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    GhostRoadieBL reacted to Alex Atkin UK in Why is my old-ish HP printer using the most data on my network?!   
    I'd be more interested in what traffic its showing in general while idling, are you leaving it on 24/7?  Printers tend to broadcast several different uPNP services so will send out constant traffic over the network.  You may be able to turn those off in the WebUI (assuming it has one) but if you turn them all off Windows won't auto-detect the printer, you'd have to add it via IP address manually.  Though you can turn off all the ones for the OS you don't use.
     
    I'm not really sure how much traffic that works out to, but that's probably purely LAN traffic unless you enabled web services on the printer.  I do know their calling home can be janky though, last year for a while my printer kept rebooting until I blocked it from the Internet.  Guessing their web services were broken and the printer was failing to do sanity checking on the responses so just rebooted.
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    GhostRoadieBL got a reaction from LIGISTX in Why is my old-ish HP printer using the most data on my network?!   
    That's what I was thinking too, I was able to find another post on HP forums about the printer and pc pinging each other thousands of times a second when on wifi to imitate a usb connection (very janky way to do status checks)
    The solution was them uninstalling the HP software from the computers on the network since it was the cause of the non-stop status messaging.
    That's my next step if the usage hasn't changed tomorrow.
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    GhostRoadieBL got a reaction from DJ46 in Why is my old-ish HP printer using the most data on my network?!   
    first image is the past week's worth of network traffic. second is today's alone.
     
    It's multiple times more traffic than the rest of my network combined.
    The amount of uploading is the biggest concern since I only print a few times a month, there should be no or next to no traffic on this device.
     
    after seeing this, I've gone ahead and blocked all traffic to it through my router so it's currently LAN only and I'll be checking in on it in another week to see if the upload is still this high.
    Even the down traffic is excessive compared to the single (few kb) file I sent to it this week. It is on wifi but WTF HP?
    A hundred gigs a week is obscene.
     
    anyone have ideas on what this could be? I'm thinking it's calling home and updating the status thousands of times a day or is live telemetry of what the printer is doing but that would only be confirmed if the data throughput goes down now that I've blocked it from outside services.
     
    Very confusing how a printer uses more data than streaming videos most days.

    --------------------NEW UPDATE!------------------------------------------------------------
    blocking the printer from outside traffic did nothing to change the network traffic to and from the printer. This at least confirms the transfers were internal LAN traffic and not dumping data outside to the web. Removing HP software from all the computers did nothing to the traffic either. Now it's just a USB printer on a share and the traffic is fully cleaned up.
     
    Best guess is whenever the printer was on wifi, it would constantly status call each system on the network over and over thousands of times per cycle even when nothing was being printed and the systems were responding to the pings or status calls giving the printer a combined higher traffic than the individual systems.
    Very dumb rabbit hole to go down for the sake of reducing unnecessary network traffic. HP should really fix their old drivers to only status call once per minute or only when an outgoing data stream from a computer is sent, since there's spool up time anyway when the printer is idle, noone will notice a 30sec delay in a print job transfer anyway.
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    GhostRoadieBL got a reaction from filpo in Apple confirms 256GB of storage will be on their Vision Pro   
    From a monopolistic perspective of apple, this makes a lot of sense. AR headset for the 'want to look rich' posturers and industry professionals, the former who will have cloud everything making these a glorified iphone. The latter who want it for real work being tethered with real processing and storage or have a very specific use case like site previews or AR virtual workspace requirements where they have support hardware making these a replacement for $3k worth of ultrawide or multiple screens.
     
