Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that doesn’t justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
- A request for recommendations
- Pictures of your pet
- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like a hippo
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
Tattoo leveled up. Woo!
Woah the colours! That looks awesome!
I’m pleased. Took me ages to save up for it.
Does anyone use Hot Shot as their ISP?
I’m moving house and eyeing up a new fibre provider. They look very reasonably priced and a quick search of reddit and geekzone suggests their uptime is good. However im more concerned about whether I will get pinged for “reasonable use” under their unlimited plans given that I use between 200-400GB a month and sometimes more.
Despite slingshot being extremely expensive they at least haven’t said anything when I’ve hit 700GB in a month. It’d also be a dealbreaker if Hot Shot does port blocking with no way to control it and selectively open ports.
I haven’t heard of Hot Shot, but 200-400GB seems like reasonable usage to me. Especially taking into account 4K streaming, and stuff like video game downloads being 100+GB, that figure actually would seem pretty conservative IMO.
@terraborra
I use hot shot cause they’re cheap. I think we average over 500gb. Haven’t had any trouble so far.Legend. Thank you that’s exactly what I was after.
I haven’t heard of them, but if someone advertised unlimited internet and cut you off for 400GB of data then I think they would get in trouble for false advertising. If you average 400GB a month and occasionally hit 700 or 1TB I wouldn’t expect to have issues.
I often hit 5TB+ and never even considered I might hit a fair use policy. 1TB or less is well within the “I just watch a lot of Netflix” defence and so I wouldn’t be too worried about it.
I guess I haven’t really compared my usage to others in quite some time. I did think it’d be defensible given there’s usually a 80GB+ patch or game install each month but just didn’t want the hassle of having to explain each month if I could avoid it.
Yeah, you usage is pretty normal these days, for the reason you describe. You’re not the only one having to download 80GB updates or 150GB games off Steam, pretty common these days.
Here’s our usage for the past few months. Just changed to this ISP in December which is why that’s so low:
It did actually surprise me to learn how much we use. At the last ISP they didn’t tell you how much you used, so I never knew. When we switched to this ISP I thought something must be wrong 😆
I just bought a multimeter. I better learn how to use one now 😅
Been contemplating powering my outdoor lighting again. Starting to think about getting one of those Bluetti or Ecoflow portable power stations. Or even making my own and getting an inverter and a lifepo4 deep cycle battery. I would also need a charger for it I guess, I’m not sure I would save any money either. It’s also a lot more than I wanted to spend on this. Why does everything have to be expensive!
Just bought Lenovo laptop, and thinking to start using Linux as daily OS, dual boot with Windows as I still need Lenovo Vantage.
Nice, welcome to the club! Been using a ThinkPad Z13 for the past couple of years exclusively with Linux (Fedora Atomic) and it has been an excellent experience, with everything working OOTB and decent battery life too. I do have a copy of Windows installed in a VM, but use it only for dev/test stuff.
I hadn’t heard of Lenovo Vantage but came across this reddit thread that led me to this github page that might do the job for you?
If you don’t have another windows machine then I think it’s a good idea to duel boot Windows initially. I’ve been running Linux as a daily driver the past couple of years but still occasionally do stuff in Windows. It’s pretty rare these days, though!
Woahh thanks a lot Dave! Very interesting thread, I’ll try on my V14 first maybe also X240 later.
If you don’t have another windows machine then I think it’s a good idea to duel boot Windows initially. I’ve been running Linux as a daily driver the past couple of years but still occasionally do stuff in Windows. It’s pretty rare these days, though!
Yup I was thinking to start familiarize myself with Linux as a daily driver. I still need Windows for some times, because of .xlsx files from work used a lot of formulas and VBA.
Macros are one reason for me as well. LibreOffice actually supports VBA! But only a subset, so YMMV.
If it’s for work then probably also best to avoid converting back and forth between Word and LibreOffice as well.
I’ve been pretty happy with Linux though. I’m currently running the Gnome version of Nobara but have been through a few distros to get here. I ended up keeping my files on a separate partition to make it easy to install a new OS so I could test out a bunch.
None were perfect but I’m pretty happy with what I have now.
