Majorllama

They are an American. It's not like 900 dollars is some insurmountable of money to pay off in 5 years. 180 bucks a year. 15 bucks a month.

That's literally a Spotify subscription.

I'm sorry you haven't paid off 900 in 5 years? That's kinda on you at that point.

Yeah they can work on older homes but I find they tend to work better in newer construction

Mesh networks are pretty hard to beat. Especially for houses with walls that aren't kind to wifi.

I have never had that issue. I would have been very curious to try and trouble shoot that. Was it older house? Plugged in near the microwave?

If your house was built after 2000 (or has updated wiring) you might wanna look into Ethernet over power. The kits are usually less than 50 bucks (depending on the speeds you're using) and they allow you to hardline your computer without running a cable across the entire house.

The way they work is by plugging a parent box directly into the wall near your router you can run a short Ethernet to the box and then plug in the sister box near your gaming rig and run another short Ethernet from the wall to your computer. It basically just uses the copper wires of the house wiring to transfer the data.

There are some exceptions to be aware of. If you have a particularly large house the speeds might suffer over a long enough run. Or if they have the internet on an entirely different breaker panel it won't work.

I am currently using one at my house. The wire gives me better ping, but slightly lower total download speed. So if I'm downloading a big game or something I'll just unplug the Ethernet at let it download faster over wifi and then I switch back to wired for gaming.

Well if you're able to converse with them in their native tongue then I don't understand the problem. You should be able to talk to them just fine.

This is the answer. You don't need to become fluent or learn to read it. Just conversational so you can at least partially participate in conversations around them.

My extended family is German and British. I am well aware how the gypsies are thought of by many over there.

I have lost track of how many times I have brought up gypsies when they are taking about how racist Americans are and then suddenly "it's different". They literally don't even look at it the same way. That's some wild shit.

Sadly I don't think that's ever going to happen. The unfortunate reality is that both forms of extremism tend to slowly pull at people from the center over time. Even if we got a group of moderates around someone would get mad and get pushed one way or another more. And thus the cycle repeats.

It's the classic "what radicalized you" meme. All of us are extremists in one way or another. We just haven't had something push us over the edge yet.

The prison industrial complex and traditional slavery are two completely different beasts. I am not trying to take away from the very current and real problem with our country and its prison system, but this conversation is more talking about the good old-fashioned type of slavery that we abolished in 1865.

We ended our slavery (aside from the prison industrial complex, but that's kinda a different animal to "traditional" slavery) over 100 years ago. There are still many places in the world with slavery today that people seem less interested in talking about than our historical slavery.

I'm not trying to downplay our history but we can't exactly change the past. But we can put eyes on the current slavery going on but we often don't because people are still focusing on our old slavery. There's a real "America bad" boner on the Internet and it's always a little funny to me. Like yeah we are far from perfect, but it's a little weird to be shitting on us for something we ultimately stopped doing while other places are still actively doing it.