Routers only have to be connected and signed to the ISP network. They provide the equipments.
From the moment the device is authorized, it’s connected to the web and you can connect your devices to it using the default wifi password assigned by the manufacturer (25 digits long); wired connections don’t require passwords.
[…] Unfortunately, for now, all of my neighbours are at least technologically proficient enough to put in a WiFi password […]
Fortunately, I’d risk. Let’s be happy for the smallest of things.
[…] or at least not stupid enough to not let the ISP technician add it during installation.
What sort of evil is this? ISPs here just connect the router, call back to their operations center to set it up and go. The router has a very long and hard to memorize password to access the wi-fi and often comes hidden by default.
If that opportunity arises, please try and come back to tell us how it went.
Lucky of you, then. If not, what could you do? Go door to door asking your neighbours to close their wi-fi?
People smarter than me have already had that discussion in the thread and after some heated arguments the consensus is that smart TVs have been caught actively searching for same manufacturer hardware and open wi-fi networks to access the web and call home.
So…
Amazon ships the exact same fare of electronics. If it serves of any consolation…
If you have a laptop, there are small USB tv tunners available. If not, a smarphone can access a good deal of content. And depending on what country you are, you might have access to your national channels (open signal ones) over the net.
For the rest: Aaaaarrrr, me ladies! May the Great Flying Spaghetti Monster fill our sails and set our course for rich waters!
If you manage to have access to AliExpress, you can have it shipped.
When that is not an option, a big computer screen and a tv card.
Solution: get a dumb tv
You asked a question, I’m in the obligation of answering it.
I am aware that what I am about to write is going to make ne sound, to say the least, a bit paranoid but it is how I opted to navigate in the current computer crazed world, where personal convenience is a default argument.
I distrust anything I can’t have a certain degree of control over. I don’t use cloud services (it’s someone else’s computer, not mine), I don’t use Google Maps, Android Auto, Speech Recognition, backup services, etc. I also kneecap as far as I am capable to the convenience services in my phone and when I manage to get a phone I can load with a non-Google OS, I will. I do without and I am happy as it is.
Regarding passwords, I do not use password managers. At best, I’ll use my browser to store a few and even then only if its low risk accesses. The rest I commit to memory and paper. It doesn’t slow or hinder my daily life, I’m a functional member of society and deal daily with people that would consider me unbalanced if I told them the extensions I go to in order to preserve a small amount of my privacy.
I don’t evangelize. If it works for others, good for them. I does not for me.
You trust credencials to Google?
I bought it legally at a local supermarket. So… it’s readily available.
Aproximately 80 hours, because of a power drink.
Whatever it was in the mix, it kept me going for the better part of three days and three nights, plus a few extra hours.
I went to work, went to night school and played Fallout, with no signs of fatigue. When it finally wore off, whatever it was fuelling me, I slept for 36 hours straight, woke up, showered and emptied the fridge, the pantry and everything else there was to eat available in the cupboards.
That was a crazy event.
Because real dogs refuse the job.
If a scientist came to me asking for funding to research on bodily odor (which has happened, if memory serves me well) I would be baffled by the request but I wouldn’t outright deny it.
Sweaty arm pits. Stinky feet. Bad breath. Farts.
The lab would have to be declared a bio hazard area by itself. Too good to miss out. Just the chance to see someone trying to keep a straight face while taking in some of these fine bouquet of rancid would be too good to miss.
Imagine watching the footage of a day of work.
I agree no research is useless but some just goes straight into the bonkers folder.
Write as you see fit your story should be. You can’t please both greeks and trojans. If you think a given character is necessary, put them in your story.
And taking a risk of sounding ignorant and out of touch: why such concern for skin colors?
I think that is router management and not router authorization.