how many ways can you really communicate with a cell tower?

Analog encoding assigns each device in a cell its own frequency range.

Time-domain multiplexing assigns each device a fraction of a second to transmit.

Quadrature phase-shift keying alters the timing of a signal to convey data.

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing has each device transmit the same signal over P out of Q bands, such that each device’s signal can be reconstructed by knowing which bands it transmitted on.

There’s a fucking reason your phone is faster now than in 2010.

How cell phones work is ridiculously complicated. Going from analog, to time-domain shenanigans, to binary wizard math, is why you can watch 720p video and whine that it’s not 1080p.

You don’t.

But when you eventually reinstall, because Ubuntu crossed the line, Mint is just Ubuntu without the bullshit.

Previously? Some schmuck changing all the windows to be left-handed, immediately before a long-term-support feature freeze.

Zero percent surprised by many other comments throwing shade at Ubuntu.

Just use Mint.

Never give Nintendo money.

Oh sure, Google only fucks with how texting works, whether my car GPS cooperates, what the entire UI looks like…

I know this specific abuse was not Google’s fault specifically. But it’s the same god damn thing. Nobody asked me if I wanted that. They just shoved it onto the machine I paid to own and pay to use, like it’s not mine enough to deserve respect, let alone control.

It’s Metro’s fault.

I fucking hate that three separate skeezebag companies have free reign to insert software on my extremely personal wireless pocket computer.

The latest Google update will make your phone more secure if you don’t touch it…

Fuck entirely off. The last time my phone surprised me with an update, it was ads on my goddamn lock screen.

All the cool kids left.

… and reporting itself can be a bannable offense.

This still seems misplaced for FOSS.

We have ruined everything in the name of sportsball.

Shatter Google.

Federation allows redundancy.

You can ignore a DMCA request. It’s not “do this or go to jail.” It’s a finger-wag that gives you a free out, where they can’t sue you if you do the thing. You can just… not… and then they’d have to go to the trouble of suing you. Which you can make difficult by being somewhere besides America and not giving a shit.

Never give Nintendo money.

The premise is sort of hilarious. “Everybody’s just blindly copying this one kind of network. We made the bold decision to copy the other one.”

Right, because Linux definitely can’t run Windows software. Don’t check.

Thanks, Amazon, for motivating a bunch of people to fucking hate you.