normonator

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Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet

I plugged into ethernet (as wifi w/captive portal does not work for me). I think clearnet worked but I have no interest in that. Egress Tor traffic was blocked and so was VPN. I’m not interested in editing all my scripts and configs to use clearnet, so the library’s internet is useless to me (unless I bother to try a tor...

normonator ,

You can use it but on their terms. Your privacy doesnt mean anything to them, they are protecting themselves. Captive portal is likely making you agree to not abuse the service.

Also you're choosing not to participate which is fair but they don't need to support that.

normonator ,

Their terms require a phone so yes, on their terms. Why would they make an exception for anyone?

Their captive portal requires wifi and thats all that matters. And why would they want to deal with paper agreements for WiFi?

You don't have to be a member to use WiFi, someone else could have given you the password if there even is one, so ya even if you did agree when signing up it would make sense to still require that.

I implement these kind of setups including a couple libraries and while I would have Ethernet ports available if within budget, I would not allow you to bypass captive portal, the agreement, or traffic filtering. I don't care what you are doing but I am required to try not to allow easy access to questionable content. If someone is doing something illegal it's gonna involve the library if you get caught (that's why the phone number but maybe they are just being shitty with it). Not worth the risk. Also a lot of those decisions are made by a board so being upset with the staff won't accomplish anything. Wifi is cheap, pulling cable can be very costly in comparison and depending on building type can be hard, damaging or, not feasible. Those ports could also be broken because people don't respect shit, that could also be the reason for their reaction.

This is all I got for you, good luck but if you want your privacy you're likely going to have to go somewhere else.

normonator ,

Play protect is fucking trash but it's something I guess

normonator ,

Well it used to be able to launch the assistant but they removed the only useful function it had.

normonator ,

For multi device jellyfin or Plex(which is terrible now compared to before) is way better, sure you can make Kodi do it but it’s never been good at that

I have a multimedia server with jellyfin and even the dumbest clients can play off it some way.

normonator ,

Just so you know that’s mostly a worse/feature locked jellyfin. Jellyfin was forked from emby as emby-unlocked when they started doing stupid shit in the name of monetization.

normonator ,

I agree. I disable transcoding and use direct play. Jellyfin is a multi device library for the files on my nas.

normonator ,

There’s malware all over that site, you download from known good uploaders or roll the dice.

There is no such thing as a safe torrent site.

normonator ,

$100CAD for 60/6 copper which works fine but the price sucks. The only wired alternative is $70 for 3/0.3mbps DSL

Fuck Canadian ISPs and their government enablement.

normonator ,

Fucking lol that is just a straight up wrong. You are not getting any discounts from either of these companies whatsoever. They will literally disconnect you before allowing a discount. That’s what competition is for and theres none of that here. They know you have basically nothing without them.

normonator ,

It works on Firefox mobile

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