Thanks for a sane comment to build on.

I actually think it is a fault of the American educated class that they assume that the uneducated people understand what they missed.

We all think everyone gets it or will get it with some Cliffs Notes.

That just isn’t true.

TBF ChatHPT is probably your best bet

You have make the call about your opinion of his talent. We can’t know.

If you are looking to ascribe a pejorative term to your behavior the consider this.

If you are wrong you may a dumbass, but since you are doing your best to help the kid, you are certainly not a jerk.

This is it exactly. Before magnetic tape, Comedians told the same jokes For generations.

Modern comedians act like they’re the first people to come up with jokes because of the first people to record them.

Don’t forget us!

Winner winner chicken dinner

“I don’t belong to any organized political party, I am a Democrat”

Will Rogers

I have quite a few smart home devices. But the only “crappy IoT things” is an air purifier that is controlled by phone.

Unfortunately, I bought quite a few T-Link products before the IC revealed that they are dangerous.

It is worth exploring.

Edit TP-Link

I had set my router to track IP Statistics. There were 9 packets sent and received to that IP.

That’s big of them

Thanks!

I did not think of this. I will have to go into the bios to turn off the battery of my work laptop.

It is probably going to come to this.

I have Wireshark, but haven’t really had a reason to learn it. I mostly just stare at the traffic rolling by the way they do on The Matrix. This is on the list to try.

I have x-code loaded on a Mac, but that is the closest I have to that.

It does, and it’s not listed there.

It is more than your average home network. I have a dual WAN router with fiber on each to a different provider. (It is stupid overkill, but my wife and I both work from home and it is important not to be down). I use a pi-hole for ad blocking and unbound for recursive DNS resolution. Most of the devices are wired Ethernet, so I have a bunch of switches and kit to transform coax into fast Ethernet.

I don’t mess with the firewalls, because that seems like there is a big downside to messing about if you get it wrong. That is all vanilla out of the box.

Sounds like purchasing got a deal on surplus spook gear.

lol!

That gave nothing useful