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shadow puppet of a posted:Got a total of $10.02 credit to my Fido bill for netticaust 2022. Lmao if you don't think they'll try to get back the entire ten dollars
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Mister Facetious posted:Are their plans monthly now instead of 90 day increments? Meh. If it were ten bucks less it'd be worth it. Alas. This not being grandfathered and locked down is also real inconvenient
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i was confused by how their new rewards system works too, but i assume it's worse for users. i just stuck with what i've got now which takes me down to around $33/mo. it's the 12 gigs over 3 months but that's more than enough for me for now if anyone wants a $10 credit and save me another $1 i'll pm you my code lol
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mediaphage posted:i was confused by how their new rewards system works too, but i assume it's worse for users. i just stuck with what i've got now which takes me down to around $33/mo. it's the 12 gigs over 3 months but that's more than enough for me for now It's worse for you and me, don't sign up for it. I did some research on it a couple months back.
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yeah thanks, no worries there. i'm loathe to touch the account at all since i don't want my lte access to go away lol. i'm sort of hoping i can push an apple watch cellular onto someones network somewhere since PM doesn't and will probably never support it
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I see this on my Fido.ca offers page, I only have cable internet with them, but if you need to escape public mobile to use your apple watch you can get an extra six gigs in your three months cycle for nearly the same price as that PM megadeal was like 10 years ago.
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shadow puppet of a posted:I see this on my Fido.ca offers page, I only have cable internet with them, but if you need to escape public mobile to use your apple watch I think you can only use a cellular watch on Rogers/Bell/Telus and not on any of the subsidiaries. Edit: there’s also a cellular thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3492258 Evis fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Aug 14, 2022 |
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I'm in Europe right now and I just bought a prepaid SIM that has 80GB of data, 2000 min of talk (unlimited with numbers on Vodaphone) good for 28 days, for 5 euros. What we have in Canada is god drat robbery. Unbelievable.
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I love not funding canadian telecoms anymore Or really any inferior extortionate uncompetitive canadian industry/company artifically proped up by protectionist government policy tbh ask me about ice cream. Methanar fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Aug 14, 2022 |
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Volguus posted:I'm in Europe right now and I just bought a prepaid SIM that has 80GB of data, 2000 min of talk (unlimited with numbers on Vodaphone) good for 28 days, for 5 euros.
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Methanar posted:ask me about ice cream. What's your favorite
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Mister Facetious posted:What's your favorite tillamook rocky road with marshmellows. 5 dollars for a huge container. It would cost 15 in canada easily.
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so worth it to make it urself imo i splurge on nice dairy sometimes lol and it's obvious when the flavour is really simple. my fav is to do a sweet corn with a blackberry swirl this year i did a very cherry custard with the cherries from our tree topic content: bell when the gently caress are u lighting up this fibre you had aecon string up months ago drat it
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I generally manage my internet needs via throwing someone nearby some money and get wifi that way, but it's been a shitshow and I am looking at setting something up myself. I'm in Edmonton, and while I was poking around with what is available, I came across Oxio, and was wondering if anyone had experience with them, either good or bad or nightmare. Like, on first looks, it seems pretty good (compared to Shaw, it has faster speeds, infinite data vs the Shaw cap, its monthly vs being only two year plans, no install fees and its like 25% cheaper than the most similar plan), and they break down how they make up bill costs and explicitly mention its to spite the bigger ISPs and the CRTC for being wishy-washy jerks about going back on reducing tariff fees and such, which I can get behind. Some other poking around says its new to Alberta as of like this summer, but not new to BC/Ontario/Quebec, and I couldn't find anyone talking poo poo about it, just a few who seemed up on it. So it seems too good to be true, and I am pretty cynical, but I figure someone might be able to throw in some more info here while I am looking at other options too, and if there is actually something good here that would be nice.
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Karatela posted:I generally manage my internet needs via throwing someone nearby some money and get wifi that way, but it's been a shitshow and I am looking at setting something up myself. I'm in Edmonton, and while I was poking around with what is available, I came across Oxio, and was wondering if anyone had experience with them, either good or bad or nightmare. leave edmonton immediately its bad for you
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Public Mobile-rear end looking website lmao. I'm sure Oxio is fine. They're just another 3rd party reseller with a fresh new gimmick, like TekSavvy 20 years ago, and with up to date routers. Personally never heard of them until now.
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Methanar posted:leave edmonton immediately its bad for you As another goon trapped in this city, I can confirm this is truth. I've never heard of Oxio either but yeah they seem to be a more up to date TekSavvy. I'm personally on Telus fiber and other than obviously fisting me over cost it functions rather well.
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ChubbyThePhat posted:As another goon trapped in this city, I can confirm this is truth. I live in las vegas now. Fled to america november 15th 2021  Every smug canadian that says canada is better has no idea wtf they are talking about. My salary went up. Cost of living down. And taxes down. And my phone bill is now only 10 dollars a month. Methanar fucked around with this message at 07:24 on Aug 30, 2022 |
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Methanar posted:I live in las vegas now. Fled to america november 15th 2021 I’ve lived in 4+ US states and cities, including Vegas. If you’re not double or more the US median income Canada is much, much better. Despite our ridiculous telecoms pricing.
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Methanar posted:I live in las vegas now. Fled to america november 15th 2021 Yes but how many times have you been gunned down in the last 10 months? Checkmate
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ChubbyThePhat posted:As another goon trapped in this city, I can confirm this is truth. Edmonton is not a world-class metropolis, but it’s not that bad unless you’re complaining about the cold in which case you will not be happy here.