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    GhostRoadieBL reacted to powertoys in My Sponsor says Slower is… Better?   
    "good news: the m.2 slot is not soldered"
     
    Blows my mind that this is now considered "good news". It used to be "doing the basics".
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    GhostRoadieBL reacted to Forbidden Wafer in Zeiss Smart Glass puts undetectable cameras in glass windows   
    Based on patents from LG and Samsung, these will be used to watch you on your living room via TV panels. And probably elsewhere too. I say to prohibit the use of such a thing. Or don't blame people from emiting EM pulse to fry all electronics in range periodically.
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    GhostRoadieBL got a reaction from da na in Zeiss Smart Glass puts undetectable cameras in glass windows   
    Summary
     Zeiss announced their 'Multi-functional Smart Glass' tech, which claims to float "holographic" and AR content on transparent surfaces.
    Applications for this type of tech is extremely broad including vehicle heads up displays, control elements in smart homes, and (most troubling) transparent video cameras inside panes of glass.

    The tech was first announced in 2019, then announced it's move to automotive applications at IAA Mobility 2023, and Zeiss is now pushing the wider mass adoption of the tech.
     
    At the IAA Mobility event Zeiss displayed augmented reality HUDs for cars which seem to be becoming more common in newer vehicles displaying speed and navigation information.
     
    Quotes
     
    One more interesting use of the glass is a tech called holocam which uses coupling, decoupling and light guiding elements within the polymer film to divert light to concealed sensors. (translation: the polymer can redirect some of the light hitting the glass towards a sensor) This can be used for everything from gathering environmental data, directing sunlight to solar panels for power gathering windows, displaying floating touch elements for buttons and access points,  to reproducing an image by using an image sensor. However the IAA 2023 image reproduction demo was limited to monochrome as seen below.
     
     
    Zeiss has stated they are not looking to market finished products but act as a system provider to OEMs. (OPINION* likely to allow those OEMs to take on the legal and ethical choices of embedding invisible cameras into transparent objects and how they are going to be used)
     
    My thoughts
    HUDs - awesome! safer driving and essential info for the driver without taking their eyes off the road is usually a good idea.
    invisible cameras embedded into glass objects like mirrors, windows and even picture frame glass or shop windows is Minority Report scary for surveillance tech. There's already issues with AirBNBs having hidden cameras, what's stopping this tech from being added to a mirror? or into your smartphone to surveil your screen at all times? I'm classifying this as a pandora's box tech which should probably be put back on a shelf and not given to OEMs.
     
     
    Sources
    https://newatlas.com/technology/zeiss-multifunctional-smart-glass-ces-2024/
    https://www.zeiss.com/oem-solutions/products-solutions/multifunctional-smart-glass.html
    https://www.zeiss.com/corporate/en/about-zeiss/present/newsroom/press-releases/2019/multifunctional-smart-glass.html
    https://www.iaa-mobility.com/en/newsroom/news/future-technology/zeiss-hologram-technology
     
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    GhostRoadieBL got a reaction from dogwitch in T-Mobile US customers with "Netflix on US" to be downgraded to ad supported tier   
    This has to be the 1000th+ time I've read about a company changing the wording of a contract after a period of time.
    When will governments start enforcing the contracts can't be single party changed?
     
    Their new inability to provide service or their faulty business models are not my problem, if they can't make enough money from the subscriptions (which, based on the profits and c-suite bonusses, isn't even true) it's not my responsibility to pay more for less so they can pad their pockets. new sign-ups sure, make a new value proposal, but a contract was signed based on the state of the platform when it was signed, not some imaginary future position where they are paid more and you get a worse end of the deal.
     
    Hoist the colours, bleed their accounts until they learn to behave like adults.
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    GhostRoadieBL reacted to Kisai in Twitch updates sexual content policy   
    Rolled back 10 minutes ago:
    https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Sexual-Content-Policy-Update?language=en_US
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    GhostRoadieBL got a reaction from jtaylor991 in Is Online Piracy ever Justified? A Yemenis Perspective   
    just my 2c but if a publisher intends to no longer host content/remove content/change versions/stop manufacturing/selling purchasable copies of software,games,videos etc and doesn't provide the ability to 'buy a copy', there can be an argument for 'piracy' by the commonly used definition.
     
