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I've had Zen Internet for many years. Not cheap but great customer service.
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Sep 19, 2021 17:29
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Related: don't bother with 'surfshark' vpn, it's poo poo.
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I've been with Zen for over 10 years and they've always been good. Also the couple of times I needed to call tech support the person I spoke to was actually a techie
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Food shortages in the Year 2022 you say? 
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https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1439641323955499010?s=19 Pointless country.
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Isn't the target for the Lib Dems less the old Tory who is socially regressive and more the One Nation "Economically conservative but culturally liberal" conservative voter? Therefore, attempting to go for those metropolitan Conservative seats that mostly believe that the flag waving bring back pounds and ounces is gauche?
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Sep 19, 2021 19:51
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Sky was fine for us until we upgraded to fibreoptic and the engineer disconnected our basic connection and forgot to plug in the fibre connection leaving us with no internet for a week. Didn't offer to refund that week or anything.
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stev posted:Sky was fine for us until we upgraded to fibreoptic and the engineer disconnected our basic connection and forgot to plug in the fibre connection leaving us with no internet for a week. Didn't offer to refund that week or anything. We had floods maybe 15 years ago and it destroyed my internet - could I get BT to fix it? gently caress no. They even went so far as to tell me I needed a new computer and still had the balls to charge me. Moved house and as if by magic it worked again.
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smellmycheese posted:Food shortages in the Year 2022 you say?  can't even do Soylent Green properly, wretched country
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smellmycheese posted:Food shortages in the Year 2022 you say? Thank god us in NI can raid all the Spars & Lidls across the border, we'll be smuggling more than butter this time around.
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CGI Stardust posted:but we don't have drivers for the people-collecting trucks any more please register for your easy to use at-home bioemulsification kit now- your soup like homogenates are needed to fill empty shelves today!
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Skull Servant posted:Isn't the target for the Lib Dems less the old Tory who is socially regressive and more the One Nation "Economically conservative but culturally liberal" conservative voter? Therefore, attempting to go for those metropolitan Conservative seats that mostly believe that the flag waving bring back pounds and ounces is gauche? That's not One Nation Conservatism, that's just modern neoliberal conservatism, even if both Cameron and Johnson called themselves One Nation-ers. I don't think actual ONC in the Macmillan, pre-Thatcher 'wet' sense actually exists as a meaningful constituency in either the Conservative party or the country any more. The modern equivalents will be very happy with Johnson's strongly patriotic, culturally chauvinistic, big-spending, railway-nationalising, infrastructure-building, levelling-up, prime-the-industrial-pump, Global Britain platform, so long as they don't spot the difference between rhetoric and reality. ONC was always a hair's breadth away from "hmmm...what if we did the bits of socialism that we like but only for our people in our nation. Socialism on a national scale; a national socialism, if you will...  " The "economically conservative, culturally liberal" lot (if they exist - wasn't there some big study a couple of years ago that found that while a lot of people say that they fit that description, but when given policy options a large majority of them turned out to also be pretty conservative socially as well?) will already be LibDem orange-bookers or the right of the Labour Party I'd have thought?
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Got a good internet related story. The TL:DR is basically two 'wannabe IRA' rear end in a top hat pub owners wanted to leech off of our wifi for football matches for free. Family used to live in a house by a pub, a small snug type frequented by the older gentlemen alcos of the town. No noise or harm from them. Then the owner sold it to these two assholes, sons of old guard IRA guys, who think themselves they are in it when they are not. One day my brother gets a knock on the door, and its one of their employees, local lad. He says he is doing coursework for college, and the pub has no internet so can he borrow our wifi, only for a few days. Brother thinks its grand, gives him the wireless key and thinks nothing of it. Didn't tell me, Im the tech head of the family. A month or two later brother is complaining he's getting lovely connection, and it cuts out a lot during the weekends for no reason. I don't live in the family home, so I said I would look after it when I get up in a few weeks time on my work holidays. So I get up home and its a friday night, I check out the connection, and I see 50+ wifi connections, with some actively connected right now. Most mobiles. I ask my brother what the gently caress, he doesn't know what it is, and then when I ask who the gently caress knows our wireless key he remembers about the guy asking for it. So I change the wireless password immediately, and BAM internet back to normal. And worked fine that whole night. Next day we get a knock on the door and one of the fuckwit owners asks if they could have the key. I was there, told him no loving way. Day after that, they sent a random customer around to ask for the key, and they spilled that they wanted to watch some football match, and that they had the key printed out and posted up on the wall for anyone to use! Hence why there were a lot of mobiles. For a few months we were this poo poo pubs internet.
