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Remember when you had to rent your phone from the phone company?

Imagine if service providers still did that now, and you’d have to rent a special box from the internet company to access the internet…or one from the TV company to watch shows and movies. What a world.

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Persen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You still have this in some parts of EU.

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- jasondj@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The joke is that this is the state of American TV and Internet.
  
  Sure some Cable ISPs let you bring your own modem, and Verizon Fios used to let you provision the Ethernet handoff of the ONT to go direct into your own router (if you chat up the install tech and are able to test connectivity with them there)…but the majority of users rent their modems and cable boxes.
  
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  - Thisfox@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    How bizarre.
    
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