Flying Dutchman is proud

I don’t have anything with VGA anymore unfortunately

I know this is old man yelling at cloud rage bait, but no, I do not have hope for them. maybe for some of the older gen z, but kids in the last 10 years, unless they have amazing, tech literate parents, hell no, they’re screwed.

I wish i could have started then! I’m not really interested in modern coding, it doesn’t seem as interesting…I kind of want to read the whole c64 manual and try programming on it, but I guess there isn’t much point to that nowadays

That must be it. I’ll need an external temp sensor then, as per the manual for this model. Nbd. Still annoying how 40 years ago they had it figured out better than now! Tech goes backwards, ha

I told em nope I’m keeping my phone. My imei said my phone works fine with at&t. Then I’ll get an ebay pixel later.

Awesome. Makes me wanna get a unlocked pixel now!! But I wanna get a little more use out of this s23 and I have everything on it

I posted the full model earlier,

Yes, the motor just burned up in it last week.

So the entire HVAC system was replaced, furnace and heat pump.

Yeah the heat pump was a 1987 trane and the furnace a 1990 trane. Heat pump died so decided to replace it all.

Yeah, I’m hoping this Honeywell works without internet, if I am forced to use it I guess I will have to limit it’s connection and block everything it uses except the weather.

It just drives me nuts the techs don’t know anything about how it actually works, and they just want you to hook it to your internet…I at least have it on an isolated vlan now

Right, I think heat pumps stop around 40f usually. But how did my system from 1987 do this by itself and now in 2026 it was to rely on WiFi? I dont buy it.

Model of full system: Multi 37MUHA Heat Pump 3 Ton + Carrier Performance 59TP7A Furnace 80,000 BTU

T stat is an elitepro s1200

Also thank you for your help :) I’m just annoyed with all this. I just want a system that works. I don’t use “smart” products in my home.

I can get the model later,

The problem is I can’t really test it. I don’t know if its going to run the heat pump and furnace at the right temps. The techs tried to tell me it uses WiFi for outdoor temp or the heat pump won’t work. That is absolutely stupid if so. I have tons of wires to my t stat too so it’s not like there isn’t enough.

Quake on dreamcast, 1 analog stick. Very disorienting now

Yes, exactly what I said!

Use a custom DNS, don’t use yhr big 3 corpo sites, youll have a great time.

The other thing, get more tech literate friends. My dumb friends are annoying the hell out of me with how ignorant and unwilling to learn they are.

I mean I gave up on web 3.0, bloated to hell web pages and telemetry shit. Stick on the small web and fediverse much as you can. Its still fun but it’s like music, you have to look hard to find good things now because its not right out there in front of you because there’s too much of it.

Instead of giving up, keep learning so you can explain and help the non tech illiterate how to run their own servers and docker containers etc etc for when every application requires a brain chip supplied by musky to log in. A lot of the normies are lost right now at how all this works and no one is explaining it to them. Now, 98% won’t listen to you, but you can try

They do have DNS for ad blocking and such too. I only found it yesterday. Not sure how good it is compared to nextdns

So mad at retro tink for this…

i’m excited! maybe i’ll get rid of my s23 this summer. i hate it.

yeah but the installers won’t install those and void your warranty. Fucking bullshit nowadays man.

Anyway, i’m not going to connect it.

can i use mullvads dns to block all that?