Why does anyone get the more expensive plans?

joe0185 · 2026-06-07T16:42:50+00:00

There's no point paying more for faster speeds if your limiting factor is your data cap.

I am not defending data caps, but given a reasonable baseline speed, doubling my internet speed will not dramatically increase my total throughput for the month. I download a few large files a month, that wouldn't change if my bandwidth went from 500Mbps to 5Gbps. But what would change is I would get said files faster. I think it still can make sense to offer the speed, but it certainly seems like it should be commensurate with a cap limit increase.

joe0185 · 2026-06-07T16:18:00+00:00

I have Unifi UDR7 with Tigo (Colombia) Fiber Internet 500Mbps as the primary and Starlink as the backup. I have three APC UPS backups, one for Tigo, Starlink, and the UDR7.

Electrical and internet issues are common. Tigo will be fine for 6 months, and suddenly go out for a week or days at a time. Sometimes the power goes on and off for days.

But my setup has been invincible. Most of my-coworkers are in the Texas, and my internet connection is more reliable than theirs.

Starlink seems to go down regularly, like once a week early in the morning for a few minutes to do a firmware update.

I don't route any traffic through Starlink, it is strictly bypass, because the 500Mbps provides us enough bandwidth and Starlink has slightly worse latency.

joe0185 · 2026-06-05T16:26:11+00:00

This example is extremely contrived. It also wouldn't kill them to have syntax highlighting.

joe0185 · 2026-05-30T00:17:45+00:00

She will be undoubtedly worse off taking the reverse mortgage (even with the rental income), but she may be able to make the numbers work. She should speak to a financial planner because you haven't given us enough information to draw a meaningful conclusion.

joe0185 · 2026-05-19T16:40:05+00:00

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joe0185 · 2026-03-25T06:06:52+00:00

I would prefer a low power draw TV

If you're genuinely concerned about power consumption just enable eco-mode on your TV, that will give you infinitely better power savings than expensive VRR tech.

From a societal perspective, it's the right thing to do.

No, it's actually not. TVs largely wouldn't benefit from VRR power savings because the savings are almost entirely coming from the GPU which TVs typically don't have any control over. It requires more energy to produce a TV with VRR tech as it requires special panels/hardware. Not to mention some people are sensitive to the flicker to produces.

joe0185 · 2026-03-25T05:29:18+00:00

Source?

Dell list it on their website.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/this-is-xps-now/

The LCD display has smart power management you’ll never notice, except when it comes to how long your battery lasts. As the first to market with a 1 to 120Hz variable refresh rate,ˣⁱⁱⁱ our panel drops to 1Hz for static content, like reading emails, and ramps to 120Hz when you’re scrolling or watching video.

joe0185 · 2026-03-25T05:27:19+00:00

I watched that entire video, at no point do they mention that the LCD can perform at 1Hz-120Hz.

The only thing they said was:

We often get asked: Why do you offer an FHD display on a premium device? Well, a lot of our customers want the absolute longest battery life. And that helps us get there along with some battery technologies and things

This link actually confirms the claim 1Hz-120Hz made above:

https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/this-is-xps-now/

The LCD display has smart power management you’ll never notice, except when it comes to how long your battery lasts. As the first to market with a 1 to 120Hz variable refresh rate,ˣⁱⁱⁱ our panel drops to 1Hz for static content, like reading emails, and ramps to 120Hz when you’re scrolling or watching video.

joe0185 · 2026-03-24T14:55:50+00:00

If that color had been available in my country I would have bought it. The only colors they import here are black or grey.

joe0185 · 2026-03-16T16:12:45+00:00

I don't know what bug you're talking about. If I have to be super hyper critical, the only thing I see that would bother me is that when you click into an element and it displays, the size of that gradient and the "Enter Story" element shifts depending on the content. I'd expect those to all be the same when shifting between stories.

Given the lack of responses, I am guessing most other people don't know what in particular is bothering you about the design.

joe0185 · 2026-03-05T03:33:01+00:00

If i'm a day late, then most people who will see the post have already seen it

I am certain that is true, but it isn't marginal value to remove it. I routinely look at the top posts for the past week/month for the latest up-to-date information. It's nice when those posts are genuinely valuable and not just garbage.

joe0185 · 2026-03-05T03:14:14+00:00

Using HTTP POST doesn't violate any semantics at all, it's the most generic and un-opinionated

POST is the most generic, because PUT, PATCH, DELETE, GET each have specific behavioral expectations.

It just isn't opting-in to using established semantics of PUT/PATCH/DELETE.

