Life ProTip: All services using cable modems have been "fiber backed" since the early 2000s. It's called HFC, delivered to the neighborhood by fiber, delivered to the premises by copper coaxial cable.

Well, that's because your local co-op FTTH deployment is funded by heavy government subsidies.

FTTH is outrageously expensive.

It's great when you can get it, but the money is real.

I was in this industry for a time.

FTTH is prohibitively expensive for rural telecoms, but government subsidies made it affordable. I'm still mystified by the economies of this.

For non-rural areas, Verizon almost financially died from deploying FiOS FTTH. There's a reason they tried and sued to stopped deploying in NYC and sold off other plants to Frontier years ago. (Verizon eventually bought Frontier about a decade later, btw).

The right answer is and always has been Fiber-to-the-Neighborhood nodes and then delivering broadband via copper coaxial cables.

Indeed, for more than a decade, the connection between my FiOS device and my router was a 1 GHz copper coaxial cable.
We have experienced no speed improvements (up or down) when we upgraded to total ethernet from the FiOS device.

Cable modem uploads are still way, way too slow. I thought DOCSIS 3 would have fixed that by now, but it has not.

Maybe they shouldn't call it "Fiber Coaxial Cable" in their advertisements.

There is no such thing as "Fiber Coaxial Cable."

At least Spectrum (nee Cox in our area) calls it "Powered by Fiber, delivered by coaxial cable."

That explains it. I wish it were more clear because it confused everyone I've been discussing this with, including myself.

I thought the announcement said we had to upgrade to 8.3.36, not 8.3.6.

That alone kept the *BSDs out of my home lab for years.

Reminds me of the Red Hat glib pthreads debacle of the late 1990s.

Why not add it to the PlayStation 5? It's essentially similar AMD hardware compared to the Xbox Series X|S.

I don't want to reinstall Windows.

I'd rather use an app that disables those features without fully reinstalling my computer's operating system.

I feel like the government might step in with a lawsuit about that.

I'm not a fan of Firefox's new two-week release cadence, to be quite honest.

On Windows 11, Copilot and the News Widget forcibly use Microsoft Edge no matter what you set your default to and it simply can't be changed.
It's annoying and unfair.

Thanks for the advice.

I think I'll move to Kubuntu since both personally and professionally I have moved to Ubuntu.

Do AI agents ignore robots.txt?

Asking for a friend.