I’m currently stuck in a used bedroom infested with flies at the time of writing this.

My parents have decided to block internet whenever I try to move my PC back upstairs. Asking them wouldn’t work out because it usually falls on deaf ears.

A few days ago, they moved it without my knowledge, and I noticed that my folding table was gone from my bedroom.

I’m planning to set it back up again, but they might turn my internet off when they catch me. I’m trying to get a few ideas and create a plan to move my PC back upstairs.

I found a few tutorials on getting through parental controls, but the tutorials are done on Windows and parental controls are set up using TP-Link.

  • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
    312·
    1 year ago

    Wow. Just wow. I’m deliberately not replying to any single comment. I didn’t know this is such an emotionally charged topic. And I don’t like it.

    I know the relation to ‘race’ and that being the cause for people arguing about it a few years ago. But isn’t it a better term? If I want to block something with my firewall… I’m putting it on the blocklist (or deny-list). If I want to allow something… It’s on the allowlist. Forgive me, maybe I’m a nerd and I don’t care so much about the etymology. Why bring in (random) colors? Can I please use the term because I think it fits better?

    And the discussion immediately shifting to connector genders… Well. Yeah I get it, it’s a funny subject. And comparing something with protruding parts to a penis is funny. Also for me… But you people immediately having trouble with the terms, (rightfully) bringing in hermaphroditic connectors. And there being several disctinct/binary ones but with ambiguities so that it’s more convention than protruding bits in case of electronics… It just shows naming connector sides that way is a stupid idea. It get’s you most of the way but after that, it just confuses people and stops describing anything useful. I’m a bit unsure about this. Because it’s one of the few accepted penis jokes you can make at work or a conference (at least innuendo). And I don’t want to lose all of them. But it has never been a good ‘analogy’ in the sense that it is a good descriptive way to name connectors.