- BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
Again, if they have the technology to correctly bill you for those fees, they have the technology to tell you what they are before they bill you for them. It’s the same damn thing.
- ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
Putting in the “fuck you” charge internally is easy.
Coming up with a convincing name on the bill is hard.
3 daysThe entire e administration as well as ice should be put into camps after this is said and done.
- 3 days
I prefer high security jail, and trials to make Nuremberg blush.
- Pollo_Jack@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
Have we not wasted enough resources on them? Put them to good use and bury them. Let’s focus on rebuilding.
- 3 days
No socialism for fascists. They like the death penalty so much, I say ‘oblige them’, in no sweeter terms.
- Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
They keep unironically saying it’s “open season” of Dems and liberals, so I say let’s flip it the fuck around.
- 3 days
We really did not execute enough at Nuremberg. I agree that prison would be a waste with such crimes.
- 1 day
Put them all on a spacex starship (for maximum irony) and fly it into the sun. Livestream the entire months-long journey to the sun so we can watch them slowly go insane and turn against each other. 70% odds they don’t even make it all the way to the sun😭
- Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish21 hours
I’ve long advocated for a reality tv show where we send the richest assholes in society into a 1 way rocket trip to the sun.
- 3 days
My ISP every few months:
"We can upgrade yo-
Does the upload speed upgrade too?
"Well, no- click
My favorite is Spectum’s “Gig” (I guess too many people can’t pronounce 1 Gbps) plan is like, significantly slower than their 600 Mbps or even their 400 Mbps like 80% of the time.
Giga is the Spanish word, so they might just use it because it’s more bilingual friendly
- Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish2 days
I doubt it has anything to do with Spanish. The G in Gbps stands for giga because that’s the SI prefix for 10 to the power of 9 or 1000 bigger than mega. Calling it a gig is just a lazy wording.
- Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish2 days
I call it gig, it’s a pretty common abbreviation IMO, like 32 gigs of ram.
- Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
Well they makes me curious what the “upgrade” entails. 🤔 Have they ever told you?
- Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 days
Faster download it’s always faster download and never understand any circumstances upload.
I get 1gig down and 10megs up… On spectrum.
- cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
I changed provider after they tried to tell me 1/4 Mbps was more than enough. It didn’t even have packet shaping. As soon as Google photos tried to back up, the packet returns required to lead webpages started falling over. It was painful.
- Dran@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
Not to defend spectrum, but there is an actual reason for this besides malice.
Coax cable internet uses analog switching and routing between you and your ISPs first Ethernet hop. It’s basically a series of unconfigurable hardware low-pass and high-pass filters to ensure that upload traffic and download traffic flow cleanly.
When cable internet started and these systems were installed in your neighborhood, a range of low-frequency (low-bandwidth) channels were selected for uploads, and a range of high-frequency (high-bandwidth) channels were selected for downloads, going off the assumption that more people wanted downloads than anything else.
Fast-forward to today, and the ISPs don’t really have any choice but to sell you the asymmetry that they installed 20-30 years ago. The only way to redirect the flow and assignment of channels would be to rip out and replace all of those analog filters, and they’re not going to do that because grandma isn’t going to go without cable for 3 weeks. Grandma will call, get angry, and pick a new cable provider. Grandma is by far their most consistent and profitable customer.
They just run a new fiber line to every customer that says “I need symmetric speeds, please”.
If you’re willing to pay they probably will, but it’s something that’s generally very expensive, so not something they advertise. If you’re serious about it, look into business offerings.
- 3 days
Paying the ISP to run a new fiber cable yourself is 10-50k.
The ISP can do this at a better price if they do a neighborhood all at once due to economies of scale.
The US government already paid the ISP to run fiber in like the 90s. They should give the money back with interest or lay the fucking fiber
- Jason2357@lemmy.caEnglish3 days
ISPs don’t really have any choice but to sell you the asymmetry that they installed 20-30 years ago.
I think there is actually a choice in there somewhere.
- Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish2 days
And in case it needs to be spelled out, it’s upgrading the infra to offer better speeds. But they have no incentive to do so because that benefits only the customer.
10 Mbps up in the year of our lord 2026?..
I swear to god, I’m not convinced the US is a first-world country.- 3 days
I’m not convinced the US is a first-world country.
Neither are we
~ Americans
- melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish3 days
I can’t really blame them. Counting all of that profit money takes a whole shitload of time and leaves very little room for value.
Fuck any internet provider that hides fucking fees. If my bill suddenly goes up next month I know exactly what caused it and will act accordingly by not paying that bullshit fees.
- Sophocles@infosec.pubEnglish3 days
If you ever get tired of ISP garbage, Calyx offers unlimited internet as long as you are in 4G/5G range. Your payment also goes to supporting a privacy rights group instead of down the corporate drain
- VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish3 days
This is actually pretty neat.
The case, settled ten years after it was filed, influenced how the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) can acquire personal information. Inspired by this, Merrill founded the Calyx Institute, a 501©(3) organization, to raise awareness about online privacy, surveillance, and accessibility through software development, research advocacy, and cross-sector partnerships.
- 3 days
Looks like I’m aiming pringles can directional antennas at McDonalds again like the 00’s.
- fullsquare@awful.systemsEnglish3 days
pringles can is too small, you need a can 8cm in diameter minimum. 400ml cans won’t do but bigger ones, 800ml, 1200ml will work https://www.wikarekare.org/Antenna/WaveguideCan.html
- 3 days
This kind of shit is why the CFPB was and very much IS needed!
And also a classic case of regulatory capture, of course.
Hey, that doesn’t make any sense! In 2024, lemmy.ml assured us all that Biden hadn’t made any improvements to America!
