I guess Facebag is not happy I have not been going to their site much latly

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Published on: February 15, 2021

Today I had an email from Facebag reminding me to check Facebag, and listing posts I have missed lately. LOL, not going to check it more, as I am very happy since I stopped reading Facebag and Twatter. Why would I want to reduce my happiness by going back and reading them like I use to. I just find it funny that they would email to remind me to check them. Ya I know they need all eye balls on their site to sell the the advertisers, but that not my problem, that their problem. I just don’t need the toxicity and hate that exist on social media.

I just have been enjoying my time away from social media to much.

Set up the Eero System last night

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Published on: February 15, 2021

With the new Eero system, it looks a lot better then the other one. I was able to set the access points to bridge mode with no real problem. It still has the need for a stupid app to configure them. But there a lot less in the app. I did have a minor snag last night with the system. At first my devices when they made a DHCP request over the access points they were not getting the response back, but it turned out on my main computer I had a process that ran away and was flooding my network with packages so when I turned that off everything worked as expect, only about an hour of total work on the system. I will have to see how it works out, will have to post an update in about a week on how they are working.

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. There are some oddities it is causing with my DHCP server, some devices are not getting the response from my DHCP server, others are. So I am going to work on it a bit more, but they are working as only a bridge and that is what I want from them, I don’t want a “smart” access point, I just want it to work as a “dumb” bridge, and I think I am getting that. And that they actually setup the first time is a big plus. I will post how it is working in a few days.

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 keep trying for 4 hours then I will go to return it. I left a 1 star review for this on Amazon.
I have setup them to be returned and going to get a refund. Now I just need to figure out a good devices for a WiFi mesh network.

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 will work out and not fail. If they fail, I will as for have to ask for store credit and buy different ones, but that will be a bit of a hassle.

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 asked me to remove the app off the phone and reinstall it (not like that would have any affect but what the hell) I will give a new set a try if they fail then I will just get a refund next time, but I am willing to give them a second chance. I was hoping that they would work but we will see with the replacements come.

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 West, I really enjoyed the first Horizon Zero dawn and really want to see where Alloy’s adventures take her next. After that there is the new Ratchet and Clank game, the one on the PS4 was entertaining so this one might be fun so I am looking forward to it. Then finally there is the next God of War game, well need I say much more then that, the last one was a great game.

They should be great games to play on my PS5.

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 level. The next step is to move the wifi access point off of the server. For this I am looking at setting up a wifi mesh network. So I bough a couple of mesh access points. The are suppose to get here today. After work I will work on setting them up, one in the computer room, and the other in the living room (some day if I feel the need I might add a third in the bedroom)

Now all the router from Verizon will do is route traffic from my internal network to the external network, All the cables plugged into it will be just 1 Ethernet to the eternal network to a Gigabit switch, that one will have go to the four zones of networking in my home. Not worried about that one cable being a bottle neck as it can handle 1Gbit, and my connection to the internet is 1Gbit so if I could saturate my connection to the external internet the cable from the router to my first switch can fully handle it. The second wire will be from the WAN port of the router to the Verizon terminal Node, the power, and finally the coax for the cable TV set top boxes. And all it will do is route traffic, the home network settings will no longer be on the router. So if I have to replace it (like Verizon made me do when I went from 100Mbits to 1Gbit) there will not be a rush by me to get the network settings in to the new router and dealing with down time. A new router all I will have to do is go in turn off the DHCP and WiFi, and then plug it into my network via the 1 network cable and things will continue on like normal.

This is the mesh network I am looking at to setup my home mesh network.

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 also where some one told be about the blocknews site.

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 that there is a vape chat room, been sitting in there for a bit.

Yes I am going back and starting to relive the text based internet. I know I have access to gopher and I should start looking to see if that is still alive.

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 like a very cheap option for some one that only does text based stuff, I will not be looking at the binary groups, not into that kind of stuff. But the text based stuff should be fun, and a small 10Gb block should last me a long time.

See you on the Usenet if you guys make it over there.

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 it is doing) So for smoking related illness the UK government has to pay for it. This costs them, I am not saying the UK cares about their people I am saying it costs them less if they can get smokers to vape instead of smoking.
2) The US does not have nationalized health care, so the government does not have to pay for smoking related illness.
3) The Federal government and about 48 states get money directly from the cigarette companies based on their profits. So if people switch away from tabacco to vaping, then the US government and state governments get less money.

So the US it costs them nothing when someone gets a smoking related illness and they loss money when people quit smoking for vaping.

So that why the US and US states want to ban vaping, as it costs them nothing when people get ill from cigarettes, but they make money when people buy cigarettes. While in the UK it costs them when people get sick from cigarettes. The issue is not about “kids vaping” as the dummyrats claim but about money, more money in the government pockets.

Sadly the republics are not clean in this area either but they are not as vocal, and there are some republicans that are not for banning vaping. I think Ted Cruz is vape friendly.

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 for your safety” and people will give up all of their rights.

‘They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.’ — Benjamin Franklin 1775

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 30ml of the VG, I am starting with only 5 drops of the flavoring right now, to see how it tastes, if it to weak I can add more. Figure I should start with weak flavor as I can add more if it to weak, as if I make it to strong I can not take flavoring out. I will post after I try it tomorrow.

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