[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 55 points 7 months ago

You are conflating Internet service speed and mobile generations. I work for an ISP. I hear this all the time. Especially since there's also "5G WiFi" which is 5 GHz band. People confuse it all, and it's understandable but still annoying.

My company offers 1 Gbps service. No one is getting confused by that yet, but our modems have 2.5 Gbps Ethernet ports now, and I had a customer that was outraged the other day because "Your modem is only 2.5 G and all my devices use 5G! You need to send me a 5G modem!!" FFS

[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 39 points 10 months ago

Is it possible that there's a large overlap between idiots who are bad at driving and the type of people who buy Teslas?

[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago

I pay monthly for access to a SOCKS5 proxy service from a company called BTGuard, and tell my BT client to connect through that. It is not expensive and works great I've been using it for about 12 or 13 years, and found it after getting an email from my ISP saying they identified me downloading TV shows. In that time, I have only had issues a handful of times. More reliable than most other services I pay for and I've never seen another DMCA notice since.

[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 42 points 1 year ago

HBO should make him an offer. Pull him over to chill with John Oliver again like the good old days.

[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 50 points 1 year ago

I read the whole thing and said "I hate you. I hate you so much" out loud.

[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 52 points 1 year ago

But have you heard the latest hilarious thing? Windows... BAD! Hahaha! My goodness, I'm sure you never could have imagined. Also, I use Arch, in case you were wondering.

[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago

Fast food.

The amount of fast food people eat in America is not normal.

[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago

It's the new "delete system32 to get better performance"

[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago

I like this answer, and had not considered it. Good insight. I knew people would have specific situations like certain parking areas or certain street parking, but I really wanted "general" answers, and this is a good one. Thanks.

[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Every day when I get off work and I go to a local gas station, I see them throw away a bunch of prepared food that passed shelf life. This is a chain, so hundreds of locations do this every day. Tons of food per year, tossed in the trash because it sat in the heat box too long.

Imagine how many people could eat that food. It makes me upset.

[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As someone who works in a call center, screw that last person on here. So sorry you hate the automated system. Sorry you had to wait on hold. They can't keep enough of us employed because y'all are fucking mean and no one wants to be abused for $15/hr.

Er, I mean, Thank you for calling, sorry about your wait!

[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 53 points 1 year ago

I am 43 and I remember growing up, people in the early days of the internet were calling people in my age group (late genx/early millenial) a generation that will be "impossible to advertise to." For me, it's rang very true. I can't think of a single time I ever saw an ad for anything and it made me want to spend money on a product or service. But I guess that hasn't been the norm, or ads would be dead.

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