Comcast. There isn’t enough storage available on this forum to contain the amount of hatred I have for this company.
My data usage went from 228 GB for January to a whopping 1.37 TB in February.
I told them their meter is fucked. They can’t do anything. I asked them to look at how much data we consumed on Feb 15th. On feb 15th we had a snow storm that knocked out our internet connection for over 36 hours. They said I consumed over 10 GB that day. With 0 internet connection. That didn’t convince them that the problem might be on their side.
Now I’m throwing darts and have ordered a MoCA filter to see if that does anything (it likely won’t). My next step is to go down and get one of their shitty rental modems for a month and see if that changes anything, as I think this all stems from me purchasing my own modem in mid-January and them being pissed that they lost that revenue so they’re going to stick it to me by making sure I go over my data limit.
An internet search shows this to be a common problem. Fuck Comcast, and fuck the free market that somehow encourages competition except when it comes to ISPs, as my choices where I live are either Comcast or 1.5 Mb/s Centurylink.
We should probably do a worst current companies draft. Comcast would take the #1-#100s spot.
Never experienced the data usage issue. The only thing I pay them for is the internet service I have my own wifi router and modem. We don’t really have any other options here either.
When I type Chinese characters it is generally incredibly fast because of using pinyin (the romanized spelling) and you can often just type the first letter (or two if it’s ch-, zh-, sh-) of each character for a word or even a sentence and the software will know what characters you want if it’s common stuff.
It’s faster than typing in English.
However, if there’s a character I don’t know the pinyin for and I want to type it or look it up (and it’s not on my phone so can’t just copy-paste) I have to use the handwriting option. Draw it with my finger and then choose from a set of characters the software thinks it might be. This would also be convenient if not for the software only giving me maybe 1.5 seconds from the first stroke to when it erases and gives the list of what it thinks I tried to draw. I have no idea why this is.
(fwiw there are plenty of websites that offer the same function that don’t require speedwriting so it’s at worst a brief setback. BUT STILL)
When the department administrator sends out an email “Donuts in the main office” and you rush there because you are super hungry and craving sugar and it turns out that they’re donut holes.
Well, you didn’t say shitty donut holes. On the other hand, I don’t really understand how 6 of those isn’t equivalent to one glazed donut from the same baker.
My favorite donut place has holes that are essentially just mini donuts. They don’t have as many varieties as they do donuts, but definitely more than just glazed.
Donut holes are certainly a disappointment when you’re expected full donuts, but they are still great. One donut place near my house just throws some in the box when buy regular donuts.
In college, our student union was right next to the building I had most of my classes in for a couple years. Before one of our classes, my friend and I would often hurry over there and grab a box of Dunkin Donuts munchkins to snack on during class. We called the chocolate ones “doodoo balls.”
Just boarded a 15 hour flight from Chengdu to LA. The movie selection is so bad. Might explain the ticket only costing $420 including the leg from Wuhan.
Guess I’m watching Julie and Julia followed by Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway.
It’s a Chinese airline so goes without saying there are multiple Fast and the Furious movies on the menu. It is, after all, a very family-oriented culture.
As someone who cant sleep on planes, one of the most miserable times in my life was a sydney-LA flight with united where the entertainment systerm was down. Of course being back in like 2005, didnt really have a smart phone/tablet or anything. Basically read the in seat literature 1000x and went nuts. $50 voucher though!
Alright little kids being crossing guards in front of schools have got to go. Who thought of the idea to put six 8 year olds on the edge of the street directing traffic? These kids are barely old enough to cross the street without holding their parents hands and they have no driving experience. I’m pretty sure I can tell when it’s safe to proceed better than a bunch of grade school children.
It was 6th graders when I was going to school. I thought it was slightly weird that norms shifted to the point that now it’s normally adults. Particularly when it’s got to be hard to find someone to work a weird schedule for $17/hr
