Good riddance to bad spyware.

No kidding. I’m going to sorely miss this setup if I ever move out.

Yes, they are local monopolies. They stay out of each other’s territory, like gangsters.

Since they’ve disabled pretty much everything except the password, I imagine they’ve disabled bridge mode as well…

I have fiber here in my apartment.

There is an optical network terminal with an Ethernet port on it. The optical network terminal does not appear to do any routing, just conversion of the signal between the electrical and optical interfaces. An ordinary PC can be plugged directly into it, use DHCP to get its IP address, and that’s it.

I was supplied a router by the ISP as well. It’s spent the better part of the last decade gathering dust in a drawer.

They’re copying your content, mashing it up with other content, and showing it to their customers, without ever sending their customers to your website. As a result, you don’t get paid and you don’t even get exposure.

If you think robots.txt is going to stop them, I’ve got a great deal for you on some ocean-front property in Colorado.

Meanwhile, I’ve been using Firefox for ages and have never experienced the problems these people keep complaining about.

There was a brief time when Chrome ran better than Firefox on an old 512MB laptop I had, but Chrome has since become an infamous RAM hog. Firefox is the lightweight one now, and has been for quite a few years.

I’ve only introduced LibreOffice to one person in recent memory, and her reaction was basically, “This is free?! I wish I knew about this years ago.”