• zurohki@aussie.zone
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    2 hours ago

    It’s not about the wifi, it’s the perception of wifi.

    These people get upset when they think there’s wifi, actual wifi is irrelevant. You can gut a router and fit the case with an AA battery and an LED and they’ll have ‘symptoms’ if they see it.

    Set up an access point to broadcast dozens of SSIDs so they see tons of wifi when they open the wifi screen on their phones.

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    3 hours ago

    You don’t use wifi cause you believe it gives you wifi cancer.
    I don’t use wifi cause a $6 ethernet cable gives me faster and more dependable internet.
    We are definitely not the same.

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    4 hours ago

    What if its reverse psychology. With your new router they’re gonna hog your wifi which now has good coverage all over their house

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    5 hours ago

    A few years back got some new neighbors. This is in rural TX, everybody has at least one acre of land. There is plenty of room to just fuck off and mind their own business.

    Anyway, new neighbor comes over and demands I quit using my smoker because it bothers his wife. We laugh him off the property lol.

    He calls the cops throwing a fit and eventually got his dumbass arrested for disorderly conduct.

    They moved away shortly thereafter, we still laugh about it around the neighborhood.

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      @[email protected] I don’t know what a smoker is, but I presume it… gives off smoke?

      If said wife is asthmatic I can imagine how it could bother her. Smoke does seriously affect people with lung diseases.

      Of course, that doesn’t give anyone the right to demand anything. But it may help understand where they’re coming from 🤷

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        4 hours ago

        It’s for smoking meat, but it does not put off an objectionable amount of smoke. There was no mention of asthma, (wouldn’t have made any difference mind you) I think they were just ridiculously entitled 🤣

        • Nora (She/Her)@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          It probably smelled too good and was making them hungry lmfao, but if it were me I would have said “Can I throw a couple bucks at you and have you smoke some extra for me next time you do this?”

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        2 hours ago

        Some people have smokers even in suburban homes. These guys had an acre of land between them. There’s no way a smoker would have produced enough smoke to bother her, especially if she just stayed inside.

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        (1) 1 acre is 4,047m^2. If it were a perfect square it would have a edge length of 64m (209ft). This means that the houses are separated by about that distance.

        (2) Asking a Texan to not smoke meat on their own property will get you laughted at regardless of context. Texas.

  • zip@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 hours ago

    I feel so bad for the poor kids in these situations. I so very loathe how many innocent children have to suffer - for at least nearly a couple decades straight - because their parents are awful and/or totally off their rocker. I’ve lived it myself and it’s so miserable and crazy-making!

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      I hate people like this because their son could really be sick with something, but they’ve decided it is the WiFi and they aren’t getting him the care he needs. Woowoo people I swear.

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      3 hours ago

      Maybe just in the child’s room then, also you might want to ground that Faraday cage if they have anything that could be transmitting WiFi or Bluetooth or even is just a large screen.

      Also it needs to be a fine mesh because for blocking 5GHz WiFi you want the hole size to be a 1/20 of the wavelength which comes out to >4mm.

      Or an even cheaper solution would be to get one of those large “pet” cages and run a wire straight into the earth hole of a power socket.

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        You theoretically don’t “need” to ground a faraday cage if you want to block RF. I would do it anyway though.

        You’re kinda right about the wavelength thing, but tinfoil would absolutely take care of it.

        Two layers if you’re cautious. Separated by some thin non conductive layer, except connected at one point. To the better faraday cage.

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    5 hours ago

    Everyone knows WiFi routers generate phlogiston which unbalances the 4 humors and causes brain clouds.

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      Stop your bullshit fear mongering. We all know phlogiston is perfectly safe. The real problem is that 5g draws in miasma from local cemeteries.

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        You might want to be careful calling people out like that: it’s not solved science.

        I can remember people confidently arguing (and citing sources) that phlogiston is the problem and the miasma theory is quackery. Seems like every year we learn something new and it goes back and forth. “Are eggs healthy or not?”, “Do crystals work via homeopathy or latent energies?”, “Lizard people or greys?” etc.

        Personally, I sidestep the issue and avoid both. I stick to things that have been settled as being healthy: like drinking massive quanties of colloidal silver.

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        I’ve been saying this for years. A properly balanced body should contain equal parts blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and cemetery dust. Anything else is a nutritional deficiency.

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        This is why it’s not economical to keep burying the dead in large fields like graveyards. All the pastureized miasma is not healthy! We need raw miasma like in the French catacombs. Why do you think they saw a renaissance?

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    At first I thought neighbor’s parents were just restricting their kid’s internet access and dude was being a bro.

    Even though it’s fake and gay, this is pretty dark.

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    6 hours ago

    Ask them what bandwidth range they claim he’s sensitive to. Show them the level of background electromagnetic energy there is in that range anywhere on Earth by default, if they can even provide an answer to that. Suggest they should leave Earth.

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      Suggest they should leave Earth.

      If I knew of a way off this rock, do you think I’d let them enjoy it LMAO