Hmm, good point. I have an astigmatism and slightly different vision in both eyes so now I’m questioning if it would even work for me.

Really? Despite how much of a flop it was, if I owned one I feel like I’d find it fun?

Though now that I think about it…did it even have many games?

Are you self hosting?

It gets better.

Damn, I have never looked at it this way and now that I am…it’s really sad. Thank you for the eye opener.

Your last paragraph - I sure hope so.

My extended family all complains about how their church attendance is declining and people are being let go from leadership because the tithing isn’t coming in like it used to and etcblahetc…

I don’t fucking care. Burn. Topple. Go away. We’ll all be better off.

I’m legitimately surprised there is any conscious uncoupling happening. But…I guess that’s something?

Bottom, because I put my phone in my pocket top down.

WOW. Way to throw me down that nostalgic rabbit trail.

What a fun game.

This semi-reminds me of that journalist who blew up her marriage and life by falling in love with Martin Shkreli.

I really had my hopes up last year when he kept flubbing publicly and just standing there.

Alas.

Ohhh okay, sorry, I wasn’t sure if by commune you meant I lived in a multi-family commune - which I don’t.

Unfortunately, no, the actual town I live in address-wise has a whopping population of about 1000 people but that’s spread out over multiple multiple acres of farmland. And on top of that I’m on the edge of said town boundaries. If I lived in the town itself I would have had access to fiber internet without having to get a line trenched, unfortunately, I don’t.

Because it only benefits my property, no subsidies or anything available.

Not sure what you mean by commune?

Supposedly it drops to something like $60/mo (in today’s dollars). The rest is actually me having agreed to subsidize the digging itself. I just looked again it’s actually 8 years, so on the whole I still feel like it was worth it.

In fact, I remember them telling me they went way over budget on the project so I’m actually underpaying (we signed agreements prior to them breaking ground). So I guess that aligns.

Not close enough, no. Though I was briefly looking into offering something using some high-powered point to point hardware, just haven’t really done it yet.

Sadly, yeah. Moved out here mid-COVID and I really don’t anticipate needing to move (got a good chunk of land, it’s quiet, farm animals, etc.) and I can do my job remote so the internet was definitely necessary. But we’ll see where life takes me.

I live pretty rural and no service providers had any desire or plans to expand service to where I am. Best offering was 768kbps DSL.

I’m in a little bit of a valley with a ton of huge trees, so Starlink would cut out every 10-15 minutes. Cellular internet was…okay…but not fast enough for my needs.

I ended up paying a provider to dig a trench from a distant main road to my property and bury a fiber line direct for my use. It has a 99.99999% uptime guarantee which is nice.

I’ll be paying for it for 10 years…but honestly, worth it.

1000mbps symmetric, $500/mo (yeah I know…)

Some Starbucks locations operate at a loss to saturate a market and ensure no competitors can move in. Hence why you sometimes end up with them so close together.

At peak a city of about 40,000 people that I lived in had 11 Starbucks within 3 miles, it was insane.

Well, for the rest of my life I’m calling these potato spaghettifiers, thank you for that.