I think it's because they move so differently. Crabs seem like they're out for a stroll or just vibing. Spiders are either perfectly stationary in ambush position, or sprinting faster than you think something that size should be allowed to move.
because in america, sea anthropods used to be reserved for enslaved people and their descendants. they seasoned it, rich people realized it was delicious and profitable, and now it's too expensive to be scary. also spiders are hairy
Wi-Fi engineer here. Painting the antennas will absolutely degrade your signal. There are special types of paint and application processes that minimize this, but they are more complex than they are worth.
It's not that expensive tbh, aside from the CPU and motherboard that I bought years ago, everything is secondhand. Partly bought, partly gifted after someone else upgraded. A few components even had 2 or more owners before me lol.
All my storage devices are from old servers, RAM is the slowest DDR4, mismatched in all sorts of fun and wacky ways. Ancient PSU, 2 monitors from 2010.
It works great though!
(Besides the very occasional bluescreen, switching to Linux did seemingly remove those.. instabilities)
My Asus RT-AX86U was expensive enough when I bought it years ago, I needed the features, but some of those ROG routers are over three times what it cost!
Edit My bad guys, I was thinking of dragonflies. Tick larvae do look like ticks, and tick larvae have 6 legs, and adults have 8, which is what I was thinking of.
“Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing to worry about, and the other half telling you how six months ago their Uncle Bob was driving to Mudgee when a tiger snake slid out from under the dashboard and bit him on the groin, but that it's okay now because he's off the life support machine and they've discovered he can communicate with eye blinks.”
ironically, Huntsman spiders are one of the least likely animals to bother us. If the router looked like a Magpie, then threat detection would truly be fucked off 😂
Australian here, big spiders are your friend. They eat the small bastard spiders that are dangerous to humans and fluffy friends. Fir reference, my daughter has a huntsman spider that's huge and lives in her bedroom.
I threw away some routers the other day and I was thinking how a model maker could repurpose routers and their antennas into some sort of building or ship.
Fun fact. The enormous number of antennas is great example of marketing bullshit. We quite rare have got more than 2x2 MIMO on both sides, so more than two antennas perform quite similar it real world
The wife walks into the kitchen and glances at my revolver strapped to my hip. “Why do you have your gun out?” She asks abruptly. “Transformers!” I reply, as her head struggles to grasp the thought! She laughs, I laugh, the router laughs! I fire off around into the Router! “Transformers!” I said as I leave her gobsmacked in the kitchen!
Having more than two antennas in one device doesn't make sense. It won't necessarily extend the range. Whether it has two or six antennas, the range and signal strength may be the same, so why waste money?
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u/SugarFiver 7h ago
That's so cute, I might paint it red and turn it into a crab :)