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I continue to use GamePass because you can download the games to your console, but if/when they go fully cloud-only, I’m out. That will be the death knell for mainstream consoles for me. I’ll stick to my Steam Deck and modded classic consoles.

Go back to old consoles like I’ve been doing. I’m in the process of modding a PS2, and I’ve got a 3DS that is on Pretendo Network and has a fuckload of games installed on an SD card.

Edit: forgot to mention that I also recently threw my old BD burner into an external case. So now I can archive stuff to DVD like we did back in the day. I’ve been really leaning into reviving old tech.

Having the guest WiFi off the VPN is smart. I hadn’t thought of that.

I’ll be honest, I only just learned about MLO. Basically what I know is that it automatically switches bands based on needs, and iirc it can use multiple at once. I’ve found that our WiFi speeds on all devices have been faster, and devices that support WiFi 6 and 7 are super fast. I still run the standard 2.4 and 5ghz to swap over to, but the additional MLO SSID has been fun to experiment with. No specific use cases. Just have a lot of streaming and gaming devices that need the bandwidth.

I used to run a WRT54G back in the day with the hacked firmware on it, and this new router feels like a modern throwback to that. I love having control again. I’ve got a bunch of devices using the MLO WiFi feature and it’s stupid fast.

What VPN do you use? I have Mullvad configured on it, but some websites don’t like it, so I have to be careful with it blocking important stuff on work computers.

I just got rid of an eero router from my home and switched to a glinet Flint 3e. No more cloud connectivity and AWS connections, plus this new router is like 100x faster. The Ring doorbell camera is next. I’m stripping my home of any and all of this spyware dog shit.

I can’t remember exactly what I did but enabling autovacuum was one of the big ones. I’ll try to provide some info below:

Walks through VACUUM and autovacuum - https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-01-25-use-vacuum-analyze-postgresql/view

How to see if autovacuum is already enabled (these are commands you’d run while in sql):

SHOW autovacuum;

View current settings:

SELECT name, setting FROM pg_settings WHERE name LIKE '%autovacuum%';

Monitor which tables need attention:

SELECT schemaname, relname, n_dead_tup, n_live_tup 
FROM pg_stat_user_tables 
WHERE n_dead_tup > 1000 
ORDER BY n_dead_tup DESC;

I wish I had documented it at the time because info about this for Lemmy specifically is pretty lacking. I was in kind of a dire situation though because my disk space had filled up quickly and my system was struggling. A lot of what I did was basic PostgreSQL maintenance stuff, so you should be able to find some general guides for that.

EDIT: I had Claude help me corral some optimization stuff into a PDF. This is along the lines of what I did to get my db back under control. Make sure to always backup first! https://u.orca.casa/1771250081

My SONOS soundbar has a vocal boost option. Works well enough most of the time but it really depends on the original mastering of the film’s audio.

Mlemtop

I just saw that the 1989 Tom Hanks film The ‘Burbs was made into a TV series and I facepalmed so hard. Hollywood is devoid of originality now.

This also seems weird, since on one hand there's indication for a professional, targeted attack, and other points sound more like rookie script kiddies.

After watching a handful of videos about scam and hack houses in India, this isn’t far off. A hodge podge of knowledge they’ve garnered over the years, cobbled together with scripts they’ve picked up.

Explain to me what the troll is here. I read the entire post. Seems like someone got access to one thing and then tried their hand at others. Easy to do when your first point of access (the router) is setup poorly.

I saw this happen years ago with a collocated Apache web server that the company failed to update Plesk on. Find one doorway and things fall like dominoes. We found hacks that weaved all the way into individual websites.

Who are you helping with this naive reply?