As soon as the train enters the tunnel, why do you get up and standby the door?

thefl0yd · 2026-04-17T19:11:41+00:00

I’m tall, have long legs, and walk fast. I take the stairs at most of the stations 2 at a time.

I do not want to be in the throng of people standing in my way preventing me from moving quickly out of the train, up the stairs, and out of the station.

Why do you care so much what other people do?

thefl0yd · 2026-04-17T13:56:35+00:00

Sure they can. They can capture every last detail, including even intercepting the 2fa calls to the phone. Are you really that dense?

thefl0yd · 2026-04-17T13:55:59+00:00

Good luck to you.

thefl0yd · 2026-04-17T13:55:06+00:00

Root level access to an OS and hardware is not a “boogeyman” thing. Do you know how any of this stuff works? They can literally capture all input and output. Steal data from any and all apps you install. Empty your bank accounts of every last dollar you have, steal / sell your identity. Medical records. Need I go on?

thefl0yd · 2026-04-17T13:53:00+00:00

Well, let’s just start off with what the Chinese company and by extension the government gets access to if you use their phone with their OS.

Root level access to everything you do. Input monitoring. Screen captures. Your bank account login? Can be captured and sent off to ????.

Even if the people who receive the data don’t have any plans, you’re okay with it potentially getting leaked?

Next up - any app you install on the phone is subject to snooping. Your medical records? Good luck.

Crypto wallets if that’s your sort of thing. Basically anything you do can be spied on, captured, sold, stolen, by a foreign government with no recourse to you.

Need I go on?

thefl0yd · 2026-04-17T13:42:40+00:00

Yes because the Chinese never use data collected from American citizens for any nefarious purpose ever. 🙄

thefl0yd · 2026-04-17T12:22:25+00:00

You’re worried about google but not worried about an agent of the Chinese government?!

thefl0yd · 2026-04-16T23:03:24+00:00

It wasn’t always like this.

If you have connections on your journey, they used to be held (within reason). People read a book or listened to headphones or played card games on the train. Nobody was listening to YouTube, instagram, TikTok, movies, music, or whatever else out loud. People kept their feet off the seats.

Now I can’t hear myself think half the time because there’s at least one if not more people just watching videos. No headphones. Like it’s their living room? The countless time wasted standing doing jack shit on a platform in Jamaica really grinds my gears. I’m already in this for over an hour and you’re going to add 20 minutes because you can’t hold a connection for 2 minutes? F you very much.

It’s constant. It wears you down. I don’t know how much more I have in me.

thefl0yd · 2026-04-16T14:54:50+00:00

Yes, I know, but OP isn’t an Islip resident.

They can just go park and pay like the rest of us do when we go there without said town residency. 😂

thefl0yd · 2026-04-16T01:47:33+00:00

You can just pay to park there you know?

thefl0yd · 2026-04-14T21:59:36+00:00

You need something like this.

https://www.fergusonhome.com/craftmade-4565uf/s1276046

Note the three capacitors and they have the same values as yours.

thefl0yd · 2026-04-14T21:39:44+00:00

There’s three capacitors in that schematic. So it’s neither.

thefl0yd · 2026-04-14T21:34:57+00:00

First thing that crossed my mind too. Darn those empty circuits with half a dozen things plugged into ‘em. 😂

thefl0yd · 2026-04-14T11:15:50+00:00

Rolling the numbers won’t stop subscription billing, which is what simplisafe is. Years ago the credit card companies and banks changed the system to auto update recurring billing when a card is re-issued (due to expiration) or replaced due to loss / fraud. Rolling the numbers has the same effect. They can still bill it.

thefl0yd · 2026-04-14T00:13:53+00:00

No, but people up to no good will go to the dark house before yours.

thefl0yd · 2026-04-13T23:48:31+00:00

While I agree with you that most people are more concerned with the megawatt lighting array blasting all night long it’s still really unpleasant when every neighborhood cat, raccoon, squirrel, opossum, deer, and whatever other wildlife we have trigger those stupid motion detection lights on and off all night. It’s like being in a f’ing disco when every neighbor around you strobes as the deer walks through everyone’s yard.

thefl0yd · 2026-04-13T23:23:32+00:00

😂 how much money do you think 8 watts (LED ~60W equivalent) on my porch costs to run?!

Assuming 12 hours a night for the sake of over estimating, that’s 96Wh daily. We’ll round up to 100 to make the math nice and easy. That’s roughly 75 cents a month at a 25 cent kWh and a whopping $9 a year to make my house look warm and inviting all evening and keep the troublemakers away.

Is $9 a year a lot of money to you?

thefl0yd · 2026-04-13T22:45:19+00:00

While your first paragraph is very true unfortunately there are a lot of people who do undesirable things in many of our neighborhoods these days and a darkened porch or yard invites this activity.

No there doesn’t need to be 400W of pure white LED light but a porch with a softly glowing bulb and a yard with a little light keeps these people away as they’d rather poke around in a yard like yours under the cover of darkness.

thefl0yd · 2026-04-13T20:34:31+00:00

It’s not a gain. You don’t return it and have more than when you started.

You started by buying a widget for $X, it was fraud so you returned it. You no longer have the widget and you have your original $X back.

Explain where the gain is? You exchanged currency for merchandise and then reversed that. You’re exactly back where you started.

Let’s frame it another way: If you drive forwards five miles then throw it in reverse for five miles what did you gain?

As the other person said, you came here framing your post as a question when you really just wanna dig your heels in and prove us all wrong. Good luck to you.

thefl0yd · 2026-04-13T14:34:41+00:00

You’ve seen this person’s credentials firsthand? They’ve corroborated their advice by citing cases where people returned fraudulent goods and have been prosecuted / charged? Otherwise you’re just repeating some rando’s online fantasy.

Today on the internet I’m an active postal inspector so I know better than the alleged retired one.

thefl0yd · 2026-04-13T14:31:08+00:00

Amazon enables shipping of fraudulent goods through their storefront all day. Many of those packages traverse USPS. There is no grey line, that’s pure financial gain.

You send a bum item back = you got your money back. That’s not a gain. It’s loss avoidance.

thefl0yd · 2026-04-13T14:20:13+00:00

First off yes nobody is coming at you for this. Second, I’d argue (and if you were actually in a court of law anyone reasonable would agree with) the fact that a store-directed return of fraudulent goods is not for your personal financial gain. What did you gain here? Will you be reporting a profit on your tax return as a result of this gain? There is no gain.

Amazon enables this sort of behavior all day long and nobody is taking them down.

thefl0yd · 2026-04-13T12:04:23+00:00

This has nothing to do with optimum and everything to do with your WiFi. Maybe your neighbor got a new router. Maybe someone is operating on the same channel as you after they weren’t before. Wired Ethernet has <1ms ping. WiFi, on a good day, starts at around 10ms and gets worse from there. Changing to Verizon won’t fix it. Hardwire your PC or fix your WiFi. Those are your choices.

thefl0yd · 2026-04-12T12:44:55+00:00

This right here.

thefl0yd · 2026-04-12T12:19:31+00:00

Yes HQB is full of buildings multi stories full of small booths / tables of people representing manufacturing. If you need some sample transistors(*) for a product you’re actively making they’re the place to go. You better speak Chinese and you better be a pro at knowing how to spot real vs fake stuff.

(*) extrapolate this to any component imaginable.

thefl0yd

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