When you live in a 3rd world country, get a relatively expensive 16mbps connection (that's still very unreliable), and try to clone WebKit… why the hell is it so large even with `--depth 1` and `--single-branch`? Why doesn't `git clone` support resuming/incremental cloning? Is this even 2018?

I want to code but life is actively fighting me right now. I hate this.

/rant

16mbps in a 3rd world Country😱

I’m on 5mbps in a first world country and it’s not often I get to use all of it 😦

@C0D4 Lemme guess, Germany?

@C0D4 The problem is reliability/consistency.

Here they offer connections 'up to' 16mbps, but don't guarantee it will always stay that way. This translates into them slowly downgrading you over time until you're at dial-up speeds. (happened to me at my old apartment too, the exact same shitty scam)

If you don't actively and persistently complain, they never stop screwing you over this way.

It's all a big sham.

Here in the states, for the first 19 years of my life I could only get 1.5 mbps :( only recently could we upgrade

@Mizz141 It's literally in his profile 😬

@Mizz141 Australia - 20KM from Melbourne

@Maxxxxz I had to live with dial-up up to the early 2000s, then ISDN tentatively became available and I used that till ADSL came along later on.

The most expensive ADSL subscription was 8mbps, and only 2mbps was somewhat affordable until 2010 or so, then they switched from "fair use" to a strict quota model where you have to buy more megabytes after you finish your quota.

Edit: They give you 'up to' 16mbps so you can finish your quota faster, but if you don't exceed your quota and buy more they'll slowly kill your speed instead.

I live in one of the poorest countries in the EU, but we have a very well developed internet infrastructure , so I end up paying $15/m for this:

@feroza You're just teasing me now. -_-

Hopefully I'll have better access when I move to Germany soon, assuming the job opportunity thing works out.

P.S. You should probably blur your public IP near the bottom.

I've visited Düsseldorf a few times and the internet speeds tend to be pretty good, there are also plenty of public hotspots.

P.S: My IP is dynamic, that's why I didn't blur it.

@feroza Hey, that's pretty close to Köln where I'll hopefully be staying!

I've heard that internet speeds in Germany are above average, any idea how fast it was during your visit?

@voodooattack

In my hotel the internet speed ranged anywhere from 20-30 Mb/s, depending on how many people were using it at the given time. In public places it was still quick, hovering around 10 Mb/s.

@feroza That's awesome! Thanks for allaying my concerns! :D

"fast"

I have 300 Mbps here in States. Its amazing. Comcast Xfinity.

@voodooattack let me guess, egypt

@SaqrWare All hail Telecom EG!

They're saying I ran out of quota now. Wow. I apparently finished my 300 GB quota in ~10 days.

That's a good thing, though; because they forced me to pay for this month when I tried to end my subscription last month, now I have nothing to lose.

Vodafone here I come!

@voodooattack I don't think you'll like vodafone neither

Egypt is not 3rd world, it's the underworld.

@SaqrWare I just wish for a stable internet connection and customer service that's shibboleet compliant.

Ok, that second part was a big daydream but still; I'd take the former.

@voodooattack you can't get good stable Internet here except the developed places in cairo & giza, like smart village
I live in the 5th settlement & actually I get the full speed of the package in landline & mobile data.

@SaqrWare Nah, in my old apartment I managed to get priority support by making Twitter ads saying how shitty the company is. (with screenshots from my router)

4 hours later I get a call from Cairo and someone with their customer relations asks me to take the tweet down. I refused.

They sent someone to my doorstep for a home visit a bit later, he did everything he could think about. When all failed he had to call the DSLAM operator and give him an order that makes me laugh to this day: هز الشفونيرة. (shake the nightstand)

Immediately afterwards, the connection drops and returns at full speed, and I never have problems at my old apartment again. (I still refused to take down the tweet, but I paused the ad)

I guess you have to hit them where it really hurts: the wallet. They expect you to be an asshole, so you have to act like a colossal one to get anywhere with them.

@voodooattack how much this ad campaign costs??

@canonbolt $50 USD. I don't regret it.

Laughs is unstable internet over coax cable but still 200mbps
Cries in waiting for the fibre we are getting sometime next year so we can get a stable 1gbps

420kbps upload speed, sadly though, that upload speed isn't as high as I am