MystikIncarnate

I'm in Canada, fiber is fairly rare right now. Some big cities are getting it pushed into neighborhoods, and new condos generally only have fiber, but any home or residence that's over 5 years old probably still has CATV/coax and an analog telephone hookup.

So with few exceptions, the majority of Canadians have the option of DSL, usually from Bell, which is still mostly dominating Canada for ownership of the PSTN wireline services (though some provinces are other companies, like Telus on the west coast, and SaskTel... In Saskatchewan). Even if you buy from another DSL ISP, the last mile is still Bell owned connections.

Cable is a bit more diversified from area to area from what I've seen, one of the bigger providers is Rogers. Different areas can be other providers, Cogeco is pretty prevalent in the Niagara region near me; but the story is unchanged. If you go with another ISP for cable service at your residence, the local cable provider is delivering the last mile connection.

In my area, there's a regional fiber provider, we have overhead lines, and I contacted that provider about getting service, and my home is not serviced by them. Interestingly, the addressees across the damn street (where the utility poles are located) are serviced by the local fiber provider.

The local cable ISP, who I ended up getting service from, was able to quite easily run a cable over the road from the utility post to my residence without issue. Why the fiber provider can't, is beyond me.

I'm lucky that there's even active fiber on my street that I could tap into if the company would run it over the road. Many places I've lived have either cable or DSL as the only options.

I know many others are in a similar spot.

As a solo player in the early wow era, lfg was a massive pain in my backside. I literally couldn't progress without completing certain dungeons, and I couldn't complete those dungeons unless I grouped up. So I was painfully and perpetually stuck in a never ending loop of LFG.

It's the reason I left.

If you don't have a group to play with, or preferred to play solo, utilizing pick up groups when necessary, the game became an unplayable mess halfway through the level progressions.

They've "fixed" most of this now, but I have a hard time caring about the game now. I went back to it for a short while a few years ago, and while it's easier to nab a group for progression, the onslaught of go-fer quests numbed my brain to any lore that was being spouted by the quest givers, and it became a grind fest.

No sorry, just action.

This makes me think of the song "Wave" by the midnight.

"We are hooking up with strangers we will never see again We are not a sentimental age"

Bluntly: If you're fortunate, you'll have two options for internet. DSL and cable. Sometimes there's other "options" like a WISP or starlink, or even a dual up provider, but the speed comparison is not even close, so I usually discard most of those as viable either on ping time or bandwidth.

It's extremely likely that only one provider services your residence with DSL, and one provider does cable. Two providers. All other options are basically a wholesale or resale of these two providers, meaning you still get service from one of those two.

If you're extremely lucky, you'll also have the option of fiber. And IMO, that is the only time you really get three options.

If you go with a third party ISP, the last mile is still one of the two that actually come into your residence.

So the only real options you have are: do you want to buy internet direct from the ISP that owns the line to your house, or do you want to buy internet from someone who will contact that company to give you internet? If you don't like the DSL provider, and you don't like the cable provider, you're completely fucked. Gg everyone.

I have an MX master 2, and I use a G703 Lightspeed with a power play mat.

It's incredible to me that their dongles don't come in USB-C by default, I'm pretty sure that they don't offer either a Lightspeed or unifying dongle in USB-C, which is even more baffling.

I haven't looked at the product lines in a while, but even when I did, it was obvious USB-C was the way to go, and nothing was offered.

I also have a couple of their webcams, and they're all USB-A as well. Just wild.

I miss actual dock connectors. Cramming everything into a single USB-C connection has always been problematic for me. I have a lot of stuff.

My work laptop has a USB-C dock where I have Ethernet (1000mbps), three display port displays, mouse, keyboard, wireless headset dongle, and a dual head USB to displayport adapter.

That's a lot of bandwidth.

I frequently have little problems keeping everything working correctly.

Luckily, I don't push high bandwidth video though any display for work, so generally I don't see many bandwidth problems.

Like mice and webcams?

.... Yes, I do use Logitech products, why do you ask?

Our bones are more beautiful than yours.

I scrolled WAY too far before I saw this.

I scrolled past several other Diablo lines before I found this.

How?

YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE. MAKE YOUR TIME.

That's truly surprising.

Thanks for sharing.

Honestly, I didn't expect that Epic would be okay with this.

It's nice to see, and bluntly, after a game has gone through all the different stages of buying and owning, why not make it free? Makes it that much easier for nostalgia nerds to have awesome LAN parties.

I don't think this makes up for the long list of consumer hostile things that Epic has done, but it doesn't hurt.

The next thing I'd like to see is to have games open sourced when stuff like this happens and the game is well into obsolescence. At least someone can pick up the mantle that studios don't want to have anything to do with, when it comes to making the game compatible with newer operating systems, or alternative operating systems (like Linux, though I think UT supported Linux), or so that it can be built for new architectures like Apple's new arm based silicon.

There's no profit in the game anymore, so just let people have it so they can fix what you don't care about anymore.