Congress would actually have to do their jobs and pass legislation without throwing 500 riders onto it.

They literally have it completely approved, it’s just that they’re waiting to use it as the base for whatever else they want to get passed.

As others have said, repeaters are pretty garbage for extending wifi. Even mesh systems are nothing compared to multiple APs connected with ethernet.

For hardware if possible, I’d try to stick to using proper APs and not just reused wireless routers so that you can ensure the radio settings are properly matched automatically or manually. I prefer Ubiquiti, but they’re on the pricier side. You can get something way cheaper so long as it has configurable radio settings.

When using multiple APs, you wanna make sure that the newer standards for device roaming are on, and that they are running the same WiFi network. Make sure any repeater or AP to AP wireless function stays off.

Best thing to do is whip out the wifiman app and look at the channel map which will show you what frequency your WiFi devices are running at, as well as any overlap with other people’s routers. Assuming you’ve taken out the repeaters, the packet loss will then most likely occur from overlapping SSIDs.

Now APs are supposed to pick the most empty channel possible, but lots of times they suck at it or are just overcongested (ex: apartments). This is where you can manually configure channels to eliminate overlap.

In my personal experience, you can just consider 2.4Ghz a lost cause and leave it on auto. There’s only 3 non overlapping channels, so there’s just no chance you’ll ever get a solid signal unless you live like a solid half mile away from your neighbor.

For 5Ghz, you get a ton of more room and bandwidth to play with. Once you feel comfortable playing with the channel settings, you will discover the super secret DFS channels if you live in the US. Those channels can interfere with weather satellite data, so you should totally never use them because its not like our current administration has been budget cutting the national weather service or anything.

If you want to have some extra fun, spin up Kali linux on a laptop or anything with WiFi and run bettercap to see the inevitable smart home or IoT device spamming the airwaves causing even more packet loss.

EDIT:

If you’re on a tight budget, you can reuse the routers that you have, just know that you might not be able to change the channel settings depending on the router, and that AP to AP roaming will rely on your client devices to work, which can be a mixed bag sometimes.

The American Auto Industry has been struggling to keep pace since the 80s lmao

They only exist because they threw their money at congress to make horsecrap legislation that bans competition.

They even assassinated sedans with EPA laws that stimulates everyone to make SUVs lol.

This thread did a great job showing which lemmy instance users can’t be taken seriously lol.

Whaddya hear, whaddya say?

If you want a very good in depth answer: https://youtu.be/7y_hbz6loEo

The gist of it is that the USA, KSA, and Israel all want Iran’s current government to be toppled as they are a direct military/economic/political threat.

What’s the logic here? Not just the conspiracy. But why now? Why at all? Is Israel gaining something that I’m not seeing? Destabilization the main goal? What’s the USA gaining here?

Israel is an ethnostate so they do ethnostate things, which means constantly attacking anyone they view as “not us”. Iran happens to be on the top of that list after Israel’s former enemies, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, and KSA were passified via the US or Britain.

The US and KSA also want to secure their oil regime, and now that Venezuela is dealt with, Iran is next.

Why does the USA love Israel so much?

They have a significant economic and military investment in Israel, and many of those Israeli billionaires are a part of AIPAC, which successfully lobbies the US to do what they want.

A bonus is Christian zionism which reinforces the idea that Israel must exist to cause the second coming of christ, or the messiah for the Jewish zionists.

I don’t think the Biden or a Harris administration would have started a war with Iran while brazenly sidestepping congress.

No they’d probably unbrazenly sidestep congress after Israel manufacturers a reason for them to go to war with something like another 9/11.

I like to refer to it as the Lockheed Windows XP plane

Linux Mint if you want something nice and easy out of box.

Fedora if you feel like taking the plunge

Bazzite if you want Fedora’s advantages for gaming but don’t want to mess with a conventional Linux install (kinda more like Android, lots of guardrails)

Ubuntu and the like

Switch to a real distro like Fedora

Step 1: Just don’t pick Ubuntu

Step 2: Refer to Step 1

Optional step: Don’t pick GNOME for the Desktop Environment lol

Tbh I would also expect Columbia to lie about this for them. There’s a pretty good chance they knew it was ICE and they decided to go with plausible deniability

DuckDuckGo is actually a honeypot for the NSA that significantly reduces the amount of data they need to process by virtue of its advertised use case.

Think about it. Everytime some dumb criminal gets caught, there’s always a report about them searching up how to do the crime on Google, which the police collects as part of their investigation.

A “smart” criminal/terrorist would then avoid common search engines and would opt for DDO since they don’t share or collect search data.

DDO just doesn’t share that data with advertisers, trackers, and regular police/FBI like how other search engines do, but they do share it with the NSA just like every other search engine did via PRISM.

NSA uses the data for whatever purpose and helps to ensure DDO’s security. DDO also never compromises on sharing its data to anyone except the NSA to maintain an image of security and privacy to would be criminals.

The Taliban became popular because they outlawed Bacha Bazi and other ludicrous acts committed by the criminally insane warlords which became the Northern Alliance which became the Afghanistan Government until they were yet again toppled by the same Taliban after the US left.

And the Afghan Taliban and Palestinian Hamas don’t make 12 year old girls or younger their sex slaves?

Next year’s CES is gonna be every AI product from this year’s CES but with no progress on release date because they can’t even buy the consumer grade hardware to produce it since it all went into data centers lol.

Not to ruin people getting off of streaming, but the biggest bang for buck in storage will be regular old hard drives unless you need to backup like >500Tb of storage (then tape drives).

DVDs are cool but they only have a 4/8Gb capacity.

BluRay pushes it to 70/100/120gb which is great for one 4K movie lol.

Use our easy bash oneliner to install our software!

Looks inside script

if [ $(command -v apt-get) ]; then apt-get install app; else echo “Unsupported OS”

Still less annoying than trying to build something from source in which the dev claims has like 3 dependencies but in reality requires 500mb of random packages you’ve never even heard of, all while their build system doesn’t do any pre comp checking so the build fails after a solid hours of compilation.

Gamefreak used an additional hardcoded RSA public key auth in Pokémon Black/White because for some reason they didn’t trust OpenSSL to not fail for their HTTPS API connections, and yet here we are in 2026 with unauthenticated API endpoints.

Was ChatGPT unable to generate swagger docs they could have lazily plugged into an API scanner bruh

Or better yet notice the big fat “unathenticated” label when you look at the endpoint list.

Percy Jackson did this so much better by explaining only imperial gold or celestial bronze can be used to craft weapons that could harm powerful entities.

So naturally some dude loaded celestial bronze bullets into his warplane’s (probably .50 cal M2) machine guns lol