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Spectrum's a cool transmog on Diablo 3 :p

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Yes, they (spectrum) just raised our rate. (NYC). However, my wife has realized she doesn't use the TV, so we'll be able to save a bit by getting rid of that part of it.
 
scottro Spectrum raised my internet rate, too, by five dollars with no notice. Spectrum gives a good rate on phone, too, that includes international calling when I travel. Phone usage is all Verizon. But that means I'm stuck with Spectrum should I ever want to change to something else.

Dealing with ATT is good. Dealing with ATT billing is pure hell.

ATT fiber is now available on my street after a decade or more of me looking out my front window at their fiber box across the street. But 600Mb up/down is good enough for us.
 
In Barcelona I get 1Gb fiber and unlimited data on my phone (so I can go to Starbucks and spend the day there with my laptop connected to the internet through my phone) for 78,13€/month (taxes included). I may be paying too much. I should call the company one of this days and try to get a better deal.
 
I actually combatted an earlier price range by lowering my speed. I forget the figures, but the lessening of speed didn't have any noticeable effect. As we all know in the US, there's no real competition.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ilMx7k7mso
from 12 years ago is still true. In NYC we have Spectrum and Verizon FIOS and they'll be about the same. One might offer a lower price as an introductory offer, but it's not worth the effort.
What I will say for spectrum is that if you reach their tech support, you usually get a knowledgeable person, but I've not needed their support in years--so I would also have to say, for them, they're pretty reliable here.
 
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drhowarddrfine said:
Aside:
The reason this is the only forum I hang out at anymore is to avoid such statements and comments. I've noticed an influx of people, along with an increase in Linux questions, just over the last few months. Making statements like this that I've never seen in the 9 years I've visited this board and the original one many of us know about. Despite the "Moderated" thread, if this is the result of less moderation, we all suffer because of it.
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and I thought it was just me getting old and can cantankerous...
 
USerID said:
A question for Solaris OS experts: why isn't Oracle's Solaris popular on the desktop today?
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(Maybe?) I can fill in some of this:

Oracle bought Sun Microsystems -- aka "SUN".

The Solaris O/S is an upgraded Operating System from an older Sun Microsystems O/S called "SunOS". Many of us are slightly biased to "SunOS" because it was based on a Berkeley Unix Variant (*BSD) -- which made the O/S closer to FreeBSD and the other *BSD operating systems in general. If you are familiar with AT&T SVR4 Unix -- Solaris is "sort of BSD Unix" and "sort of AT&T SVR4 Unix" -- and really... no one knows what it is :-).

Solaris was primary used on "Sun Microsystems" branded workstations, servers, products, etc.

If you would prefer a more "traditional" (BSD Unix experience) - I would recommend, instead, downloading and installing one of the *BSD operating systems. I can obviously plug "FreeBSD" but there many others you can review and look at.
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
I stopped using dark mode after I watched this video (is it trustworthy? I don't know; it just convinced me).

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HcjlZrroAs
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Yikes! I hadn't heard of the 'halation' effect before. Interesting. So that kind of negates the ergonomic design of terminals going back to the year dot... green and amber phosphor characters on black background. Interesting stuff. Maybe I'll give black foreground on off-white background a try.
 
 
drhowarddrfine, just spent around a half hour on the phone with Spectrum. Got a nice rep, who gave us a different plan that will save us quite a bit. Not needing any TV from them helps, of course. I know I've read somewhere that cable companies are hurting because of streaming--I suspect that my opinion, of Serves 'em right is echoed by many, at least here in the US, where there's no real competition. (See the video I linked above).

It does strike me that they're working harder to retain customers now, at least Spectrum is. I wasn't threatening to quit Spectrum, but he did a lot of looking before finding us a plan that was Internet only (though he had to throw in a mobile line for free, though we won't use it), and was making various offers of different deals, most including mobile phones which we don't need.
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
I stopped using dark mode after I watched this video (is it trustworthy? I don't know; it just convinced me).

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HcjlZrroAs

To reduce the excessive brightness, I'm now using color #333333 on #fffbeb on my terminal and wherever I can. It looks like this:

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I rarely use dark mode websites or themes desktop, and only entertain it on my phone since it's OLED :p

Windows and macOS default to light, and theming anything gets inconsistent outside defaults (I've seen auto-dark on websites missing dark elements clearly implying the light theme is more tested). I figure with LCD it wouldn't affect eye-strain since the backlight is still up, but OLED I'd be concerned with bright static stuff burning in.

Books are white pages and black text, so text on computer screens being like that works too :D I haven't used dark mode long enough to know if it really affects my desktop usage though.
 
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