I had Crapcast for awhile before fiber became available, I regularly use terabytes of data and their 1TB cap would be blown through in no time.

If data caps actually solved a problem like it does for cellular networks, it’d be different. But it’s not, it’s a cash grab, I “just” had to pay Crapcast an extra 20$/month

You see, for cellular, a tower is truly limited on the bandwidth because it must be shared among all cellular devices connected to it. And that could be thousands upon thousands of individual devices.

But for hardline, the ISP builds a trunk to the neighborhood and they build it to spec assuming they would sign up a certain percentage (Probably like 80%, or more if they know they’re going to be the only service for a while) to their highest tier. If their highest tier is 1Gbps, then they build their trunk line to that neighborhood to handle 80% of the houses having 1Gbps service.

They never get close to that percentage in the real world, most people are going to stick with some middle of the road package or slower. But, the trunk was built to handle 80% of the houses being active 24/7 at 1Gbps, which just doesn’t happen in the real world so a LOT of that capacity remains just at the ready.

Now that’s just bandwidth, has nothing to do with the amount of data transferred, that line to your house is built to handle whatever the ISPs highest package is or planned higher, whether you use 1Gbps to transfer 1 GB of data or 1000 it doesn’t matter

I’d say that’s more to do with dropping stigma leading to better/more reporting rather than smartphones being some major cause of mental health issues. I’m sure they do cause some issues, but probably not much more than any other vice

It was just an example and “with cash” is open ended, how much cash? 500? 5000? 10,000?

Debt also isn’t inherently bad, lots of people might have 10k in savings that they might be able to drop a huge chunk of to get a car…but then their savings will be depleted by that much when they could have made a sensible purchase on a low interest loan with reasonable terms.

Did you grow up on Dave Ramsey? Much of his “anti-debt no matter what” rhetoric is bumpkis

Newer cars actually run longer on average because of maturity of manufacturing processes and other things.

“Old Clunkers” like those Corollas from 97 or some shit are just what survived, the “Old Cars Only” people conveniently forget about the millions of 97 Corollas that died way too early

Damn smartphones, ruining society!

Damn internet, ruining society!

Damn computers, ruining society!

Damn VIDYA GAMES, ruining society!

Damn TV, ruining society!

Damn radio, ruining society!

Damn Newspapers, ruining society!

Damn 2 piece swimsuits, ruining society!

Damn books, ruining society!

Damn clay tablets, ruining society!

Damn language, ruining society!

Damn alphabet, ruining society!

Damn humans, ruining society!

Damn society, ruining society!

You:

Politicians should constantly be critiqued. Hold their feet to the fire.

Also you:

Gurl please. There’s a million “Trump is bad” articles. Why would I post duplicates?

Then why are you so hell bent on helping Trump?

I see we have gone with option a, living embodiment of the Skinner meme.

You’ve been here a while and most have told you about how it looks time and time again.

Either you’re the living embodiment of the Skinner “No, it’s the children who are the problem” meme or you’re a “hidden” Trumpet/Russian asset/Bot

F in the chat everyone

Yea, but today is the worst it’ll be, it was just like last year that AI video was downright…nightmare inducing lmao

@dessalines@lemmy.ml won’t, judging by his profile he’s too afraid to post his propaganda and shit takes outside the safety of the .ml echo chamber and the “friendly mods”

2 biased blogs and a YT link? That’s it? That’s not proving anything…

It’s not even good genAI, looks like some dollar tree model made it LMAO

Oof don’t say that around @dessalines@lemmy.ml they get bigly mad when you point out bad things about the CCP lmao

Lmao, yea it’s the last step on the package of just about every microwaveable food I’ve seen

!animorphs@sh.itjust.works

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“Not Dishwasher Safe” == “We didn’t want to spend the money testing it and want to free ourselves from liability”

Sometimes it’s true, sometimes not

For some reason the author is trying to equate it to an “AI-Mediated breakup” which…doesn’t make sense, a summary of something is not “mediating”

Mediating would be like having the AI write and deliver a breakup text, simply summarizing it isn’t