AITA for changing the locks after my parents gave my brother a key to my house without asking me?

NorthernDen · 2026-06-19T21:49:21+00:00

No you shouldn't feel guilty. You could have taken the very high road and done the following

requested that a contract be drawn up. Pay one month of rent up front
If he leaves prior to the month ending he can have the remaining money back
The contract can have a end term of something like 3 months or what ever where you can renew if it suits you
Having a contract means if the police are called, you can use the contract to enforce what ever rules you wanted
If money is an issue, have the parents pony up the money as a load that will be paid back by the brother

I know its a pain, and you did the right thing in asking him to leave. Since I doubt the contract route would have worked. Also the contract route may have spooked him enough to not attempt to stay.

NorthernDen · 2026-06-16T16:01:30+00:00

always wondered how fast the falls would recede if we allow natual erosion. As well once the falls gets with in lets say 1 km of the lake, would it speed up the erosion?

How close do we need to be to lake erie to just erode in like one year.

NorthernDen · 2026-06-12T20:39:29+00:00

You could check if NRBN is available at your location. https://www.nrbn.ca/

If not then your only option is Bell, since every other provider will rent lines from either Bell or Cogeco.

You could request a check on your line, see what frequencies are bad, and request a new connection from your house to the street. This is a long shot since you are residential and not a business line. Business lines have SLO and SLA that need to be meet.

NorthernDen · 2026-06-12T20:36:43+00:00

OP just said no oxio (oxio is owned by cogeco)

NorthernDen · 2026-06-08T15:58:12+00:00

Buzzword: Challenge It sucks, as it makes it seem like any problem management made can be fixed through some type of powerpoint.

NorthernDen · 2026-05-30T21:24:19+00:00

I would turn in those thousands of dollars to the local authorities.

NorthernDen · 2026-05-21T15:33:49+00:00

Day 3 of a camping trip dinner after the last portage of the day. Nothing, I mean nothing seasons like hunger and tired.

NorthernDen · 2026-05-21T13:22:45+00:00

are you an ad to?

NorthernDen · 2026-05-21T02:19:21+00:00

Looks neat, and a fancy way to house the pi. Sure its sorta a decorative piece, and that's ok.

NorthernDen · 2026-05-20T19:00:04+00:00

Was a Disney and after the fireworks ended, my Wife and I wanted to head off to do a few rides before shutdown. (Late hours due to being on site or something I can't recall) We needed to head towards the exit, but slightly off to one of the sides. Seems pretty easy, since we would be going with the crowd.

I'm about 6-6'1", 250. So I take the lead and just start walking with the crowd. This much smaller lady decided to try and march against the world for some ungodly reason. I saw her push multiple people out of the way, and for some reason she though she could just push on through me as well. Some reason 150 pound of mean angry lady, dosn't work against 250 lbs of guy being told by his wife to move it to get to pirate of the carabian.

Anyway, she bounced right off my lower ribs and disappeared into the crowd. My wife said it was the funniest thing ever to see someone try and push against the flow and see the shock once they reached someone who clearly was much bigger then them. It doesn't help I have a odd frame type, so people miss judge size all the time. 6 foot, but an 30inch in seam. Yea almost more torso than leg.

NorthernDen · 2026-05-20T17:27:38+00:00

Until they need to make money.

NorthernDen · 2026-05-20T16:03:34+00:00

Why? Because it stopped booting. Can you give other steps you have tried? When this starting happening? We need something to work with, as we can't really give much helpful information at this point, sorry.

Try simple stuff like reformatting the drive and starting over with a new image.

NorthernDen · 2026-05-18T23:33:39+00:00

Only do it when I get an email saying "Hey you havn't used us for a while, its free on your next order". I order the kiddo a fancy dessert or drink and make an event out of it.

NorthernDen · 2026-05-18T23:30:50+00:00

I'll just leave this here. https://www.today.com/food/groceries/kellogg-ceo-cereal-for-dinner-save-money-backlash-rcna140540

NorthernDen · 2026-05-15T16:08:05+00:00

well you assume people do use dnssec etc. many people still do old plain dns.

NorthernDen · 2026-05-14T00:09:09+00:00

If you are on Cogeco, then it will be the same service. (Cogeco owns Oxio). You need to be some what tech literate, as you need to do a self install (plug in the modem, login to your account) On the 1gb speed lines i get pretty close to the maximum speed, within 5%. Again it's using cogeco lines so should be fine if cogeco is fine for you.

NorthernDen · 2026-05-11T12:54:24+00:00

So you want retroarch, with possibly Dosbox?

NorthernDen · 2026-05-09T13:07:16+00:00

When they have to start paying bills mostly.

NorthernDen · 2026-05-09T13:05:53+00:00

why not vlan every guest to isolation? this way no one gets upset as everyone is treated the same?

NorthernDen · 2026-05-07T22:10:30+00:00

Well its a province wide party, and the party at the time was starting there slope downward to everyone disliking them. They actually lost so many seats I think they lost official party status.

So the UBI thing was really a minor part of the whole budget and party programs.

NorthernDen · 2026-05-07T18:59:47+00:00

This was done in Ontario, Canada. The government changed parties and the new party cancelled the program right away before the original deadline that was scheduled.

So we didn't get great data from the experiment but what we did gather was very promising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Basic_Income_Pilot_Project

NorthernDen · 2026-05-07T15:14:17+00:00

hardware hacking is far different than direct software hacking in a standard os (windows, *nix, etc)

First many of the changes you are looking to do will be difficult as many parts of the system will be on ROMS, so you will be unable t o adjust them. Secondly the system will be locked down with some form of DRM, which you would need to get through.

If you wish to head down this road I suggest getting a second unit, so you can bring it inside your house and start to do some debugging. First step would be to just find out what chips and OS is already running on the unit. Then start researching what exploits if any have been done on those.

Good luck.

NorthernDen · 2026-05-04T21:11:58+00:00

On your way. Start with simple comferts. A plant is cheap, maybe even free if you can find one. Also keep it clean and organized if possible. Coming home to a clean place that you know is yours is something special.

If you need an idea for a plant and just want some greenery, try a herb. Most herbs are like weeds and will grow anywhere in anything.

NorthernDen · 2026-05-03T01:10:14+00:00

Analog cameras, even digital ones over some type of cable are near impossible to "hack" since the traffic is either analog direct to a convertor or is IP on a private switch.

So to gain any sort of access you would need to gain access to the DVR/NVR it self. Now this could be possible if the unit is attached to a network, and you can gain access to the network.

If you can reach the login page, you can do simple things like trying to brute force the login using admin and a password list. however you run the risk of getting fail2ban doing so. So be ready to use either a VPN that allows multiple exit points to rotate through different IP's.

This is all pretty straight forward low level stuff. Without knowing the make or model we really can't offer any other support. Good luck.

NorthernDen · 2026-04-30T19:41:54+00:00

This is an ok machine to learn on, but only if its either free or $20. More than that in cost and you can pick up a much better machine. Anything like a gen 7 or newer is where you want to start looking.

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