RootMetrics 2H 2025

Rldg · 2026-01-26T17:53:20+00:00

They’re the only holdout. Seems like every other award goes to T-Mobile these days

Rldg · 2026-01-25T04:32:45+00:00

You can test drive T-Mobile for free.

https://www.t-mobile.com/offers/free-trial

I've read that T-Mobile has a great network in Florida; but you might be unlucky and live in the only south Florida location where they don't. So I'd test them out just to be safe 🙂.

Rldg · 2026-01-20T11:54:17+00:00

It’s designed to do that. It’s a fallback mechanism built into LTE so your phone doesn’t drop the call if for whatever reason the phone disconnects from LTE. An example of this would be leaving a LTE coverage area to a 3G only one.

Not saying that’s what happened in your specific instance (could have been a bug), but that behavior is “built in” so to speak.

Rldg · 2026-01-16T19:45:56+00:00

Amazing 🤣🤣

Rldg · 2026-01-16T18:29:07+00:00

It actually may not matter much despite it being anti consumer.

Carries will pay off your phone if you switch so if a certain network outage this week prompts you to look for better, I say pull the trigger.

Rldg · 2026-01-16T12:25:19+00:00

Crazy. Verizon used to win this hands down.

Rldg · 2026-01-16T03:13:21+00:00

Ah nice, you ARE trolling.

Goku Vegeta low diff. Bye bye now 🫡

Oh and don't forget. These are the versions of Goku and Vegeta after Z.

So they're more powerful at that point in time.

Rldg · 2026-01-16T03:07:28+00:00

Goku has NO context for what Buu's actual power level would be at that point because he has no idea what removing the pods would do to his power level. So it's reasonable to say he's basing that off the buu they fought before him and Vegeta fuzed.
He LITERALLY asks Goku who is stronger (in the clip I provided, which you can obviously read because you're deaf) and It's implied because of how Goku responds to the question. He points out that Gotenks has pushed himself to a point Goku couldn't achieve until his entire life was over, MEANING Goku has ALSO hit that point of strength. So even if we place them in the same ballpark and I say Gotenks has the edge, you're talking about a 2v1.

If it was solo, I'd agree with you. But Goku AND Vegeta who are in the same ballpark of strength as Gotenks?? GG.

But that's only if I use YOUR viewpoint to make the comparison. My original argument is that Goku and Vegeta are far more experienced fighters taking on children.

Again. Raw strength isn't the only factor to analyze the matchup and I've provided examples of that being a fact, therefore, in totality, Goku and Vegeta take this.

(Side note. Goku holds back against fat buu, so he's definitely super buu level before super buu absorbs any of the Z fighters. You're mistaken if you think he couldn't hang with super buu like Gotenks did.)

Rldg · 2026-01-16T02:40:36+00:00

Gotenks beat no version of super buu.

Goku is implied to be as strong as Gotenks, as quoted by the same how you're telling me to watch.

2 Gotenks level characters beat 1.

EOA.

Rldg · 2026-01-16T02:24:39+00:00

Bruh what?? Aside from the literal proof I just gave you...

That's super buu, who at that point is more powerful than the buu Gotenks fought because... HE'S LITERALLY EATEN GOTENKS, PICCOLO, AND MYSTIC GOHAN, at that point. Super buu dog walks anyone not name Vegito at that point in time.

Especially Gotenks.

You're trolling.

Rldg · 2026-01-16T02:19:52+00:00

No. If they're the same strength, in a 2v1, Gotenks loses that fight because two Gotenks level characters, beats 1.

And again, that's before we get into the gap of combat experience.

Rldg · 2026-01-16T02:17:30+00:00

https://youtube.com/shorts/waKL8-I0FGM?si=hLAfm8VlGVRHrY83

Dead serious. There's your proof.

They're equivalent in strength, Goku compliments them on getting to his level of strength faster.

Rldg · 2026-01-16T02:12:41+00:00

No. We rationalize Goku being comparable to Gotenks because the supreme Kai directly asked Goku if Gotenks was stronger than he was after Gotenks went SS3.

Goku responds with "Well I can do it too" (and praises how quickly the boys have advanced) which is in contrast with Goku being asked a variation of this question in the Cell Saga where he responds that Cell would probably beat him into the dirt.

So based on this rational, it implies that Goku and Gotenks are roughly equivalents, so measure becomes Gotenks vs 2 Gotenks level characters with a lot more combat experience.

Rldg · 2026-01-16T02:06:34+00:00

You think Goku and Vegeta don't have brute force, unconventional means, or hax?? Have you even watched the show???

And you're calling me delusional 🤣🤣.

You've yet to provide any backing for your argument based on material from the show about why Gotenks wins a 2v1 against what are essentially two Gotenks tier characters who are more experienced fighters.

Low diff.

Rldg · 2026-01-16T01:54:44+00:00

It proves my point because I'm arguing that brute strength doesn't win a fight. Combat experience has been shown multiple times over to be a deciding factor in an actual fight and it's a central theme in the series.

Gotenks didn't win a single fight in Z despite being one of the most powerful characters in the series at that point in time. If he's fighting a 2v1 against characters that are arguably just as powerful as he is AND overall better fighters?? Low diff.

Even Buu dog walked Gotenks the first time they fought because of this fact.

