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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • “While you have repeatedly claimed that the ACP is necessary for connecting participating households to the Internet, it appears the vast majority of tax dollars have gone to households that already had broadband prior to the subsidy,” the Republicans’ December 2023 letter to Rosenworcel said.

    That may be partly explained by the fact that many ACP recipients were getting a different discount under a predecessor program that ended once the ACP was implemented. The $30 monthly ACP benefit replaced the previous $50 monthly subsidy from the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program that started enrolling users in May 2021.




  • If I hadn’t resold my original deck (to a friend, gave him a good price) an upgrade probably wouldn’t have been worth it for me personally. Although I’ve been using mine in handheld more often these days, OLED doesn’t do a ton for me and I don’t notice the weight difference some people have mentioned. However! The battery life is better, I feel like the touchpads haptics seem more prominent(?), and bluetooth-to-wake is a wonderful feature (highly recommend an extra dualsense if you’re a docked user).













  • Twitter was harder to leave for me than Reddit because you’re following specific users rather than community topics (I follow a bot on mastodon that recreates tweets, but even that is having some minor issues with the recent changes). I honestly hope that Threads gets a lot of those users and that it decides to federate down the road, it would be nice to follow some more mainstream users while keeping my home in Mastodon


  • shoetoTechnology@beehaw.org*Permanently Deleted*
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    12 years ago

    That was me, I think a total of two people I follow on Twitter moved to mastodon (out of ~150). For the rest, I’ve really been appreciating the bird.makeup server - it’s an account mirror for anyone on Twitter, which is fine for me since I mostly lurk. So I just rebuilt my following list on mastodon with that, works well!