Glitterbomb
@Glitterbomb@lemmy.world
- Comment on Cox charges you $25 if your credit card is declined 2 days ago:
I suppose with Cox we could be talking about TV or Internet. If it’s Internet I’ve heard it called a duopoly. The cable TV company and phone company both had wires running to every house when the internet showed up on the scene. Typically these are the only two options available in an area, and when you zoom in further usually one of them has given up on a particular street or neighborhood, and you better just go with the one that has decent wires.
We sort of had protections in place at the phone company level for a while to stop this. ILEC and CLEC laws forced Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (the big phone co in the area, owns the lines on the poles) to share their last mile phone lines with a Competitive LEC, granted the CLEC shells up for their own equipment and puts it in a special section of the ILECs central offices. Bam, competition.
The problem is that the laws only specified copper, so when fiber rolled around, ILECs specifically targeted their upgrades to cripple the competition. The houses still would do DSL on copper, but the backhaul for the CO would get upgraded to fiber and the competition would have to also upgrade their handoff on their equipment to be fiber or just lose all their customers in the area. They would also set up fiber fed cabinets halfway closer to your house and offer VDSL. CLECs weren’t allowed in those cabinets and could only offer 1/5th the speed on regular old ADSL due to distance. There were a lot of dirty tricks…the laws that were supposed to help just let the big company absolutely batter the smaller ones once they started their fiber upgrades.
- Comment on Have there been any major changes noticed in countries that have recently split? 6 days ago:
A few of the stans switched (back?) to a Latin alphabet at the fall of the USSR. Kazakhstan is in the process of doing the same.
- Comment on Does anyone have ideas for cable management here? 1 week ago:
Do you have attic access over that wall? A really long HDMI/RCA could go from behind the TV into the wall, up to attic, skip a few studs, then down to a brush faceplate behind the consoles
- Comment on Anon makes life choices 1 week ago:
He probably knows a whole lot about soil biodiversity collapse. Close enough
- Comment on The Sims Competitor inZOI Sells 1 Million in a Week, Krafton Declares It a ‘Long-Term Franchise IP’ 1 week ago:
People already made nude patches. The second there’s official mod support, this game is getting a permanent reputation as a porn game, I guarantee it
- Comment on Would it be a bad idea to show up at a protest outside a Tesla dealership with a sign that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, instead OP should fill a gas can with Gatorade and casually sip from the can while at the protest. If anyone asks, say you brought it to show your support for combustion engines. There’s no way that can be interpreted as a threat, right?
- Comment on Which game is it? 4 weeks ago:
I just spent 20 hours on the demo for the new game roadcraft. I’m just pushing dirt around in a tractor like I’m playing with Tonka trucks back when I was 5. I haven’t really done anything interesting, just leveled dirt. Anyway, ill probably put in another 6 hours today after work.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 month ago:
Ya I have no doubt him and his gremlins are manipulating stocks. They probably heavily invested in EU MIC like Rheinmetall before starting all the drama that caused it to spike and US MIC to dip. In a week they’ll cash out, buy the dip on Raytheon and suddenly trump publicly reverses a ton of bullshit. Rinse and repeat on all of his drama he starts. These tarrif games are screwing heavily with stock prices too. No doubt they’re making bank with the whiplash they’re causing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Please reread that amendment slowly, word for word. See if you maybe missed something the first time.
- Comment on Tried to order a part before the tariffs 1 month ago:
I hate to sound like I’m attacking OP, but unprotected border snuggles are a risky behavior. Please consider having protected border snuggles instead. It feels the exact same, I promise.
- Comment on Anon sees a happy couple 1 month ago:
Right. OP is probably confused why noone wants to listen to him talk about Fallout 76.
- Comment on Yeah, tunafan9000?? 2 months ago:
I’m surprised he didn’t tip on the entrance ramp. Makes me think he dumped his load at some highway construction and had barely started going before this happened
- Comment on imagine 2 months ago:
This sounds like the back of a Crichton novel, and I want to read it
- Comment on It was Steve 2 months ago:
Are these trash?
