Oh fucking great. My daughter’s online school requires her to run “Windows 8 or greater,” but we got her a used laptop that can run 10 to make sure it can keep up with security updates. I don’t even know if it is powerful enough to run 11 because I didn’t even consider the possibility when I bought it. Now we’re going to have to buy a new one in a couple of years?
I can’t speak for elsewhere, but Frontier’s speeds around here are shit and they have a lot of down time. They’re a worse option than Spectrum. They’re what people turn to when Spectrum shuts them off for non-payment.
We do not have municipal broadband here (we live outside city limits anyway), but we have the next best thing- a local ISP started up and promised to lay fiber in any neighborhood in the county where 40% of the residents agreed to sign up for their service. Everyone said, “fuck Spectrum” in our neighborhood and lots of other neighborhoods and signed up and now they’re doing great.
The part that pissed me off was that once they started putting the signs in our neighborhood offering this, Spectrum tripled the neighborhood’s broadband speed. Meaning they could have done that any time, but didn’t.
And now the locally-owned ISP is laying fiber down rural roads.
Local drive-through coffee places here are cheaper than Starbucks and they don’t get the deals that a huge corporation that Starbucks has, meaning their profit margins are a lot lower.
Gawker sucked, but the fact that it was almost single-handedly brought down by a vengeful billionaire (Peter Thiel) who was angry that they outed him was disturbing as fuck and all of the people who celebrated absolutely shouldn’t have.
And now here we are again, except this time it’s more serious.
People don’t fucking learn that billionaires are never the good guys.
As part of DeSantis’ “Freedom Summer” initiative, the state’s transportation secretary, Jared W. Perdue, announced earlier this month that bridges in the state will have no choice but to be illuminated in red, white and blue from Memorial Day through Labor Day....
I do like that the rainbow has been ruined for them despite their holy book talking about how god made it to show Noah and his descendants that he wouldn’t kill them all off like he did everyone who came before them.
I wonder what the people who support “Sedition Panda” have to say about the “litter boxes in schools” nonsense. I bet they believed it and thought it was horrifying.
Windows 10 is EOL in October 2025 (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15988326...
Netanyahu to address Congress, House Speaker Mike Johnson says (www.nbcnews.com)
Daily marijuana use outpaces daily drinking in the US, a new study says (apnews.com)
Another US state repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition (arstechnica.com)
Germany has too many solar panels, and it's pushed energy prices into negative territory (markets.businessinsider.com)
Deflation Never Happens, Except Right Now (nymag.com)
So you're telling me he was just a normal-sized dude? (lemmy.world)
Sovcit made her own license plate out of cardboard. (lemmy.world)
Reserve your home now! (lemmy.world)
Europe’s new political consensus: We need to make more weapons (www.politico.eu)
The war in Ukraine has shifted thinking — both among politicians and the public — on the need to spend more on defense....
'Sad Day for Free Speech': Media Matters Layoffs Follow 'Thermonuclear' Attack by Elon Musk (www.commondreams.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15767168...
As usual, Some More News speaks Truth to Power. (lemmy.world)
Happens around 1:10:00 in the latest video.
Arr, matey! (lemmy.world)
This is where you put your victims’ bodies on display:...
American couple doing missionary work killed by gangs in Haiti, wife is daughter of Missouri rep. (www.nbcnews.com)
Scientific dietary advice (lemmy.world)
Ron DeSantis' new target in his 'war on woke'? Colors, apparently (www.msnbc.com)
As part of DeSantis’ “Freedom Summer” initiative, the state’s transportation secretary, Jared W. Perdue, announced earlier this month that bridges in the state will have no choice but to be illuminated in red, white and blue from Memorial Day through Labor Day....
'Sedition Panda' convicted of assaulting officer on Jan. 6 after judge calls defense argument 'absurd' (www.nbcnews.com)
TIL Pat Morita (Mr. Miyagi) started out doing stand-up and was mentored by Redd Foxx. Here he is doing stand-up on The Redd Foxx show in 1977. (www.youtube.com)
He also does a great Redd Foxx impersionation- www.youtube.com/watch?v=490TsUYe5f4
Cultural differences (lemmy.world)
Thar is so much evidunce (lemmy.world)