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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • For context, my family of 5 has used 1.7TB/mo on average this year. That’s gaming, video and music streaming, and regular interneting. And all that without downloading large files most of the time, occasional OS updates withstanding for 10 always on devices. We’re on 500/500 fiber and it never skips a beat. Usually the bottleneck is the WiFi being on WiFi 6 or the server on the other end not being able to keep up (Netflix’s Tysons fight comes to mind). I haven’t seen the need to up it to 1G or 2.5G yet. This is with no enforced cap (we’re lucky enough to have competition on the backbone so it’s unlikely to be enforced). The OPs cap would absolutely be a no go in this setup. Not sure what the OP’s usage and needs are though.




  • Oh a lot of us knew it was a cesspool, at least, it has corners that are in it, it’s no 4chan. What brought the majority here was the CEO lying multiple times about why they were closing public APIs off to third party app makers instead of just telling the truth (we need money to stay in business or make money and we want to control what you see). And obligatory, fuck spez.







  • Damned powerful insight. I’m sure video games are much the same for many kids. It explains why they want to play them so often. They want to control the situation they’re in. I hadn’t thought of it that way before as my own connection with gaming started at Super Mario Bros on the NES in ‘85. My parents were (and still are) completely supportive but it still attracted me as a 4yr old too. I still like escaping and relaxing to video games and playing the, now retro, systems from my youth. Thanks for putting how you’re feeling about it into words. I can’t even remember what the OPs original post was about because yours is the highlight. Well done. Have a great holiday season!