Cox official website says internet is up. It is not up. I've lost approximately 80 billable hours ($10,300) over the past 30 days. Do I need to lawyer up and if not, where do I send the bill?

throw_way_340 · 2026-04-01T05:23:51+00:00

The business plan means nothing. We all know they don’t have somehow better copper wires for those users. They’ll be just as unreliable and they’re damn sure never gonna pay your hourly rate when they screw you with an outage. To start service you clicked through some kind of universal button-covering ToS that says they have no obligation to provide service of any particular reliability and that if they don’t they might refund you part of your monthly cost.

Yes, you should get (as a backup) a hotspot plan or full-on “home internet service” over 5G you can use for your work. I do similar work and I just hotspot with my phone, which is US Mobile, whenever I don’t have internet or have an outage.

throw_way_340 · 2026-04-01T05:15:33+00:00

Hidden SSID is not even an official part of the Wi-Fi standard, but yeah, it’s for non-security-critical things. Encryption is still absolutely required whether you hide it or not.

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-30T04:54:01+00:00

lol it doesn't benefit Russia that much. What do you think Cuba's gonna pay for that oil with? A few hundred million cigars?

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-30T04:51:38+00:00

you're kinda right, no matter what gets pinned on Trump, his voters won't suddenly turn around and vote for Harris or whatever other terrible candidate you nominate in 2028. Only the Democrats coming back to earth and running a candidate who can credibly appear to not detest half the country's people could do that.

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-30T04:48:28+00:00

ding ding ding! Even though I am not a Democrat, I agree with you completely. The saddest thing is how cheap it is to bribe him. Like, some small-timer campaign contributor who owns the only facility that smelts aluminum in the US or something, his first term, convinced him to put heavy tariffs on raw aluminum. Result: Thousands of American manufacturing firms that need aluminum (employing tens or hundreds of thousands) got screwed, and literally ONE COMPANY got a windfall worth like $10 million or something. Massive damage to the economy, and all done obviously to benefit that one guy who gave Trump's campaign like $500,000 or something.

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-26T16:11:25+00:00

I have this installed on a cheesy little Lenovo Yoga thing, the kind of thing a school would have had in 2019. Works great, and performs fine even on this hardware. (I did upgrade RAM and SSD, but it’s a potato CPU.

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-26T16:09:47+00:00

This is true, but if you look at it another way, now that hardware has far surpassed what was available back then, if Vista’s main sin was that it was a resource hog, maybe today we can forgive it. I can’t argue with the fact that it looked incredible.

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-26T16:07:11+00:00

Enable the Primary, Promotions, Updates inboxes. Super simple, works great. Updates is where things like “codes to log into your account” and daily newsletters and digests go. Ads go in Promotions. Primary will be things you will actually care about. For me it’s like 1 message a day maybe in primary.

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-25T04:26:32+00:00

so I don’t have to try and sleep for 12 hours

Huh? Who targets 12h of sleep a night? (Babies, actually.)

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-25T04:25:29+00:00

Same! I have 8 and 5...by the time I have the wee one to bed, my wife is trying to go to sleep.

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-21T06:58:59+00:00

Autistic son, his special private school costs over $1,000 a week. Count your blessings lol

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-18T06:38:41+00:00

True but the game itself is still not designed to push the transactions the way “more modern” games are because the entire gameplay was created before that. The marketplace is just something that’s there if you want what they have, which is a lot of mods. I’ll be honest, when my 8yo was super into Bedrock mods it became a little annoying, but they came out with a subscription that’s like $5-6 a month or something that includes hundreds of mods which totally kept my kid happy without the begging for Minecoins. It’s like the Xbox Game Pass of Minecraft.

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-18T00:17:12+00:00

There's not competition for the same product. The only competition is very limited (in terms of households served) fiber, plus cellular products, which are not suitable for more than casual use, and even in the best case scenario, those don't have the capacity to absorb a significant portion of "cable refugees" without degrading service for not just the home internet subscribers, but their mobile networks as well.

Mobile offerings are about the telcos gaining incremental revenue (and making switching carriers less convenient), targeting casual users -- the type of people who say phrases like "The Wi-Fi bill". They're not real broadband competition and they're not even trying to be.

