Bobert @ Bobert @sh.itjust.works

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And two years from now it'll be Lenovos and HPs shitting the bed. Four years Dells and Lenovos. It's all cyclic. Always has been.

The same Lenovo that couldn't keep their internal web pages from being public accessible that then allowed the shimming of every other manufacturer's Chromebooks? Fuck Lenovo.

It's not the power washing that gets tiring. It's the lugging of Chromebooks in and out of the cooker!

They're gonna charge you whatever you're willing to pay. They don't run T1 anymore and are just squeezing the blood from the stone before they rip it down and toss it out.

There is no countering that argument. It points to an absolute failing of empathy. Rah, rah Godwin's law incoming. If you can't understand "First they came for..." and realize that it doesn't just stop or start at ethnicity and instead applies to literally everything and anything you care about them it's gonna take a serious remediative effort to correct that worldview.

It'll be nice to see who's immediately on the take, followed by learning those who will swallow it to the hilt.

I hope Gen Z does better than those before them and gets actively involved in such a way we can start abandoning this wack ass two party nonsense.

I honestly think it was in response to EPB. I noticed EPB advertising 10 Gig and then weeks later noticed Comcast advertising 10G.

Checking EPB's site they claim to be the first 10 Gig residential provider in the U.S. and I don't doubt it. It's on their back alone Chattanooga got deemed Gig city. Which I might add suddenly meant that Comcast began offering near (and later actual and higher) 1 Gbps speeds not on business accounts.

I don't think it's intent is to confuse people with 5G. It's that they finally have actual competition.

https://epb.com/fi-speed-internet/10-gig/

EPB in Chattanooga announced the rollout of 10 Gbps service. Within a time span best measured in weeks I start seeing Billboards and Ads for Comcast's own 10G network.

This is exactly how Comcast's 1 Gig rolled out for my area. EPB announced 1 Gbps to residential and whaddya know? Comcast now offers 800 Mpbs followed later by 1000 and 1200.

I had someone come to me and ask why they were struggling to upload videos to YouTube despite having a slew of expensive gaming and recording equipment. I had to tell them their only option was to hope that Comcast actually honors their advertised up speed for their business lines and to pay for that.

Theoretical limit is actually 70 Gbps which is even more laughable.

Honestly this article is for the less tech savvy, which I doubt much, if any, of the current Lemmy user base qualify as. It's not a horrible one as far as that goes.

The slippery slope is only a fallacy when you're making leaps. To go from enacting exorbitant API fees to removal of old Reddit is a logical step so doesn't make for a fallacy. Intent also plays a part for the same reason. If you can prove that enacting exorbitant API fees was for the purpose of restricting user access then limiting number of posts for users not logged in is a logical step. Slippery slope gets a bad rap but it can be a valid point and not a fallacy when done properly.

I'm sorry, who's surprised the company notorious for tracking employee bathroom breaks is actively monitoring their employees?

Amazon is the absolute scum of the earth when it comes to how they demand and expect productivity from their workers. Being harassed because you took 10 minutes to shit in a 10 hour shift that wasn't your break or lunch is an every day occurrence.

Imagine if you rounded up all the hateful, power hungry, bigoted misanthropes from the Warez forums of old and combined them into one. That's Empress.

Imagine the absolute reckoning if someone managed to touch her with a blade of grass. The singularity would reverse the big bang.

Commercially standard is some hogwash you're making up out of thin air. The language is "commercially available" which every single tool needed already is. Like I said that you completely ignored $30 gets every bit, pick, tweezer and suction cup needed. Every single guide calls for heat, yes, it is indeed a good idea, but it is absolutely not NECESSARY. Do you understand? You can take a readily, commercially available suction cup from a $20 kit from Amazon and remove screens (and therefore batteries) without using thermal energy.

So I'm sorry you don't know what I'm talking about, but the bigger issue is you simply don't know what you're talking about.

In a pair of daisy dukes with a cowboy hat on?

I don't know man, did you RTFM?

I don't think we're really gonna have a concrete answer, but o rly was making it's rounds on SA at the turn of the century. It's definitely what I remember seeing first.

Did you think I didn't read that exact section before I made this argument?

Show me where they're out of compliance. The only leg you can stand on is thermal energy, and like it or not, you absolutely can pull screens without heat guns or hair dryers so long as you have suction cups. You can literally spend less than $30 to get all the bits, suction cups and picks needed for repairs so the tools are commercially available.

It's what I literally have used for multiple repairs now, so don't tell me it's not hot enough. iPhone 11, Pixel 5a, and a Samsung Galaxy S21.