Who uses their phone data at home?
I assume countries that have affordable data plans from ISPs, but still..
I would say Germany, but our mobile data is even more overpriced.
Our mobile data is the biggest scam that exists on this earth. A handful of gigabytes for 10s of €s per month.
The highest IQ people will say "Well it doesn't have to be more than a few gigabytes, you got wifi at home anyways, I barely reach the mobile data limit", well it doesn't have to be 10s of €s for a handful of gigabytes either/anyways.
And coverage outside has always been between "Barely alright" and "Dogshit non-existent" too, doesn't matter if you're in a city, around a city or on a street between cities, especially on the streets though you're lucky if you can fucking "ping -c 4 google.com" with package loss.
For it's the cheap cheap price of 22.4€/person for 20 GB 5G per person. And that's just because my father has been a customer for a long time and I'm a second device in his contract now, with 50% off. I also reach the 20 GB limit fairly often, especially when on the go a lot. Because Deutsche Bahn. F them. Not even a working Captive Portal is possible for them, so my Laptop has to connect to my Phones Hotspot. I'm in luck with coverage actually, it's pretty OK even in my village and all around. It's just bad in my school.
Estonia requires Internet to be a good place to live with out it it's not bad and not good
Is there something specific about Germany where people don't use or have WiFi?
Not really, almost everyone has WiFi. However, many only have DSL - with speeds up to 10 Mbps or even lower. And that still for a price that's way too high. Usually it happens at more remote places, like 10 km away from the nearest city. Only one ISP is available, nobody cares about upgrading the rotting copper cables, or even laying fiber, so the customer just gets what's available for the price the ISP wants, there are basically no restrictions. We're very lucky to have Gigabit for 50€/month and soon fiber - and that's not even certain. A company is laying fiber, they're basically called 'German Fiber Optic'. As they only offer static public IPv4s for a premium price however, we didn't go for it. Rule of thumb is that either other ISPs will do their own cables just as the first one has been finished, so as not to lose customers. As ISP 1 that originally laid fiber could charge any amount for that only cable though, ISP 2 will either bite their cheeks and rent it or actually lay it themselves. From that point on the cable will be cheaper for ISP n>=3, as ISP 1+2 want to get them as a customer. So we just need to wait. Not an option for, as said, remote points, who may not have any acceptable connection but a tower right in their backyard.
Eh, I pay 15 Euro a month for unlimited data at 15 Mbps
Lots of countries only have mobile data to homes. Think African countries, India, Pakistan, then you've got Vietnam etc, with villages on rivers.
Dude... try rural Illinois. The only internet I can get faster than 3mbps is cellular hotspot, and that's supposed to be 5G but is usually actually 4G out here. That's it. I can get dial-up, DSL, cable that is somehow slower than DSL and constantly disconnects, or hotspot from AT&T.
America is far from the best example of decent internet access if you live more than a few miles from a major urban hub. In fact, in rural areas, your options are not only stupidly limited, but also criminally expensive. For land-based internet at 3mbps where I live costs $6 more per month than my sister-in-law's GB Fiber 20 miles away, and has data caps to boot. It's insane.
There's actually a very simple reason for this phenomenon. A standard spring mattress essentially acts like a giant mirror, reflecting all sorts of radio waves, including your cellular signal. This can cause interference, leading to a dead zone in the near vicinity. The same effect was documented back in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
I just had to scan your post history just to see.... maybe.... naw. Damnit.
God damn it
The bathroom stall at work gets 0 bars.
Would be funny if they'd built a Faraday cage around the bathroom to stop people sitting on the toilet on their phones for ages
You can't stop me, I have WarioWare on my GBA emulator on my phone!
Hasn't that been done before? Maybe not Faraday cages but jammers or something, I swear I remember something like that.
A jammer would be the stupidest thing a place could do. Is is illegal and enforced, plus cell companies help investigate it. And Faraday cage is not necessarily illegal.
Alas, the laws don't stop idiots with a "great idea":
It seems companies aren't as stupid about it as schools, though. I guess it's easier to risk wasting taxpayer money than your own money 🫤
Corporations have a legal department that will run in and slap the words back into your mouth.
That plus those seats designed to put strain on your legs would be a 0/10 pooping experience. The only way I could think to make it worse is if you could find a way to send an all-hands message in Slack: "567primemover has been on the toilet for more than 7 minutes. Send him a word of encouragement!"
Make sure the toilet is too tall for most people too.
E, which stands for EDGE, is also "2G".
It's edgier 2G for an edgier generation.
Lol, I had the same experience with WiFi at a hotel I was in 2d ago.
e = ethernet now
Wireless carrier wants you to get out of bed and scroll at the goddamn kitchen table
What, like I'm in a commercial?
For me it's the opposite. I don't get usable mobile signal in most of my house, to the point that our phones are set up with wifi calling, and if the internet goes down (like it did for 45 minutes the other day) there's not much I can do. But if I lie down comfortably on my bed, I get a usable two bars of 4G, enough to make calls and do a bit of internet browsing.
Accurate
And this meme can be easily updated by putting one single "5G" next to the left-hand leg of the bedframe and nowhere else
