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anubis119 , to Technology in T-Mobile Will Shield You from Internet Outages for $30 a Month

TIL Hotspot is now called Home Internet Backup.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

Because a hotspot is free or discounted!

But Home Internet Backup? $30 a month EZ.

01189998819991197253 , (edited )
@01189998819991197253@infosec.pub avatar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMIW2tBpnDI

Edit: so, this is a video from the show Parks and Rec, where some soulless capitalist is selling regular milk as the "hot new craze, beef milk", and only one person in the scene sees how ridiculous this is ("that's ffing milk", he says). The others lap it right up, pun intended ("no. milk cost $3 a gallon. Annabelle's authentic, hand-strained, teet-to-table beef milk: that costs $60 a gallon. yeah, and there's a waitlist"). I thought it was a good analogy to what is happening with this tmo situation.

pineapple_pizza , to Technology in T-Mobile Will Shield You from Internet Outages for $30 a Month

So I have T-Mobile in a major city. Whenever my ISP goes down, my normally fast 5G slows to a crawl due to the increased load.
So it seems like when you need this the most is when youd get the worst performance.

Hugh_Jeggs ,

I live in the middle of nowhere up a gigantic mountain with gigabit fibre and have literally never once had an internet outage

WTF is happening in the US that makes outages common?

sugar_in_your_tea ,

We get an outage every month or so, I blame construction, but I honestly don't know.

Blue_Morpho ,

It's common for that user, not the US.

tsonfeir , to Technology in T-Mobile Will Shield You from Internet Outages for $30 a Month
@tsonfeir@lemmy.world avatar

Will they shield me from their outages?

01189998819991197253 ,
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lurch , to Technology in T-Mobile Will Shield You from Internet Outages for $30 a Month

lol, i already have an extra 5G router for less and unlimited volume 🤣

MedicPigBabySaver , to Technology in T-Mobile Will Shield You from Internet Outages for $30 a Month
@MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world avatar

Fuck no.

autonomoususer , (edited ) to Technology in Proton Pass Arrives on Mac and Linux

KeePassXC/DX+Syncthing already does this. I have no reason to fund Proton Pass instead.

blunderworld ,

I honestly can't stand comments like these. Why is every technology discussion on Lemmy dominated by people congratulating themselves for using something 'better'? Most of the time without even being asked.

piracysails ,

I mean their opinions are welcome but it is also lunacy to expect casual users to maintain or setup keepass+syncthing.

They fail to realize that these news are welcome and can only positively benefit open source projects.

blunderworld ,

Well said, I couldn't agree more.

autonomoususer ,

Seems elitist to say people can't get two apps. Surprised to see this called lunacy, so it's good I commented to see this response.

rikudou ,

Until someone makes a frontend for syncthing that's significantly dumbed down, it's not elitist.

overload , (edited )

I don't think it's downloading apps that is hard necessarily, but there are a few big barriers getting in the way for casual users to run a self-hosted FOSS solution:

  • seeing a problem with their current way of doing things
  • knowing other options exist
  • having the confidence to feel like setup won't be a headache, or that maintenance won't be a problem with their non-tech background

I think its pretty understandable that a normal person would preference "one simple app" than a DIY 2 app system when you consider the above.

autonomoususer , (edited )

Stop projecting

Plopp ,

This comment reads like one of those 1-star establishment reviews on Google that says "I've never been there".

Madbrad200 , to Technology in T-Mobile Will Shield You from Internet Outages for $30 a Month

American internet prices are wild.

reddig33 , to Technology in T-Mobile Will Shield You from Internet Outages for $30 a Month

That’s what the mobile hotspot feature is for on the cellphone you’re already paying for.

Sabata11792 ,
@Sabata11792@ani.social avatar

You mean the VPN I pay for that hides the fact I'm using my phone as a hotspot?

Cheskaz ,

Wait, you have to pay to use your phone as a hotspot?!

Sabata11792 ,
@Sabata11792@ani.social avatar

You get a few gigs for free then they charge you out the ass.

brenticus , to Technology in Proton Pass Arrives on Mac and Linux

On principal I don't use cloud-based password management solutions like this, but Proton Pass does make it somewhat tempting, especially since I have a Proton Unlimited subscription anyways. KeepassXC + syncthing do well enough, but PAM integration would be kind of nice some days when I'm opening and closing my vault a ton.