    Take some of the Atari or arcade games, how do you play any of these now when the vast majority are from companies which don't even exist anymore? Those companies no longer sell the games, no service or 'normal' method exists to obtain a copy even if you have the hardware/software to run them (except some on abandonware sites).
    Take the original Nintendo game library, Nintendo will never make a single penny from making obscure or third party games playable on the latest console. The company has made it very clear they have no interest in allowing players to continue playing games after Nintendo decides your paid for copy is no longer profitable for their company (ie Wii and WiiU digital stores). This is the clearest argument for piracy I have ever heard. Wait for Switch 2.0 to remove backwards compatibility and Nintendo shuts down cloud save servers. 

    Even the recent CS-GO to CS2 "update" is one of the most obvious oversteps from a gaming company. 'Sorry, you can't play that game you enjoy because we say so. We know the new one is buggy but sucks to be you' there is no way to play CS-GO even locally as a LAN party title. This is the same with many MMOs or multiplayer games over the years which just had servers shut off, sure you paid for a game and you have a copy but it doesn't matter without the online handshake to run.
     
    This is the same as Disney's "vault" artificially creating scarcity to push up prices for old content only to bring it back when there's a lull in the release schedule. This has been done for decades and will become more common on streaming services where the subscription you pay for can have any amount of the content removed without your consent. Imagine a company repossessing your DVD library because they don't want you watching it anymore (or don't want you to watch the version you want ie StarWars or Blade Runner or LOTR)
     
    If I pay for something, I own it. Taking it away without consent is theft by every definition.
    If I apply the same logic to pay for a service based specifically on the content provided by the service on the date I subscribed, taking that content away is same as repossessing a DVD collection and removes value from the service. Since I'm not allowed to pay less due to the service not providing the content I signed up for, the other option is get the content I paid for another way. If the service increased the value of their service by adding more content, I'm open to paying more, but this isn't the case with Netflix/Disney+/HBO and all the rest of them who are more than willing to continue to remove more than they add while charging more (without  consent from subscribers to approve the increased charges)

    Fix the company practices and you'll fix piracy, each of these companies profits are above most countries' GDP and yet they are the first to charge more. It's honestly getting to the point of piracy being justified as a form of protest against toxic business practices.
     
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    GhostRoadieBL reacted to ToboRobot in Is Online Piracy ever Justified? A Yemenis Perspective   
    I think an easy line to draw is it is wrong to steal (IP,software,content) and make profit selling the fruits of theft. 

     
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    GhostRoadieBL reacted to ItTakes2ToMango in Beer   
    I vote we drastically swap topics to beer immediately  
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    GhostRoadieBL reacted to Distinctly Average in Labs Transparency Thread   
    Maybe employ Steve so you can get it right 100% of the time like he does👹
     
    Seriously though, while I am sure the community appreciates the asking I am sure the team have more than enough experience and knowledge to get things right and to a high standard. Migh be worth looking at the likes of Which to see how they display the results of their testing.
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    GhostRoadieBL reacted to Blindsniper in What do we do now?   
    So I literally finally created a LTT account to tell you all.... To grow the fuck up and find something better to do.
     
    Stop judging these people who have worked their ass off in full view of the public because they made mistakes and comments they regretted. What would your actions and choices look like under such close examination people?
     
    Did I miss some sort of humanitarian tragedy that happened or something?
     
    Go outside. Read a book. Interact with strangers for once. Speak online like you would in person. Get the fuck over yourselves.
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    GhostRoadieBL reacted to NubCak in Cancel Your Floatplane Subscription. Don't Buy Their Merch.   
    And?

    Do you know how many Canadian companies are capable of making the parts?

    Tell me you know nothing about production without telling me you know nothing about how production works.

