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  • You are probably fortunate enough to live in an area with not a lot of wireless interference, or don’t have a lot of wireless devices on your network, or all your devices are rather modern.

    You can have good wireless…it won’t be as good as wired, never will or can be. By it’s very nature it has to be a shared medium, which by it’s very nature must be half duplex. Then there is the matter of sharing time with other stations on the same channel (and not necessarily on your network or under your control).

    But for most things it can easily be “good enough”. Certainly wouldn’t run a server on wireless. Generally worse performance for realtime voice/video/gaming as well, because latency and jitter matter, and by having to share the channel with other stations, jitter is a fact of life.

    And unsteady wireless is the #1 cause of VPN complaints in my office. By a very wide margin. Miraculously the problem always goes away as soon as they plug in.

    But for casual web browsing, occasional large downloads (there’s a reason mobile apps don’t really show you how many B/s your transferring), streaming media…yeah, wireless can easily be good enough.




  • JasonDJ@lemmy.ziptoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldPoetry
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    I keep telling my hens that if they don’t shape up their acts they’re going right to the spit.

    It’s a bluff, of course. They’re layers and I’m vegetarian.

    But there’s this one girl that’s got me tempted…she’s not plump, she’s just dumb and annoying. An Americana Idiot.


  • One of the moms in my wife’s mom-clique…the one everyone talks about behind her back…is super religious (Catholic). Their kids all go to private school.

    They went to go see a movie, I think it was Lightyear, and her daughter (who at 8 is already giving me “this girl will grow up to be a butch lesbian” vibes) asks about the part where a girl married another girl.

    Which, if you ever saw the movie, was a huge deal to the religious right, even though it was literally the tiniest part of the whole movie (and ultimately unnecessary to the plot, which is probably why they made such an uproar over DEI).

    Anyways the mom immediately shot it down saying that girls can’t fall in love with other girls and they absolutely cannot marry each other.

    I feel really bad for that girl. And their older son, who is very likely mildly autistic, an absolutely brilliant kid, but getting a true Catholic school education and will talk my ear off about the great flood. He’s getting pretty suspicious of creationism so maybe there’s hope for him yet.

    But alas, I also don’t want to overstep as a parent.



  • For anybody not familiar, he was a Loony Tune. His gimmick was he would fall helplessly in love with any black cat who happened to get white paint on her (or possibly his, not here to judge) back.

    Pepé was very…self-imposing. To put it mildly. He would not last long in a “No means no” world.

    But I’d never thought it’d be 1am, and I’d be a 41 year old man proactively explaining horny skunks to kids on the internet who have never experienced it first hand.