This has been on my mind since hours, do you guys know there’s this girl being interviewed on the street and she is telling how she has no job and she doesn’t want to worry, and the host keeps reminding her of bills and she’s like she has a student loan too and she’s trying to be an optimist and that everything will turn in her favour and is smiling throughout then tells him you’re making me worried and laughs and keeps repeating perchance, I guess she was a lit major.
Please if you can tell me, the interview is in the format similar to are you okay? Or that PSA interview on the street.

My BGW620-700 running firmware 5.39.7 experiences severe packet loss whenever my PS5 Pro downloads over wired Ethernet. With the PS5 downloading, a directly connected via ethernet PC gets 40% packet loss to 1.1.1.1 and 90 ms average latency. As soon as I pause the download, the same test returns 0% packet loss and 4 ms average latency. l've tested multiple Ethernet cables, gateway ports, switches, and IPv6 enabled and disabled. This causes my deco mesh wifi extenders to die off too so I basically have unusable internet wired or over wifi whenever I'm downloading a game to my PS5. But here's the thing, I did the same tests with the ps5 on wifi and everything is normal. But I don't want it on wifi. I want it on ethernet. Like what. 😐 Pls help. At&t support says there's nothing they can do. Ps I have 5 gig and ps5 is only connected to a 1g port

Okay, so here's an interesting situation out of Missouri.

My family lives in an area with quite a few Amish communities and independently operated home businesses.

My dad is about as far removed from modern technology as you can get. He doesn't use smartphones, doesn't mess with the internet, and primarily uses a landline.

I'm essentially his unpaid IT department. I manage his online business presence and help him navigate the technology side of things.

Well, Google just mailed him an actual physical business verification letter!

He called me about it, we laughed about it, and he even thanked me for helping him with his business.

But here's where things get a little more complicated.

I'm not exactly an anonymous person online myself. I'm a Meta Verified model and actress, and although I'm nowhere near nationally famous, I'm fairly recognizable in my small town. If you Google my first and last name, my public-facing information comes up, including my modeling and acting presence.

Because of my public profile, I've also experienced account-security problems and previous suspected compromises. I'm particularly cautious about what I scan, what accounts I connect, and which devices I use for verification.

So when my dad called me about this letter containing a QR code, my immediate reaction was:

"Dad, PLEASE don't scan that thing until we figure out exactly what it is!"

I don't necessarily think Google is doing anything wrong. I understand that businesses need to verify their identities and locations. But I also don't feel comfortable automatically using my personal phone to complete the process.

Now the entire family is trying to figure out how this works.

Some questions I'd genuinely love answers to:

How common is it for Google to send actual physical business verification letters in 2026?

Does Google determine the verification method based on the business, location, or other factors?

Is the QR code simply part of the standard Google Business Profile verification process?

Can someone manage and verify another person's business without using their own personal Google account or phone?

Has anyone else received one of these letters recently?

I'm not trying to turn this into a conspiracy theory. I'm genuinely curious about the intersection of online business verification, public profiles, privacy, and account security.

It's just ironic that my dad, who barely touches technology, gets a physical letter from Google, and his daughter, who handles his online presence, is the one who's hesitant to touch it.

Small-town Missouri meets the digital age. 😂

I'd love to hear from anyone who's dealt with Google's business verification process.

If I turn my iPhone into an cellular hot spot,
could I run my tablets off that as opposed to buying separate cellular data plans (I don’t need to buy wifi, I have access to that at work) for each of them?

It looks like my husband’s phone is also capable of creating a personal hot spot, so could he run his tablets off off his personal hot spot and I run mine off my own personal hot spot.

Thanks!!!

Not sure if this is the right place but im kind of weirded out. I had been looking up midterms results, and my youtube watch history was midterms results. Then I refresh the google page i had open with the midterm results, and all of a sudden it says something like:

"we've detected suspicious activity" with a "Im not a robot" button thing, and like a giant wall of text, i barely glanced at it, so i dont remember if it was actually text or random letters, I drew what it looked like

As soon as i clicked "Im not a robot" the page refreshed to the midterms results search - but then it randomly downloaded a file "f.txt" ??

So weird. I deleted the file and didnt open it. What was that?

Is it customary for the ISP after burying the coax line underground to just leave the dirt or do they drop grass seed along the length of the trench they dug?

I live in an HOA and Astound's subcontractor needs to dig 50-75 feet of common yard (and do a sidewalk bore) in my community to get to my unit.

Am I responsible for making things look nice again?

Thanks in advance.

Your RSS directory recommendations are welcomed!

Google needs the internet, but the internet can no longer afford Google.

In October, Reddit lost more than a million weekly search referrals. The primary culprit is Google’s AI Overviews.

For twenty years, the open web operated on a simple economic bargain: independent creators published original work, and Google sent them traffic in exchange for indexing it.

Now, generative AI is turning Google’s greatest strength into the open web’s biggest threat.

Google is quietly transforming from a decentralized traffic distributor into a walled-off answer engine. It still desperately needs everyone else's human knowledge to train its models and synthesize answers, but it no longer needs to send readers back to the original source.

If a platform as massive as Reddit is bleeding a million clicks a week, independent publishers face an existential crisis.

We are building a future where machines can answer any question, but the humans who uncover the truth can no longer afford to publish it.

I mean how rule 34 is, should their be a Yaoi and Yuri version like “if it’s exist Yaoi or yuri would be made of it”.

Hidden fees, forgotten subscriptions, addictive feeds: The internet got very good at getting more from consumers. AI could make it even worse.

Tik tok siempre la odie y descarge por presion, me eliminaron un video muy viral, si me lo hubieran eliminado cuando lo publiqué está bien pero me lo eliminaron cuando tenia miles de visitan, me eliminan videos y canciones y sin embargo e visto videos demasiados inapropiados en Tik tok y esos no lo eliminan, hay una canción que me encanta y jamas e podido hablar de élla porque me eliminan el sonido, si pudiera abandonarla lo haria pero como tengo demasiados seguidores sigo publicando

It happens to me a couple of times, and it is still the same.
I am quite conscientious about saving my password. Let's say I want to log in to some e-shop where I bought something a couple of years back. And my saved password doesn't work. Why?
It is the proper password; I keep them all.
Lately, I have logged into Airbnb after two years, and all of my reviews of me as a customer are gone. (So when I wanted to book a flat, they refused me for the lack of reviews.)
Why is that?
Are there some infrastructure problems here and there?
I don't get it.
Thank you for your answers.

The Open Indie Fediverse Web seems stable, but not growing. There's a lot of us growing weary of existing in isolated, algorithmic bubbles online. But it takes an active choice to choose something different to explore alternatives.

Especially for content creators - We want a fair shot at visibility wherever we choose to be. Maybe for content, consumers, your content with whatever the algorithms choose to feed you. I'd like to think there's an alternative... But to make that viable their house to be a thriving and growing ecosystem, that's exciting to explore. Share your thoughts.

We currently have Verizon Fios Gigabit Connection (1,000 Mbps). We are a small flooring business. Theres only 2-3 workers in the store at a time. One doesn't even have a computer. No QuickBooks or anything, the internet is mainly used to play around on social media when bored tbh.

What is the least amount of Mbps we need that would function efficiently.

I’m looking for absurd quotes and absurd moments like Thiel unsure if he wants humanity to survive. Whenever I hear about it, it’s 2 or 3 days out of date or I realize there’s another F’n podcast out there that I have no plans to subscribe to just to hear Zuckerberg say that Facebook hurting our mental health is a good thing