Guess I'll Be Going Offline Indefinitely...

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2naSalit (87,903 posts)

Guess I'll Be Going Offline Indefinitely...
End of the week.

Got my rectum bill yesterday, it's due Friday, they've raised the monthly fee by $20/mo each month for the last four months, not including the increase when the rural discount went away two months ago. I can't afford $100/mo for just internet access. I don't bundle anything, just have a laptop and whatever it can do with regard to being on DU, watching videos and streaming the news, mostly.

That's 10% of my monthly income before rent and everything else so ****it.

I love you, DU, but I am now under pressure to go offline because I can no longer afford to be here as much as I normally am - I come here for access to news and conversation because I don't seem to have any friends here in town anymore... I don't fit in with the cliques I guess.

On the bright side, it's summer and I have a lot to do since I have decided that I'm probably relocating in the next year and there's a lot of stuff to get rid of somehow. There are also lots of plans that need to be made for such a change so this will compel me to get with the program out of sheer boredom!

I'll check in when I can, like when I feel like hauling the laptop to an access point or something. I'll be around until Friday-ish, not sure exactly when they'll pull the plug, when they do, I'll pack up their shit and ship back to them on Monday.

Greed, it's what will get us in the end.

2na   

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10182024910

I bet this DUmmie got a shut off notice for non payment... watch a go fund me pop up

[SVPete]

Have Progs decided yet that high-speed Internet access is a human right?

[FunkyZero]

I bet this DUmmie got a shut off notice for non payment... watch a go fund me pop up

Side effect will be that this DUmmies IQ will increase a couple of points for every day he has no DU access, not to mention his blood pressure will stabilize.

[DefiantSix]

Side effect will be that this DUmmies IQ will increase a couple of points for every day he has no DU access, not to mention his blood pressure will stabilize.

Down side is that it won't be getting the daily "hold" order from the NPC hive mind, which means that s/h/its pathetic Leftist levels of impulse control will probably have s/h/it kicking off the zombie apocalypse before the DNC gives the "go" order.

 

[Ralph Wiggum]

 

[Texacon]

I'll never understand why the smartest people on the internet cannot figure out how to do a budget.  They seem to have more money issues than any group I know.

KC

[Karin]

I have Spectrum as well, and it did not go up $20/month for 4 months in a row. 

Aside from that, wasn't internet access for all (or something like that) in SpongeBrain ShitPants' infrastructure bill?  I heard the other day that the people served by this provision is exactly ZERO.  Kind of like the seven EV charging stations.  The sheer incompetence is breathtaking.  They simply cannot get anything done. 

[67 Rover]

I hear McDonalds parking lot is a popular place to get internet access. 

[SVPete]

I hear McDonalds parking lot is a popular place to get internet access. 

And Starchucks ... and many other restaurants and coffee places. Libraries too, but library computers might be occupied by Sacred Homeless ing to Internet porn.

[67 Rover]

And Starchucks ... and many other restaurants and coffee places. Libraries too, but library computers might be occupied by Sacred Homeless ing to Internet porn.

So 2naSalit should fit right in then.

[Old n Grumpy]

  I come here for access to news and conversation because I don't seem to have any friends here in town anymore...

Maybe if you gave up du and kept your politics to yourself you would have some friends.

[Old n Grumpy]

I have Spectrum as well, and it did not go up $20/month for 4 months in a row. 

Aside from that, wasn't internet access for all (or something like that) in SpongeBrain ShitPants' infrastructure bill?  I heard the other day that the people served by this provision is exactly ZERO.  Kind of like the seven EV charging stations.  The sheer incompetence is breathtaking.  They simply cannot get anything done.

I saw a segment on this on the news last night. They’ve spent $45 billion dollars on high-speed Internet for everyone and so far they’ve wasted all that money and time on DEI. In order to get contracts to actually install this, you have to find convicted, felons, transgender, gay people, people of color and on and on and on.
And apparently there’s a shortage of these people, that actually have the qualification to do the work. So all the money. “ invested.” so far has been wasted.

[SVPete]

I have Spectrum as well, and it did not go up $20/month for 4 months in a row.  1.

Aside from that, wasn't internet access for all (or something like that) in SpongeBrain ShitPants' infrastructure bill?  I heard the other day that the people served by this provision is exactly ZERO.  Kind of like the seven EV charging stations. 2. The sheer incompetence is breathtaking.  They simply cannot get anything done.