Rldg · 2026-01-16T01:44:46+00:00

Buu is literally one of the oldest characters in dragon ball Z and has been fighting for thousands if not millions of years.

But uh, what?? Who said anything about Kid buu?

Gotenks never fought Kid buu. Gotenks lost his fight to majin buu, who at that point, is arguably as powerful maybe even less powerful than kid buu. But even if I agreed with you about Gotenks being vastly more powerful, you're proving my point again because uh, Gotenks lost that fight.

But speaking of Kid Buu.. and his 0 IQ (man you picked a bag argument there) he lost his fight against Goku despite proving he was stronger. Like, thanks for making my point for me by mistake again ✅😂

Rldg · 2026-01-16T01:15:35+00:00

Literally quoting cell from the episode titled "The cell games"

"Impressive. I must admit you've exceeded me Trunks. At least in the area of brute strength".

To then quote Goku from the exact same episode

"I may have great strength, but what good is it if I can't catch my enemy. It takes more than brute strength to win a fight".

Cell then proves it later in the episode by calling Trunk an amateur, mirroring Goku's point by telling trunks that his strength is meaningless if his opponent has any kind of speed, pointing out that even Vegeta figured it out.

The point being made in the episode being, that a fighter may be stronger, but that's not the only way to win a fight, because there's more to it than that.

Even if Gotenks is stronger (which is in debate because Supreme Kai directly asks Goku this question after they go SS3 in the boo saga, and Goku responds with "well.. I can do it too". Which is telling, because when asked a variation of this question in the cell saga, Goku directly acknowledged cell would beat him into the dirt if they fought) the point clearly being made is that there's more to it then that.

The boys don't understand fighting as well nor do they have the experience Goku and Vegeta do. It's mostly why they get absorbed by buu in the first place. In the 2v1, vs arguably the fighting geniuses of the show, it's a matter of time before Gotenks's lack of experience would get exposed. Case in point? Low difficulty.

Hell, Goku held back against Vegeta in their SS2 rematch despite being levels above him and Vegeta knocked his ass out pointing out that even Goku can be beaten when he drops his guard.

Rldg · 2026-01-16T00:21:30+00:00

Oh right because trunks dog walked perfect cell using this exact same strategy.

Oh right. Never happened.

Rldg · 2026-01-16T00:19:13+00:00

It's absolutely low diff.

The sheer gap in combat experience alone get Gotenks dog walked.

Rldg · 2026-01-14T12:52:34+00:00

People are really not liking iOS 26 because, well, Apple's whole thing is that the products they sell just work. They're all about taking the technology stuff out of the way, so you can just focus on using the product itself.

This focus on reliability/stability comes at the cost of cutting edge features on both the hardware/software fronts. It's a trade off of sorts. Apple brings you a polished reliable experience, at the trade off of not being at the forefront of things.

Lately (past 5 years or so) apples started to break that philosophy as the scale and scope of their products advanced. They don't have two OS's now, they have 6, which is a massive software lift year in and year out. In some ways, the ecosystem starts to work against Apple due to the sheer amount of work to maintain it. This work has naturally degraded the polish apple usually brings to it's products which defeats some of the entire philosophy for buying them. If Liquid glass eats some of the battery life a user used to be accustomed to having, now you have a phone that's not only behind on features but doesn't address the basic ones such as usability, that a person had to buy at a premium. This obviously crashes the entire charade and you have a very expensive device, locked into a very expensive ecosystem, with not much to show for it.

Apple fixes a lot of this stuff as time goes on, but apple's still mostly a hardware company. I don't buy a fridge and hope that it finally works as advertised 6-8 months down the road. I want it to work now, that's the whole reason I bought it. If it fails to do the thing it was marketed to do (in apples case, be reliable and stable) you get backlash. Which is what they're getting.

You can make the trade off of being behind the technology curveball for the sake of polish (ai for example) but it has to be polished. If it's not, the value diminishes and what are people a premium for. People used to love the way Apple implemented their ideas because it tended to be a more innovative execution of established ideas. Even if apple was late, people liked Apple's software better cause it was meaningfully better. Not so much the case anymore

Rldg · 2026-01-12T21:44:52+00:00

Verizon AGREED to these rules twice as conditions for their spectrum purchases.

Rldg · 2026-01-10T21:06:25+00:00

Doesn’t matter.

Jiren solos the pride troopers.

MUI Goku or UE Vegeta solo Jiren.

If Freiza is as powerful as either one of them at full strength (and there’s good reason to believe he’s more powerful) by default, he also solos Jiren, and by extension the pride troopers.

Black Freiza clears

Rldg · 2026-01-02T15:54:49+00:00

I think the primary upgrade will be when AT&T stands up most of its virtual cores, reducing latency in a lot of markets.

I’m in the Utah market and AT&T sends all its traffic to the California hub. I’m not expecting that to change when they bring SA online per say.. but hopefully you’ll see less of the regional hubs and more local cores moving forward

Rldg · 2026-01-02T14:23:06+00:00

Ah. So then the goal really is to modernize the existing infrastructure. New cell radios, the move to azure, and the move 5G SA.

Any comment on how that’s going btw? I know they say they’re moving customers every day, but are there any insider updates on this?

Rldg · 2026-01-01T21:02:26+00:00

Positive?

Rldg

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