Yeah yeah, I know what you're all thinking, "BUT LILIUM_SNOW, DIDN'T YOU RANT ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU HATED CELL PHONES SIX MONTHS AGO IN POST #06?!?!?!?", but hear me out. I spent serveral months without a cell phone, and for a while, it was fine. But not having a phone number was starting to get to me. I don't have a landline, nor can I get one at this point in time. I wanted to be able to make phone calls again, and be able to have a cell phone for two factor authentication and OTP 2FA for some of the online services that I use for extra security. Overall, not having a cell phone was pretty livable for some time, but it's not realistic in this day in age. As much as I HATE cell phones, I have to admit that having one is a necessity for most people at this point in time, unfortunately. I still value privacy and freedom very much, so no, I will not be using a shitty apple iphone like I did before. I have ordered a google pixel 6a, and will be rooting it to install an operating system that respects my privacy and freedom, such as CalyxOS or GrapheneOS. There is no way in hell I am using stock android with all of its stupid google dependencies and spyware. As much as I like to throw shade at google for their shitty business practices, i'll give them credit where it's due. As far as I can see, they make really good cell phones for rooting and modifying. Unfortunately, I'll still have to deal with inherently flawed cellular technlogy giving my cellular provider the ability to triangulate my location, but i'll probably keep my cell phone at home most of the time anyway. I'll be picking up the google pixel 6a soon, so stay tuned for more I guess.
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2022-11-18I hate ISP provided routers with a passion. They're always locked down, bloated, and always allow the ISP to remote into my fucking gateway. I know that this is mainly for remotely assisting with any issues a customer may encounter, or for remotely upgrading firmware on the router, as my ISP does. For most people, especially residential customers, this is a very good thing. But, as someone who knows more than her fair share of networking stuff, this has become an annoying pain to deal with. What makes this worse for me is that I don't have a static IP address at home, nor do I have an option to as a residential customer, so when my ISP decides to remote into my router, upgrade it's firmware, and reboot it, I get an entirely new WAN IP address, which is a pain in the ass, because since I host a web server from home, it means that I have to go into my registrar's DNS configuration and update my A record, which can be really annoying once you've had to do it enough (I know that you can use things like dynamic DNS to ease this issue, but my stupid ISP router doesn't support custom dynamic DNS providers, and I don't want to use any of the ones that are pre-selected for me in the web interface). Hell, I can't even close off the ports that are used for remoting into my gateway, since the firewall is very basic and only allows for custom allow inbound rules, not deny rules. As a network administrator at home, i'm just not okay with my ISP having remote access to my gateway, arguably one of the most crucial parts of my network. I'll be rectifying this issue soon enough though, so stay tuned.
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+ Yeah yeah, I know what you're all thinking, "BUT LILIUM_SNOW, DIDN'T YOU RANT ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU HATED CELL PHONES SIX MONTHS AGO IN POST #06?!?!?!?", but hear me out. I spent serveral months without a cell phone, and for a while, it was fine. But not having a phone number was starting to get to me. I don't have a landline, nor can I get one at this point in time. I wanted to be able to make phone calls again, and be able to have a cell phone for two factor authentication and OTP 2FA for some of the online services that I use for extra security. Overall, not having a cell phone was pretty livable for some time, but it's not realistic in this day in age. As much as I HATE cell phones, I have to admit that having one is a necessity for most people at this point in time, unfortunately. I still value privacy and freedom very much, so no, I will not be using a shitty apple iphone like I did before. I have ordered a google pixel 6a, and will be rooting it to install an operating system that respects my privacy and freedom, such as CalyxOS or GrapheneOS. There is no way in hell I am using stock android with all of its stupid google dependencies and spyware. As much as I like to throw shade at google for their shitty business practices, i'll give them credit where it's due. As far as I can see, they make really good cell phones for rooting and modifying. Unfortunately, I'll still have to deal with inherently flawed cellular technlogy giving my cellular provider the ability to triangulate my location, but i'll probably keep my cell phone at home most of the time anyway. I'll be picking up the google pixel 6a soon, so stay tuned for more I guess.
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