• too_high_for_this@lemmy.world
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    There’s actually a very simple reason for this phenomenon. A standard spring mattress essentially acts like a giant mirror, reflecting all sorts of radio waves, including your cellular signal. This can cause interference, leading to a dead zone in the near vicinity. The same effect was documented back in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.

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    Who uses their phone data at home?

    I assume countries that have affordable data plans from ISPs, but still…

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        Our mobile data is the biggest scam that exists on this earth. A handful of gigabytes for 10s of €s per month.

        The highest IQ people will say “Well it doesn’t have to be more than a few gigabytes, you got wifi at home anyways, I barely reach the mobile data limit”, well it doesn’t have to be 10s of €s for a handful of gigabytes either/anyways.

        And coverage outside has always been between “Barely alright” and “Dogshit non-existent” too, doesn’t matter if you’re in a city, around a city or on a street between cities, especially on the streets though you’re lucky if you can fucking “ping -c 4 google.com” with package loss.

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          For it’s the cheap cheap price of 22.4€/person for 20 GB 5G per person. And that’s just because my father has been a customer for a long time and I’m a second device in his contract now, with 50% off. I also reach the 20 GB limit fairly often, especially when on the go a lot. Because Deutsche Bahn. F them. Not even a working Captive Portal is possible for them, so my Laptop has to connect to my Phones Hotspot. I’m in luck with coverage actually, it’s pretty OK even in my village and all around. It’s just bad in my school.

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      Big parts of Europe has. I pay about €17 for unlimited 5G.

      I have wifi at home of course but I still mostly use cellular cus it’s faster lol

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    For me it’s the opposite. I don’t get usable mobile signal in most of my house, to the point that our phones are set up with wifi calling, and if the internet goes down (like it did for 45 minutes the other day) there’s not much I can do. But if I lie down comfortably on my bed, I get a usable two bars of 4G, enough to make calls and do a bit of internet browsing.

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      And this meme can be easily updated by putting one single “5G” next to the left-hand leg of the bedframe and nowhere else