This coming down the line finally got me off of my incredibly lazy ass and forced me to switch a few months ago. It was easy, and I don’t know why I didn’t do it sooner.

The BPI-WIFI6 is currently half price and good value for what you get imo. Not sure on true performance yet as I need to rewire my house but it’s way more reliable than any of my other routers at least.

That would also explain why Aldi in the UK also has these while other stores don’t.

They did. Cheap and reliable

It’s fine, they’ll just suggest a new generation of baby boomers to get the population back up again.

Currently running a desktop on W11 on “unsupported hardware”. Even managed to get it onto a 15 year old machine running a first gen i7 920 and not even a hint of a TPM module as an experiment and it worked perfectly fine.

Also the same, but both ears. I think I’ve had it since I was about 10 after an ear infection and only relatively recently learned not everyone has stupidly high pitched ringing in their ears all the time.

I think you give them too much credit. From what I’ve seen, it’s just a setTimeout call for 5 seconds if you’re on Firefox, which is similar to what all those shady cookie popups from TrustArc do if you click “Reject all”.

I do this too, but it is addressed in the post and is a problem which has caught me out on occasion:

A surprising amount of forms simply disallow the + symbol and consider anything containing it to be an invalid email. Worse is when a form allows it, but the subsequent login form doesn’t and then you’re immediately locked out of an account you just created.

The hyphen idea is better, but I’m not sure whether that’s too much of a common symbol and would be too restrictive to disallow in a username for this service, and if it’s not disallowed then I wonder about the security implications that could cause.