    Snap-on, jet, mac, etc all do the same thing.
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    GhostRoadieBL got a reaction from DrHax34 in Cancel Your Floatplane Subscription. Don't Buy Their Merch.   
    The vast majority of the mistakes were also missed by 99.999% of viewers and if it didn't actually effect the overall recommendation it doesn't really bother me. I'm comparing this type of unintentional mistake to intentionally misleading charts we all see from every single manufacturer when they release a product.
     
    People like you are vilifying a youtube channel for getting some charts wrong but praise another channel for cherry picking their mistakes.
    Who, let's not forget, uses single samples of pre-built computers to slam companies and often makes the same corrections to videos and charts as LMG does.
     
    If you watch GN's first video on this and then 'news' follow-up it becomes clear there is a preferred narrative focus on trying to take-down LMG (mostly) for their charts and information inaccuracies. That's the premise, "people shouldn't use LMG for information" and "LMG is directly misleading people" which implies that people's only source of information comes from LMG for them to be mislead. As if people are incapable of doing research or watching more than a single channel's content before spending on the newest gadget. It's insulting.
     
    Edit: as a point of reference, LTT main channel alone has 6500 videos. Their collective library must be over 10-12k when adding the rest of the channels and floatplane extras. So a few errors are going to happen.
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    GhostRoadieBL got a reaction from SomeRandomDude111 in Cancel Your Floatplane Subscription. Don't Buy Their Merch.   
    The vast majority of the mistakes were also missed by 99.999% of viewers and if it didn't actually effect the overall recommendation it doesn't really bother me. I'm comparing this type of unintentional mistake to intentionally misleading charts we all see from every single manufacturer when they release a product.
     
    People like you are vilifying a youtube channel for getting some charts wrong but praise another channel for cherry picking their mistakes.
    Who, let's not forget, uses single samples of pre-built computers to slam companies and often makes the same corrections to videos and charts as LMG does.
     
    If you watch GN's first video on this and then 'news' follow-up it becomes clear there is a preferred narrative focus on trying to take-down LMG (mostly) for their charts and information inaccuracies. That's the premise, "people shouldn't use LMG for information" and "LMG is directly misleading people" which implies that people's only source of information comes from LMG for them to be mislead. As if people are incapable of doing research or watching more than a single channel's content before spending on the newest gadget. It's insulting.
     
    Edit: as a point of reference, LTT main channel alone has 6500 videos. Their collective library must be over 10-12k when adding the rest of the channels and floatplane extras. So a few errors are going to happen.
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    GhostRoadieBL reacted to NubCak in Cancel Your Floatplane Subscription. Don't Buy Their Merch.   
    My issue with Steve's take is that he FULL WELL KNEW that was the case, and tried to portray as Asus being purposely sinister about it.

    This has been the case with Asus's bios since whenever. 

    It's blowing up a typically work flow routine because the wording offends him and he chooses to make a video calling them evil and disingenuous.

     
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    GhostRoadieBL reacted to Hezkezl in Cancel Your Floatplane Subscription. Don't Buy Their Merch.   
    It's not just one or two times "out of thousands" that they've made errors. It's been increasing in larger and larger amounts as time goes on, and some of the errors weren't noticed by anybody on staff (as there's been no asterisk note correction) until Steve found it while going through videos gathering data for his argument. If it wasn't a problem that needed addressing, they wouldn't have put a stop to video releases and done the whole "here's what we're going to do to fix the problem" video that released earlier.
     
    GN was right, and there's nothing scapegoat-ish about it. You interpreting his video as "well LMG is the ONLY source of information!" is just...so mind bogglingly wrong that I wonder how you came to that conclusion in the first place.
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    GhostRoadieBL got a reaction from DarkharIequin in Cancel Your Floatplane Subscription. Don't Buy Their Merch.   
    Being a human myself, I actually sympathize with the position LMG has been put in. Any chance I'd stop watching daily? Nope. Any chance I'd stop buying 'merch'? considering the clothes and water bottles I have purchased are leagues better than what I can get locally for 3x the price, I guess I'm just a sucker for quality.
     
