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The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
[quote="“Maximum Leader”" post="“476677874”"]
I have difficulty believing that people actually use WiFi for networking, but apparently some people love it.

Wireless networks seem strictly worse in every way than wired. They require batteries and charging; they introduce lag; they are expensive; they are easier to lose; they don’t have a convenient cable to hang on to.

I am completely and totally flabbergasted by their popularity. It’s as though millions of people were turning their noses up at fine, free homemade French food and paying for McDonald’s instead.

Why would you trade something that doesn’t require power, has the most reliable, secure, and lossless transmission channel known, and is “configured” by plugging in hardware for something that requires power, has a less reliable transmission channel that can be easily snooped or forged, has to be configured in software?

I literally don’t understand why anyone would ever choose the latter.
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