More like calling all fuel diesel.
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Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Is it now the norm to make the term WiFi synonymous with the term cellular/mobile data (or 4g/5g)
They are not the same thing.
Is this like when people call tablets ipads? Or call vacuums hoovers/dysons.
UnityDevice@startrek.website 8 months ago
1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think they specifically mean Wi-Fi, not confusing it with cellular.
I would be surprised too if I went into a cave and suddenly my phone is connected to Wi-Fi. Where are the access points? Who is running internet all the way out here? I don’t see any telco boxes or signs of a human presence. Why do the speeds get faster the farther I go? Why did my phone connect to some random network when I specifically told it not to do that? It would be even weirder if it’s WPA3 protected or something because I obviously don’t have the password for the cave Wi-Fi
FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I know people who don’t know what an Ethernet cable is.
Internet = wifi / mobile data. And that’s it as far as they are concerned
Routers, modems, switches, bandwidth, Ethernet etc. That’s all just mysterious mumbo jumbo nerd shit. They only know that wifi = the symbol on their phone and that it makes their apps load. It’s crazy.
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 8 months ago
This is my wife.
She calls mobile data “wifi”
She calls the internet “the wifi” when talking about our specific connection. “is the wifi bill paid yet” even when talking about the internet on my ethernet connections, it’s still “the wifi”
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
wifi and wlan are also not exactly the same
Obi@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
I’d say these examples are different, more like Kleenex where brand names become the common term. This is more like when parents used to buy a Wii game for your “playbox station”.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
There is a term, that I am too lazy to search, that when a brand or technology is so widespread or used, that the name of the brand or technology becomes the word used to describe anything that ressemble that brand or technology.
Wi-Fi and iPads are definitely some of those.
moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Thanks pal. That’s the word.
foofiepie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Is it ‘unbiquitous’?
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
moosetwin in another comment said the word, generacization.
But ubiquitous is always right in this case, but not the word I was looking for.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 8 months ago
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Also “10G” as a shorthand for DOCSIS 4.0.
swab148@startrek.website 8 months ago
Maybe someone has a router down there
Michael717@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Stone age people probably. Or a bear.
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well, that sort of highlights my issue, and why i assume they meant mobile data. If they are, in the joke, connected to WiFi, then they wouldn’t be suprised by the signal strength. Because they are near a router and therfore the signal is good enough to use. You aren’t typically able to connect to WiFi if the signal is below -70 -80 decibels.
I think its fairly clear that they meant mobile data as this is something you would be surprised to still have if yoy were lost in a cave.
Not that i wpuldnt be suprised to find WiFi down there, just that i wouldnt be suprised by the strengrg of the WiFi signal if i was stood close enough to a router to see the SSID.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well now that we’ve thoroughly analyzed the joke to death…
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well, it wasn’t the best joke to begin with. I doubt anyone gave it more than a …ha… when they read it.
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