- Comment on listen 2 months ago:
I don’t know why, this reminds me of that cursed Animal Crossing ‘playthru’
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Knowing Better is such a fantastic youtube channel. I can’t recall this video specifically but ALL of his videos are worth the hour long watch.
- Comment on USA Question | How much is a dozen large eggs near you? 2 months ago:
All the downvotes are from bakers
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 2 months ago:
I have an old android phone I keep around because it has an IR LED on top and I loaded it with a few free universal remote apps. They all work offline and it’s come in handy so many times.
- Comment on Heya neighbor 2 months ago:
I didn’t think anything of it when I moved into this apartment, but when the modem had to be replaced the ISP worker handed me the new wifi password when he was done, and I’ll be damned if it wasn’t another 8 character long hexadecimal password. I couldn’t believe it, they might as well not even have passwords. I decided i had to know if they were doing that to everyone in the complex. Luckily I also had around 30 high end videocards mining eth in the apartment. I switched a miner with 7 GPUs from mining to hashcat and had a little fun.
Please don’t use 8 digit hexadecimal passwords for wifi, or anything really. It’s like using a paperclip for a deadbolt
- Comment on How do I realistically get out of the US? 2 months ago:
Not OP, where do I apply
- Comment on Now give me a treat 2 months ago:
A lot of growers turn the spare bathroom into the gardening room.
- Comment on Can't throw me off the scent 3 months ago:
Yeah but the tracer wire
- Comment on Actual shitpost 3 months ago:
Hi I’m a vet
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I think it’s time for a few freaky personals ads on Craigslist using their contact info.
- Comment on This is in a small convenience store where you can buy food things and heat them up while in the store 3 months ago:
My head cannon is that there’s no such thing as a pee fetish, and the entire idea is propped up by the overwhelming sales of synthetic piss from sex shops in order to pass drug tests. Some porn studio marketing team noticed the sales and decided they should fill that niche, but all the viewers are just confused people watching out of shock value.
Basically the war on drugs inadvertently created a massive market where people piss and shit on eachother and think they like it.
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 3 months ago:
The footprints of our shoes were already there You stole even the cat's food And you're still licking the plate Super pissed off with this ungrateful bunch Today I hit the drums hard Until they accuse me of mistreatment If you don't understand the fact Well, I throw it at you as cumbia, bossa nova, tango or vallеnato As calabó or bamboo, highly defiant With hot blood as Timbuktu We're insidе the menu 2Pac is called 2Pac, because of Túpac Amaru of Peru America isn't only the USA, pal This is from Tierra del Fuego to Canada You have to be so stupid, such an airhead It's like saying that Africa is only Morocco These scoundrels forgot that the calendar they use Was invented by the Mayans With the pre-Columbian Valdivia for a long time, uh This continent walks But even with all the marines They can't get the peasant plague out off the showcase This goes for the boss of the company The machete isn't just for cutting cane It's also for cutting heads Here we are, we always are We haven't left, we won't leave Here we are, so that you remember If you want it, my machete bites The paramilitaries, the guerrillas The children of the conflict, the gangs The blacklists, the false positives The murdered journalists, the disappeared The narco-governments, everything they stole Those who manifest and those who were forgotten The persecutions, the coups The bankrupt country, the exiles The devalued peso The drug trafficking, the cartels The invasions, the immigrants without papers Five presidents in eleven days Close range shooting at the hands of the police More than a hundred years of torture The Nova Trova singing in the midst of a dictatorship We are the blood that blows The atmospheric pressure Gambino, my brother, this really is America```
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 3 months ago:
This is not America youtu.be/GK87AKIPyZY
- Comment on Anon memes 3 months ago:
Made me think of transmetropolitan, specifically this page
- Comment on Anon gives a piracy history lesson 3 months ago:
Because that’s like 20,000 movies and I need two new movies to watch every night until the day I die, thanks.
- Comment on Interesting analogy 3 months ago:
Maybe im encroaching on a bit of history i dont know well enough, but isnt tribes of Israelites just a fancy way of saying Egyptian refugees? Deport them - I bet they even came in caravans, didn’t they?