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so the two major parties are offering their variants on 'socially conservative, economically conservative' and the half-major party is like 'yeah, we're okay with this economic conservatism stuff, but you know how we'll finally break through for the first time in forever? Social liberalism' England and Wales do not have a hope in hell, and I am becoming less optimistic about Scotland and Northern Ireland by the day
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The unionism of the depressed.
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With the cost of gas absolutely kneecapping all these suppliers the forecasts are that we might lose 90% of the energy companies in the UK by the close of the year. They reckon there could be as few as 10 left by 2022. So much for the free market.
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serious gaylord posted:With the cost of gas absolutely kneecapping all these suppliers the forecasts are that we might lose 90% of the energy companies in the UK by the close of the year. They reckon there could be as few as 10 left by 2022. That's the Free Market forces in action my good man!!!  Dear god it's all going to be a total shitshow.
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BalloonFish posted:The "economically conservative, culturally liberal" lot (if they exist - wasn't there some big study a couple of years ago that found that while a lot of people say that they fit that description, but when given policy options a large majority of them turned out to also be pretty conservative socially as well?) will already be LibDem orange-bookers or the right of the Labour Party I'd have thought? 
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serious gaylord posted:With the cost of gas absolutely kneecapping all these suppliers the forecasts are that we might lose 90% of the energy companies in the UK by the close of the year. They reckon there could be as few as 10 left by 2022. Bulb looking ropey https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58619418 so 10 left might be optimistic.
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Lungboy posted:Bulb looking ropey https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58619418 so 10 left might be optimistic. Thats the one that made me blink, they're a big company. At some point Ofgem is going to be unable to force companies to take people on too. Could we see one of them get nationalised for a bit?
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lmao if you honestly think the Tories want to buy an energy company that's like Peter Mannion buying a bank and being pissed off that he has to raise taxes
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Julio Cruz posted:one of the other companies will buy them out rather than risk them getting taken into public ownership But they buy them in at the same rates/credit balances as their previous supplier. Is the issue not that there's so many customers locked into fixed prices that these companies cant afford to buy the energy to supply them? Surely even SSE can't absorb every customer in the UK if the price surges continue.
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My bank was offering £40 cashback if you switched to Peoples Energy and opened a direct debit... oops! I followed the link and it said page not found. So I went on the chat and the chat person said 'it seems to have gone down an hour or so ago. should be back later'. Anyway, they ceased trading a day or two later so the poor chat person obviously didn't know. (Did I write this already? I have deja vu but I did a 'search' and couldn't see it  )serious gaylord posted:But they buy them in at the same rates/credit balances as their previous supplier. Is the issue not that there's so many customers locked into fixed prices that these companies cant afford to buy the energy to supply them? Surely even SSE can't absorb every customer in the UK if the price surges continue. SSE were taken over by Ovo recently.
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depressing. lets only post good news for the next 10 posts, ok next 9 posts as me posting is in itself the first bit of good news
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Lungboy posted:Bulb looking ropey https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58619418 so 10 left might be optimistic. Oh FFS. We've been on at them to install the meter since National Grid hooked up our supply about two months ago. They're the cheapest supplier that'll install a SMETS-2 meter, if you can get them to reply to emails. We've got them booked in for late October assuming they last that long.
