@rotatingskull
because there are some huge and easy-to-search databases where you can look up the location of any given ESSID (or BSSID)
so, visible ESSID =~= giving away your home address

@grainloom ah, personally I’m more worried about bots tracking microscopic camera lens scratches but yeah ! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@rotatingskull
you don't really have to worry about those with screenshots if you do them properly :P
a wifi name is something any script kiddie could look up
NSA is bad but at least they won't dox you on 4chan

@grainloom oh I’m not talking about screenshots, im talking about any photo taken with your phone’s camera

@rotatingskull
oh, in that case, yup, that's bad
i guess there is something to be said for Facebook's converting of every image to low-quality JPEG /s

@grainloom they may post the low rez versions on their website but they still have the high rez version you uploaded

@rotatingskull true, but FB will track you no matter what

@SoniEx2
I like knowing which networks I'm connected to and what my IPs are. :shrug:

@grainloom oh, me too!

that's why all my netctl profiles are disabled, and I manually start them.

@SoniEx2
same except for when i'm at home
but i also use NetworkManager for stuff like connecting to multiple networks on multiple NICs at the same time and for that kinda stuff it's useful to know which NIC has which IP

@grainloom I use netctl and ip addr for that

@SoniEx2
how do you set up an NIC to only be used for its own subnet? coz i haven't figured out how to do that with netctl

@grainloom I'm not sure what you mean?

@SoniEx2
wlan0 has public ip
eth0 has local ip, eg.: 192.168.1.100/24

i want to ping 1.2.3.4, which NIC should the kernel use?

@SoniEx2
and what if i want to ping 192.168.1.1

there is a simple setting in nm-applet that lets me restrict a connection to its own subnet

@grainloom you just route del whatever after touching netctl.

@grainloom (I'm not sure how to do this from netctl, sorry)

@SoniEx2
np, it's not like i can't turn NetworkManager on now and again