Slowly getting better…

The weird thing about my COVID recovery, is that while my major symptoms stopper over a week ago, my energy level is still awful. Headaches, too. Ugh.

The result is that I’m having to expend most of my energy in my day job, and I’ve basically had nothing left for content creation - you know, after house tasks, chores, husband stuff, and dad stuff.

That’s not to say I haven’t done anything - I’m pretty much done with my Dad Ruins Smart TV Surveillance script. I’m biased, for sure, but I do think it’s good for people to know what information is being collected, and how it is being used against them. Where things may go a bit sideways, is in the explanation of what people can do to limit the data collection. Some of it is pretty basic, tucked away in the settings menus of the various TV brands. Some of it is not basic, requiring a bit more esoteric understanding of networking concepts.

Your smart/IoT devices? Put them on their own SSID that’s on a VLAN. Perhaps even isolated from each other. Can’t do it with your hardware? Get better hardware!

Not sure how that’s going to go over, but it’s an experiment, right?