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Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

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Re: Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

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Post by cbm-vic-20 »

jcattle wrote: post #69
vachina wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are still telcos offering 2GB plans. Wow. I’m on the cheapest plan and it comes with 400GB.

Where are you and how much do you pay?

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.

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Post by shimman »

alex43578 wrote: post #62
shimman wrote: post #57

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You don’t have any savings in the bank, right? That money you’re hoarding could be buying mosquito nets to save lives - you’re killing people by not donating everything you have.

Note the same, maybe if my bank account was equivalent to Elon Musk's it would be a fair argument but hardly the same to expect a shitposter to be equivalent to a man who is a billionaire.

Re: Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

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Post by Sammi »

bahmboo wrote: post #2

Nice that instead of completely cutting you off at the cap they put it in super slow 500 kbits. That is actually usable and used to be the fastest speed you could get at home.

You might just be able to stream 240p youtube without stuttering with that.

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Post by diamond559 »

_blk wrote: post #41
PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #17

They could make it 1000GB for US$10/month and I still wouldn't give any money to a company associated with that man.

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Guy is literally mask of white supremacist, why are you supporting this buddy? But yeah, the people that think his robot legions will solve world poverty and bring "sustainable abundance" for all are the sane ration thinking ones.

Re: Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

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Post by mattmaroon »

buellerbueller wrote: post #82
mattmaroon wrote: post #59

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The current administration didn’t start that, see the bailouts of the 07-08 financial crisis.

I don't see this as a good analogy, because the financial crisis bailout appeared to save the companies from shuttering, which is not what happened under the current admin.

Some of it is. Intel was in big trouble.

Some of the investments were more national security related and a lot of it was done through the DoD which has a history of this too.

It’s unusual but not entirely unprecedented.

Re: Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

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Post by scottyah »

behnamoh wrote: post #21

Finally I can use Codex/OpenCode even out in the woods. No work-life balance; just vibing everywhere I go.

Haha vibe coding is pretty addictive. Maybe vibe code an app that tells you how to improve work life balance in the woods ;)

Youtubing how to deal with a snakebite might come in more handy.

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Post by shimman »

scottyah wrote: post #66
shimman wrote: post #57

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How's that? Are you referring to his work on the DOGE team efforts that were simply recommendations?

Ah yes the "recommendations" that lead to dismantling USAID and where ~400k people have already died due to those direct cuts:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary...

Re: Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

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Post by mrtesthah »

alex43578 wrote: post #62
shimman wrote: post #57

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You don’t have any savings in the bank, right? That money you’re hoarding could be buying mosquito nets to save lives - you’re killing people by not donating everything you have.

Why is that money I'm hoarding currently being devalued by tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy and bonuses paid out to ethnic cleanser shock troops?

Re: Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

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Post by [deleted] »

consumer451 wrote: post #90
Someone1234 wrote: post #16

I'm actually a huge fan of "unlimited slow speeds" as a falloff, instead of a cliff. Aside from the fact it allows you to work with Starlink to buy more fast speed, it also allows core stuff to continue to function (e.g. basic notifications, non-streaming web traffic, etc).

> I'm actually a huge fan of "unlimited slow speeds" as a falloff, instead of a cliff. When on cellular, I like to call that "HN-only mode." It is one of the few web properties that is entirely usable at 2G speeds.

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Re: Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

buellerbueller wrote: post #73
afavour wrote: post #55

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This is a very low effort reply. Does doing one good thing erase all the bad things a person has done? If that's the argument you're making, make it.

As I recently said about Scott Adams: "Good things can be done by Bad people." I think to assume that humans are these monolithic, logically consistent entities is to badly misunderstand humanity. For example, Planned Parenthood--an organization I definitely believe in--was essentially created by a woman who was a eugenicist--something I definitely do not believe in.

Were I to be supporting PP when Sanger was still alive, I would not have been enriching her, or enabling other things that she believed in (at least not to any extent that would trouble me). Mostly because PP has always been a not-for-profit organization.

Being a Starlink customer, to me, has a straight line connection to enabling that man to do all the things he does.

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