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Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon
  • That‘s like my bank saying „Hey, use our new website, the old one will be phased out in 6 werks“.

    Me: „Ok, show me my bank statements“.

    Bank: „That‘s only possible on the old site“.

    Not a joke, sadly.

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    Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud - Home Assistant
  • Just did that. Most work was flashing the correct firmware onto the zigbee stick and now I have transferred almost all my Hue and Ikea lights. Except for those farthest way from the stick, they seem to be unable to join.

    If anyone got a hint how to join these without moving the lights (screwed to the ceiling) or the stick (integrated in my server cabinet), I’d be grateful.

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    Usually connect to Walmart's WiFi but they changed their policy I guess, won't be doing that now...
  • Yup. What are they gonna do that every other portscanning bad actor isn’t doing 24/7 already?

    Also, how would they distinguish between my private VPN and that of a commercial provider?

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    Usually connect to Walmart's WiFi but they changed their policy I guess, won't be doing that now...
  • Obviously the first ad links in google don’t work any more, which drives the wife crazy ;-) Also nowadays more and more websites complain about me using an adblocker.

    But technically, not really any problems at all.

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    How did you mess with school computers?
  • Modified every boot floppy disk to display „<teacher name> is stupid“ before the prompt.

    I still feel bad about that. Mr. E., if you are reading this, I‘m sorry, you were a great teacher and taught us well.

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