yareth

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   by yareth 4y ago

   Had to solve this problem at two separate places and boy was it a journey. The pigeons ignored everything, even the spikes; we later found one sitting in nest built directly atop of them, looking all cozy (place was unoccupied at that time)
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   by yareth 4y ago

   From my experience about 8-10 years ago when the shaping hardware was not that flexible a lot of ISPs analysed the traffic and changed shaping routes dynamically which usually reset the shaping for the local ISP network segment (coaxial net
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   by yareth 4y ago

   Yes, that is common. Back when I used to work for an ISP, all of our main competitors have whitelisted speedtest servers to sidestep their shaping and sometimes even ran their own, just to look good on the results page. The fact that other
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   by yareth 4y ago

   Same experience, recently got my first AMD CPU (5700G) and found the fan pretty bad noise-wise. Replacing it with fairly cheap retail made it completely silent, to the point I actually have problems noticing whether the PC is on (before POS
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   by yareth 6y ago

   Steam has offline mode which does not require internet connection. You still may not be able to play the game if the game itself requires an internet connection, but that has nothing to do with Steam.