A_Asselin

joined 2 years ago
[–] A_Asselin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 hours ago

In the last 24 hours they put 2 drops in the front of my yard... It basically looks like a small manhole cover on my lawn in the front. I notice the flyer says offer valid until 5/31... today is the 21st... I can't see them having this ready within 10 days..

[–] A_Asselin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago

I assume you have a good story behind this

[–] A_Asselin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm closing in on 50, so I remember my 14.4 modems! I had aol! I don't use steam even when shower, if I do it would be too hot! Honestly I only play 2 games, they are both for MS-DOS and I'm an avid linux user. Rather than play new fancy games I reverse engineer and modify old ones. My executables are like 1mb each. I am learning x86 dissasembly.

[–] A_Asselin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

Thank you to everyone that has been replying! When I say I "haven't had a problem with comcast" I mean I wasn't targeted for sharing anything. I had 1 letter back in like 2019 sent when I downloaded a fresh episode of a popular tv show. Besides that- never, but I'm not a good model because I don't like anything new, popular or hollywood.

[–] A_Asselin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I don't really torrent much, and would use a vpn if I did anything I would worry about- however I do leave my computer up most of the time sharing a ton of old music on soulseek. I have never had a problem.

 

I got a flyer in the snail mail the other day that said "surf fiber internet will soon be available to you". My Mom has fiber internet in another state, and I know it's fast for her (albeit she has verizon fios). I live in the USA Midwest Chicago area- and I have had comcast xfinity for 20+ years here. They are a ripoff. I am charged 88.95 a month USD. I have no TV or any other services other than basic internet (I think it's the second lowest speed- they may call it "performance internet")

What I did notice (and this may be a coincidence) was that they must be doing some construction on my street because they made survey marks on my property and painted where the gas line and water lines are. Could this be because they are putting in the fiber cables?

Thinking of switching but want to get opinions of others. Besides cost reasons, comcast can suck off because they are basically part of other hollywood support corporations that are part of ACE. (this is the other reason I want to do it)

[–] A_Asselin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

I don't even use adobe products (I am pure open source) but this makes me want to share this with others just to see adobe burn in hell

[–] A_Asselin@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 month ago

I haven't had a TV in about 20 years, but from what I understand they are all "smart" and need the internet these days. If I decided I wanted one, most certainly wouldn't want something that could go online.

Now- I would love a nice 60 inch display to play my MS DOS games on though- that would be sweet!