I didn’t hear any jokes. Just a couple “nerds” talking in between canned laughter.

Hi. American here from all.

Is this his saying it’s warm?

You know, he kinda has a point.

Stick with me now…history is always written by the winners. But we keep no monuments of the losers. We destroy them. That’s a part of winning.

Maybe the winners should start making a spectacle of how stupid and bad the losers were. Maybe if we ridicule them enough, people will stop aspiring to be losers.

I called corporate and they said they would put in a ticket with the landlord. What more can I do?

If they aren’t divorced they are probably crazy.

Target the divorced MILFs. That’s your best bet. This also applies if you’re a cis-het woman.

Well if humans could run on coal it would be a valid argument…

Not buying another modem when the ISP quietly upgrades the CMTS and makes more speed available in your neighborhood.

Nah wifi was actually originally on 5GHz spectrum, with 802.11a. It came out shortly before 802.11b, which used 2.4GHz, and was objectively better…but component shortages for 802.11a devices made the inferior 802.11b more successful on the market.

Then in 2009, after 802.11b and 802.11g came 802.11n, which used the 5GHz spectrum, and introduced dual-band routers to consumers.

Most recently, 6GHz got allocated with the advent of Wifi 6E and Wifi 7.

This exactly. Wifi is damn near unusable in dense residential settings. It’ll cut it for streaming and web browsing, but much more than that and you’ll feel the pain of interference from all the other wifi APs in the area.

Especially with most of them defaulting to 80MHz on 5GHz and many of those defaulting away from UNII-2. which leaves 4 non-overlapping channels (with one of them giving trouble with a lot of devices). We’re right back to where we were in 2.4. Even worse, I think, since wifi is more ubiquitous.

Isn’t that the plan?

“cheap” is a relative term.

Nobody should be buying a DOCSIS 3.0 modem these days. They are obsolete and for some reason still being sold.

A decent DOCSIS 3.1 modem is at least $200. A Next Gen like S34 is at least $220. At least at the big blue big box store. And then you have to get your own wifi.

(However, that big blue store also will give you a 15% discount on any networking purchase if you recycle an old network device…I traded in an old modem but you should be able to find a switch or router at a thrift store and still come out ahead)

It pays for itself pretty quick (by not paying rental fees), but that doesn’t necessarily make it cheap.

I absolutely prefer using my own equipment, and do…but it’s also worth mentioning that in many markets, Xfinity removed data caps if you have a rented modem.

The dude literally has the power to define cool in his own image.

Worked for Germany…

Oh, so only one sex worker was involved in the catapult incident. The rest were no incident.

For good measure, you should skip breakfast and make sure you have a big lunch.

No reason to give your boss any of your breakfast tho. That’s on your time.

Were there multiple catapults, as well?

1. Have vendor take you out to lunch.

2. Walk into bosses office and regurgitate the lunch onto their desk.

3. Profit?

Make sure the vendor buys you a nice boozy drink. Some top shelf whiskey or something. Bosses love top shelf whiskey.

And make sure you get something that looks absolutely repulsive after you vomit it back up. I’d recommend a Greek Salad, extra feta.

Ootl…did the catapult incident involve a sex worker?

Yeah I got a USB wifi dongle that’s a bit tricky. It doesn’t work out of the box in most distros but there is drivers for it that do work, fairly well.

Anybody ever get Winmodems to work or did they all give up on it?

Back in the day, it was hard enough getting dialup internet working on Linux (especially before you had internet in your pocket, so you had to print out HowTos or write down a bunch of notes before you tried to do it).

But it was downright impossible with a class of modems that was designed essentially as a softmodem, heavily reliant on closed-source firmware and drivers, making them practically impossible to work on Linux.