, 2021

I set them up Wednesday it worked well, Wednesday, but yesterday afternoon they just stopped working I guess I will have to return them, Amazon going to send me new ones. I spent 4 hours on tech support yesterday with them trying to get them to work. Did factory reset of the devices, and they[…]

Games I am excited for this year so far.

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Published on: February 11, 2021

So this month a new Persona 5 game is coming out, Persona 5 Strikers, not much into action “hack and slash” games but I did enjoy Persona 5 enough that I would like to see where the store continues on too. After that there is the next installment in the Horizon Zero Dawn game, Forbidden[…]

Next move in my home network updates

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Published on: February 10, 2021

As I have been talking about in prior posts, I am moving things off of the router supplied by Verizon. I have moved the DHCP server off of it, I have moved the DNS caching server off of it, and am using a Pi-Hole DNS server, for add blocking and malware blocking at the DNS[…]

Info from my pastor about the Covid vaccines

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Published on: February 10, 2021

http://thesoberpeasant.blogspot.com/ Full blog post http://saint-athanasius.org/PastoralLetter-COVIDandVaccines.pdf A letter from my pastor about getting the Vaccines

SDF

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Published on: February 10, 2021

In my posts talking about the text based internet here is yet another. I been starting to go back and mess around on SDF.org. This is a free Unix shell that anyone can sign up for. It is a BBS style community. Remember BBSes? having some fun there. Find me there as mpop. It is[…]

IRC

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Published on: February 9, 2021

As noted in my last post, I am looking at Usenet, I am also going back to IRC, there seems to be some life still in IRC, on freenode, I found my old stomping grounds of wplug, that seems to be dead, but the Linux chat room still seems to be alive, and along with[…]

Usenet

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Published on: February 9, 2021

As I have left social media, and web based discussion boards. I have decided to go back and look at Usenet. For those of you who don’t remember or don’t know Usenet was the original place where online forums and discussions took place, and they still take place there. I also found this https://www.blocknews.net/ looks[…]

Why the US wants to ban vaping and the UK is encouraging it, follow the money

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Published on: February 8, 2021

Ever wonder why the US (well the dummyrats) want to ban vaping while the UK is encouraging smokers to switch to vaping. Well lets look at some facts. 1) The UK has nationalized health care (while I am not a fan of nationalized health care this is important to why the UK is doing what[…]

How did we go from 15 days to almost over 365 days.

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Published on: February 7, 2021

I went from flatten the curve, to till there a vaccine to a cure. The sad thing is people are so afraid of dieing they are to scared to live. People are so afraid of dieing they will give up their constitutional rights. Now the elites know all they have to say is “this is[…]

Made my first batch of vape juice today

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Published on: February 7, 2021

I made my first batch of Vape juice today, I have to wait till tomorrow to try it. But I am trying a Blue Raspberry flavor. Looking forward to trying it tomorrow. I got some PG that has 3mg/ml of nic in it, then I got some VG, I used 70ml of the PG and[…]

Why banning vaping product mailing will fail at the stated goal

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Published on: February 6, 2021

The dummyrats in DC think that banning business from mailing vaping products will “prevent teens” from getting vaping products. But they are foolish if they think that, it will just make it easier for teens to get them. Here is the reason. First UPS and FedEX NEVER will ask for signature, I have on UPS[…]

A problem with the subscription model of content consumption.

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Published on: February 6, 2021

People are all excited about subscription model for music/video/games. But they are over looking one major issue, and that is cost. Back when you got things physicaly you bought it once and you owned it, pay $15 for a CD and it yours permanently. Now you pay $12 something a month for a streaming services,[…]

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