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- Comment on Cox charges you $25 if your credit card is declined 2 days ago:
I would say it’s worth a complaint that you’re barely getting a tenth of the speed you’re paying for, but with cable/broadband, there’s a million and one potential causes for throughput being degraded and Cox customer support is useless.
Is the node saturated? Is there a coaxial splitter in your wall blocking high-frequency signals? Is the run from the node to your house too long or noisy? What about the run from your house to the DOCSIS modem? Is there interference somewhere? Are there coaxial ports unnecessarily connected and degrading the signal? Did they just bond the minimum number of channels to reach the theoretical maximum of 500 Mbps under perfect conditions?
Who knows! Cox doesn’t know, and Cox doesn’t care. But hey, maybe you can be tricked into spending another $20 for even more unfulfilled promises!
- Comment on Cox charges you $25 if your credit card is declined 2 days ago:
Cox is really living up to their namesake of being a bunch of dicks.
You are also getting Max subscription plan with this, This will completely boost up your internet speed and you will be amazed by the higher speed and smooth service.
Oh, so smooth. Doubling that arbitrary throughout limit will obviously improve latency and jitter. I always have my network fully saturated all day, every day /s
Everything will be super fast and when you stream or browse there will be no buffering or interruptions and you will have a great experience
Yes, because buffering is caused by your inability to download 62 more megabytes of video a second. Fucking slimeball.
- Comment on Anon is so close 1 week ago:
Anon is in over his head. He should give up and send it your way. Only a professional will get that guy talking.
- Comment on Trump-backed bill to stop 'rogue' judges passes House 1 week ago:
They might consider doing it eventually. I suspect the heat death of the universe will come first, though.
- Comment on James Cameron Says Blockbuster Movies Can Only Survive If We ‘Cut the Cost in Half’; He’s Exploring How AI Can Help Without ‘Laying Off the Staff’ 1 week ago:
You would think that the guy who produced two movies that are thinly veiled criticisms of humanity exploiting the environment and disturbing native inhabitants for profit would not be supporting the exploitative shit that uses enougy electricity to power an entire city.
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan, simpsons never fail 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t put it past them to pull a move out of the authoritarian playbook and hire people to act as violent protesters just in case.
- Comment on How's them tariffs going 2 weeks ago:
“Mr. President, can you explain the recent market plunge, and whether they were an intended effect of the reciprocal tariff plan?”
“The plunge? Fake news. There is no plunge, the only plunge is our plunge towards making America great again. The Democrats don’t want it, they’re selling off like crazy. Numbers never seen before. The tariffs are working, Canada is scared. Mexico is scared. Europe, China, Antarctica, all of them scared. They’re nothing” without us and they know it. But the Democrats, the Democrats. Corrupt Democrats are trying to undermine the greatest tariffs plan America has ever seen. They’re lying about the economy, tricking the banks to sell. But that’s fine, it’s fine. It’s their loss, they want to lose. The real winners, Elon, Pete, and other real hardworking Americas know this. They buy.
- Comment on Security is an illusion 2 weeks ago:
We’re a crack house? Surrrrre.
Try crack house brothel of conservatism run by a megalomanical toddler, filled to the brim with weapons of mass destruction, and looking to expand into new territories. Then you’re right.
- Comment on Is anyone else getting failures to generate reports when reporting the constant spam from "Nicole, the Fediverse Girl" which originates from a different, new instance every time? 4 weeks ago:
Regex is great, but PCRE deserves a special place in hell. You don’t know unreadable until you’ve encountered regex that uses recursive matching, backrefererences, and subroutine calls.
- Comment on Dozens of spam messages daily now 5 weeks ago:
Lucky! You have hot singles in your
areaspam folder, and all I get is blatant blackmail scams telling me they have my (wrong) phone number and that there’s nation-state Spyware on my phone recording video every time I dare to stroke some sausage. - Comment on You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism 5 weeks ago:
“At least it’s not CoMmUNiSm”
— Bartholomew Bootsonhisface - Comment on How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious 5 weeks ago:
That’s assuming they get fair representation, which they won’t. The Republican Party would justify it as Canadians being outsiders who “don’t understand our politics” and shouldn’t be given that much power and influence over future elections until they’re ready (which is never), and the Democrats would do fuck-all about with their moral grandstanding preventing them from using the same delay and filibustering tactics that were constantly used against them.
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 1 month ago:
Exactly! You get it.
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 1 month ago:
About 20 trips to the grocery store and the associated gas prices.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 month ago:
You’re describing the Republican politicians. The Republican voters are a different bag entirely.