NuXCOM_90Percent ,

Proton I generally trust because they have made it abundantly clear just what they will give over to authorities in the event of a court order. I would rather it be less but I also prefer that over "We have your back and will fight the CIA if need be" nonsense.

That said: Bitwarden is still the kind of this. And the big issue with a keepass you sync (which I used to do) is that you can't really use that with yubikey style devices because it will get out of sync as far as the authentication codes go.

catastrophicblues ,

Same. I also have Unlimited, but I’ll stick to Bitwarden because I don’t like having all my eggs in any basket, regardless of how much I trust them.

vzq , to Technology in T-Mobile Will Shield You from Internet Outages for $30 a Month

This sounds really expensive. 5G as a backup makes sense, but 30 bucks is actual primary service money, not just in case money.

Make it 5 and I would consider it.

Badeendje ,
@Badeendje@lemmy.world avatar

Or even 5 flat and 30 for a month when it kicks in or is enabled.

Edit: ofcourse not when it kicks in if TMobile is also your primary provider. Cause that just invites fuckery.

ptz ,
@ptz@dubvee.org avatar

Or even $50 a year with like 5 GB included and pay-as-you-go afterward.

But yeah, $30/mo is more than I pay for my single line that also includes hotspot.

Badeendje , to Technology in Here's How to Declutter Your Google Search Results (And Make It Your Default)
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Google should allow blacklists. The. A lot of sites will just be croudsourced to the round file.

geography082 , to Technology in Here's How to Declutter Your Google Search Results (And Make It Your Default)

Whoogle is the answer

KISSmyOSFeddit , to Technology in Here's How to Declutter Your Google Search Results (And Make It Your Default)

There's a much faster way. Just put this in your hosts file:

0.0.0.0    google.com
noodlejetski , to Technology in Here's How to Declutter Your Google Search Results (And Make It Your Default)

Custom search engines are limited to PC browsers only. Unfortunately, the mobile versions of these browsers will not let you set up a custom search, so you're stuck tapping on the Web view in all your mobile search queries.

someone hasn't heard of Firefox on Android.

dvdnet62 OP ,
@dvdnet62@feddit.nl avatar

Yes, it works on Firefox Android and Ios. So, that article is not 100% correct

Cuntessera ,
@Cuntessera@sh.itjust.works avatar

Howtogeek is not exactly known for good journalism so it’s fine, I guess.

axo ,

At least in the EU, you xan easily change search engines on chrome on android.

noodlejetski ,

can you set a custom URL, which is required to do what the article is talking about, or do you just pick from the predefined list of search engines?

edit: just checked and nope, you can only pick from Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo and Ecosia.

Wappen ,

You have to visit a different search engine. And while the tab is open it appears in the list of selectable search engines. At least that is how I set up searxng as my default se.

Kolanaki ,
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Are there any extensions that fix Google on the mobile version of FireFox? It doesn't have all the same extensions available on PC, where I do have one that fixes Google.

The "web" category thing the article talks about is not an actual fix.

noodlejetski ,

depends on what you mean by "fixing", I guess. I just resorted to not using Google at all, and use uBlacklist to filter out garbage websites from my search results.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

The most recent version now includes a lot more extensions, and I think you can get even more with the nightly build. If you really can't find what you need, try one of the Firefox forks, which often have even better extension support.

cmnybo , to Technology in Here's How to Declutter Your Google Search Results (And Make It Your Default)

The quality of Google search results has been rapidly declining over the last few years. It's not really even worth using anymore.

dvdnet62 OP ,
@dvdnet62@feddit.nl avatar

Yeah. But, that workaround on the article improves a lot.

Nollij ,

It's not so much that Google is declining, but the entire Internet. Google just hasn't figured out how to route around the damage.

Try adding "before:2023" to your searches to see what I mean.

sfantu ,

Lol ... no ... Google and all the others are filtering all the good things out !

Badeendje ,
@Badeendje@lemmy.world avatar

They are incentivised to suggest sites with Google Ads in them.

sfantu ,

Of course they are ... but that's only part of the censorship.

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