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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Far better. Something like 12 million people got health insurance who didn’t have it before (compared to the millions who lost health insurance now), there were standards to ensure plans actually covered common medical issues (also no longer true), and it was subsidized by income to be far more affordable than the true cost. Yes it also had clauses to better support medical providers (including rural hospitals that are now closing) while insurance remained profitable. It was far better than what we had and the hellhole we’re jumping back into.






  • Same here. He may be spoiled that I have gigabit fiber, Ethernet to every room, and gigabit WiFi. Multi-gig switches are starting to be affordable and claim I should get several gig without even upgrading my existing cat5e …… soon

    So far I’ve let him deal with it - he’s an adult now, technically. But it’s getting to be time to see if I can do any better



  • Speaking of not keeping up their infrastructure, we’re told there’s not enough dorm space so only 10% of juniors and seniors can live on campus. Yep, he’s getting out of the dorms next years whether he likes it or not.

    …… and he’s apply for “in Washington DC” for one semester next year so that will make it even more challenging



  • There’s a jack but the college says they took the infrastructure out so it doesn’t go anywhere.

    Which is annoying because my other kid at a different school said similar but Ethernet just worked

    I don’t know where the nearest hotspot is - there’s a lot of closed doors. But yeah they had him run multiple speed tests


  • Latency 300-1200 ms, bandwidth topping out at 12mbs. But the thing is he’s captain of one of the e-sports teams and on the board of the larger e-sports organization. How are you supposed to compete with latency like that?

    He’s on the top floor of his dorm so I don’t know if that’s part of it. Also a good view of the skyline if I have to pay for a hotspot. He was getting much better performance using his phones hotspot than the college WiFi, but ran into the cap pretty quickly

    So far IT support keeps wanting to futz with settings on his pc, but he was getting reasonably close to gigabit WiFi with single digit latency at my house, and use WiFi to connect to his phones hotspot with decent performance. He’s able to connect in his dorm and he has settings that gave outstanding network here so I find it hard to believe the issue is his pc



  • Like 10 minutes ago I was trying to figure out the cost of adding a hotspot to my mobile plan, but I couldn’t find a strsightfiward answer. They ended up sending me to their chatbot who took me round in circles before eventually giving in. Why did that have to be so frustrating? Why did it need ai?

    (My kid has poor WiFi in his dorm and his college doesn’t seem to be able to help)