By your logic then, capitalism is great, because that means no one would’ve engineered these crazy locks but instead just used the tried and true ones.

Wait. That’s not what happened?

Oh.

Oh no. Of course not.

We can’t actually show ways to defeat government overreach, we can only allude to its existence!

Good.

Hell, windows itself does it.

I can tell you that Mediacom cable will cut your service off for it, and you have to call in and get scolded before they turn it back on.

And, if it happens 3 times, your service is disconnected permanently.

What’s crazy is that Trump claims to be against the current ruling in Sony’s favor, and is siding with Cox.

We have a choice between T-Mobile 5G, 3M ADSL, coax docsis and Starlink.

Of those, the most reliable is the DSL, then Starlink, and it’s a tossup whether the T-Mobile or the Mediacom DOCSIS is the least reliable

I worked for Mediacom for 5 years. It wasn’t reliable then either, but at least then, I didn’t have to play the “first we have to send out a tech that may not actually show up the first time because it’s working at the exact moment he checks before he cancels the call” game.

When I left them, we switched to DSL, which was … painful, but we managed for a couple of years. Then the pandemic happened, and the kiddo went to remote schooling, and the DSL just couldn’t handle it. So we used the “reduced cost” internet plan for going back to Mediacom.

Except after months of fighting to actually get the reduced price plan we were supposed to be getting, we were told the T-Mobile now serviced our area, and switched with glee.

And for almost 3 years it was GREAT. But in the past year or so, we began having horrendous service issues. Speeds were no better, and sometimes even worse than the DSL we had previously.

Finally, I had enough, and bit the bullet and switched to Starlink.

Now, our service is great. The bill isn’t, because let’s face it, $120 a month for 200ish Mbps down and 50ish up is nuts, but at least we have fast, reliable service now.

Eh, IoT devices typically use 2.4ghz, or even 933mhz…

No shit? The thing security geeks have been warning about for years with all the cameras everywhere actually happened?

No way! Whodathunkit?

You did WHAT with them?

They don’t GO there…

You can find adapters that can charge while still having a 3.5mm back

Tell me again what the voter turnout percentage was?

The vast majority of us are so used to our voices not being heard that we don’t even bother voting. It doesn’t change anything.

You keep talking about how they voted “for” this and that, without even understanding that most people in the USA didn’t vote for anything at all.

Election results say it doesn’t. Because they’ve alienated a huge majority of the working class. Because blue collar workers overwhelmingly vote against the Democratic party in the US.

You can call them all uneducated buffoons all you want, but in doing so, you are only proving my point that the Democratic Party has alienated them totally.

Why do you think the Democratic party, once well known as the party of the working class, no longer holds that distinction?

Do you have any idea what you’re talking about? No.

It doesn’t matter what rural areas vote for. They’re all gerrymandered to shit just like the cities are.

The political elite on both sides have a good chunk of us fighting each other instead of them. So, congrats on falling for the same bullshit.

I dunno, what does burnt Spock smell like?

My right? Indeed.

Apple has always said this about their users. Too stupid to allow choices outside of a few curated options.

“There are three types of lies. Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” - Mark Twain.

I see 80s 90s era cars and trucks running around my town all day every day.

Try again.