Joelk111

joined 2 years ago
[–] Joelk111 3 points 1 month ago

Hah, yeah, my family is pretty neat and tidy in general.

[–] Joelk111 3 points 1 month ago

Airbnb type thing, yeah, for Wednesday night through to Sunday.

[–] Joelk111 3 points 1 month ago

Not really an RPG, more of a action adventure, but Far Cry 3 will probably run well enough. I played it on a much worse laptop when I was in highschool.

[–] Joelk111 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

We rent a house for Thanksgiving every other year. This year's house has a broken oven thermostat, the oven's element just stays on no matter what you set the temp to. This has unironically been us, though we got a chair.

[–] Joelk111 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

If there was a paid service that allowed me to download a file instead of having to buy a Blu-ray and rip it myself or be DRM attached to Amazon or something, I'd buy my movies for the higher quality than whatever odd torrent I find. The movie industry needs to do what steam has done. Make it more convenient to do it legally and people that have money will pay instead of stealing.

[–] Joelk111 2 points 2 months ago

At least it isn't a Phillips

[–] Joelk111 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Man people are racist as hell. I hadn't even heard the Asian doormat stereotype before, what the fuck?

[–] Joelk111 160 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (23 children)

If this goes live, I'm out. YT premium is my most expensive subscription, but I watch enough YouTube that I'm OK with it, especially considering that it supports creators more than ad viewers. If I still get ads? Nah dawg. I'll divy up that money amongst patreons or whatever, and install add blockers.

[–] Joelk111 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I've heard about that too. Hopefully they can upgrade that around here, but I'm not keeping my hopes up. I don't even need or want to pay for 1 gig. All I need is like a couple hundred Mbps square.

[–] Joelk111 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm not concerned with download speeds. 120Mbps is plenty, you haven't got anything to complain about there.

I want square up/down speeds, unlimited data as standard, or at least offered, and wider availability.

So many places are still relying on DSL or sattelite. It's getting so much better with Starlink, but more options are more better.

I can get 1.2Tbps down (I pay for 300Mbps), but I can't do anything better than 40Mbps up (I get 25Mbps up with my plan with NO option to upgrade). It's ridicoulous as a self hoster, my partner and I saturate the connection by each watching a movie that I host at the same time. I'm pretty sure it's just trying to make sure that, if you have a business, you pay for business internet.

In my situation (Xfinity) I can pay an upcharge of 30 bucks per month for unlimited data, which I do.

Tl;dr: we should focus on wider availability, better upload speeds, and unlimited data, in that order, before anything else.

[–] Joelk111 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even my wife says you're an idiot if you can't understand that language is constantly changing and evolving. Female has become an undesirable work to use to describe women, as it's so often used by incels and other undesirable groups of people. In combination with the fact that female describes one's junk, not how they identify, it just isn't a good word to use when you're actually talking about women.

[–] Joelk111 7 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Who the hell are you hanging out with? I'd say the term female is used way more often than male.

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