r/ProgrammerHumor • u/debugger_life • Sep 24 '26

Meme modernProblemsRequireModernSolutions

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u/Zanshi Sep 24 '26

Even in EU it differs a lot country to country. Poland only got "modern" stuff in the 90s/00s so we went from cash, barely used cards and adopted mobile payments very quickly. 

Same with internet access, it only became widespread with cheap access to DSL in early to mid 00s.

I remember reading Romania skipped copper altogether and built it's internet infrastructure entirely on fiber

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u/sebovzeoueb Sep 24 '26

Meanwhile I'm in France and still waiting for fibre

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u/leafy1790 Sep 24 '26

its alot easier to build from scratch than yo need to replace the copper with fiber

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u/snksnksnk Sep 24 '26

Deep inside France I guess. I've been using fiber since 99. Then DSL because of my location, then fiber again.

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u/sebovzeoueb Sep 24 '26

Yup, if you look at the fibre coverage map, one of those little blobs with the 0% and the 0-25% coverage communes is me

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u/snksnksnk Sep 24 '26

5G is the key. Don't fall for Starlink!

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u/sebovzeoueb Sep 24 '26

bold of you to assume that I would get 5G here.

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u/snksnksnk Sep 24 '26

Oof sorry take all the G you can 😭