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mawarannahr posted:Just buy a fiber-equipped home in the northern hemisphere. Your/her needs are unnecessarily limiting and you're not going to find what you want. I’ll take Australian Internet over living in a pseudo third world country like the USA any time.
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iOS autocorrect used to change 'loving' to 'ducking'
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TOOT BOOT posted:iOS autocorrect used to change 'loving' to 'ducking' It still does; and as an Australian it drives me insane because gently caress is a very common word.
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The Lord Bude posted:It still does; and as an Australian it drives me insane because gently caress is a very common word. Cynthia
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The Lord Bude posted:It still does; and as an Australian it drives me insane because gently caress is a very common word. Buggah
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The Lord Bude posted:I live in Australia; where home internet is expensive and slow; and cellular data is blazing fast. I have both, but sometimes I need one or the other. This doesn’t surprise me given the land size of Australia , but $80 for 30mb down is horrendous (as you obviously know). Something like 20-30% of the US is similar where they just get poo poo internet speeds (or literally no internet options). Here the carriers take payouts from the Gov via the FCC to build out more internet and then just pocket the money instead. I would bet it’s similar in Australia. I have sold cell service in all 50 states, and I will tell you, it’s insanely depressing to see how many people have no access for internet so they have to pay $80-110 per 150GB of cell internet. 5G home internet is starting to help, but it A. Varies on area what the real speeds are and B. It takes a long drat time to rollout nationwide and surprise surprise those rural areas might not be what they target first. Duckman2008 fucked around with this message at 12:52 on Mar 20, 2023 |
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Duckman2008 posted:This doesn’t surprise me given the land size of Australia , but $80 for 30mb down is horrendous (as you obviously know). The prices suck but one thing to point out is $80/mo AUD is about $54/mo USD.
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Weird edge cases: living in a different country
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Duckman2008 posted:This doesn’t surprise me given the land size of Australia , but $80 for 30mb down is horrendous (as you obviously know). In Australia about 12 years ago the government decided that ISPs were doing a poo poo job of providing internet (they were) so they decided that home internet infrastructure should become a government run monopoly and all the ISPs would essentially just become retailers selling access that they would buy wholesale from the government run corporation that would own and maintain the network. All the copper lines would be ripped out and replaced with fibre to the home, with maybe <10% of people who lived in truly remote areas getting satellite. The idea would be that everyone on fibre to the home would be able to have guaranteed preset Speed tiers - 8/1; 25/5; 50/20; and 100/40. Sadly in 2013 the right got into government; and they made some changes. The right hated the NBN because giving everyone fast internet was a threat to Rupert Murdoch’s precious cable tv monopoly (he also owns most of the papers). So they made some changes. They decided that it would be cheaper to just do fibre to the node and leave the 100+ year old copper lines in for the rest (spoiler: it wasn’t, because they cost a fortune to maintain) and they stacked the board of the NBN Co with business hacks and cronies who had no idea about the technical side of things. They also decided to allow a patchwork of ISP infrastructure to remain in place. The end result of this was that the project ended up costing many, many times what it was initially projected to cost, end user costs became crazy expensive, performance was poo poo and then you get people like me: I actually have fibre to the home; because my ISP replaced all the copper lines in my neighbourhood as part of a deal with the state government who wanted to demolish the old phone exchange to expand a hospital. They were originally supposed to act as wholesalers and let other ISPs have access to the network; and they were eventually supposed to sell the network to the NBN. What happened in practice is that with 11 years of the Right in government they were able to drag their feet on the sale, all the other ISPs pulled out over time, leaving my neighbourhood with a single ISP monopoly on a weird orphan network that was never built to the national standard and never had any money put into improving it. They’ve finally bowed to pressure to sell the network to another company with an actual good track record who will essentially bring it up to standard and properly integrate it at which point I’ll have actual ISP choice again, with faster speeds at a lower cost; but that is taking its time. And now the national network is replacing all the copper with fibre anyway like it should have done from the start.
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Hey an iphone related observation. Just got an iPhone 13 from work, with a 5G subscription. They upgraded the equipment on the telecom tower 100 meters from my house a couple of months ago, so I figured I might have pretty good speeds in my kitchen. Did a speed test. Result: Wifi enabled, with 300 Mbps broadband subscription: 250-300 Mbps. Not bad. Wifi disabled: 760 Mbps. Now, the only question is, what the hell does one use 700 Mbps for, on a phone?
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Hey an iphone related observation. Just got an iPhone 13 from work, with a 5G subscription. High quality forums posting
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Now, the only question is, what the hell does one use 700 Mbps for, on a phone? The faster the phone can download a web page the sooner it can put the radio in a low power setting, saving you battery.
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Hey an iphone related observation. Just got an iPhone 13 from work, with a 5G subscription. pornos
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Hey an iphone related observation. Just got an iPhone 13 from work, with a 5G subscription. 4k streaming
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Anyone with access to macOS can import a .plist into autocorrect that can bulk add swears for you. That then propagates via iCloud to your phone.
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Kerbtree posted:Anyone with access to macOS can import a .plist into autocorrect that can bulk add swears for you. That then propagates via iCloud to your phone. How would I go about doing this?
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Mister Facetious posted:4k streaming What, 24 4K streams at once?
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ssb posted:What, 24 4K streams at once? Live blogging and uploading to the cloud at the same time baby.
