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• On the post: U.S. Press Starts To Figure Out College TikTok Bans Are A Dumb Performance

  

  zerosignal ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2023 @ 07:47am

  Don't need a VPN

  In this age of unlimited data, there's no need to use a VPN just to bypass the filter at school/work. Just turn off wifi, and use cellular data. School/work can't control that.

• On the post: Desperation Sets In: Twitter Offers To Match $250,000 In Ad Spending To Lure Pissed Off Advertisers Back

  

  zerosignal ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2023 @ 09:44am

  Third Party Clients

  As someone who used a third-party client, I wonder how many other occasional users like me were on the fence about leaving will abandon the place completely. I tried using the official app, and it was borderline unusable with all the ads shoved in there.

• On the post: 5G Hype Simply Didn’t Deliver

  

  zerosignal ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2022 @ 09:35am

  And if 6G doesn't fix everything, 7G will.

• On the post: Comcast Forces Users To Buy Comcast Hardware If They Want Faster Upload Speeds

  

  zerosignal ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2022 @ 07:25am

  I did the same, but with Verizon. I replaced my DSL and TV service from the phone company with VZ 5G and YouTube TV, and save $100/month.

• On the post: Ohio Supreme Court Says There’s Nothing Wrong With Cops Seizing A $31,000 Truck Over An $850 Criminal Offense

  

  zerosignal ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2022 @ 10:20am

  In some states, you can get a work permit that allows you to drive between specified hours and only between your home and work.

• On the post: The Extreme Weight Of Large Electric Vehicles Is Going To Be A Very Dangerous Problem

  

  zerosignal ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2022 @ 08:08am

  A Honda Accord is also over seven inches longer and has almost two cubic feet more cargo room. A more apt comparison would be to a Honda Civic, which is much closer to the Tesla 3 in every dimension. The 3 weighs a litle over 700 lbs more than the Civic, or about two Sumo wrestlers.

• On the post: Texas Activist Weaponizes Law Requiring Religious Posters In Schools Against Its Fans

  

  zerosignal ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2022 @ 09:14am

  I'm curious what this would look like: English Gay Pride

• On the post: Texas Activist Weaponizes Law Requiring Religious Posters In Schools Against Its Fans

  

  zerosignal ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2022 @ 09:13am

  whoops, replied to the wrong post...

• On the post: Texas Activist Weaponizes Law Requiring Religious Posters In Schools Against Its Fans

  

  zerosignal ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2022 @ 09:12am

  I'm curious what this one would look like: English Gay Pride

• On the post: Texas School District Decides To Just Ban All Books Flagged For Review… Including The Bible

  

  zerosignal ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2022 @ 06:53am

  Meanwhile, in South Dakota

  In South Dakota, they are trying to sneak the bible into the classroom. The chairman of the South Dakota Catholic Conference is helping write the social studies curriculum: "[The standards] are also peppered with Christian history and explore the religion's influence on the nation's leading figures and on Western civilization." Source: https://www.startribune.com/article/600198511/

• On the post: Hackers Already Prepared To Screw Up BMW’s Subscription Heated Seat Model

  

  zerosignal ( profile ), 27 Jul, 2022 @ 06:59am

  This isn't new for BMW. I'm pretty sure their turn signals have been on a similar model for decades, and most drivers are too cheap to pay for that service.

• On the post: Netflix’s Password Sharing Crackdown Has It Sounding More And More Like Comcast

  

  zerosignal ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2022 @ 07:50am

  I switched from my local phone company's DSL and TV package to Verizon 5G home internet and Youtube TV, and save $100/month.

• On the post: The Public Hates The Idea, Pushed By GOP Political Spammers, That Google Will Let Political Spam Bypass Spam Filters

  

  zerosignal ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2022 @ 12:07pm

  The difference is that if you aren't careful, malware spam could lead to a bad actor taking over your computer, while political email could lead to a bad actor taking over your government.

• On the post: Project To Digitize Every SNES Game Manual Now Complete

  

  zerosignal ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2022 @ 06:32am

  Only 90s kids get it

  "For those of you not of a certain age, video games used to come in the form of cartridges that you would load into the console. Those cartridges came packaged with game manuals that did everything from tell you how to play the game, up to and including game lore and backstory. Again, if you were born at the right time like yours truly, reading the manual upon buying the game, sometimes in the back of your Mom’s Plymouth Voyager minivan on the way back from Toys ‘R Us, was part of the excitement."

  The amount of early 90s in these three sentences is almost too much.

• On the post: Trump Doesn’t Want To Get Back On Twitter So Badly, He’s Appealing His Case To Get Back On Twitter

  

  zerosignal ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2022 @ 08:10am

  Also for as long as he can get ~~suckers~~ his followers to keep sending him money for his legal fund.

• On the post: Enjoy Digital Ownership And Public Libraries While You Still Can

  

  zerosignal ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2022 @ 07:59am

  It's exactly this. Google increased their cut from play store sales, and a lot of companies are removing their payment options from their apps. Amazon did the same thing with Kindle books as well. The option to buy is still there, it just has to be done through their website instead of their app. Their Kindle app that's available through the Amazon App Store still allows purchases, and I would guess the Audible app available there allows them as well.

• On the post: 42% Of Us Homes Have Ditched Cable TV And Gone Broadband Only

  

  zerosignal ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2022 @ 11:26am

  Prime does have kids accounts now.

• On the post: 42% Of Us Homes Have Ditched Cable TV And Gone Broadband Only

  

  zerosignal ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2022 @ 11:25am

  I am switching from DSL and TV through my phone company to Verizon 5G internet and Hulu Live TV, and will be saving about $85 a month.

• On the post: 42% Of Us Homes Have Ditched Cable TV And Gone Broadband Only

  

  zerosignal ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2022 @ 07:54am

  Following the trend

  I will be joining those ditching ~~cable~~ TV through the phone company (and their slow-ass DSL service) as soon as my 5G router arrives.