They need to switch to Webauthn. SMS-based 2FA should’ve been big 10+ years ago, not today. I don’t really understand why this old style 2FA has been just now becoming popular lately.

Are you sure you weren’t just pushing them toward transitioning? /s

Well the correct answer is February based on 02月 but I don’t know where -tember came from.

I really don’t understand how it’s just me though. One MultiSensor 7 completely fell off the network, requiring a factory reset. After factory resetting supposedly I’m supposed to tap the button to get a solid yellow for inclusion, but after two factory resets tapping it once is a solid green.

It really feels like this is just garbage, backward technology.

I didn’t realize that — kind of dumb it was US-only when the instance TLD is .world. 🤦‍♂️

I’m in an urban environment where I’m surrounded by people using crappy ISP-supplied routers set to broadcast 2.4 GHz at maximum power.

Personally I use a Ubiquiti U6-Pro with bandwidth steering to 5 GHz because the 2.4 GHz side is just trash (even with nightly channel optimization). I’d love to simply shut off 2.4 GHz but a lot of IoT insists on using it (god knows why).

As far as the Z-Wave controller, it’s an Aeotec 5th generation Z-Stick but no, I’m not using a USB extension. I’m in a tiny apartment with the Raspberry Pi 4 it’s plugged into in the middle of the apartment. I’ve only got four sensors using Z-Wave but it’s always been horribly unreliable.

For what it’s worth, about once per year the Philips hue lights just fall off and I end up factory resetting those too (I always mistakenly try to change the Zigbee channel when they’ve already disappeared).

I’ve got Philips hue lights that use Zigbee but I thought it also tried to hog 2.4 GHz spectrum; though I’m more open to it as of late considering my horrible luck with Z-Wave.

In high school while studying Katakana one of the coolest things was having a dream of walking around Tokyo and reading the Katakana everywhere.

I’m married to a Mexican but I enjoyed learning Spanish in school (in the Midwest); later in life after moving to Los Angeles I started using Spanish quite a bit.

If I can nudge you to try learning it, you might end up enjoying it. I’m crazy busy with work too but I’ve started learning Mandarin online with a tutor and after a bit of a learning curve, it’s deeply satisfying when things start to click.

Outside Lemmy I use Apple News and what I kind of hate about it is even while traveling abroad you’re stuck with US news. I have both English and Spanish languages set up on iOS so being in a Spanish-speaking country, it would be nice to see local news in either language.

I may just go the Aqara route, I gave Z-Wave a shot and wished it were better but I’m really burned out.

The thing I’ll miss is air temperature — I have electric space heaters that are dependent on that. Currently I have a handful of Aeotec MultiSensor 7 that handle that.

I prefer the original too. It’s like the macOS boot sound and Apple trying to get rid of it — it’s too much of a classic.

I like the “ransomware scumbag” language but at the same time, it feels like companies only give a shit about security after an incident.

Counterpoint: I rarely see non-US news posted. I do from time to time here on Lemmy, but it’s very rare.

I might just be in the wrong communities though.

What I hate is I love encrypting my flash drives but every OS prompts you to wipe the drive if it doesn’t recognize the encryption scheme of another. 👎

“poled” 😂😅

The problem is I need Unbound to send queries via one network interface (the VPN) while the specific zone needs to be routed through another.

I know what split tunneling is, but I have my routing set up exactly as I’d like.

The issue here is that Unbound seems unable to send queries to one forwarding zone using a specific interface/IP address and sending queries to a second forwarding zone using a completely different interface/IP address.

I’m almost at the point where I want to create a virtual interface that just has rules that say “if going to 192.168.143.1 use /dev/tailscale0” and then have a default route to /dev/wg0.

I’m not a professional but my current Tailscale + VPN setup has been extremely nice for the past year.

Not sure what the original point was but curiously I happened to use file on a an Apple .numbers file recently and found that it was a .zip file in disguise with zero compression.

So maybe the point was that it’s used often as a container format more often than it’s used for compression? Just my (unrelated) general computer work would also suggest this.