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i'm not MVNO, but i've done prepaid for major carriers for almost 10 years. i'm on ATT prepaid now and it's $40/mo for everything. int'l phone off ebay unlocked for dirt cheap add a $99 square warranty, good to go. was in a contract with sprint before that and hated it. so i forced my phone to roam 100% of the time (with the help of a $3 app roam control). sprint sent me an airave (like a cell hotspot) thinking i was in a serious dead zone that i never unboxed. they likely figured it out and politely asked me to stop roaming when it continued. i didn't. they said i had a week or something to find a new carrier and they would waive contractual obligations.

Another one for the collection.

FWIW - StarLink is now available in PA. For $100/month it surely kicks ass in rural areas where DSL is the only game in town, if it is at all.

I've pretty much stopped wearing a mask. Since Friday I've been to multiple restaurants, stores, hotels etc. Feels good to be almost back to normal. My younger kids aren't vaccinated so they're wearing them still.

They won’t take the cable out. They’ll want to leave if there to make it easy for you to switch back in the future. It would have been VZ, at least from the pole to the house. Whether it was DSL or Fios, they both use a different drop cable to the house than we do at Comcast. If the modem was a rental, they’ll want it back. That’s they only thing they’ll want and charge you for if they don’t get, unless you were under an actual contract and we’re breaking it, then they’d hit you with an early termination fee. They’re not all that common though. Most ISP “contracts” are just price commitments

I’m sure there are lots of folks who want to go the traditional route. And that’s their choice. Just not my thing. And my in-laws were cremated, then their urns and ashes buried. I would rather be scattered about.

I can't tell if pictures like that on tombstones are cool or tacky, I think I lean towards tacky, but it's kind of cool to put a little more on there than just your name so in 100 years someone knows a little bit about you.

yup, i ditched ATT for xfinity wifi (no, i don't get an employee discount), and i pay less than 50 a month for unlimited everything. My ATT bill was close to twice that without unlimited service. It piggybacks on verizon's network, so coverage is very good for me, with the exception of like two spots in south jersey that I didn't get good reception with on ATT either. Only downside so far is that international talk/text is pay-by-the-minute/text, as opposed to a flat rate to enable it for a week or month or whatever if you're traveling with ATT or verizon.

I switched from xfinity to T-Mobile home internet. I’m getting 7x the download speed, and at least 40x upload speeds compared to Comcast, and I’m paying 50 dollars a month, no data caps. I would recommend getting a fan to put underneath your T-Mobile router, they get hot and they do, they can drop the secondary signal which causes decrease in speed. I put a small computer Fan under it and it now runs cool and speeds stay constant. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Not home internet related but realized that MVNOs, as opposed to major carriers like ATT and Verizon for wireless are a no brainer if you buy unlocked phones. I'm rolling with an MVNO on the ATT network, 4 phones, mobile Hotspot, wifi calling, more data than we need for less than a hundy. I'll never purchase, lease, finance an ridiculously overpriced phone with a network again (its not a car). Buying unlocked gives you so many more options.

well the bear box finally suffered its first L ...

I didn't actually know Woodstock was held in the Catskills until I was reading facts about the Catskills last night, lol. Visiting was a lot more interesting than I thought it would be. It's mind blowing that 400,000+ people converged in the middle of a farm in NY. Some interesting facts I learned from the museum: The farmer who allowed the festival on his land had different political views, but thought they had the right to their opinion because it's a free country, so he let them hold it. Some residents of Bethel, New York were not happy about the whole thing, but others helped pass out food and sandwiches. One lady bought everything at a local farm to supply food. At the original site intended for Woodstock, that town passed an ordinance requiring a permit for any gatherings of 5,000 people just to block it from happening. Since there were only 600 bathrooms, many people did their business in the nearby woods. It took some people 3 days to find their abandoned cars, since the roads became clogged. People had to walk on top of cars to get to the concert because the road was so congested. There were "trip tents" for people who took too much acid; when they recovered, they helped other people recover. People were told to move their tents for the supply helicopter landing pad, but didn't so were woken up at 6 am by the helicopter hovering above them trying to land. And what I found the most interesting... Notes written on paper plates (or whatever they could find to write on), nailed to a tree in hopes to find missed connections:

Visited the Woodstock field & museum on my way home today. Far out!

Nice evening for a fire and some beers.

pretty nice morning in the water.

At least they got the propulsion system correct. not that second class diesel stuff.