marketing uses megabit and gigabit because bigger numbers

Ddreamyuki Is your user in the wheel group? If not it will ask for password

Hex•6/30/24, 2:17 AM

If it wasn't, it wouldn't even ask for root cause I wouldn't be able to authorize lol

Also like I said, it doesn't ask on immutable distros such as silverblue, and I currently use bazzite, which doesn't ask for it just like silverblue.

CCrono I have 1/100th of a gigabit

Kamquat•6/30/24, 2:17 AM

Do you live in the distant and far land of Thud wherein you have to use only satellite internet?

OnihikageOP•6/30/24, 2:17 AM

if they could split bits in half they'd use giga-half-bits or something lol

KKamquat Do you live in the distant and far land of Thud wherein you have to use only sat...

Crono•6/30/24, 2:17 AM

Not satellite, radio

Crono•6/30/24, 2:18 AM

It's not even to look better necessarily, just that back when internet services were starting out it was far more legible to advertise in kilobit/megabit

Crono•6/30/24, 2:18 AM

So it's a grandfathered metric

OOnihikage marketing uses megabit and gigabit because bigger numbers

Pez•6/30/24, 2:18 AM

it is hard enough getting the average user to go from reading MB/s to Mbps and now they are just getting used to it we will confuse them on GB/s vs Gbps

Pez•6/30/24, 2:18 AM

https://tenor.com/view/its-free-real-sate-gif-7215175

Tenor

OnihikageOP•6/30/24, 2:18 AM

yeah it probably originates from when baud was a metric

Pez•6/30/24, 2:18 AM

defs

Pez•6/30/24, 2:18 AM

100% for sure

VagrantWinds•6/30/24, 2:19 AM

also yeah, my internet is just at 1000Mbps (though sometimes higher) but 2.5gb is still super useful for LAN networking

Pez•6/30/24, 2:19 AM

when you're at the upper end i think just stick to Mbps

OOnihikage yeah it probably originates from when baud was a metric

Kamquat•6/30/24, 2:19 AM

My first modem was a 2400bps

Pez•6/30/24, 2:19 AM

advertising "gigabit" is just vapid

Kamquat•6/30/24, 2:19 AM

sitting online for hours to download shareware from BBSes.

PPez advertising "gigabit" is just vapid

OnihikageOP•6/30/24, 2:19 AM

in Japan maybe

Crono•6/30/24, 2:19 AM

We'll start getting residential 10Gbps in the next decade or so

Kamquat•6/30/24, 2:19 AM

I'm old. I watched 'Hackers' in theatres on release.

OnihikageOP•6/30/24, 2:20 AM

in the US even gigabit is still out of reach of a huge number of people

OnihikageOP•6/30/24, 2:20 AM

it's far from the default for internet speeds

VagrantWinds•6/30/24, 2:20 AM

i kinda miss korean internet from when i was over there. so fast, so much bandwith. though apparently it's gone to more shit recently.

OnihikageOP•6/30/24, 2:21 AM

and it's also a single word that most regular people who know even a tiny bit about internet speeds associate with "good internet"

VagrantWinds•6/30/24, 2:21 AM

due to isps, not the tech/infrastructure that is

VVagrantWinds i kinda miss korean internet from when i was over there. so fast, so much bandwi...

Kamquat•6/30/24, 2:21 AM

To be fair, wiring up Korea vs wiring up the USA is exponentially easier by sheer scale of area.

Crono•6/30/24, 2:22 AM

Still considering buying Starlink tbh, we have such shit infrastructure that it might be a better deal in the long run

OnihikageOP•6/30/24, 2:34 AM

Starlink's primary audience is folks out in the sticks getting ignored by landline ISPs ~~which were paid billions by the government to not ignore folks out in the sticks~~

Pez•6/30/24, 2:40 AM

pretty much

OOnihikage Starlink's primary audience is folks out in the sticks getting ignored by landli...

VagrantWinds•6/30/24, 2:50 AM

~~who instead used a fraction of that money to lobby away the penalties for not spending that money on the infrastructure it was for~~

CCrono We'll start getting residential 10Gbps in the next decade or so

cave monster•6/30/24, 2:51 AM

My ISP does 10gigabit residential. They also do 50 gigabit residential too, but I doubt it's popular

cave monster•6/30/24, 2:52 AM

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VagrantWinds•6/30/24, 2:53 AM

uploads not being artificially limited is nice

VagrantWinds•6/30/24, 2:54 AM

can't have static ip addresses until the 10gig plan in their arbitrary upsell though

cave monster•6/30/24, 2:54 AM

Ipv6 rollout for everyone is soon (tm)

They're manually provisioning it for those tiers in the meantime. It's a thing

Pez•6/30/24, 3:00 AM

guffaw

Kamquat•6/30/24, 3:24 AM

What's the key combo to close steam in desktop mode on a handheld if it freezes?

Ccave monster https://ziplyfiber.com/internet/multigig

LibertyBeta•6/30/24, 3:27 AM

Yea, mine does 10gig fiber as well, but I only have 2.5 service.

LibertyBeta•6/30/24, 3:28 AM

10 was jus over kill, and would mean having to put SFP cages on all my kit.

Pez•6/30/24, 3:29 AM

i know at least a couple people with connections like that

Pez•6/30/24, 3:29 AM

but they are goblins

cave monster•6/30/24, 3:38 AM

so I got a weird thing, the top bar doesn't go all the way across in gnome. Any ideas?

3 monitors, one is 4K (laptop), one is ultrawide (2560x1080, pictured, primary display), the third is 1920x1080