Plus what consumer can even support higher bandwidth? Computers are starting to come with 2.5G Ethernet, switches are coming down in price but still pretty expensive for home use (and complex), and any existing wiring is likely close to topped out.

For anything faster, you’re all too likely to need enterprise equipment for a lot more money and a lot more complexity.

I’ve briefly considered updating to faster internet but

• I don’t have a rational need
• I’d have to replace switches and wiring
• I don’t have the time to commit
• even building a file server that can sustain that bandwidth is a challenge

They’re just building out an infrastructure to modern standards rather than half-ass it and have to come back later. You could argue that this is a long term investment where they are saving money by starting with the latest hardware

Quantum computing with AI

I’m just pretty sure my fiber vendor offers 10Gbps service but I’ve never had reason to check whether they offer it here. There app is not responding so I can’t verify …. They are better at fiber service than maintaining an app.

Personally I think gig fiber is the current sweet spot:

• price has come down a lot
• very low latency
• high reliability
• more than enough for most people

It’s technically overkill for most people but a huge benefit is it works. For everything. Cable tends to be way over-provisioned for plus asymmetrical and higher latency, so you won’t get the bandwidth you pay for, uploads will be slow, and latency may hit you while gaming or streaming. Most of the time cable or slower fiber will be good enough but you will hit glitches, buffering. My gigabit fiber has been rock solid for years, never a glitch, never a buffering, no slow uploads, never impacts gaming. It’s near perfect. I dont mind the extra cost due to the huge savings from dropping cable and phone

So like that environmental justice database musk just shut down, that analyzes things like pollution, asthma and other health impacts, death rates, etc? So environmental cleanup efforts can focus on those who are most affected? Apparent it’s crt or DEI or woke or something since those most affected tend to be disproportionately non-white. It can’t be the “merit” of being most impacted by pollution

Dangerous ……

My ex-mother-in-law is still pissed off at me from 20 years ago. She had a quilt handmade by her grandmother that had been stored for decades, and she finally decided to take it out and enjoy it, until we visited. I left my dog in the same room, in the crate, reinforced with carabiners, in the middle of the floor with nothing in reach. Yet he somehow scooted the crate over, started pulling the quilt in through the bars, and ate a big hole out of the middle. The dog and I were never welcome again

Coffee mugs.

I buy a mug on each vacation, and some from the college I went to, and those are my daily drivers

Which reminds me, COViD put me behind schedule (as did the airline that smashed my Florida mug). I need to go on more vacations to keep up with what the dishwasher erases