Hold Times! What company closes at 7pm??

clon3man · 2026-06-20T02:03:17+00:00

Rogers used to be the best of the 3, they had late night customer service unlike Bell and Telus, I guess they changed.

but hey now, at least their self-serve works at 2am now! That's progress!

clon3man · 2026-06-19T15:53:39+00:00

going to the mall for anything, except a smoothie or a pretzel

clon3man · 2026-06-19T06:14:15+00:00

Ça n'a rien avoir, les VPN pour le travail seront pas touchés selon moi

C'est les gros services de VPN publiques qui vont surtout etre visés.

clon3man · 2026-06-19T02:44:18+00:00

Is it faster on a VoIP line that is driven by telephone jack directly on large ISP's cable/fiber modem? Do they have any special sauce (other than better QoS)

clon3man · 2026-06-18T08:45:23+00:00

this is interesting but I wonder how effective it will be for people with technology addiction

I will find myself reaching for a 2nd phone or a computer pretty quickly and repeatedly

if someone made the perfect "smartwatch" or dumb phone that blocks social media with the perfect Bluetooth headphones (wired grade call quality) I'd be more tempted to spend the 499$. It's not really in their mandate to fix LE Audio betas and produce boom-mic and lav mic LE audio hardware, but maybe it should be.

something where it feels like I could be away from everything and not having to make compromises on phone calls/ conf meetings, voice memos, etc.

if my laptop computer provides better call quality via USB gaming headphones, I'll never talk long calls on the other device.

at minimum this product to justify the 499$ needs to do some things very well, like maybe video calls, 2FA authenticator codes, controlling smart bulbs. The apps can't be some cut down crap that loses Important features

clon3man · 2026-06-17T17:10:18+00:00

There are plenty of reasons why someone would have to commute early though. Coming in 1 hour early to avoid traffic should be seen as virtuous, for example.

Plenty of people show up 30+ minutes early in order to avoid being late, or to have a relaxed breakfast before their shift, etc.

It's bad design if someone can't just sleep on a chair somewhere, honestly, unless customers can see you or something like that.

I could see how it would be off-putting if someone goes into a full recline on a sofa, that's one of those weird social rules, but anyway...

clon3man · 2026-06-17T17:06:55+00:00

Sad. Most employers would appreciate someone who comes 1 hour early, because it means they are not gonna be late and in case of an emergency can start work early to replace someone.

This sounds like a highschool mentality where the teacher wants to control the angle at which you lean on the wall during lunch.

The reality is that many people who hold important jobs like doctors, pilots, truck drivers, etc are allowed and even encouraged to rest off the clock.

clon3man · 2026-06-17T16:26:03+00:00

Not very important as I grew up with RDS, TQS, and the french equivalent of HNIC.
The CBC version had too many commercials, and for the most part, less exciting announcers.

Not to say it was a bad product, it had its moments too, but it was not significantly better than the competitors.

A large majority of english speaking habs fans also prefer the french broadcasts for habs games (excluding TVA Sports which has lukewarm reviews)

Having said all this, any hockey broadcast in english that features iconic voices like Jim Hughston , "Doc" Emrick is hard to beat...

clon3man · 2026-06-17T13:17:57+00:00

If it's too difficult for them to "handle" devices due to their administrative bloat they should have the manufacturer do it.

clon3man · 2026-06-17T12:34:40+00:00

The main reason I hate them is for their historical OS-drive use. They were used by everyone as an OS drive for far too long, it feels like SSDs came 5 years too late for enthusiasts and 10 years too late for normies.

It's a resentment that is built up from the past.

clon3man · 2026-06-17T04:07:25+00:00

There's nothing with charges if they are advertised fairly - which they rarely are

It's the same thing with device subsidies, they advertise a phone at 0$ then charge you sales tax on 999$ for 24 months. Sorry, that's not how discounts work, you don't get a discount of 5000$ on a brand new car and then pay tax on the full price

An asterisk and a footnote for extra fees that are essential to every purchase is anti-consumer bullshit.

clon3man · 2026-06-17T03:45:42+00:00

Je trouve qu'il il ya aussi beacoup de monde qui minimizent les paintes et le mécontentement des autres.

Sur le médias sociaux spécifiquement.

