Very timely. I am now paying $59/month for Spectrum internet after calling and doing the cancel charade. This is a $5 increase from last year when I also called and did the cancel charade although stupidly after getting burned for one month at 80 bucks or some absurd shit. 59 sucks bad too.
Frontier is available in my area for $44 with a price lock. I have no contract with Spectrum. But I think Frontier needs to come into my house and I’d prefer that not happen. So I’m just burning $180/yr to not get coronavirus which I’m going to get anyways because of Cuse.
lol if you’re lucky. I’ve gotten the 9am-6pm window several times. Like hold on, my time is worth kind of a lot and you want me to wait around how long?
I switch back and forth between Frontier and Spectrum every couple years - right as one jacks the rate up to full price. I wait for the gift card offer. But goddam you have to bug them for that thing. I already have the hookups for both so it’s super easy.
Another favorite trick of theirs is to not send you the boxes to send their equipment (which is 100% worthless to them) back, then bill you for it like a year later.
Last time I returned cable/WiFi boxes the rep remarked on how they were the old version and “how did you even get those” cause they’re going right in the trash. But I’d bet lots of money that they’d charge me a ton if I never returned them.
The T key went bad on my old mac pro 13" (pre-butterfly keyboard - which I absolutely cannot stand typing on). So I bought a similar used one and turned the other one into a dedicated streaming device. And now the E key is slowly dying on my new one, just like the T key did on the old one. Awesome.
I do almost all of my writing for the book in my comfy chair on my laptop directly. I really don’t want to have to use an external keyboard.
Anyone else have experience with this and am I just screwed? I seemed to remember looking into repairs for the old one and it was more expensive than just replacing it. It sure didn’t look like something you could do yourself.
You can pop the keys out without damaging them. So you can take the E key from your old computer and use it to replace it on your new one. There are YouTube videos that show you how to do it.
Power is back! After 40 hours I had finally stopped reflexively trying to turn stuff on. I discovered two things in that time. One, I need a better power bank or maybe a small UPS. Two, when I tie my shoelaces in the dark, they generate a corona discharge with a cool purple glow.
