• raef@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    About a month ago, almost the whole city (northern Germany) lost power for about forty minutes. My signal was down to an unusable edge connection. I really don’t know what the rules are

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      5 hours ago

      That Edge connection could’ve been useful if every app and website weren’t loaded with six trillion tracking scripts and 10MB’ worth of JavaScript frameworks.

      • The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.net
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        4 hours ago

        Yeah, I’m in Portugal and while it’s true that we still had signal, all I could really use was WhatsApp. Any website I tried to use took way too long to load - just unusable.

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        5 hours ago

        It was too weak to use. It was connected but with no bars. It was probably well outside the city where they still had power