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Karatela posted:I generally manage my internet needs via throwing someone nearby some money and get wifi that way, but it's been a shitshow and I am looking at setting something up myself. I'm in Edmonton, and while I was poking around with what is available, I came across Oxio, and was wondering if anyone had experience with them, either good or bad or nightmare. They've been around for about 2 years total in any province. It's another reseller. Nice website and some good words. I'm skeptical of a ceo with no other experience other than this company. https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcandrecampagna/ They've only had an ASN since 2020-08-18 so pretty brand new. They just started peering with 2 other providers in August which is an improvement because any isp only peering with one source is bad. https://bgp.he.net/AS398721#_whois I dunno. Try it, if it doesn't work for you, cancel it?
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Methanar posted:I live in las vegas now. Fled to america november 15th 2021 Wait until you need surgery/cancer treatments
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Frank Dillinger posted:Edmonton is not a world-class metropolis, but it’s not that bad unless you’re complaining about the cold in which case you will not be happy here. Honestly I feel the same about Winnipeg. Sure, it gets drat cold and the scenery is terrible, but I had the best cost-of-living and job security there. If I could move back, I would.
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Bell fibre was just installed in my area and I have a verbal offer of 1.5gbps for $75, 2 year term and $99/mo after that. I need to see how they're lying at the bell store but that's a really good price.
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Nitr0 posted:They've been around for about 2 years total in any province. It's another reseller. Nice website and some good words. I'm skeptical of a ceo with no other experience other than this company. Yeah that's pretty much where I am at I think, I'll report back on how this goes!
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Oh my god  "IPTV" services being sold on god drat amazonhttps://www.amazon.ca/IPTV-Year-Subscription-Any-Device/dp/B09XKD7P9P/ The image even shows Disney, Fox, TNT etc!!
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Amazon is not exactly policed in terms of the products sold, so yeah "EzaLine" can just set up a storefront and sell shady subscription services until someone complains.
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Amazon has abanded its whole storefront to whatever a vendor is willing to load into a csv and it runs on the backs of three in house maintenance programmers three of which are on a performance improvement plan at any time Don’t believe me? Look for an iPhone case. Amazon stopped updating their left side navigation filters list of phones after the 11. They sell a million of those a year. They don’t care. As someone who spends a lot of time shopping for cut rate soup on line a single person hired to flag totally wrong categories/images/descriptions could make a massive difference but they don’t want to dare get involved in approving the contents of those bulk upload vendor csv files.
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Thats what frustrates me most about amazon, well, aside from literally all of their business practices. But the website itself is loving trash. You should be able to narrow down results by category to the finest degree, but its a crap shoot.
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Yeah anything on amazon that isn’t a name brand I know and trust forget it. And even then it could be a scam. Too bad it has murdered pretty much most alternatives.
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I use eBay more these days for my needful e-junk. It’s way easier to drill down and not get mired in AI-suggested irrelevant results. Plus cheaper for 3rd party niche bits and bobs that will all come from the same AmaAliBay dank warehouse of 13w3 to bnc sog video dongles.
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Amazon's niche is kinda semi-brick n mortar, ie. you order from them with prime shipping and you'll receive the item *fast*. Not as fast as if you got off your rear end and bought it at real brick n mortar, but basically as fast as possible from a website. For my 3d printing hobby I get better parts, cheaper from aliexpress. I get filament from amazon because of cheap shipping. I'll get some parts (8mm steel rod) from amazon because I need it fast and it's generic enough the quality isn't terrible. I just ordered brake calipers for my car, they were on amazon and ebay from the same seller for the same (ludicrously cheap) price and I chose to order from ebay because I read something saying if you get a non-working item you can report it to ebay as "item not as described" and the seller is on the hook for return shipping cost.
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If you want stuff fast as hell go digikey, it's mostly electronic components but they have some good nerdy stuff too like RPi kits etc.
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Methanar posted:I live in las vegas now. Fled to america november 15th 2021 drat I would have tried to setup some drinks had I known. I was in Vegas for a couple weeks covering blackhat/def con earlier this month.
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mewse posted:Amazon's niche is kinda semi-brick n mortar, ie. you order from them with prime shipping and you'll receive the item *fast*. Not as fast as if you got off your rear end and bought it at real brick n mortar, but basically as fast as possible from a website. priznat posted:If you want stuff fast as hell go digikey, it's mostly electronic components but they have some good nerdy stuff too like RPi kits etc. If you're still in the same place as when you lent me those tools I broke, Digikey is based in Thief River Falls down highway 59. I've placed orders with them over the phone at 3am and have had my parcel arrive later that day. Shipping is usually around $8 which is pretty decent for same-day delivery with FedEx. For stuff like bar stock, steel plate or angle iron, Metal Supermarket has been great whenever I need something for whatever project I'm working on, especially if it's just a small piece and I don't want to buy an entire unit of material. They've just let me wander around to find something that works and if it's not complicated they cut stuff to size using their industrial equipment at no extra cost, which ends up saving me a ton of time compared to online ordering. Admittedly my metal working area isn't that great, but even if it was it probably wouldn't hold a candle to a hydraulic press the size of a bus. I wish my machinist friend told me about the place sooner. Do you know anything about alpha@play? It opened near me where a tabletop games place used to be, and I think it's an extension of the upstairs business owner's 3D printing hobby. It seems neat as a local place I can get stuff 3D scanned and printed without having to bug a friend and take up their printer time, but I have no frame of reference for if their filament prices and selection are good or overpriced or what. A friend's husband works there so if it's not a ripoff I wouldn't mind tossing some business their way.
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I really want to see Digikey's fulfillment setup is because you can order the most random number of whatever discrete parts and they will still arrive the next day all bagged up. They must have some kind of automated part shooters that fill up the bags, prints the label and flings it into a box. Always blown away how fast the stuff arrives. If it's people doing it they're amazing.
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ChubbyThePhat posted:
Yet again reminded that you got me on these cursed forums all those years ago
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