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Imagine all the people

Spoiler: they will, because fucking printers

Lucky for them, eh?

IDLES.

Holland is also flat as fuck

Go on

Lemmy see how this all plays out

It’s not about money, it’s about having a teeny tiny bit of authority over others in your otherwise meaningless existence.

Here in the UK, our exchange buildings have emergency battery and diesel generator backups so if power does go out for an extended period, then at least the head ends and exchange equipment will still function.

Even a relatively small building will have a backup generator with a 1000 litre fuel tank.

Netomnia is a company that uses Openreach’s infrastructure (poles,ducts,manholes) to provide their own FTTP network. The cables and fibres they provide are ownred by them, but they lease the duct space from Openreach in order to get it from their own headend to a customers premises.

There are dozens of these PIA companies all over the UK who have varying degrees of quality when it comes to building a network.

I’ve not seen Netomnias build, but I have seen others like Airband and Full Fibre who are decent, to the other end of the scale like Virgin and Digital Infrastructure whose work is shocking to say the least.

I personally have Airband and I’ve been very impressed with their price and service. If Netomnia offer a decent no strings package, it might be worth giving it a shot as Openreach or Virgin might not have plans to build in your area in the near future.

Source: I work in the industry.

Old habits die hard

Its pretty well established what CP stands for.

I’m not decrying the abilities of a big van, I drive a 3.5 tonne Transit for work and love it. But we are comparing apples with oranges. I have a friend who owns a Nissan Navara. During the week it is onsite, dragging machinery around building sites. At the weekend it is a family car, taking the kids out etc.

I do admit though, not all pickups are used in this way and my mate is probably in the minority where he has a genuine need for a vehicle that can handle the extremes of work life and home life.

Sometimes it’s down to more than what the vehicle can carry, but what the vehicle can tow. A pickup with a 3.5 tonne towing capacity might be a far more useful vehicle than a van that can only pull 1 tonne for example.

Oh, you!