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Hey an iphone related observation. Just got an iPhone 13 from work, with a 5G subscription. Just curious , which carrier ?
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Now, the only question is, what the hell does one use 700 Mbps for, on a phone? Loading 265 MB of video ads and tracking frameworks for a five paragraph news article op.
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Duckman2008 posted:Just curious , which carrier ? Telia
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Now my phone has started auto capitalizing the word can but only if it’s the second word in a sentence after the letter I lol. I Can see how. (Example) How tf does that happen?
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I have no idea why but my phone has decided that my partner's name will always default to lower case, even though they're in my contacts with a capital letter to start and I always go back and correct it when I forget to press shift before the first letter. Resetting the full keyboard settings to fix this seems like overkill but it's silly that you can't just force certain words out or in of its database.
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Question Mark Mound posted:I have no idea why but my phone has decided that my partner's name will always default to lower case, even though they're in my contacts with a capital letter to start and I always go back and correct it when I forget to press shift before the first letter. Resetting the full keyboard settings to fix this seems like overkill but it's silly that you can't just force certain words out or in of its database. *taps post* Corb3t posted:Your/her needs are unnecessarily limiting and you’re not going to find what you want.
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# ? Mar 21, 2023 18:15 |
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Show some respect to your partner and press the drat shift key one single time you lazy gently caress.
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What does Apple use for their traffic / speed trap alerts? Because it's always completely wrong and I'm curious if they take so long to propagate it's useless or have the dumbest drivers on the road submitting reports.
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mawarannahr posted:*taps post* I can help with this one! Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement > add your partner's name and replace it with the capitalized version.
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mawarannahr posted:*taps post* A partner's name is not an edge case. This thread has some weird fascination with hand-waving peoples legit annoyances away as edge cases. Come on. This happens to me ALL the time typing contact names that don't get capitalized.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:A partner's name is not an edge case. This thread has some weird fascination with hand-waving peoples legit annoyances away as edge cases. Come on. I'm kidding, I think it's weird and dismissive when it happens too. Usually it's the other way around for me and it will capitalize words to be more like names. (eg Hope, but only after "i" and nothing else. It's so funny imo) They should probably do updates with famous people every now and again too, like Rishi Sunak, Kylian Mbappe and so on. mawarannahr fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Mar 21, 2023 |
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This is a comedy forum, I will continue to point out the absurdity of some goon's demands while also trying to help them.
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Tbf we shouldn’t have to Google for it because it’s dumb. If the OS corrects a word and you go back and change it multiple times it should learn from that. It doesn’t seem like that should be such a hard thing to do.
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MarcusSA posted:Tbf we shouldn’t have to Google for it because it’s dumb. If the OS corrects a word and you go back and change it multiple times it should learn from that. It doesn’t seem like that should be such a hard thing to do. I thought for the longest time this was how it was supposed to work. Instead it seems like autocomplete has somehow gotten worse and more stubborn over time. Corb3t posted:This is a comedy forum, I will continue to point out the absurdity of some goon's demands while also trying to help them. Nobody funny ever needs to find themselves pleading “this is a comedy forum”
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xzzy posted:What does Apple use for their traffic / speed trap alerts? Because it's always completely wrong and I'm curious if they take so long to propagate it's useless or have the dumbest drivers on the road submitting reports. I prefer using Apple Maps instead of Google or Waze, but you're correct that their speed trap alerts have been 100% wrong in my experience. When they say there's one ahead, I never see one, and I see them all the time when there was no warning. Would be nice if they could get some kind of data sharing agreement with Google/Waze for this info, but that'll never happen.
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OldSenileGuy posted:I prefer using Apple Maps instead of Google or Waze, but you're correct that their speed trap alerts have been 100% wrong in my experience. When they say there's one ahead, I never see one, and I see them all the time when there was no warning. Would be nice if they could get some kind of data sharing agreement with Google/Waze for this info, but that'll never happen. Waze "notify the community about a mobile speed trap" is illegal in multiple countries so every other mapping solution will just use the static speed trap data provided by tomtom or here(which is in turn provided by the local municipalities) to avoid legal disputes.
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OldSenileGuy posted:I prefer using Apple Maps instead of Google or Waze, but you're correct that their speed trap alerts have been 100% wrong in my experience. When they say there's one ahead, I never see one, and I see them all the time when there was no warning. Would be nice if they could get some kind of data sharing agreement with Google/Waze for this info, but that'll never happen. Didn't Apple used to pull from Waze data for wrecks and stuff prior? Seems odd they wouldn't pull speed traps either.
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SlowBloke posted:Waze "notify the community about a mobile speed trap" is illegal in multiple countries so every other mapping solution will just use the static speed trap data provided by tomtom or here(which is in turn provided by the local municipalities) to avoid legal disputes.
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Corb3t posted:I can help with this one!
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Am I an idiot, I think the forums user who quoted the “edge case” had a trolling ironic response to the goon who wished to capitalize the first name of his romantic partner. I don’t think he was literally calling it an edge case. It was a play on calling everything edge cases
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Lol if you text in sentence case like a try hard
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Inner Light posted:Am I an idiot, I think the forums user who quoted the “edge case” had a trolling ironic response to the goon who wished to capitalize the first name of his romantic partner. I don’t think he was literally calling it an edge case. It was a play on calling everything edge cases i'm not sure maybe we should dissect the post further to find out
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