[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I think that's shallow water they're walking through

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's also this company that caters to this sort of thing. I've been considering moving to this someday, maybe when my current phone dies. I'm the kind of person that needs a genuinely dumbed down phone to limit access since I'd just get the key out of the drawer and 'cheat' eventually.

dumbwireless.com

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

This is a weird hill to die on

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thank you Finally someone who understands

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

That would explain why my weekend sucked, never had much of a seasonal allergy problem before. Good to know

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

It do be like that

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Drink a verification can to continue

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Back in the big union days, this was called "work to rule", as in you worked exactly to the letter of your job and not an inch more.

It was a union tactic to fight back if the company wasn't playing fair or wasn't playing ball at the negotiating table

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Well, there's folks like me that don't want EVs but want hybrids. I'm sure that plays into it in some small way. Definitely dwarfed by all your reasons though

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I always assumed the reason was to get more tendrils into your phone for that sweet sweet data $$$ and allowing themselves more control over shoving notifications in your face.

Do I sound bitter?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Excellent news. Let them tear each other apart. Fuck him and FRJ too

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Do we know who is setting the price higher? Is it more like it’s 6% higher but so is everything else or more of the manufacturer selling to the storefronts at a higher cost thus forcing grocery stores to set the price higher by 6%?

Because it informs who we should be mad at

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I have a family member living on my property in a separate but adjacent living space, close enough together to share my router's wifi. She likes to let her youtube app endlessly autoplay talking head news videos at full volume due to her hearing loss, and this goes on for a few hours in the mornings. The sound through the walls is annoying but headphones block enough that it's a non-issue as long as I can load something to play through them. The real rub is that I also would like to do something on the laptop during breakfast and her neverending news autoplay eats up all the bandwidth I am paying for when I want to use it. I can't cut off her internet, but I could prioritize my traffic over hers in the morning so that I can load an episode of something and listen through headphones. Yes I know this would be a bit unscrupulous but I have already suggested she not doomscroll via youtube all morning, to no avail.

Setting up a separate ISP account for the adjacent space isnt an option for the time being. The router/modem combo is ISP-issued and locked down by default due to too many service calls from people breaking stuff in settings. As far as I know it is not able to be swapped out to an off-the-shelf due to this being fiber optic internet, plus I'm only so-so in tech knowledge.

Which leads me to the title, can I put the ISP-issued router in a faraday cage, connect my own router via ethernet and be able to control settings via that route? Any reason I shouldn't/couldn't?

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