It's a rigged game, so fraud

What's the point in that?

But just like voting the choices you vote for have incentives to rig the system in their own favor. It's hard to vote with your wallet as they say because the companies are so big they will either lobby for laws to make themselves the only viable option or they will just buy up their competitors.

For example I always try to favor local businesses so when I moved I signed up for the local bank. It was small and had one or two branches. The next year a larger regional ank bought them. Then a larger national bank bought them. Next thing I knew it was bank of America somehow.

I would have never voted for any of that. So it's not really the fault of the consumer

I've got some bad news for you about where the majority of fediverse users are based.

Agree on the chatbot thing but to be honest, it was like that way before LLMs.

There was a full decade where they would just keyword match you to different chat flowcharts.

DTCC delenda est 😎

I had an experience like that donating blood once. Except the trainee was cute and followed me outside after I was done to apologize and ask if I wanted to get lunch sometime.

I think I got a better deal than you, now that I think about it.

WDYM by poor WiFi

Yeah. This person's (who you are replying to) industry does not represent every industry.

Literally a reddit argument

Latency 300-1200 ms, bandwidth topping out at 12mbs. But the thing is he’s captain of one of the e-sports teams and on the board of the larger e-sports organization. How are you supposed to compete with latency like that?

He’s on the top floor of his dorm so I don’t know if that’s part of it. Also a good view of the skyline if I have to pay for a hotspot. He was getting much better performance using his phones hotspot than the college WiFi, but ran into the cap pretty quickly

So far IT support keeps wanting to futz with settings on his pc, but he was getting reasonably close to gigabit WiFi with single digit latency at my house, and use WiFi to connect to his phones hotspot with decent performance. He’s able to connect in his dorm and he has settings that gave outstanding network here so I find it hard to believe the issue is his pc

There's no Ethernet Jack? I was going to suggest an expensive extender but the latency is odd. It indicates packet loss. Where's the nearest AP? If he could do a test there it would rule out what hard wire it's connected to.

As the other commenter said, he needs to hook up to the ethernet jack in his room. The Wifi generally sucks in dorms, too crowded.

There’s a jack but the college says they took the infrastructure out so it doesn’t go anywhere.

Which is annoying because my other kid at a different school said similar but Ethernet just worked

I don’t know where the nearest hotspot is - there’s a lot of closed doors. But yeah they had him run multiple speed tests

Tried that. No go.

That sucks.

If the college won't fix their infrastructure, path of least resistance is to get out of the dorms at the first available chance. Likely next semester or next year.

Speaking of not keeping up their infrastructure, we’re told there’s not enough dorm space so only 10% of juniors and seniors can live on campus. Yep, he’s getting out of the dorms next years whether he likes it or not.

….. and he’s apply for “in Washington DC” for one semester next year so that will make it even more challenging

It’s not an American problem, it’s a capitalism problem. The States might be slightly ahead, but every capitalist nation is heading the same direction.

eSports at anything above "having a giggle" and WiFi network connectivity are mutually exclusive things.

Having any latency at all makes your lad about as much use as a one legged bloke in an arse kicking competition. He and his team should be on hardwired gigabit fibre, and that he isn't should be seen as embarrassing for his institution.

For what it's worth, I'm a simple home user (in the UK) and I have a gigabit fibre to the transceiver in the cellar, to a basic gigabit switch which routes to patch boxes in every room of my 150 year old house. That I can do that affordably and a supposedly professionally run institution can't handle such is profoundly humiliating.

Perhaps try putting it like that to the powers that be and see how they react? 💛

Same here. He may be spoiled that I have gigabit fiber, Ethernet to every room, and gigabit WiFi. Multi-gig switches are starting to be affordable and claim I should get several gig without even upgrading my existing cat5e ….. soon

So far I’ve let him deal with it - he’s an adult now, technically. But it’s getting to be time to see if I can do any better

I don’t know the sentiment behind your comment but my point is it’s stupid to argue about Americentrism on a Americentric platform.

Like it’s fine if you don’t want to see that content but go to a different platform rather than whine about it. It’s not the bakeries fault you arrived wanting to buy a car.

Seriously? It's about posterity. It's about this exact argument that we are having right now.

Make them work for it, and make them go on record forever that they support it. I can only assume Clinton himself supported it since he signed it into law when he could have vetoed it.

Ok thats legit

Ok yea i see what your saying.

I feel obligated to read it just because of the title and I often use the handle "Noodles" online (elsewhere)

I believe the term is "rent seeking behavior".