MystikIncarnate

They won't.

Bluntly: If you're fortunate, you'll have two options for internet. DSL and cable. Sometimes there's other "options" like a WISP or starlink, or even a dual up provider, but the speed comparison is not even close, so I usually discard most of those as viable either on ping time or bandwidth.

It's extremely likely that only one provider services your residence with DSL, and one provider does cable. Two providers. All other options are basically a wholesale or resale of these two providers, meaning you still get service from one of those two.

If you're extremely lucky, you'll also have the option of fiber. And IMO, that is the only time you really get three options.

If you go with a third party ISP, the last mile is still one of the two that actually come into your residence.

So the only real options you have are: do you want to buy internet direct from the ISP that owns the line to your house, or do you want to buy internet from someone who will contact that company to give you internet? If you don't like the DSL provider, and you don't like the cable provider, you're completely fucked. Gg everyone.

I work in tech, and I don't understand people's obsession with having all their RAM free at all times.

If you don't use it, why do you have it?

Windows (not the best OS, but the one I know the most about), will lie to you about how much memory you have that's free. It puts data in RAM as cache. In the event you need that data, it's already loaded in RAM. Usually this is stuff like DLLs and executables for programs.

There's a difference between "free" memory, and "available" memory.

In addition, RAM is always going down in price, so 32G today costs what 16G did, some number of years ago. The same can be said for 16G vs 8G, etc. Though, the comparison becomes less relevant as you get into much smaller and older memory types, since the cost per dimm will only ever go so low.

Buy the memory, use as much of it as you can, as often as you can. Go wild with it. Enjoy.

Can I sign up to be extinct?

Feeling kinda worthless lately.

Good new what?

Not fast enough.

Hey, I too am about a billion dollars away from being a billionaire. I suppose that means I'm a millionaire! Woo hoo

To be fair, I'm still not sure I understand geometry.

I "learned" it in school and promptly never needed to even know if it's existence ever again.

At best, my understanding of geometry is rusty. At worst, it might as well not exist.

Something I learned about schools, as a perfectionist and someone who studies independently when something is interesting, is that, educational institutions are not always correct in what they're teaching. My experience also demonstrates that they don't want to be correct. They want you to provide the answers they've given you, not the correct answers. If you tell them that the answers they're giving you are wrong, even with evidence that's scholastically acceptable, they refuse to do anything.

School isn't there to teach you anything, it's to test if you can follow along and memorize what they think is important, then regurgitate that information back. IMO, this is why having post-secondary education is important in most fields. It demonstrates a willingness to do as you're told sufficiently enough to complete something. The subject matter that you "learned" is mostly irrelevant.

Additionally, highschool curriculums are utter bullshit. The vast majority of what you learn you will never use. Instead of teaching real life skills, like how to vote (and/or register to vote), do your taxes, and seek help from financial aid organizations or similar... How to get information and submit information to/from institutions like city Hall.... The list is long... They instead teach bullshit like the Pythagoras theorem, chemical nomenclature, biology.... The list is still very long. A lot of shit you'll never use unless you're an engineer, architect, mechanic or other related discipline, almost all of which need higher education to get into.

But everyone needs to learn that bullshit for no good goddamned reason, while stuff we all should know, is completely overlooked.

Institutional education is broken and bullshit.

Thanks, I hope so. The job market in my area for my career is kind of messed up, so I'm hoping I'm not unemployed very long.

Thanks fellow Leeming. I appreciate you. ❤️

The only duct I regularly clean thoroughly is the one for the dryer.

I don't want a lint fire.

The rest, as long as they don't have any obvious build up, they're probably fine. If they do, clean the vent cover, register and whatever I can reasonably reach. 👍

Damn, they only had blinker fluid.