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It's strange that we are shocked when we see universally popular ideas like this get pushed forward after years of political abuse (slrpnk.net)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

slight disagree on internet, usage based pricing does work for a fair amount of people, but there should also be price tiers for guaranteed speed and latency without having to resort to business plans. For example, if the ISP advertises 1gbps, they should be held to a standard of say 800mbps for at least 3 9's reliability, and/or ping within some deviation based on your distance to the local hub.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

internet should be a free public service, and if we're going to have a government, they should be running it. the one major disadvantage of that is that they would absolutely spy on you, which the corporations freely let them do anyway, but charge us out the ass for. fuck them.

and if you want to keep the corpos (why?) it's not even about speed: the only costs of internet access are initial infra, backbone licensing, and maintenance. none of those are super use dependent; the parts are not mechanical, and do not wear much faster with increased throughput.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ya know honestly I'd be happy if they had to guarantee only 10% of what they advertised as the "up to" speed. In the afternoon, I'm only getting 0.1-0.5 mbit/s upload on my Gbit plan. It's infuriating to wait 3 minutes for a teams message to send