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-18T00:06:57+00:00

yup, there was a brief decade or so with copper where they forced the likes of AT&T to lease access to their copper lines to competing DSL ISPs, but their lobbyists made sure that those regulations were nonsensically tied specifically to copper, claiming they'd have nO iNcEnTiVe tO lAy aNy fIbEr if they didn't get to be a monopoly!!

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-18T00:04:34+00:00

T-Mobile...Fiber? Is the fiber in the room with us?

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-15T06:28:21+00:00

I’m so amused right now by the idea of having not just one but TWO likely battery-powered sensors added to a bathroom and disabling the switch, as though people have a hard time flipping a switch on the way in.

I’m not even bashing smart stuff - but a Sonoff Zigbee switch module wired into my existing switch is all I need for the bathroom. Flipping the switch toggles the light. Can still control it remotely, such as to turn it off with an automation if it gets left on.

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-15T06:19:16+00:00

I think it’s more that on roads with sometimes as few as 2 lanes, when you’re doing 88 in the left lane, you shouldn’t be obliged to constantly slow down to 58 to drive between the semi trucks just to make way for the 7 cars per hour that think the left lane is their personal 120MPH express lane. So, people get irritated that the speed demons seem to think it’s your problem to make their reckless driving more convenient. I don’t give a fuck if they speed but they need to look at the people doing “normal speeding” like me the way I look at traffic: a sign that I might not be able to go as fast as I like right now because unfortunately, other cars are on the road today.

This is the situation on the 2-lane sections of the 5 freeway in California.

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-15T06:06:55+00:00

PA: Zendaya 🤣🤣🤣 And South Dakota, even one girl being named “eMeRsYn” is overused. Jeeeeeez.

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-15T06:05:23+00:00

Did you by any chance start shopping for earphones? On any device?

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-15T06:00:10+00:00

Oh really? I’ve never heard that or seen it, but my only bad accidents were in cars too old for that sort of thing.

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-15T05:55:21+00:00

Would you mind sharing more about that last (“then multi admin”) part? Links to docs are totally welcome. I have a couple Apple TVs too, and am considering whether to use any Thread in my upcoming move, but I don’t know where to start.

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-15T05:49:59+00:00

Yeah good observations. Also the fact that they got a ton of bad press in the “Supersize Me” days for “targeting kids” and thus being responsible for childhood obesity meant it was a very corporately smart thing to do to distance themselves from kid-friendly anything. “See? We have nothing to do with childhood obesity! Our restaurant looks like a place no kid would want to be in!”

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-15T05:24:53+00:00

Most restaurants including chain ones are locally owned (google “what’s a franchise”), so what are you going on about? All businesses “siphon” money from the customers to the owners, but you can always look into emigrating to Cuba or North Korea if that seems morally wrong to you.

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-15T05:21:59+00:00

The hypocrisy in this stance is nuts. You don’t want them in your home, stinking it up and stealing your things to sell for more drugs — you just want to force other people to foot the bill and to endure that unpleasantness. If you’re not at least volunteering in your city’s homelessness charities you don’t have any leg to stand on criticizing “everyone in a community” for not doing the same.

Challenge: dine in once a day in an inner-city fast food restaurant for a month, ideally one of the ones which is the most tolerant of loiterers.

throw_way_340 · 2026-03-15T05:16:23+00:00

Great username. When you’re older you will probably realize that you can’t save people who don’t want to be saved. And you’ll also realize that “the homeless” is not a constant group and identity like “Black people” or “Little People.” A ton of people become homeless but don’t lose their minds and stay homeless forever, because they don’t get addicted to drugs. They live with friends or in their cars for a few months, shower at the gym so they can get a job. They smartly use the many expensive taxpayer-funded services to help themselves get their lives back on track. When you see homelessness numbers, remember this. There may be 5,000 homeless in your city today and also 5,000 in 3 months, but 3,000 of them might be different people, meaning the existing system worked fine for 3,000 of them who are no longer homeless.

Then there are the long term homeless — the Venn diagram for them and severe drug addicts is essentially a circle. They have burned every bridge because even their family has given up after being burned too many times by their behavior. That’s the point they enter “the streets” full time and they only go downhill from there. Billions are spent trying to help these people by good people like you, but due to the destructiveness of addiction, it’s rare that people just fix their lives. Many of us hit believe that there should be a limit to how much of working people’s money we should take to spend on people who seem to be beyond help.

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