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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by NelsonMinar on Saturday December 05, 2020 @10:10AM (#25315074)
What a terrible state of affairs we're in now that you can't trust the network's own DNS. Please consider making it an advanced option to switch back on the DHCP provided address.
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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by o-__-o on Saturday December 05, 2020 @11:20AM (#25315642)
> Please consider

When you are contracted to build something to spec and you don’t build to spec, you don’t make any money. If you push back on the requested spec, the client will leave and go to another company thus leaving you without any money.

What I’m trying to say unless you are writing the spec, you usually have no chance to change anything

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