Hello! Some info about me is up on my website: https://wreckedcarzz.com/

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Cake day: August 23rd, 2023

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  • I own several models from GL, including the original Flint. Their settings UI is nice and very easy to use, and if you want to dive into the system properly you can install Luci and go wild. I have noticed that their auto update system is… Unreliable. Just make sure to check for updates like every 6 months manually, to be sure. They also did a huge overhaul of their firmware a couple of years ago, and for some models, you needed to update through the recovery system, as I recall. Not a huge thing but it was a stark contrast from the otherwise user-friendly experience.

    I switched the Flint for a Synology unit, more features, better equipped, and I already have a nas by them so I am familiar and like the interface. But I am trying to help a friend switch ISPs and on the list of 'to-do’s is buying a Flint 2 or 3, after a disappointing experience with the provided hardware of their current ISP.

    It’s a solid option, basically.









  • Forums. Gaming guides made by actual gamers. Clans that are recognizable and actually respected, playing against the same. Email being the main method of ‘notifications’. MSN Gaming Zone. PS2 network gaming, and not having to pay a fucking fee to play with your friends and those halfway around the world. Hosting dedicated servers. Lists of available servers and games to join, instead of this bullshit ‘matchmaking’. Modding games, and to an extent programs. Websites not having 50 fucking layers of Javascript garbage just to load what is effectively a static page. Before analytics were everywhere, before ads took more real estate than the content. When Google was just a search engine.

    E: Gamespy. Also, I also had someone in vrc recognize my name, and also recalled my clan, from back when we were just a Halo/Custom Edition group. I was so fucking excited, to be recognized, almost 20 years later. My clan is still going, though the numbers are single-digit now. Life happens.

    A lot of stuff, but basically, before the internet was shit, and simultaneously, corporations taking over humanity.