Just to confirm, when you turn on the VPN does only slow the Internet for your computer or all devices on the home network? If it's the latter, it sounds like the ISP is throttling your Internet connection when they detect a VPN. You might be able to get past the throttling by enabling a 'stealth' option in your VPN client.
This sounds absolutely preposterous. Even cops would need court orders to do something like that. I can't picture how they'd even do that. So you invite some stranger into your house and then what? Does he have a dog trained to sniff out electronics? You could just show him a PC from 2003 with Windows 7 on it. What's he gonna do?
I have no idea. My household's been with Mediacom for ~30 years, so lord knows what was in their contract.
To my knowledge it's just my PC, but I stopped using the VPN after I started having this problem. I might turn it on for a few minutes here and there just to check if the issue persists. I'll look more into it when I get home.
i had my dad walk into my room MID PHONE CALL asking me to pirate a movie for him.
jesus christ.
what i find funny about the complaints is the fact that the ads are basically a tradeoff.
- download cam
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Sata -> USB 3.0 adapter and a crucial SSD is what I have running on my Mac Mini right now
Ought to find a lawyer and sue the cocksuckers for that kind of bullshit. Preferential traffic, especially to intentionally cripple devices for using specific (legal) services, has been actionable in the past despite the absence of net neutrality laws.
There's a reason why comic book stores have pivoted to manga and merchandise, so many comics are crap now that almost nobody is reading them. I downloaded this massive archive of marvel and DC comics and have barely touched it.
I also think a lot of it has to do with the rise in popularity of narrator channels on youtube too. Why read that shit yourself when you can listen to it in the background and occasionally rewind if you missed something?
I'm not familiar with narrator channels but having to get someone to read a comic book to you like it's a children's picture book during the library story time doesn't sit quite right with me.
Audio books are just as lazy and feel like your parents reading you a bedtime story, but I do that with everything so I can have background noise.
Thanks shitloads for reminding me of my favorite comic that, after a perfect ending, was revived and butchered by this fuckwit:
I mean I get audiobooks as it's already 1 dimensional media so verbalizing it is natural, but I don't think I can listen to someone going "And here Deadpool jumps out and shouts 'hey what's crack-a-lakin?' and then he goes BOP! POW! CRACK! and here he stands on their mangled corpses and here we see a corgi wow doesn't this corgi look horrified?"
A big part of the reason I haven't started reading the Final Destination novels, which have been digitized and made accessible via Internet Archive, is that the series relies so much on visuals, specifically tiny intricate details.
