Beta is the wrong word, but there is quite a difference in stability between Fedora and Debian.
Dave
Yeah, it might be easy to install but you are also a beta tester of things that will be in more stable distros two years from now.
But with that said, I love Fedora, but with Gnome. I use Nobara for the gaming simplicity but with the vanilla Gnome spin. I'd recommend it to anyone, most Linux distros these days are pretty user friendly once installed.
I am convinced this is already happening. One example is the endless new accounts posting ibtimes links.
There are also propoganda websites posted regularly by new accounts (especially sowing disinformation about Russia's war on Ukraine).
Basically be wary of anything posted where it's their first post. Often they make accounts and don't use them for months so they look older.
I also think astroturfing is happening but at lower rate than reddit.
Like you, I have no idea how we can counter this at scale.
Not sure about age 56 but by the time you get to 90, many people's brains just aren't what they used to be. If you're a scammer, it doesn't matter if 9/10 people see you coming, you just latch onto the 1/10 that can't tell they are being scammed.
By 90 my grandmother had a Benjamin Button memory. She didn't recognise the youngest grandkids, over time she couldn't remember the oldest ones, and then her kids started fading from her memory starting with the youngest.
Even before that point, in her 80s (like most of these victims), if you walked up to her, said you're a police officer and need her EFTPOS PIN to investigate fraud, she would have told you it.
You might be onto something. But also most scams originate from overseas, this guy was dumb enough to do it in NZ and apparently did something that led police to where there could be a foot chase.
Nice to hear of a scammer getting caught for once.
Oh I didn't thing about access points. With something like ZigBee, the switches add to the network range. But for WiFi, each switch will need to be in range of an access point. We have pretty decent coverage but the benefit of using ZigBee is other devices can take advantage of the extended network.
Others have talked about Zwave, I'm not sure which camp they sit in.
Interestingly. I was a bit worried about adding dozens of new WiFi devices but it sounds like it's not an issue so I will consider the WiFi switches after all.
Sweet, I was a bit wary of WiFi switches but maybe I'll consider them after all
I was under the impression that WiFi could only handle so many devices connected. 20 years ago if you got more than 10 or 20 some would start getting kicked off. Maybe that was my short router. Is that never an issue with modern routers? Even adding hundreds?
Yes, definitely. Perhaps highlighted if it's one of their first few posts or the account is new.