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Re: Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

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Post by arjie »

ingenieros wrote: post #176
homebrewer wrote: post #118

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I think they will have enough clients from other parts of the world to make it work. Large areas of my country can't really be covered with wired networks, it's too expensive to make it economically feasible without massive government subsidies, for which there's no money. Starlink has already been used to connect very remote rural schools which previously only had dial-up connectivity (enough to send text email, but…

USAID was ironically a significant customer for Starlink. People are probably already familiar with the 5,000 Ukraine terminal scandal, but pretty much all their offices (in Colombia at least) had 1 or more terminals. What does USAID have anything to do with this conversation? Well, DOGE was largely responsible for putting the final nail on that coffin. If you think he cares about remote rural schools having connecti…

I actually prefer the economic system where providers don't have to care about the use cases and we're able to use the exchange of money for services to get things. I doubt Subaru cares about a yuppie couple going on a road trip to the redwoods. They just want my money. That's the sort of relationship I want with most vendors.

If Subaru started talking to me about how much they like that I take road trips with their cars I'd probably switch to a different vendor.

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Post by simonbw »

mikeocool wrote: post #120
cbm-vic-20 wrote: post #91

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Data point: I'm in the US on an old pre-paid plan that gets me 5GB per month at fast speed, dropping down to unlimited "2G" speed after that cap is hit, which I've done only twice in the past 12 years. $30 per month, and I always "bring my own device" (ie, I only buy unlocked phones, not through the carrier). I haven't shopped around for a while.

You should shop around! Some of the MVNOs are offering unlimited fast data at a similar price these days, and something similar to what you have now for cheaper.

I second this! I switched to mint recently. They are offering unlimited data including hotspot for $15/mo for up to a year if you prepay. I think then it goes to their standard rate which is $30/mo for unlimited, or $15/mo for 5gb.

Not sponsored or anything, just a happy customer.

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Post by taytus »

homebrewer wrote: post #118
lta wrote: post #58

Regardless of the price and the data, I'd never subscribe to this service due to the owner. I'm looking forward for alternatives from a more neutral vendor

I think they will have enough clients from other parts of the world to make it work. Large areas of my country can't really be covered with wired networks, it's too expensive to make it economically feasible without massive government subsidies, for which there's no money. Starlink has already been used to connect very remote rural schools which previously only had dial-up connectivity (enough to send text email, but…

It’s not “American politics” when a guy does a Nazi salute on live TV. So thanks for showing your political inclination.

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Post by kamcma »

xattt wrote: post #170
Salgat wrote: post #139

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I would kill for a web renaissance to return to this format of webpages, as least as an option. Not only loading improves, but also navigation and accessibility.

CBC News has a lite version of their news site that they tend to promote around times of natural disaster. (1) https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news

NPR has one too: https://text.npr.org

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Post by [deleted] »

whimsicalism wrote: post #135
hinkley wrote: post #113

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As if Bezos is better. Elon has a much higher slope but he’s got a head start to catch up on, before they’re all hunting humans for sport on Ellison’s private island.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2009171282030653877 I disagree that Bezos & Elon are comparably bad.

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Post by MaxikCZ »

Someone1234 wrote: post #149
Salgat wrote: post #139

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I would kill for a web renaissance to return to this format of webpages, as least as an option. Not only loading improves, but also navigation and accessibility.

Indeed. That's why, when they finally kill old.reddit, I may legitimately stop using it entirely. They've already banned most of the good apps, forcing the pretty terrible official one.

Recently the old reddit szopped working for me even after going to account settings and opting out of new design again (it was already marked as being opt out) across all my devices. Even after manually navigating to old.reddit.com, clicking any link would take me to new again. I had to install special extensions to reroute to old reddit everywhere.

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Post by mlyle »

volemo wrote: post #36
mlyle wrote: post #10

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People always use bits for connectivity. 62.5kB/sec -- maybe really 55-60kB/sec downloaded. Or 18 seconds to get a megabyte. This is simultaneously fast (on my 14400 bps modem that I spent the most time "waiting for downloading", I was used to 12-13 minutes per megabyte vs. 18 seconds here) and slow (the google homepage is >1MB, so until you have resources cached you're waiting tens of seconds). It would be nice if e…

Is Google homepage consisting of a text input field and like ten buttons really over a megabyte? Damn.

I end up transferring 940kB (with a lot of blocking cranked up). Typing "hello" in the search bar takes it up to 1MB. Then the first page of search results is another 1.3MB.

Now, I assume all of this would start working before it's all transferred. But we're still talking about tens of seconds of transfer at 500kbit/sec.

(And Google at least acts like they care about bandwidth a little. So many 15megabyte pages out there...)

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Post by mrkstu »

xattt wrote: post #170
Salgat wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would kill for a web renaissance to return to this format of webpages, as least as an option. Not only loading improves, but also navigation and accessibility.

CBC News has a lite version of their news site that they tend to promote around times of natural disaster. (1) https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news

CNN: https://lite.cnn.com/
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