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And now i get to diatribe, even though i laughed at your other comment. I have at&t fixed wireless. Until tomorrow - at&t is discontinuing it; as they discontin

And now i get to diatribe, even though i laughed at your other comment. I have at&t fixed wireless. Until tomorrow - at&t is discontinuing it; as they discontinued copper ADSL, as they discontinued pre-paid ipad SIM cards, they now discontinue wireless uverse. The replacement product "isn't available in my area" and probably won't ever be, there's just not enough towers to support the speed metric they want. I have starlink, but i live in the middle of a national forest and there's no place to put the dish where it doesn't have service interruptions. It's great for downloading things, but awful at nearly everything else, such as realtime communication, quickly looking things up via a series of browser tabs, and online gaming. My only other option is hughesnet; and i don't consider 1500ms ping times and severe 2000s era bandwidth caps and speeds to really be an option. T-mo doesn't have penetration for "wireless home internet", nor verizon, i have tried both. There's 3+ fiber runs along the highway near my house (highway in name only!). One is a backhaul for centurylink - no consumer access. Another is Suddenlink - they got a tax benefit for running fiber to public schools, and are not tapping the lines for any consumers. at&t has the third line, but they want $15,000 for a loop, and at the time i was researching it, at&t wanted ~$1,200/mo for 1gbit and $8900 for 10gbit. Fortunately Optimum is currently running a fourth fiber line down the same highway, and my understanding is they charge $155 for 1gbit service. Currently, for the garbage internet service i have here, i am paying over $300/month. thankfully that gets reduced tomorrow, as i won't be able to get service from at&t even if i wanted to. As someone who could 40% utilize a gbit connection 24/7 at-will, this is extremely frustrating. The tradeoff is i live in a rainforest and 90% of the time there's no indication that other humans exist around here. ymmv, my FICO is available upon triplicate request.

m3047 2y ago
This is funnily ironic. My broadband service <<as a pipe>> is very good. I saw a comment above from someone in Redmond regarding Comcast. I'm kind of "at two" with a lot of the cloud religion; I'm intimately aware that it's a first world problem and that the cloud as we know it is a North American / Western European phenomenon. Sure, talk to anyone anywhere in the world and "the cloud is great" but it doesn't mean the same thing when the nearest cloudy datacenter is 500 miles and an international border away. Or even in Eastern Washington State. I had two internet feeds until last year. One was DSL, with two fixed IPv4 addresses; the other was broadband. The DSL had some advantages, although throughput was not one of them. A couple of years ago some meth head cut the cable head (right down to the ground! a couple pounds of copper??) out of a punchdown box by the side of the road. CenturyLink fixed it, but I think it was the beginning of the end. Last year they gave notice that copper line service could stop at any time without notice and wouldn't be restored. Luckily the local option broadband operator (who leases a /17 from the City, we'll get to that) decided to make an offer that was too good to be true at about that time: $116/mo for 500mbit and two free fixed addresses to go with it. Unfortunately Rainier Connect / Lightcurve can't competently operate reverse DNS, preferring to impersonate the lessor's /16 rather than configure 128 /24s. The PTR space is littered with defunct resolutions for customers they have lost. And the lessor, the City of Tacoma, won't accept email from their own address space so there's nobody to complain to. I've manage to shame / embarrass Lightcurve enough that they fixed some other egregious issues. For some silly reason (besides the fact that I offer a TCP table plugin for Postfix which supports nontrivial aliases) I want email-at-rest to be on computers which I own on premises I own, and proper reverse DNS is necessary for that. In conclusion, even in the first world with a cloudy datacenter virtually down the street the necessary business predicates to correct technical implementation and operation aren't universally present. If you look hard at the cloud and squint you can see it there, too.
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- m3047 2y ago
  Apparently copper thieves are stealing EV charging cables up in Seattle: https://apnews.com/article/electric-vehicles-charging-cables-stolen-copper-tesla-5f003686cade63fade2e8d7dd3402f3a https://apnews.com/article/electric-vehicles-charging-cables...
CPLX 2y ago
Are you a regular user of Redbox?
- genewitch 2y ago
  No, i don't like anything produced after ~2001 with a couple of exceptions; especially television shows. I was just talking about how many optical discs i have in storage, but i have over 1200 "DVD", and about half that in audio discs (unripped, just stored). I only own a dozen bluray, and all those were re-releases of movies from before 1990, even. So i stop by the redbox sometimes, but the only thing i ever rented out of them was games. I played skyrim and fallout 4 via redbox, for example, back when they came out for playstation.

m3047 2y ago

This is funnily ironic. My broadband service <<as a pipe>> is very good. I saw a comment above from someone in Redmond regarding Comcast. I'm kind of "at two" with a lot of the cloud religion; I'm intimately aware that it's a first world problem and that the cloud as we know it is a North American / Western European phenomenon. Sure, talk to anyone anywhere in the world and "the cloud is great" but it doesn't mean the same thing when the nearest cloudy datacenter is 500 miles and an international border away. Or even in Eastern Washington State. I had two internet feeds until last year. One was DSL, with two fixed IPv4 addresses; the other was broadband. The DSL had some advantages, although throughput was not one of them. A couple of years ago some meth head cut the cable head (right down to the ground! a couple pounds of copper??) out of a punchdown box by the side of the road. CenturyLink fixed it, but I think it was the beginning of the end. Last year they gave notice that copper line service could stop at any time without notice and wouldn't be restored. Luckily the local option broadband operator (who leases a /17 from the City, we'll get to that) decided to make an offer that was too good to be true at about that time: $116/mo for 500mbit and two free fixed addresses to go with it. Unfortunately Rainier Connect / Lightcurve can't competently operate reverse DNS, preferring to impersonate the lessor's /16 rather than configure 128 /24s. The PTR space is littered with defunct resolutions for customers they have lost. And the lessor, the City of Tacoma, won't accept email from their own address space so there's nobody to complain to. I've manage to shame / embarrass Lightcurve enough that they fixed some other egregious issues. For some silly reason (besides the fact that I offer a TCP table plugin for Postfix which supports nontrivial aliases) I want email-at-rest to be on computers which I own on premises I own, and proper reverse DNS is necessary for that. In conclusion, even in the first world with a cloudy datacenter virtually down the street the necessary business predicates to correct technical implementation and operation aren't universally present. If you look hard at the cloud and squint you can see it there, too.

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m3047 2y ago
Apparently copper thieves are stealing EV charging cables up in Seattle: https://apnews.com/article/electric-vehicles-charging-cables-stolen-copper-tesla-5f003686cade63fade2e8d7dd3402f3a https://apnews.com/article/electric-vehicles-charging-cables...

CPLX 2y ago

Are you a regular user of Redbox?

genewitch 2y ago
No, i don't like anything produced after ~2001 with a couple of exceptions; especially television shows. I was just talking about how many optical discs i have in storage, but i have over 1200 "DVD", and about half that in audio discs (unripped, just stored). I only own a dozen bluray, and all those were re-releases of movies from before 1990, even. So i stop by the redbox sometimes, but the only thing i ever rented out of them was games. I played skyrim and fallout 4 via redbox, for example, back when they came out for playstation.