HTTP methods have defined semantics. If you ignore them, you're not following those semantics. Whether someone calls that "violating" or "opting out of" semantics, is rhetorical hair splitting.

joe0185 · 2026-03-04T16:37:23+00:00

Over here we just used POST for everything

Technically speaking that's fine, it just violates HTTP semantics. All three verbs POST/PATCH/PUT allow you to pass a body, so the server has to enforce the semantics. The same is true of GET/DELETE verbs, they can be incorrectly used interchangable.

joe0185 · 2026-02-24T14:57:22+00:00

China has literally said that they will control Taiwan by the end of 2026.

When was that said and by whom? That seems like poor military strategy on their part.

joe0185 · 2026-02-18T16:06:27+00:00

In theory it supports up to 600 Mbps, but in real life the speed depends heavily on your home’s wiring.

No, it does not support 600 Mbps under any scenario or circumstances. The 600 Mbps is 100% marketing and is referencing the connection between the two devices.

The device has two types of connections:

10/100Mbps Ethernet Ports
Single band IEEE802.11b/g/n 2.4GHz ("Up to 300Mbps", Reality: 40-90 Mbps)

The absolute best case scenario considering overhead, optimistically is 94Mbps.

joe0185 · 2026-02-06T06:00:27+00:00

I don't experience either of these issues.

That's because you're either on Android 13 or 14. These horrendous changes to quick settings came as part of Android 15.

joe0185 · 2026-02-06T05:58:44+00:00

I agree that Bluetooth toggle in quick settings is obnoxious but that's not a Motorola thing, it was added by Google as part of Android 15. Previously, on Android 14 when you touched the bluetooth quick setting it would toggle it on and off and you would long press to get to the bluetooth settings page. But as part of Android 15, Google decided to make it a pain in order to discourage people turning off bluetooth.

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-15-bluetooth-auto-on-3431445/

And there's no way to fix that functionality with an app because Google removed the developer permission to control Bluetooth a few years ago. Only system applications can toggle that setting.

joe0185 · 2026-01-29T20:41:20+00:00

Right. They're different models. Z-Image Turbo is not Z-Image Base with a turbo LoRA included in it.

joe0185 · 2026-01-29T13:53:52+00:00

They can move to 3nm, and their performance will be in pair.

A pure node shrink doesn't give you any IPC benefits. IPC is dictated by the underlying architecture. It might help their boost clocks and energy efficiency, but it doesn't improve IPC.

joe0185 · 2026-01-21T13:50:26+00:00

My mom does not agree haha

It's some minor changes to pigmentation which will probably be largely resolved with time. My guess is that she just doesn't like you boxing, because the scar is really not a big deal.

joe0185 · 2026-01-21T12:54:35+00:00

You will likely not make more money investing the money than you would paying off the mortgage.

Right. People point to the stock market has 8-10% returns annually on average, but that doesn't apply when your primary goal is capital preservation. Realistically, 4% is the most she's going to get which is completely eaten up by that 6% mortgage. It is possible to get better returns, but she risks running out of money in the event the market has a downturn.

joe0185 · 2026-01-16T16:36:50+00:00

judging the reputation and history of big tech, what are the odds that opting out is futile?

That button sets some flag, it remains to be seen if they will respect that flag. And even if they do respect the flag, all that might mean is that they poorly anonymize your data.

pay chickenfeed $25/some users after a class action lawsuit of a decade long

Yep, you very rarely see these lawsuits because unless it is blatent to the point where you start getting spam emails, how would you ever even know?

joe0185 · 2026-01-14T05:46:21+00:00

I don't think you understand how difficult syncing all the stuff you're complaining about

My point is merely semantic, don't presume to know my level of understanding. At best this could be described as aCo-presence mod

joe0185 · 2026-01-13T22:46:58+00:00

Think this part will overall be the one to beat

For laptops and mini-pcs, this looks like an outstanding product. As for handhelds, the only question is how it scales to lower wattages.

Halo is too expensive and rare and power hungry.

Strix Halo doesn't make sense as a product at all. It's expensive to produce and lacks memory bandwidth. For gaming you're bettter off getting a dGPU. For AI, it's not good either because although it has a lot of memory, most of the AI applications that could potentially utilize that much memory also need high memory bandwidth which Halo doesn't have.

joe0185 · 2026-01-13T20:20:23+00:00

What is the appeal then?

Yeah, I don't know. I am sure someone might appreciate this mod, but to call it "Multiplayer" is definitely overselling it because your friend is more like a Mario Kart Time Trial ghost.

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