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Lungboy posted:Bulb looking ropey https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58619418 so 10 left might be optimistic. I changed supplier from People's Energy a couple of months ago, because Look After My Bills found a cheaper deal. They were a pretty good company, I really liked their community approach and it's a shame they've gone. Their customer service was much better than Scottish Power who spelled all my names incorrectly and then acted like I was being unreasonable when I pointed out this made their utility bills useless as a form of ID for me. Fingers crossed the winter is mild and people need to use lots of energy heating their homes.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:lets only post good news for the next 10 posts, It's probably because all the machines that make the sticky plastic strip ones exploded or entirely to appease the Tory heartlands who remember having them or something, but they are nicer to use than the newer alternatives, and I'd imagine to reuse too if we're not setting them all on fire to dump on Indonesia.
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Guavanaut posted:I got a loaf of bread with one of those solid plastic bread tags on the other day. Useful for all computer touchers: 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:SSE were taken over by Ovo recently. SSE sold one of their divisions (retail) to OVO, who now own that division completely and run it as an effective private label brand. (Partly because it’s retail arm ran a large amount of turnover for little profit given the market, and also because it was a loving nightmare to update systems against challengers and regulation.) SSE still exists though, a fund has bought a large amount of their shares on the quiet and is attempting to split the business again, with regulated transmission and distribution, energy trading and a small services arm being hived off from its very profitable renewables division.
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Total Meatlove posted:SSE sold one of their divisions (retail) to OVO, who now own that division completely and run it as an effective private label brand. I'm with SSE / Ovo and just deciding whether to take one of their tariffs or change. My fear of changing is fear of it getting screwed up. Also, our communal electric is with SSE business. (Fixed tariff til next summer).
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Seems the CO2 shortage will affect all frozen goods - think I'll get another few kg of dried mixed veg in!quote:Ocado, the online grocer, told customers this weekend that it had a 'limited stock' of frozen items due to a national shortage of dry ice – solid CO2. source: heil/news/article-10005291/Meat-supplies-run-two-weeks-Christmas-dinner-threat-gas-suppliers-warn.html Completely separate matter: I'm getting a lot of connection errors 522 etc which aren't my internet but are websites. Eg I had problems on here earlier getting 522 and just had similar 524 error on a couple of unrelated sites. Is there Something Going On on the interwebs tonight? Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Sep 20, 2021 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Seems the CO2 shortage will affect all frozen goods - think I'll get another few kg of dried mixed veg in! Probably a CDN issue, assuming they're big(ish) sites - they tend to be localised (often to just a single geographic area for one ISP) and give random, intermittent faults. (CDN - Content Delivery Network. Basically because an awful lot of internet traffic is repeated, and fibre is expensive, most websites of any decent size will use a CDN (there are half a dozen or so big ones - SA and most non-ultra-large websites use Cloudflare). The principle is pretty simple - the CDN installs servers around the world (either in big centralised internet exchanges like LINX in London, in the core networks of large ISPs, or for very large ISPs down at their edge network Points of Presence, the first hop your traffic takes between the exchange and the rest of your providers network). These servers keep local cached copies of content from websites so if a hundred people all hit the same page the hosting company only sees one hit. This is advantageous both to the ISPs, who save a shitload on international and/or long-distance transit links, and to the web hosts, who of course save loads on bandwidth and server capacity. It also helps to mitigate denial of service attacks where hackers use huge amounts of hacked computers to swamp a server - because they only ever hit the CDN boxes it's almost impossible to make such an attack work such that the entire site becomes unusable. moment - Anyone else remember the days when SA was big enough (and the internet small enough) that we could knock websites offline just by all of us trying to get to it at once? Ridiculous, really)
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Guavanaut posted:I got a loaf of bread with one of those solid plastic bread tags on the other day. A Bread Climp, you mean.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Probably a CDN issue, assuming they're big(ish) sites - they tend to be localised (often to just a single geographic area for one ISP) and give random, intermittent faults. They were all Cloudflare sites I had a problem with.
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