Our Internet went out last Friday, and CenturyLink told us that it would be back by today at the latest. It has been both an unpleasant and pleasant experience at once. I am reduced to doing anything online on my iPhone, which is difficult for me and leaves me dictating everything I see on the screen.
there is some humor in the situation. I was interacting with an oil and gas landsman. He was asking me about a bankruptcy in which I did some work in preparing assignments out of the bankruptcy estate. He wanted to know if I had the bankruptcy documents. Which I do not I told him that the case was so large and my part in it so small. I told him that the case I’ve gone on for many months, and that the person subjected to the proceedings had farted all the way. Of course I meant “fought it.” I’m correct in the dictation error. I told him that she may well have farted all the way, but that I was never in her vicinity and neither her nor smelled anything.
there are people around now, and I like this idea, I suggest that we don’t try to correct dictation errors anymore . Just let them be. People will figure things out, and in the meantime, where is humor to be had.
see now, there are many dictation errors in the last paragraph and a half. I just let them be.
Piece of Mindful 
I work with intellectually disabled (cough retarded cough) men, and one of the many fun parts of the job is reading the dictated texts they sometimes send me. The texts would be completely incomprehensible gibberish if I didn’t know their speech patterns and the very particular, idiosyncratic ways that each of them use language. It’s kind of like playing a word-puzzle game. The better I get to know the guy, the stronger my translation skills get.
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These are only parts of the reasons I kicked C-Link out of my home. I switched to a local carrier in town (Sioux city Iowa) pronounced SUE CITY,
Spark light changed my service at no cost, a new Phone line (same phone number). I also went from2 meg to 65 with only an $19.99 difference of cost! No more blackouts once or twice a month ranging from 5 hours to 2 1/2 days! Called customer service only to have the rep Brag about new customers paying the same as I was bragging about 50 meg speeds. When I asked her why couldn’t get faster, more reliable equipment, She said you are running on 1970’s or 1980’s equipment!
She said it would cost more than it was worth to replace it all.
That was the day I decided If I wasn’t worth it after 7 years of cruddy service, They didn’t deserve my money! It was one of the best things I have ever done, dropping them for a decent service well worth the extra money, heck you can’t take 2 people to McDonalds for $20.00 anymore!
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Yeah, we are familiar with Centurylink’s defects. We just do not have choices. We are rural, and the only satellite service we can get is Viasat, whose service is terrible. CL became useless about a year ago and we had to switch, but now they can deliver service for $50 a month. We have been waiting for Starlink to offer service to us, but it looks like that will never happen. CL unfortunately is our best option right now. We are surrounded by trees and I refuse to cut them down to allow service.
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Why don’t you simply get an extra SIM card with only data plan and get additional 5G router to be used as a switch to connect to? It would work in the same way as your mobile does.
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Why don’t you simply get an extra SIM card with only data plan and get additional 5G router to be used as a switch to connect to? It would work in the same way as your mobile does.
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You mean just hook the cellphone up to a moniter and keybaord, post links to th esim and router?
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There are devices like this one that can be placed outdoors, even on a pole if needed to connect to ATT or T Mobile internet, needing a sim card to do so.
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Try that link again…
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I dunno about the US, but in Italy post offices provide also Sim cards and internet connection. I have fiber and it was supposed to be very fast, well it’s not.
It’s often out of order and I find it pretty annoying as I work from home and need the connection constantly. It usually goes out in the late afternoon, when I need it the most, obviously.
Oh, and I pay 50 € every 2 months. Not cheap.
But before it was even worse with another company, and more expensive too.
As for the typing/grammar errors, I still make a lot in english despite my degree.
Thing is when I post comments here or anywhere else in english I don’t bother -I definitely should though- looking up for the correct spelling/grammar, I just write quickly what I have in mind and click on “post”.
And since you all seem to get what I’m saying, I’ll leave it at that 😁
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Kind of ironic that the “agenda” is for us all to live life through the internet, yet they leave its operation to some of the worst run companies on earth. I had AT&T DSL for 20 years before finally getting fiber through some podunk outfit subsidized by the government.
Kind of gives away the game. Keep calling their bluffs.
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Breaking ShitNews: 33 year old Ethan Nordean, one of the leaders of right wing organization “the Proud Boys” and responsible for the Capitol Hill assault was given a 18 years sentence, the highest in history for one of their leaders.
Geez, these people have become so bloody boring with this horseshit full of 3s, 1s and 8s.
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