    The whole GN calling out a handful of times LMG has made errors out of thousands of videos thing rings hollow for me as a fan of both channels. That type of thing is possible on any channel including GN. Does that change my opinion of either channels' overall content accuracy and quality? Nope, and GN attempting to set the precedent of LMG being the sole information source, while being in the same industry, is manipulative and caused me to lose more respect for GN than I expected.
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    GhostRoadieBL got a reaction from Clasmir in Cancel Your Floatplane Subscription. Don't Buy Their Merch.   
    Being a human myself, I actually sympathize with the position LMG has been put in. Any chance I'd stop watching daily? Nope. Any chance I'd stop buying 'merch'? considering the clothes and water bottles I have purchased are leagues better than what I can get locally for 3x the price, I guess I'm just a sucker for quality.
     
    The whole GN calling out a handful of times LMG has made errors out of thousands of videos thing rings hollow for me as a fan of both channels. That type of thing is possible on any channel including GN. Does that change my opinion of either channels' overall content accuracy and quality? Nope, and GN attempting to set the precedent of LMG being the sole information source, while being in the same industry, is manipulative and caused me to lose more respect for GN than I expected.
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    GhostRoadieBL got a reaction from MrWhitby in Cancel Your Floatplane Subscription. Don't Buy Their Merch.   
    Being a human myself, I actually sympathize with the position LMG has been put in. Any chance I'd stop watching daily? Nope. Any chance I'd stop buying 'merch'? considering the clothes and water bottles I have purchased are leagues better than what I can get locally for 3x the price, I guess I'm just a sucker for quality.
     
    The whole GN calling out a handful of times LMG has made errors out of thousands of videos thing rings hollow for me as a fan of both channels. That type of thing is possible on any channel including GN. Does that change my opinion of either channels' overall content accuracy and quality? Nope, and GN attempting to set the precedent of LMG being the sole information source, while being in the same industry, is manipulative and caused me to lose more respect for GN than I expected.
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    GhostRoadieBL got a reaction from grethro in Cancel Your Floatplane Subscription. Don't Buy Their Merch.   
    Being a human myself, I actually sympathize with the position LMG has been put in. Any chance I'd stop watching daily? Nope. Any chance I'd stop buying 'merch'? considering the clothes and water bottles I have purchased are leagues better than what I can get locally for 3x the price, I guess I'm just a sucker for quality.
     
    The whole GN calling out a handful of times LMG has made errors out of thousands of videos thing rings hollow for me as a fan of both channels. That type of thing is possible on any channel including GN. Does that change my opinion of either channels' overall content accuracy and quality? Nope, and GN attempting to set the precedent of LMG being the sole information source, while being in the same industry, is manipulative and caused me to lose more respect for GN than I expected.
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    GhostRoadieBL got a reaction from BakerT in Cancel Your Floatplane Subscription. Don't Buy Their Merch.   
    Being a human myself, I actually sympathize with the position LMG has been put in. Any chance I'd stop watching daily? Nope. Any chance I'd stop buying 'merch'? considering the clothes and water bottles I have purchased are leagues better than what I can get locally for 3x the price, I guess I'm just a sucker for quality.
     
    The whole GN calling out a handful of times LMG has made errors out of thousands of videos thing rings hollow for me as a fan of both channels. That type of thing is possible on any channel including GN. Does that change my opinion of either channels' overall content accuracy and quality? Nope, and GN attempting to set the precedent of LMG being the sole information source, while being in the same industry, is manipulative and caused me to lose more respect for GN than I expected.
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    GhostRoadieBL got a reaction from charliebros in Madison reveals experiences working at LMG   
    Having watched the job listings for years (more out of curiosity than job hunting), there is a very very small amount of turnover for such a high paced pressured company.
    Average turnover for tech and media companies is 12.9% annually yet LMG seems to be stable and growing. There must be something about working there which keeps people there and even when employees leave it's quiet and rarely heard about.
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