{"id":51,"date":"2016-12-24T01:33:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T01:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitallyantisocial.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2018-01-16T01:44:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T01:44:02","slug":"fuck-you-charter-spectrum-twc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitallyantisocial.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Fuck you, Charter Spectrum \/ TWC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being a customer for a long time, I became aware today of yet one more increase of Internet rates from Spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>This is unbearable. Not only I have to receive the junk mail with scam offers, but I have to see that they actually punish loyal customers. The first increase of 2016 was expected, after the first year promotion went off &#8230;for a third time. I had been calling once in a while to get the one-year promotion resetted, but I reckoned that it was time to stop doing so.<\/p>\n<p>And about the junk mail&#8230; yeah, TWC is now Spectrum! and let&#8217;s promote that Triple Play Crap &#8220;for $29.99 each!!&#8221;. That deceiving line&#8230; why don&#8217;t you just put $90 for all three, you pieces of shit? And I am sure that you&#8217;ll add every kind of fee afterwards. You fucking scammers.<\/p>\n<p>But this isn&#8217;t a rant only. I want to be constructive.<\/p>\n<p>And I think that a month or more without Internet may be a way to improve life. At least, make it a bit more interesting. Funnily, it&#8217;s going to be a hard task, as my work is mainly as a programmer, working from home.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really not meant to be &#8220;without Internet&#8221;. I plan to go every day to the library, and do all I want from there.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, I will ran a server in my place, and I am currently:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>downloading a mirror for the Wikipedia, and another for StackOverflow. (if you don&#8217;t want to set up your own full featured wikipedia server, you can always use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiwix.org\/\">kiwix<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>mass downloading Youtube channels that I&#8217;d always liked to go through (mostly educational, French or C++ talks, whatever). <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube-dl.org\/\">youtube-dl<\/a> makes it extraordinarily easy!<\/li>\n<li>as for the services that I need running (I had a few things 24\/7 that could be accessed from the outside), I&#8217;ll just move them to the server that I have colocated (probably the one that is serving this page right now).<\/li>\n<li>other compulsive data hoarding (using p2p networks, mostly bittorrent -with <a href=\"https:\/\/transmissionbt.com\/\">transmission<\/a>) with the intention of almost always having what I will need.<\/li>\n<li>an external with external repositories (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archlinux.org\/\">Arch Linux<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debian.org\/\">Debian<\/a>, various source code repos -using git, hg, svn) and some scripts to update when a decent connection is available. I configured the rest of the computers in the LAN to use those repos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: It took me a lot of months to reach a point in which I&#8217;d be happy to disconnect. That&#8217;s a lot of terabytes of local data. And I did so. It&#8217;s definitely doable and can increase productivity, even for a software developer or someone that feels dependent on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>As stated, I haven&#8217;t been nor currently am completely disconnected from the Internet -just from the crappy cable provider. For low bandwidth tasks I tend to use the phone&#8217;s LTE (around 100MB a month). For bigger things, scheduling\/queueing uploads\/downloads (something that actually improves organizational skills) to be run at the public library or a caf\u00e9 works.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I&#8217;d really connect again if there was a decent service! I.e. I&#8217;d really give Google fiber a chance if they serviced my area -but no way I&#8217;m going back to the likes of Spectrum or Comcast!<\/p>\n<p>To everyone trying to unplug soulless money-grabbing ISPs from their lifes and live partially connected: good luck and godspeed! (it&#8217;s worth it)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being a customer for a long time, I became aware today of yet one more increase of Internet rates from Spectrum. This is unbearable. Not only I have to receive the junk mail with scam offers, but I have to see that they actually punish loyal customers. The first increase of 2016 was expected, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitallyantisocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitallyantisocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitallyantisocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitallyantisocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitallyantisocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitallyantisocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitallyantisocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitallyantisocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitallyantisocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitallyantisocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}