AliOski comments on T-Mobile illegally imposed 50GB cap on low-income home Internet plan, NY says: Law requires 25Mbps home Internet. T-Mobile lowers speed to 600Kbps after 50GB cap.

[–] AliOski@feddit.nl 2 points 15 hours ago (7 children)

We should NOT accommodate for the stupid if that means lying about the facts. My two cents.

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[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world -1 points 12 hours ago* (6 children)

Stupid and not an expert in a specific field are two very different things. Also, it is not lying. It is the exact same facts (same number) presented differently.

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[–] AliOski@feddit.nl 1 point 11 hours ago (5 children)

Mm and mm are very different. Mg and mg are very different. Mbps and MB/s are very different. People lacking basic education to be able to read units properly have to deal with that themselves.

They are not the exact same. Somebody else already talked a whole thread about the reason as to why.

What I would argue for is every company at least all advertising the same unit, so that when comparing it becomes easier to do so.

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[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago* (4 children)

A whole thread and still no explanation how taking an accurate number and multiplying it by a constant to get a different representation can magically make it less accurate.

It's like saying a distance has to be in miles because converting it to km makes it less accurate.

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[–] AliOski@feddit.nl 2 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Nah man at this point you are purposefully ignoring the bits that are being sent to your device which are then converted to bytes so that your pixels can communicate the letters that are forming words to you, from which the sentences are apparently too difficult for you to understand.

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[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 1 point 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

The sentences are just nonsense. "Stupid" consumers are consumers too. If you are intentionally making the marketing harder to understand for people that don't pass your arbitrary level of "smart enough to understand and convert", that is literally anti-consumer. Instead of a number that everyone can underatand on first sight, you keep arguing understanding the marketing should require additional education with no other practical application in most peoples lives. No, if a peraon is a farmer, they should not be required to take a year of computer acience just so they can select an internet package.

Yet somehow these "smart" people must not be asked to convert back from byets to bits. That is too difficult. Only converting from bits to byets is the correct way. I guess being smart only lets you divide by 8, not multiply by 8. Complete nonsense.

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[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 point 2 hours ago (1 child)

It’s been explained to you multiple times by multiple people but you’re just not grasping it. You fundamentally misunderstand at every single level. There are experts, there are non-expert laymen, and then there’s you, way down at the bottom where the sun can’t reach you.

Ultimately, what you want to happen will never happen, no matter how much you whine and complain, and for very good reason. So there’s really no point wasting your time and energy defending your indefensible position. The adults have made a decision.

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[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 1 point 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Ultimately, what you want to happen will never happen, no matter how much you whine and complain, and for very good reason.

It already happened when it was convenient for the ISP. When fiber optics was being introduced in my country, the first ISP introducing it advertised main metric that was not mbps or even MB/s, it was minutes to download a Full HD movie. Because when it was advantageous for the ISP to make consumers understand how large the advantages of fiber optics were, it was suddenly possible to use easy to understand units. They just explained the assumptions in the fine-print. Once fiber optic became common and wasn't a huge competitive advantage anymore, they went back to their anti-consumer practices.

So I guess you should re-examine your understanding of what is possible, unless your brain can't comprehend being wrong and learning new things. Or continue choosing to be ignorant and keep insulting those trying to educate you, I don't care anymore.

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