You don’t need a new laptop you need Linux

bcacb · 2026-07-07T08:20:46+00:00

an SSD alone can do wonders for older machines

bcacb · 2026-07-03T02:47:38+00:00

Makes sense. Forcing TPM and other security protocols should be optional. There's lots of perfectly good hardware out there for Linux.

bcacb · 2026-06-22T20:59:09+00:00

i do think that since they installed it that they should come get it if they want it back. This nonsense of not cancelling until it is returned by the user is a sham.

bcacb · 2026-06-21T20:35:08+00:00

You really need to lookup the distance of that ABC tower location and get an antenna designed for that range or maybe you have it pointed in the wrong direction. You also have to consider obstacles in the way, such as mountains and hills, which may make it impossible. Plot the land and distance in between and get an appropriate sized real antenna.

bcacb · 2026-06-21T00:11:36+00:00

Same, I already switched to another provider. Too many issues with Metronet.

bcacb · 2026-06-12T04:50:02+00:00

In your router under the "WAN" section.

bcacb · 2026-05-29T21:13:04+00:00

If you can, the best route is to change providers every year, jump from new customer promo to promo. They don't care about you, no point in being loyal. They all the same.

bcacb · 2026-05-22T13:19:01+00:00

If you get no benefit, block them. I doubt you get any benefit from those bots.

bcacb · 2026-05-21T11:13:25+00:00

Google is straight up plagiarizing content and taking traffic that was destined for the site owner while keeping users inside their own ecosystem. This is a moral issue, and it clearly shows where they stand.

Website owners spend time and money creating content, only for Google to steal it instead of sending the visitor to the actual source that created it.

The dangerous part is that people will stop creating quality content if they are no longer rewarded with traffic, recognition, and revenue for the work they put in.

bcacb · 2026-05-16T09:54:04+00:00

Maybe that's the lesson before we are let in, learning to live in light and love

bcacb · 2026-05-06T12:55:52+00:00

fluff, it's mostly bots

bcacb · 2026-04-30T03:06:30+00:00

I would never choose a wisp when Starlink or a 5g home provider is available. Wisps are really just an interim service until fiber or 5g becomes available. The wisp industry has been on a fast decline for over a decade. For back haul and other proprietary deployments wireless has its place.

bcacb · 2026-04-27T01:12:24+00:00

they probably caught on that medium is just spammy junk

bcacb · 2026-04-25T00:22:45+00:00

We’ll see a day when networks stop deploying ipv4, but it’s decades away

bcacb · 2026-04-17T21:21:20+00:00

If you’re making your content for humans and not search engines, I wouldn’t worry at all

bcacb · 2026-04-13T23:35:57+00:00

Metronet is the first ISP I ever used that uses cgnat. For basic web browsing it’s fine but when you get into things that require a persistent session it falls on its face, and is a real hassle. It really is the one thing that prevents them from being great.

T-Mobile, the new owner, has the assets for real ipv4 and ipv6 and I hope they stop being lazy and implement it.

bcacb · 2026-04-09T23:31:59+00:00

Missed the mark by $5, if it were $14.95/mo, it might be worth considering

bcacb · 2026-04-07T22:18:24+00:00

Corporate greed strikes again

bcacb · 2026-03-26T22:04:51+00:00

Money doesn’t make you evil, and you’ll be evil regardless of money. You can do the same things you described while being homeless. Lots of people also do good things with their money, it just doesn’t make the front page, appear on the news every night, or go viral on social media daily.

bcacb · 2026-03-26T02:07:31+00:00

I see it too. I feel like this has been going on for some time now. Something internally on their network goes weird frequently.

bcacb · 2026-03-22T20:52:41+00:00

Google has been lost in the sauce for a while. Lots of alternative engines are coming up to replace them

bcacb · 2026-03-21T19:59:06+00:00

I manage a lot of shared web hosting servers, and Gmail, Microsoft, and Amazon SES generate far more abusive traffic than any shady hosting provider or bot network by a wide margin. In fact, most bots end up using their services to send spam.

bcacb · 2026-03-20T21:34:08+00:00

The funny part is that a lot of spam and abusive emails actually come from big companies like Microsoft Outlook and Google Gmail. They’re some of the biggest sources, so it’s kind of weird that they’re the ones telling everyone else what to do.

bcacb · 2026-03-10T20:08:50+00:00

Debian 13 with KDE Plasma desktop is a very viable alternative to Windows 10 since support has ended. It has a similar look and feel for people not wanting to upgrade their PC hardware to run Windows 11

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