JordanZ

I still rock an old iPod. At a gym I’d imagine it’s more for those than phones at this point.

That’s just it though. You don’t have perpetual access for life. Movies go missing from my iTunes account all the time(Amazon, VUDU, doesn’t matter). If the studio terminated their contract with iTunes then the movies get pulled from iTunes. Doesn’t matter if you paid for them or not. iTunes stopped hosting the media. If you complain they usually give you like a $2-5 coupon…

There is usually two types of MAC randomization and they both apply to wireless. One is pre-auth and is part of the IEEE 802.11aq Pre-Association Service Discovery spec. It makes it harder to track a user just because they got in range of an AP.

The other is when they actually connect to an SSID. Win10 and mobile OS’s started supporting this but it maintains a relationship between a MAC/SSID pairing otherwise you would have all kinds of network/auth weirdness if it didn’t.

Regardless if I noticed a device on my network behaving poorly by randomizing its MAC on every connection then I’d swap my network over to a grant list of MAC addresses and it can happily knock itself offline as much as it wants. Utilize a guest networks for visitors to avoid the headache of list management when a friend stops by and wants WiFi.

I can say I’ve never seen that behavior across all my devices though.

I don’t think my TV has ever been connected to the internet. As a safe guard to ensure that it never is I banned its wired and wireless MAC address from my network. So even if someone did plug it in…nothing.

Mean while my Best Buy has so much crap in the aisles that you can’t pass a person without having to do the weird turn side ways shuffle. Home Depot isn’t much better. Trying to push a lumber carts around is a joke now. So much crap stuck in the middle of the aisles or at the end of the aisles. So I don’t think it’s a lack of inventory but a variety of inventory.

If they’re happy with the work I do and the timelines are being met then why does it matter? I could manage my time differently by just doing that same amount of work slower if that’s the game they want to play. If my reward for doing my work quickly is just more work…why bother?