1. A DUmmie lied? Say it ain't so!

2. Slush funds! What would pols do without slush funds?! Maybe if the EV charging stations and magical high-speed Internet access had been shovel-ready ...

[Old n Grumpy]

I hear McDonalds parking lot is a popular place to get internet access. 

And when you’re on a trip they’re a good place to use the toilet 😁

[Old n Grumpy]

Maybe if the EV charging stations and magical high-speed Internet access had been shovel-ready ...

I think they had a problem finding people who knew how to operate a shovel.

[DefiantSix]

Maybe if you gave up du and kept your politics to yourself you would have some friends.

Nah.

Impulse control is the Achilles heel for every one of these mouth breathers. None of 'em could go more than 30 minutes without giving away the fact that if they aren't locked down in Skinner's Asylum day room presently, they should be.

[DUmpDiver]

I hear McDonalds parking lot is a popular place to get internet access. 

I have to pay for mobile data on my Tracfone so I usually have it turned off and occasionally freeload when I'm out driving. McDonalds isn't very strong in the parking lot but Denny's has a really strong signal at 50 yards.

The DUmmie can get free 10 hours a month of dial-up from NetZero.

[CollectivismMustDie]

Friends, this is known as getting what you voted for, good and hard.

This DUmmy voted for biden. With a smile.

Biden set the nation into inflation mania.

Now the Dummy is suffering the consequences, even if it wont admit that it is.


As much as they complain about their enemies, conservatives, maga, and republicans, DUmmies worst enemies are themselves.

[67 Rover]

I have to pay for mobile data on my Tracfone so I usually have it turned off and occasionally freeload when I'm out driving. McDonalds isn't very strong in the parking lot but Denny's has a really strong signal at 50 yards.

The DUmmie can get free 10 hours a month of dial-up from NetZero.

I might have an old AOL CD in a junk drawer somewhere if it helps the DUmmie. 

[Old n Grumpy]

I'll never understand why the smartest people on the internet cannot figure out how to do a budget.  They seem to have more money issues than any group I know.

KC

Their liberal arts degrees didn’t cover mafamaticks, it’s to complicated for their liberal brain.

[Airwolf]

And Starchucks ... and many other restaurants and coffee places. Libraries too, but library computers might be occupied by Sacred Homeless ing to Internet porn.

Don't get me started. When I was working for a security company in Omaha. They had me go to the main downtown library every day to watch over the place with a Omaha Cop on duty too. It was all we could do to keep anyone let alone the Homeless from getting online and looking up stuff they were not supposed to. Both of us had to make around each hour in a three-story building. I never caught anyone but a lot of that is due to the fact the library had software installed in the system to lock the bad stuff out on their computers. It was their cell phones that were the big problem. I likied the staff there but having the homeless try and spend the whole day, everyday at the library with them using it as a place to hang out or to fall asleep was a pain.

[Airwolf]

Also why didn't they call the customer service number? At least find out if there is a cheaper connection speed available. As it is, I bundle and with the phone, internet and the second level of cable tv I pay 300 a month.

[Karin]

Also, the high speed internet hasn't happened because the environmentalists won't let them build out the infrastructure. 

[SVPete]

Back in 2005 or 2009 (I think) I was doing a job search due to being laid off at a time we didn't have home Internet access for a week or two. I made sure I bought coffee, wasn't in a favored seating area, and wasn't there when  the store was full, but I schlepped my laptop to a local Starchucks and spent a few hours a day every day searching for job openings and emailing my resume using their Internet connection. It wasn't my favorite job search time, but at the time finding a new job was my job, and I did what I had to without being obnoxious to Starchucks people and other customers.

Nowadays a lot of businesses have "free" Internet access. But as Karin pointed out, 2naSalit was less than truthful or lied outright in saying the cost of Internet access increased 4 times in 4 months (maybe an outright lie, or maybe a first-year introductory price period expiring, with that key detail being omitted).

[DUmpDiver]

I might have an old AOL CD in a junk drawer somewhere if it helps the DUmmie. 

Those were the days. Most prolific junk mail in human history.

One billion CDs with free trials were produced. At one point, half of the CDs worldwide had an AOL logo, in 4,000 different designs.

The AOL discs were everywhere — in your mailbox, in cereal boxes, inside frozen packages of Omaha Steaks.

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/weve-got-mail-and-were-still-surfing-the-web-with-aol-email-addresses/#:~:text=AOL%20CDs%20were%20history's%20greatest%20junk%20mail.&text=One%20billion%20CDs%20with%20free,frozen%20packages%20of%20Omaha%20Steaks.