city power here charges households $10 a month for that, the infrastructure and ‘account servicing’; and bill usage at cost. electric distribution costs a hell of a lot more than coax. so make that hypothetical bill $20, then. better paying $20 for what you’ll use and need than $100 for wasted service. it costs the big providers a few pennies per mbps to provide unthrottled, uncapped wireline broadband in the u.s., your bill is almost entirely profit for them.
and, not to forget, just because you have 1gbps or faster download available, doesn’t mean the other end and the pipes in between can deliver at that rate.
if you don’t need it, buy a smaller package.
if that were only possible here. i’d love to pay 10 percent of my bill for 10 percent of the speed. that’d be $10 for 50mbps. the cable company ‘discontinues’ slower speeds, calls it a ‘free’ upgrade (but you don’t actually get it unless you know about it and call in and navigate their bullshit in order to actually get it ‘free’), then raises rates anyway (even on those that did not ‘upgrade’). every. single. year. the only other provider is the telephone company. needless to say, they’re even worse.
that’s absolutely ridiculous and totally unfeasible.
the privacy implications alone are unfathomable.
the logistics? essentially impossible.
he’s not in charge of the decision to use Flock cameras
but that council or whatever it was, do make the rules (local laws, ordinances) for that jurisdiction. they could do something if they wanted to. a simple ordinance prohibiting their use within their boundaries. but they do not, and they had already made up their minds–public input be damned.
when re-broadcast on television or cable, those older programs are often re-edited or literally sped-up (or a little of both) so they can have the current norm of 10-12 minutes of ad time per half-hour.
they had been offering a no-cost equipment promo in some coverage areas for awhile, with only a year or something commitment. you paid $20 to ship the gear. your recurring bill was the monthly plan rate. that’s it.
they’re probably going back and now charging those sign-ups a ‘rental’ fee.
lowering the price and doubling the storage.
meanwhile, new google/gmail accounts are getting 5gb instead of 15.
4-day work weeks are great, especially if you have a significant commute, because you’re cutting 20% of that right out. the adding 2 hours to every work day, not so much; but the longer hours can mean that traffic is a bit lighter. the guaranteed week day off is huge when you have ‘stuff’ to do.
probably lack of volunteers to make it uefi compatible, and not worth putting paid talent on an optional feature used by a really, really small number of people. bitlocker-as-default would have broke it for good anyway.
is what? endless? it is a distribution, produced by the endless foundation.
https://endlessglobal.com/foundation/access/operating-system
my ‘monitor’ (really, an aio with hdmi in) runs win10/endless dual boot. this is the endless side. note the loop device in the gnome disks window, that’s the .img on c:\ that holds endless. efi grub handles the boot menu. all set up by the endless for windows ‘installer’.
the wubi installer. i remember that. installed ubuntu inside a container file and added boot entry so could choose at boot time. yea, that was never really supported when it was offered but it mostly worked.
endless os does have that option yet today. and it does work–with some caveats: it’s slow af with a hdd. well, immutable distros in general are, but this install method just makes it worse. and your windows c: cannot be encrypted (e.g. bitlocker). also be aware that the next version (endless 7) that’s in development will change pretty much everything ‘under the hood’ that makes endless what it is, as they’re moving from their customized gnome and in-house immutable debian base to an immutable based on gnome os itself.
hardly any ‘salutes’ to the screen, but definitely some uh… ‘verbal exchange’ happening. usually several times a day, and you wouldn’t want children nearby if i’m really on roll because windows fucked something up big time. aaaaand, occasionally to and at myself because every now-and-then it truly is my fault.
my boss (of 20+ years) abuses an old core2duo era desktop (8gb ram and sata ssd, both upgrades from original specs when 10 was put on) with 150+ tab firefox plus word and excel and voice software all going at once. never shuts down, never closes an application. sleeps, wakes, hibernates on weekends. it just keeps going. she’s never had any problems and it runs really well. she’d be bitching if it didn’t.
last night i put something in the fridge while doing the dishes. i went back to the dishes. i noticed then that the door of the fridge didn’t quite close all the way.
i did that very same thing–i’ll close that when i’m done here.
i didn’t.
i remembered the next afternoon when i went to the fridge to get something.
and older american made full size sedan or pickup, perhaps. those had ‘real’ horns and not little ‘beep beep’ like my old datsun and toyota had.
i used to be an assistant in corporate hr in the mid 1990s… we had locations in several dozen states plus mexico, but all of hr was in the main office. we’d fly candidates in, put 'em up in a hotel, provide transportation to and from airports and interviews, as well as a generous per diem for meals. they ‘made’ more in a day off that (even factoring-in a reasonable meal budget) than i made in a week.
his name is BoJack Horseman
or they never got it in the first place. verizon loves to munch on sms here on the work phone.
from what i know about ‘gname’ is that they’re popular with scammers and other bad actors. i would steer clear of them, even if they are ‘free’.