the ferengi are moral giants when compared to any recent US administration - and, with the 2024 election, perhaps the us as a whole. :-|

nope.

pretty much. learning things without a corresponding “oh… shit.” moment, just never quite stick with you the same way.

" …a mans gotta know his limitations." 👍

oh, cool - RFKs suggested DSM just dropped!

Those exceptions don’t do shit.

thanks for this. a reminder to scream this nugget of wisdom into the face of every “partial ban” supporter.

if you really want a deep dive (cuz your post suggests that), fire up wireshark on a speed test PC and capture the traffic while you test. look for out-of-order, missing and corrupted packets. you will also get awesome stats on the traffic - wireshark is your best friend. be warned, this is the entrance to the rabbit hole.

edit: because at some point you are going to want to slide wireshark between the cable modem and your router - for general troubleshooting (and funsies!) then things get interesting as you figure out how to do that properly.

110% legit. its just that simple.

test it early morning when your neighbor peeps are sleeping (or bulk traffic torrenting - QoS usually knocks them back down pretty quickly). at the least you are looking for rock solid ping times. if pings are wild your link or the community bandwidth is possibility saturated.

is something already pushing 300Mbps worth of traffic across the router? speed tests that are good at power cycle, but quickly deteriorate after, can sometimes indicate that you have unaccounted for traffic crossing a bandwidth limited i/f (your ISPs service).

check your router stats for the missing traffic.

edit: also, almost all ISPs have a “burst bucket” for quick but intensive bursts of traffic. you get super speed for a few seconds while your bucket fills up. once full/overcommitted, your ISP starts rate limiting your service again. that may be why you get nice initial speeds, but they drop off quickly. does your ISP give burst speeds and sustained speeds in its terms of service contract on your kids?

yeah, Alaska is such an odd one. ranked choice voting, prosocial economic policies wrt oil. and yet…

if anyone in the soverign nation of ak can fill in the blanks, it would be greatly appreciated!

CIA: “sounds like socialism, boys. you know what to do.”

this is such good stuff! thank you for your art.

at which point you turn on all symbols/debugging, bloat your binary 10x and submit it …cuz it seems to work sometimes then.

or, if you are really lucky, you can poke the right locations and release the magic blue smoke from the chips. super fun and all the cool kids are doing it.

unsurprisingly, I think bernie does not care and would only consider the safety of others involved.

to my thinking, anyone involved should be willing to commit to the idea that this revolution wont come through evolution and wont be televised.

Crowd sourced, open access FLOS(Data) is almost always good. will check it out. thanks!

and, hopefully, we can finally let the man rest a bit.

I torture it by pointing its webcam at the wall outlet and forcing it to watch its own pull-the-plug execution.

I will be among the first against the wall when the AI revolution comes.

They are doing everything possible to bait Harris into a mistake

super walz to the rescue. seems like he has played the VP attack dog role pretty smartly. loud enough to make headlines with reasonably pointed attacks, while being “clean” enough to deflect incoming.