They didn't even change the network name.

STINKY is or at least was at one point the default wifi network name for starlink APs to push people into changing it from the default.

Yeah we moved from AT&T to the city munifiber which had a outdoor ONT to 100Mbps ethernet, they're still using the same equipment, it's 20+ years old now, no config or anything just straight public IP 10/10Mbps, aside from losing a couple Ethernet ports over the time we used it, it was rock solid equipment.

We since moved to Optimum cable 200/20Mbps, they let us use our own modem (their rental is so locked down as to be unfit for purpose in business use) it hasn't been nearly as reliable and optimum makes you call in and beg every year to keep a decent rate but it's a lot faster for the price.

$90/mo for 20/20Mbps munifiber vs $76/mo for 200/20Mbps cable.

City is supposed to finish upgrades to replace all the 20+ year old equipment by the end of this year so we will most likely be switching back once the new rates are available around the same time optimum is going to be jacking our rates up again.

Optimum has gone up every single year we've had it.
The city has had the same pricing for over a decade, which as shown above isn't necessarily a good thing but it's easy to budget for and doesn't make itself a hassle.

Still to get even 100/100Mbps via the munifiber is currently $275/mo so that $199/mo difference is worth the hassle and outages for the extra speed.

I still remember that one time AT&T bricked everyone's spare modems by making the modems use a weird proprietary authentication scheme so if they weren't online to get the new certificates before the old ones expired they couldn't connect to get the new ones.

Sure they could have just issued update files so people could just manually load the new version but this is att.

Eventually someone managed to pull the update file from one of the working modems and posted it online so it was possible to unbrick them but really.

That was the Motorola 2210.

I also remember the newer model after that the Motorola NVG510 you had to root to change the redirect settings or anytime it lost connection it would hijack everyone's browsers instead of gracefully erroring out.

Even then it wasn't the hijacking that was the problem as much as it was that they didn't set it as nocache so you had to go around and reset things after the connection came back up because it would just keep redirecting to the modem.

Have I mentioned lately how happy I am I don't have to deal with that company for anything anymore?

And that's been the preferred tool since what XP?

It's baffling that they've never been able to match the performance.

Leaded avgas is still fine though right?

We're only banning fictional problems not actual ones right?

You do know that the majority of small planes still use leaded fuel right? We CBA to even do anything about that.

Under the last president we were desperately trying to find new uses for asbestos.

That's going to be annoying i've used that a lot over the years.
It was always annoying that it wouldn't show the button on mobile and they've refused to show it on mobile AFAIK ever since they added a mobile version.

Has it? Has it really? Stuff seems to poof out of existence as regularly now as it ever did, probably even more so now as though it's probably happening about the same rate there's so much more stuff today than there was a decade ago.

Lucky you, I'm still regularly hearing from customers that can't stop themselves from telling us about how it's a chinese hoax to control us.

I especially hate VNC's login.

Oh yeah you can use anything you want but it can't be longer than 8 characters.

Security lock out? Some sites will require a password reset if anyone tried to log into your account too many times with the wrong password. (bad policy as it makes it easy to easily deny service to anyone you know the account name of)

Also common in the case of a site breach.
I've seen sites have breaches and then just reset everyone's passwords forcing everyone to go through the recovery process. Realistically a reasonable response although results in a lot of people being locked out of their accounts due to forgotten or broken recovery procedures.

SLPT;

Ignore the questions and just give the same answer every time;

What was your first car?
letmein

What's your mothers maiden name?
letmein

What's the last name of your best friend?
letmein

Now all your answers are both easy to remember and no one will ever be able to guess them because they're all wrong!

Only ~$120/yr for eff.ing
They want ~$13,000/yr for fuck.ing

Oh but they can and have. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.motherjones.com%2Fen... Well not Minnesota specifically but there's nothing stopping them from doing the same.

Are we invading iran again?
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

I'd assume it'd have to be a relay, latency seems way too high otherwise, plus quality is inconsistent even when on the same wifi network.