Post title works as-is, at least IMO. You can always edit it if you want.

Yes, what you’re describing is what’s called “willful ignorance” here.

“Ignorance” is used to mean simply “lack of knowledge” in most cases in English. It doesn’t carry the negative connotation by itself.

There’s nothing wrong with being ignorant. It just means there’s opportunity for learning.

There’s everything wrong with being willfully ignorant.

– Me

How was the satellite

This was pre-Starlink, so kind of crappy. Bandwidth was decent for the time at 12 Mbps (I think upstream was 3?) and the latency was what it was (~900ms round trip). The draconian 10 GB data caps were what got you, though.

You could RDP in a pinch to put out a fire, but you would not want to be working remotely over it on a daily basis.

Irrelevant, I think? Whether we have enough or not, they’re going to just take it. See: the “AI” boom and how SSD and memory costs are skyrocketing and general availability declining as well as GPU costs/availability since Buttcoin.

I’m not too worried now, but at some point, there’s going to be a breakthrough and “quantum” is going to be the new bubble. “Quantum datacenters” and/or “quantum AI” or whatever marketing horseshit they come up with.

When I commented, I completely missed the 2007 part. Was thinking back to Napster / Kazaa days.

I had 128k DSL in 2007 (I think it was called iDSL or something because it was the same line rate as ISDN but could reach further than regular DSL – I lived out in the boonies).

Between then and 2019, I struggled with various connection methods: worsening DSL, satellite, and 3G). Best I managed was a cell phone signal booster and an old phone with semi-unlimited data where I got a steady ~5 Mbps at a reasonable latency on 3G.

In 2020, right before COVID hit, I finally moved to civilization and had decent cable until I got fiber 2-3 years ago.

Oh, and yeah, we had very similar broadband grants to nowhere. The fiber I got in 2022 was likely what we paid for in 2015.

yeah…I had to earn by gigabit fiber.

Bonus stat: Your dad picked up the phone 7 times while you were doing the internet.

Good to know.

I think this just fixes the bug where deleted accounts were invisible to admins. It’s a start but doesn’t fully address the problem. Still, having it federate the content removal is a step in the right direction.

They’ve also been throwing out rage bait in the “YSK” community. But yeah, I definitely agree it’s a problem. So much so that I’ve added some built-in filters for that in Tesseract (client-side) to deal with it. I don’t want to go into the technical details for fear of that jackass trying to counter them, but suffice it to say they’re effective based on their current M.O… I just need to finish this release and get it pushed out as it’s been approaching vaporware status over the last 1-2 months.

I think Piefed is also taking action in either its UI or backend. I don’t recall exactly what, but I saw something mentioned a week or two ago on another post complaining about that self-deleting spammer account.

Honestly, I prefer A11 and agree it’s gotten worse sense. Thinking mostly along the lines of security patches and the like.

The GSI ROM I’m running on my secondary one is LineageOS on top of the stock system (basically how GSI images work). There’s no official LineageOS support, but I’m honestly not sure what the limitation is; may just be no one willing to maintain it.

Unfortunately they don’t make them anymore, and they’re stuck on Android 11. I have two, and one of them is running a GSI ROM for Android 13 but it’s got issues with VoLTE so it’s not my daily driver.

American officers call turbolifts the “turbovator” (which, jokes aside, does sound cooler).

[DeSantis Watching The Flintstones] Have a what old time?!

Maybe it will, maybe it won’t, but either way: Please, no. One of the most refreshing things was noticing the internet had largely matured from that. I’m all for throwing a wrench in the gears of the AI brains, but there’s a limit.

Touche! I was referring to the actress rather than the character, but that was left ambiguous. Well played.