• MudMan@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    Hah, yeah, man, remember the good old days where you couldn’t be on the Internet if there wasn’t wifi because your phone didn’t have constant flat fee 5G and you had to pay by the byte?

    Because that’s why this is a historical meme, right? Not the 1995 part, the “everybody asks for wifi in commercial establishments because mobile internet is crazy expensive” part.

    • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.ukEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Whereas these days you ask for WiFi because there’s not enough phone reception from the inside of the building to get 4g/5g and therefore you can’t get any mobile Internet at all.

      • MudMan@fedia.io
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        1 month ago

        I guess that’s very regional. I’ve lived in places where this was a non-issue even when underground but also in places where a thin pane of glass is apparently a faraday cage made of some exotic material.

        I genuinely don’t know the technical reason behind that.

        • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Or you got full reception but no internet because the tower’s trying to handle 50,000 devices.

        • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.ukEnglish
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          1 month ago

          I’m speaking from a UK perspective - but yeah, very regional, even local - I have absolutely zero phone reception in the back half of my house, though full signal in the front bedroom next to the window. At least at home I can use the “WiFi assisted calling”.

          Last week I was working away in a fairly nearby city and there wasn’t even enough signal for internet outside, right in the middle of the city centre, unless you walked down a side road, slightly uphill. It was bad enough that you couldn’t even get Internet signal in the train station, which I’ve never seen before.

          I asked the people I was working with, and apparently it was already quite bad, but it was made even worse by right-wingers during Covid, cutting or burning down phone masts because “they had 5g mind control for your Covid chips” or whatever it was they believed that week. No idea why it’s not been repaired/replaced yet.

  • AtariDump@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Hey, are you installing that new software from Microsoft or are you staying on windows 3.11?

  • TooManyFoods@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Oh my God! What is that? Turn it up please. Poor Nancy Kerrigans sweet little knees. Somebody took a black thing and went TWUMP! That’s terrible! We heard about it for months.