We are resting after a nice first day of 2024. In these parts in the frozen North we have a tv channel by our provider (for a month or two) that features a burning log in a hearth. 🪵 🔥 It’s been a part of BunMum’s Christmases since it first began in 1986. Not sure if other places have something similar or if this is some weird western Canada thing 😂🤷🏻♀️…
There is always great speculation about the mysterious hand that intermittently stokes the fire, as seen in this video. #Shaw#Firelog
Here’s an example of how the recent #Rogers/ #Shaw merger has benefited consumers:
Some techs showed up at the home of my 82 year old mom. Swapped out her perfectly working router for reasons that probably made sense to them. In the process they fucked up her wifi printer.
Mom goes online for support, ends up getting scammed by someone posing as #Canon tech support who bills her card $60 (probably through a sponsored Google link). She figures it out calls the bank and cancels the card
Wow sweet. I live in Western Canada and my ISP was Shaw (already kinda shitty) and they just got bought by Rogers (terrible). I'm about to cancel my service because I'm moving and will be on a different ISP anyhow.
I was just clicking around the site looking for the cancellation process when I noticed that Rogers had without my fucking knowledge or consent auto-enabled a "Rogers Wifi Hotspot" using my (formerly Shaw) modem/router.
That's fucked up enough. The more fucked up part is I had disabled the company-loaner modem/router's wifi antennas because I put it in bridge mode to use my own router(s). So they effectively hijacked the device sitting in my home, turned the wifi antennas back on without my consent, and have been broadcasting their own public wifi hotspot with it.
@jmhorner For sure. When I got on Shaw last year I looked far and wide for any "approved" modem/router hardware that I could buy myself and put on their network and there were like three... and they couldn't even guarantee they would work. Thus taking their gear and bridging it (turning off their wifi antennas) immediately so I could use my own routers was my only logical choice.
For posterity this toggle was ON when I logged in just now. Again without any notification, consent, etc. Warning to all #Shaw#Rogers#ISP customers...
@blankbaby JUST listening to #VulcanHello on #picard - cos watching it now (I know, late!) and am up to Ep8. (SO NO SPOILERS in response to this toot, k?)
Was listening to your show on Ep 5 Imposters where you said "The doctor on Titan isn't getting much respect cos Beverly just shows up and says 'I'm in charge'"
Well, that Trill doctor couldn't tell deferred internal bleeding and relied on earlier scans when #Shaw couldn't breathe...so I'd say Bev had reason to take over... 😳