excited banhammering noises

Catwoman: What’s a hroom?

Awesome work, thankyou for taking the time to do this.

I too love a metal USB stick for the keychain, and my old DTSE9 could do with a refresh!

And giving exemptions for ones with less than a certain number of employees.

Big bus.
We know they’re paying you off with day savers, don’t deny it!

I still remember when they cut their bitrates and lowered video quality.
They denied it entirely, people proved that CR was full of shit.
So CR responded by…Attacking the people who proved the streams were lower bitrate than before.

I can only speak from a UK perspective, but most home ADSL/VDSL/Fibre providers don’t have limits, other than “if your usage is tanking the network, we’ll ask you to knock it off” type clauses.

Most providers are also signed up to an agreement that if your speed drops 50% below the agreed speed on the package on average, they’ll either give you refunds, or let you out of the contract.

The only ones that throttle are the bargain basement operators aimed at people who don’t care, and one otherwise very competent provider that for some unexplainable reason only gives 1TB by default, charging an extra £10 for 10TB.

And I guess there is also a pricing step up to guaranteed bandwidth. For business use, they tend to be things like 1gbits headline, 500mbit guaranteed burst, 100mbit guaranteed sustained.

From my experience, they’re “Hanging around outside the chip shop” gulls.

“Wololo”

“Diddja laak tha’?”

I had someone arrive at a BBQ, saw me frying some onions, and ask “Are you going to caramelise those onions?”

Yes mate. The onions I’m frying for a few minutes while the burgers cook, gonna be nice and caramelised in seconds, just you watch.

He was made sticky by vicky.

The amount of people who would be off with long covid if not for work from home is understated, in my opinion.

He’s having a little more fun in the original.

That doesn’t sound very typical.

The way to tell so often seems to be if someone has called it AI or Machine Learning.

AI? “I put this through chatgpt” (or “The media department has us by the balls”)

ML? “I crunched a huge amount of data in a huge amount of ways, and found something interesting”

IIRC, the reason it wasn’t previously taxed, is that it would have opened up writing off gambling losses against tax.
Don’t quote me, obv.
So maybe it would need a lot of other tax law changing at the same time, to not end up encouraging people accidentally the other way.

It’s like if you went to church, and the vicar said:
“You know what? I don’t fancy delivering this sermon with moral guidance. Lets just sing 10 hymns in a row.”

You’d need steel chestnuts to even attempt such a thing!