thecrotch

That's not an effective metric because you don't know the network speed of the host that the user was downloading from. It's impossible to tell if the network is slow, or the site they visited was throttled to .5mb. speed tests work because the server you're downloading from is a known entity

Good idea on theory but it would have to constantly be doing speed tests in the background and those eat up a ton of bandwidth. All the phone knows is what kind of network it's connected to and what kind of signal strength it has

Nobody's violating your rights by publishing an update to the software they provide. If you don't like it android gives you an option to freeze apps at a particular version. You can let go of your pearls now.

If we're being pedantic TOS is the only one that's actually named "star trek".

You would not. In the example given 169.254.1.1 doesn't even exist, no machine is listening on that address so it couldn't possibly do any good if it wanted to

Setting the default gateway is unnecessary for a network of peers that are already on the subnet. It can only lead to problems as the hosts try to send every request outside their network to 169.254.1.1, which doesn't even exist in this scenario

The poster you're replying to is suggesting a static IP in the apipa range, not an apipa assigned ip. You'd already know a static IP because you set it yourself.

You really want to live through that shit again?

He had a real hardon to invade Nikestan

The "old internet" hasn't gone away. It's easier than ever for your average person to set up their own website. Look at all the shit you can do with WordPress, usually for free and usually with minimal technical knowledge or experience. Reddit/Facebook/Google/etc have done nothing at all to prevent people from doing that. The people still choose reddit/Facebook/google. I don't know we're supposed to change that without actually removing people's freedom of choice.

It's a delicate balance between courting the black vote and not alienating their base of ignorant rednecks and full on white supremacists

Tbf he wasn't given an opportunity. Society wouldn't have allowed him to introduce jim crow, throw 200,000 Japanese Americans into concentration camps, or commit genocide on the choctaw. I'm sure he would do all those things and more if the pesky deep state wasn't holding him back.