• 4am@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    Sometimes that doesn’t even matter anymore; they’ll refuse to work now without a network set up.

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      3 days ago

      If it wants a network then stick it on an isolated VLAN with no internet access.

      • grue@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        That’s not what that means and you know it. It refuses to work unless it can successfully phone home over the Internet.

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          2 days ago

          So people in rural areas without good internet, or places where the network is airgapped, can’t use them at all? Seems like there’s be a way around it.