They’re probably paid trolls. Russia did it with every other social media platform, so it would be naive to think they didn’t do it here

It still doesn’t matter. Unless you specifically set up a separate network, everything will be in the same network.

Especially if you don’t statically assign your IPs.

Your stated use case doesn’t really require any special routing.

Because best practices for connecting an unsupported operating system to the Internet are to not do it.

Even if the OS is safe on the day support ends, a critical vulnerability might be found just a few days later. It’s also possible that an exploit has already been found that the bad actor is sitting on it until support ends.

Even if that doesn’t happen, software developers are going to drop support for the OS and vulnerabilities found in those applications could be used to gain ingress.

No amount of “being careful using the Internet” is going to prevent hacking if the system has exploits. If you context a fresh install of XP to the Internet, your system will be compromised in a matter of minutes.

All of mine are sequestered to their own vlan that can only talk to Home Assistant. But they do have ones that use matter now.

Not immediately, no, but saying you can safely continue using it if you follow Internet use best practices is flat out wrong.

I did have my roccat keyboard die on me after less than a year, but all I had to do was send them a picture of it with the cable cut and they sent me a be one.

It’s the smart part that goes obsolete.

Don’t give out infosec advice if you have no fucking clue what you’re talking about.

That’s about the only reason I’m still sticking with TP-LINK for switches.

Misinformation is too nice of a word.

Well yeah. Them starving is a feature, not a bug.

This is old news.

Direct Inward Dialing, or basically a VOIP phone number.

I know that’s not what they meant, but DID is already an established term in IT.

Hmm, I wonder if I can use this on my Synology to manage things until I get around to finishing my proxmox setup.

Didn’t they just start shipping grid size salt batteries too?

Exactly. 99.9999% of consumers don’t give a fuck as long as they can still access Facebook and TikTok.

I know what words mean. China is a socialist market economy, which is not socialism.

China is a socialist market economy, not a socialist economy.

You can’t have a stock market and be a socialist economy.

China is by no means a socialist country.

The French horn, from someone who knows how to play it well.