• auzy1@lemmy.world
    2·
    14 hours ago

    Power cycling…

    We definitely had customers who “reset” their router. They definitely didn’t fix their Internet (especially when it was pppoe)

  • lime!@feddit.nu
    25·
    1 day ago

    i will never understand why they took the text from kung fury and replaced the guy. like, this is just “some guy” to me, while this

    just screams “this man only fucks computers”

      • lime!@feddit.nu
        1·
        1 day ago

        i don’t know who that is, i boycotted the show because of their shitty advertisement practices

        • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
          3·
          8 hours ago

          Mr Robot is genuinely one of the best TV shows of all time. Right up there with The Sopranos in my opinion.

        • imjustmsk@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          16 hours ago

          What shitty advertisment practices did it had? I wasn’t around when it aired but I finished the show recently and Its great.

        • BillyCrystalMeth@slrpnk.net
          121·
          1 day ago

          It’s the actor Rami Malek, he plays the main character in Mr. Robot, and he’s a hacker. The show revolves around that. The show has a dark tone, so the joke is having him as hackerman.

          The show is good, I highly recommend it.

          • lime!@feddit.nu
            2·
            21 hours ago

            they had a whole series of ads disguised as actual malware and ads for other things. they partnered with amazon to add capabilities to alexa without disclosing it to users, and they partnered with mozilla to push out firefox extensions through a back-channel making people think they’d been infected.

            • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              6 hours ago

              More bummed that firefox went along with it. That was when i stopped trusting them

              • lime!@feddit.nu
                1·
                6 hours ago

                from what i understood it wasn’t that they went along as much as it was one guy with access bypassing the trust chains for the sake of marketing. …which is even more reason to not trust them, obviously.

              • lime!@feddit.nu
                5·
                15 hours ago

                firefox has this thing called surveys, which can install and run in-browser extensions. it’s meant for a/b testing, and very tightly controlled as to not blow the trust of the users. basically the entire corp needs to sign off on a survey.

                …but then the mr robot showrunners knew some c-level at mozilla and he pushed their code out without telling anyone. he bypassed all the security routines. and the extension had no mr robot branding on it, just some spyware name from the show, meaning that everyone suddenly had an extra extension named something like “spyglass” and moz support couldn’t answer why because they weren’t told.

    • 4am@lemmy.zip
      4·
      1 day ago

      Also there is no way that either of these things are old enough to be on Antiques Meme Show…oh….oh Jesus 👴🏻

      • jaycifer@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        1 day ago

        I hate to tell you, but I saved this image in November of 2016. It’s at least a decade old.

  • Syndication@lemmy.today
    2·
    1 day ago

    My Internet only goes out when my ISP is doing maintenance or is genuinely down. I wish it was possible to do some hacker magic and have it back up and working, but alas, sometimes there’s nothing you can do except just wait.

      • Syndication@lemmy.today
        2·
        22 hours ago

        Heh, I still do in the small hope that it’s just on my end! I usually get a text on my phone if it’s down for maintenance though.

        I was just saying that when I reset my router, it doesn’t fix the problem. It’s crappy comcast.

  • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    I have my router on a schedule to reboot itself every Monday at 3 AM, a time when I shouldn’t be up and about. I can’t remember the last time I felt the need to reboot it ever since doing this.

    Highly recommend to anyone else!

  • SuDmit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    21·
    1 day ago

    I quite suspect that resetting router wouldn’t fix wifi for me. Rebooting though… Sometimes probably.