Out of the ones I have discussed politics with, their underlying motivations for supporting Trump are emotionally driven but explained through rhetoric aligning with their emotional motivations. It tends to be grouped into one of a few different feelings:
- cost of living/financial security — immigrants’ fault, taxes, foreign nations taking advantage of US generosity
- fear of change/bigotry — immigrants, “DEI”, “wokeness”, border security
- American exceptionalism/egotism — immigrants, 1st ammendment
- distrust of federal government — “DEI”, government corruption, regulatory overreach, socialism = communism
- distrust of industry — vaccines harmful, science bad
Aside from the bigotry and exceptionalism, those emotions aren’t necessarily wrong. Cost of living increases, politicians owned by lobbyists, and profit-driven privatization of essential services are actual problems. The issue with conservatives is that they have scapegoats to blame those problems on instead of acknowledging the underlying causes. All it takes is some loudmouth, ignorant jackass offering an overly-simplified, emotionally-compelling solution to a complex problem, and others will latch on to it, oversimplify and exaggerate it even more, and disseminate it until the rest of them start believing it.
People can be hateful, narcissistic pieces of shit, and it goes without saying that this repugnant rhetoric is spread intentionally. But, it’s also a direct consequence of a public education system failing among a landscape of patriotic propaganda and media controlled by a powerful few who put profit and self-gain above the health of society.
When someone grows up being told America is a flawless nation, is never educated to think critically of the government and media, and is bombarded by a neverending stream of false information that validates their fears and lulls them into feel smarter than everyone else, they end up being indoctrinated into the right-wing cult we have today.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Trump supporters: “that’s fine, the president isn’t congress”
- Comment on Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico? 1 month ago:
Of the special variety?
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 month ago:
Hopefully we get something out of this fucking bullshit
At the current trajectory, it be at best a renewed appreciation for how good things used to be.
- Comment on Billionaire Airbnb Co-Founder Is Said to Take Role in Musk’s Government Initiative 1 month ago:
“He illegally obtained a gun, and that’s a FeLoNY” /s
- Comment on My employer blocking trusted adblock extensions but allowing ad blockers that whitelist corporate ads 1 month ago:
My policy has always been if you want me to use your crap, you provide the hardware. And if they still insist, they get to live with their garbage running inside a VM.
There’s exactly 0% chance I’m letting corporate spyware touch my data or have full access to my hardware. Between being able to lock down the operating system and remotely wipe the device, that shit cannot be trusted.
- Comment on Developers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines" 2 months ago:
I see your point, but as someone who preferred my home folder be my home folder, I prefer they put it under
~/.configregardless of what operating system is being used. - Comment on Developers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines" 2 months ago:
No. Hiding files is still just an attribute.
- Comment on Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months. 2 months ago:
Epic Games is also a private company… and they’re the posterchild for “fuck the consumer, we want a monopoly.”
It might have something to do with Epic being partly owned by Tencent and Disney, but it more likely comes down to the philosophies of their CEOs. Gabe came from a corporate shithole and runs with the diametrically-opposed view that good service = loyal customers = profit. Sweeney, not so much.
- Comment on Babyllionaire Musk got r/whitepoepletwitter banned 2 months ago:
“They broke the law,” tweeted the motherfucker who never respected it in the first place…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I would be careful with recommending trying to price-optimize power supplies. Sustained/average power draw under load is not peak power draw, and tolerances beyond the rated PSU wattage vary by manufacturer.
The OP is also looking into the RTX 5090, which is even more power hungry.
- Comment on Can 2025 please be the year more games add Text and UI Scaling 3 months ago:
>Mom, can we get quality options? >Mom: We have quality options at home.
\Quality options at home:
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Knowing how useless the cops are when it comes to doing anything that involves them having to voluntarily fill out paperwork, I imagine the legal avenue won’t do much until after OP has been assaulted. Violence is bad, but it’s hard to argue against results.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Yeah, don’t do this… If the guy is a Nice Guy™, offering up fake nudes is just going to feed into their delusion as confirmation of their approach and make them feel even more entitled. And if the nudes end up being a dick pic, they usually end up getting violent and threatening instead of backing off.
- Comment on Day 1 Reddit Refugee 3 months ago:
Dbzer0, good. ML, bad. Their admins are trigger happy with instance-wide bans against users who criticize them or their political ideology.
- Comment on If God is all powerful and created human. How come God in endowed with human emotions? Shouldn't he or she be beyond that? 3 months ago:
Neat. The guy’s argument with you has accidentally leaked into another community, with him replying to me and another poster with ad hominem attacks and desires to see us (who never mentioned religion) institutionalized.
