• coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Reading trough all the marketing terms used. I’m more afraid of selective slowing down connections instead of the mentioned “speeding up” connections.

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          Yeah they won’t speed up shit, that requires investment in infrastructure. They’ll just slow down all existing lanes by 40%, blame it on something unrelated, and then charge you 2.5x as much as you used to pay to get your original speeds back.

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          7 months ago

          Don’t do that. Don’t read through them. Let that shit be.

          Also don’t help your “non-tech-savvy” relatives and friends with crap you’ve told them before you don’t use. They think it’s fine and normal until they are left alone to deal with it. “But how will I use Facebook?.. I dunno, don’t use it myself, can’t help you”.

          The reason crap is popular is also because we the relatively savvy people have conditioned normies to think that they choose what to use and we’ll just help them with everything, but the authority who tells what’s good and what isn’t is not us, it’s Google and Apple and other shitmakers.

          No free IT help without representation, I say. Which means that I’ll help them if they suddenly want to become Linux users. Or something else I can respect. But not with things I’ve never advised them to use in the first place, quite the contrary. I’m for adult usage of the Web, with normies accepting responsibility for their own choices.

          EDIT: This butthurt comment meant that we shouldn’t wait for normies to abandon all that. Leading by example. Like with ICQ being abandoned in favor of Skype. Network effect isn’t real (… anymore with enshittification negating it fully), it can’t hurt you.

          EDIT2: And I know it’s offtopic.

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            7 months ago

            I agree with you, I usually tell relatives to call their isp and scream at them. It’s usually stuff I could probably help with but if the isp gets more hell they might change for the better.

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        7 months ago

        Yo TikTok with a latency higher than 2 ms is completely unusable trash!

        Or under 2 ms.

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      7 months ago

      Low latency matters a lot more than bandwidth in any game that isn’t turn based.