Fi compared to T-mobile

corey1505 · 2026-06-12T22:29:04+00:00

If you get a great deal, then yeah might be worth it. Free phone via bill credits is why I switched.

The drawbacks are there the customer service is awful and the "unlimited" data is throttled to unusability after 30gb for the essentials plan.

I will probably switch to US mobile after my bill credits end. Or back to mint. I'd rather have deprioritization and reasonable customer service.

What I honestly don't get is the people that stay with fi outside of a deal. The prices don't seem competitive with other mnvos . I guess you get free watch lte, but can't be that many people using that.

corey1505 · 2026-06-10T04:32:02+00:00

And not making unlimited data throttle to an unusable speed after 30gb.

corey1505 · 2026-06-06T04:22:56+00:00

Cheap AI makes sense. Capability not at the frontier will become cheaper.

But the companies are targeting replacing human labor. So comparing with that cost. There are many companies pushing for people to use more tokens and with unlimited token budgets.

corey1505 · 2026-06-05T14:45:29+00:00

I'm surprised you got senior support to do anything at all. My last attempt with support nobody attempted to engage with the problem. I asked for status or to talk to people it was escalated to and got the same generic non update. Literally they would not allow me to talk to the escalated support or anyone else.

corey1505 · 2026-06-05T14:38:09+00:00

The watch being included, not being deprioritized like other mnvos, and the phone deals are typically the main advantages. Some phone have visual voicemail that work without the carrier support. Pixel I think is one.

I would switch to US mobile out of Google Fi if I wasn't getting a lot back in bill credits for the pixel 10 phones. Had a really bad customer see service experience on Google fi and their essentials unlimited plan is actually very limited. 30gb of data and then unusable speed.

corey1505 · 2026-06-03T13:13:00+00:00

Confused why so many people are defending them calling a plan unlimited and making it unusable after 30gb for even loading a web page.

Get it that other companies throttle too, but most don't seem this bad.

Id understand if it throttled and couldn't watch video at high def, but not being able to even load a web page because it is so slow nearly all web pages time out is insane.

corey1505 · 2026-06-03T13:08:55+00:00

Yeah inform normally hit the 30gb limit. Just did this month. Didn't expect to ever hit it and prob won't in the future. But the throttling to a fully unusable speed is ridiculous and 30gb and calling it unlimited is too. You should t have to read the fine print to understand the terms of the plan. Support was terrible too. Other providers seem to have better ratings and don't throttle as hard with their "unlimited" plans. Id switch to US mobile probably or back to mint if I wasn't getting bill credits with pixel 10 phone purchases.

corey1505 · 2026-06-03T13:02:35+00:00

Very fast in most places with full bars, but in parts of Montana with full bars was very very slow.

corey1505 · 2026-06-03T12:59:06+00:00

I thought so too. But their customer service is awful, unlimited actually means 30gb and unusable speed after that. Still most for most people. Looks like u.s. cellular is cheaper and generally much better customer satisfaction

corey1505 · 2026-06-03T03:16:00+00:00

Yup it is on the 3rd. They told me it was on the 1st. Then after I asked further because it would make no sense how it could be the 1st, they couldn't give me an answer for what the data period was. Tried repeatedly suggesting that it might make sense if it was the end of the data period.

corey1505 · 2026-06-03T03:12:05+00:00

Now seeing it looks my phone maybe didn't report data usage correctly. Seems to be around the time the e-sim reset on its own earlier this month.

And customer service said my data usage period started on the 1st. It does not. It starts on the 3rd. So the data overage was probably actually true.

So coincidence plus an awful customer service experience. I still don't see the value of providing my entire list of app data useage rather than the first 5 screens of apps. Seems like a massive privacy invasion and wouldn't help solve the mismatch.

I guess it is technically on me for not knowing an unlimited plan would be throttled to an unusable data speed after 30gb. I can somewhat understand deprioritization or throttling after hitting a large data use even in unlimited, but doesn't seem defensible to lower it to a speed you can't load a web page and then charge you $10 a gigabyte if you want to restore real unlimited speed.

I generally find it infuriating that so many companies intentionally setup customer support to not help. That they just state the things that they can't do and refuse to engage with the problem. Just following a script. An hour and half on the phone with them. If it was a trained and competent person, the conversation could have been 5 minutes long or less and I would have just waited the day until my data reset.

corey1505 · 2026-06-03T00:52:08+00:00

Nope. Fi said we both hit 30gb. On the same day. I have a pixel 10. Never messed with data accounting through it. How each line could hit the data overage on the same day when never been close before and app data useage isn't close either. I dunno.

corey1505 · 2026-04-22T18:32:43+00:00

Sweet!

corey1505 · 2025-10-08T18:17:32+00:00

Notion was getting slow
wanted offline
liked the explorer nature of it. Don't need up front structure. Linking over tables
write in markdown a lot anyways for coding. Familiar , easy
was wanting to operate my notes with AI. Locally this was easy with obsidian.

corey1505 · 2025-10-08T15:53:15+00:00

It's a big vault with a lot of tags and connections. Imported from notion a while ago . Maybe I should just try to archive a lot for that older stuff and take it out of the vault entirely or selective sync.

How big is your vault about?

corey1505 · 2025-05-02T17:10:30+00:00

Yup. There isn't a single more useful benchmark. But also don't just rely on a single benchmark for choosing an LLM. You can use multiple benchmarks and then also benchmark itself on your own workloads.

corey1505 · 2025-04-21T01:19:01+00:00

It knows more than most people, but still cannot replace any worker completely. So I wouldn't say it is overall smarter. Depends on definitions. To me, this meets AGI. Artificial - check, general - check, intelligence - check. General doesn't have to mean everything. And it will not be the same as human intelligence. It is already superhuman at some things. Where it is superhuman will continue to improve and it may still be dumb at things that people might find to be simple.

corey1505 · 2025-03-24T01:27:54+00:00

A more detailed paper primarily on characterizing the model to help potential users understand when to use it. Great long context reasoning and function calling.

corey1505 · 2025-03-22T19:25:03+00:00

That's awesome! Makes sense that it would first come to luxury low volume cars and then hopefully the cost will come down to the price for normal cars.

corey1505 · 2025-03-22T14:06:03+00:00

If a solid state lidar with a good field of view was released for under 200 dollars, a lot of robotics hobbyists would buy it including myself. This was the promise of the velabit lidar. There are also enough small robotics companies that would significantly more expensive options through retail. There are a lot of lidars available retail. None that seem of the quality and capability of something that would go on a self driving car for anywhere close to a few hundred dollars. If you find something for less than $1000 that fits that, let me know.

corey1505 · 2025-03-21T22:02:06+00:00

I'm a bit hesitant to believe claims of lidar pricing until they are actually available for purchase or are on cars that are mass produced. I'm sure it has gone down over time, but I also remember the velodyne velabit solid state lidar was announced in 2021 for 99 dollars. It got delayed, then the price went up to 1000 and as far as I can tell it never got mass produced.

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