@phoneboy cue XKCD comic about the point in time when he stopped switching from cellular data to WiFi and started doing the opposite.
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@phoneboy it’s quite appalling that despite the state of things, people (and often monopolies of course) oppose state run internet companies. That should just be a thing. And the default should be gig internet. Federal grants for everything.
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@matigo please add those who don’t have access to broadband and those who don’t have ANY internet at all. Those numbers are 25 million and 33 million respectively.
So that’s 137 million. Half.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/web/fcc-report-broadband-access/
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/22/some-americans-dont-use-the-internet-who-are-they/
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@phoneboy this shitshow is the most jarring thing for me as a customer in America. How I’d heard of the super fast internet when I was in India, and what the reality is.
@streakmachine works for me. I’ll ignore it as I do most TED Talks 😂
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what sounds better? "screaming-into-the-void-as-a-service"? Or "screaming-into-the-void-as-a-notes-app"?
@streakmachine the answer has always been - if you really want to login (to read a read-only blog, though, why?!), then use sign in with email and 1password or somesuch…