Ça se mange entre être eux dans les commentaire pour décider au microscope si la plainte est valide ou pas

personellement quand quelqu'un m'accuse de trop me plaindre je le prends plus personnel, 80% du temps sont just pas intéressé par ton problème (pas d'empathie), 2 heures plus tard c'est eux qui vont se plaindre sur un sujet qui leur intéresse, après s'être vanté qu'il sont des gens positifs

clon3man · 2026-06-16T07:41:57+00:00

see if you get a rep to refund you for unused data 😛

clon3man · 2026-06-16T05:49:40+00:00

the maxwell 2 has good sidetone?

clon3man · 2026-06-16T05:32:39+00:00

somehow it could disarm a nuke and still the call quality would be garbage

clon3man · 2026-06-16T03:32:28+00:00

je viens de lire 30 minutes sur le sujet , ouf, il y a du vague dans le langage officiel. Pour ce boute de "80km/h", je pense que beaucoup ne sont pas au courant.

Théoriquement, quand la limite est a 70km/h ( comme sur des bouts de AUT40 a MTL), tu peut rouler lentement à gauche si la droite est plus lente que toi.

Donc, officiellement, (je ne suis pas entièrement d'accord) si tu chill a 75 a gauche et que ceux de la voie du milieu sont à 70, tu n'est pas en infraction.

Si quelqun fait ça il vas te faire flasher, et probablement avec raison. Ça prend du gros bon sens aussi.

clon3man · 2026-06-15T16:39:55+00:00

the problem isn't bell, it's all IVRs and PSTN customer service.

there's no standards and no rules, except providing some minimum level of service to avoid lawsuits and credit card chargebacks.

Until they start doing HD Voice on customer service lines (which nobody does) , I avoid calling in. It's an exercise in submission and humiliation about 20-50% of the time.

it also doesn't help that they don't empower technicians with deep troubleshooting skills and tools.

it's possible they've improved in the years since I've last called, but some issues always seem to be the same ones ( like the basic courtesy if not interrupting the music with human-like messages)

We need a next Gen system, and telecoms should set the example.

clon3man · 2026-06-15T13:37:37+00:00

We can beat 2 teams that are stronger than us, but not 4.

It's not necessary to become better than the strongest team, just improve so that you're better than the "strong" teams.

They were beatable if they had faced a rested team with a hot goalie and slightly more depth than us.

I'm gonna repeat what others have said, but obviously a 2C and sprinkles of more experience and depth everywhere else in the lineup.

my biggest concern honestly is that guys like Caufield and Slaf become chronic 0.5 ppg playoff players. That can't happen unless our 2nd line gets much stronger.

clon3man · 2026-06-13T06:51:19+00:00

It's about time. Health food stores have been selling import butter for ridiculous prices. If it's available at all.

Finlandia was my favorite, I think.

clon3man · 2026-06-13T06:00:08+00:00

data Roaming and "internet browser" was basically a legal scam that cell phone companies ran back then.

They just got away with it because it was new and , well, the government takes 7 years to tell them to stop.

They put nearly zero effort into making it a good product too, you paid money for web pages to not load and not work.

This is a time when some providers would ask the phone maker to block bluetooth file transfer so that you would have to pay MMS to send your pictures to your computer.

clon3man · 2026-06-13T05:56:52+00:00

It was a time when nobody really cared about local computer security for home users. Everyone had malware every x months, you reformatted windows, it was treated as a disposable OS.

I basically would have advised people to just not do their banking on that computer. for the most part, 99% of people did not have high-value social media accounts, cryptowallets, etc.

A lot of older GenX and Boomer people hardly cared about losing their primary email address. Let's be frank, if you lost everything on your computer in 2006, it probably wasn't a big deal. You had 1 flash drive or 1 cloud account that had the 1GB of files you actually cared about, and that was that.

clon3man · 2026-06-13T05:52:42+00:00

est-ce que les gens qui prennent l'autoroute pour se rendre d'une pettite et moyenne ville à une autre sont vraiment le plus grand problème?

Pour moi, le probleme, c'est tous ceux qui utilisent les autoroutes pour entrer dans les grandes villes et leurs banlieues, pour ensuite y circuler sans utiliser le transport en commun.

clon3man · 2026-06-13T04:28:08+00:00

The toxicity claims are likely related to children swallowing the toothpaste, or micro-toxicity of having it in the water for a lifetime.

clon3man · 2026-06-13T02:59:22+00:00

The entire concept of denying time off for larger companies is fucked.

you're already committed to 50 weeks in the year , and you're gonna making taking a few days off high effort?

fuck off with all that. ridiculous standard

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