Children addicted to video games ran away from home in the middle of the night to find WiFi when parents turned their internet connection off, says expert::Children have been found sitting by the front door of random homes, desperately trying to tap into the owner’s WiFi connection.

  • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I guess this makes a good argument for slowing down connections to old dial up modem speeds, but you have to wonder if part of it is an underlying psychological problem (possibly related to our current mishandling of society)

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      1 year ago

      I tried that things timeout like crazy these days. you pretty much can’t do anything modern with 56k