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.

Oh, I know how bad it can be. On my cell network I constantly get online stores thinking I’m in a city 8 hours away.

But it can be accurate, and might have been enough in this case to get the result.

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.

Plus your IP can often get you a pretty approximate location.

I’m curious how they manage to confirm age without PII.

It’s a shame we can’t enjoy things like cocaine the way neurotypicals do. The last time I did cocaine I just tripled my high score in Snake while everyone else was partying.

Yeah, it was basically public works in the farming off season.

They said they don’t go great, as in there’s always going to be shitty things about it. Not that they never go well.

Because mine is actually based on facts?

Any surgery has the potential for complications, and vasectomies have a non-negligible risk of life long testicular pain.

And the reason DDG is garbage now is because Microsoft raised the price of bing calls.

You have me confused with someone else.

Well, he’s no longer in the country (he got married and moved), but I wouldn’t file a complaint because I gave him the go ahead to proceed. After he finished my first testicle he offered to stop and numb me up more, but I told him to just finish up.

Luckily my pain tolerance is stupid high so it wasn’t a huge deal, but his PA and nurse were visibly disturbed by it, lol.

Might as well attend protests while you’re looking. Might even be a networking opportunity if you’re friendly enough.

You guys got drugs before yours? My surgeon didn’t even believe that I wasn’t numb yet (I have a super high tolerance to anesthesia).

Vasectomy without anesthesia: -1/10

But, I basically did a speed run on the pain, because I didn’t even need ibuprofen for the recovery.

You’re the one spreading misinformation. While yours might have gone smoothly, it’s a medical procedure with real risks of complications, some of which are permanent, and not everyone has a good experience regardless the skills of their surgeon.