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I'm sorry, what?
Are you confusing wifi with internet? Wifi is free. It costs nothing. Internet is a different story. You can have wifi without internet, and you can have internet without wifi. They are not the same thing.
Trees for the forest.
No. They are clearly understanding the difference.
Obviously they don't.
I said "Wi-Fi at home," specifically, for Internet access. That service is normally never free, unless you have an incredible agreement or contract of some sort. Why bother to be pedantic if you get the gist of what I mean? Also, you didn't answer the question.
Because the question made no sense since wifi is free, and has nothing to do with internet. Education on the terms, when asking for help provides better answers.
Saying wifi does not work could mean, the wifi doesn't work, or it could mean the Internet doesn't work. Both are very different and have different forms of diagnostics.
So you're just dumb or playing dumb to make a stupid point?
Words have meaning, don't change the meaning and expect to be understood properly. At the end of the day, it's your problem when you're given wrong advice and screw things up because you didn't understand the proper terminology, and the stupidly fought people who tried to correct you so you.
Home wifi means home Internet you ass, and you know it. Touch fields of grass.
I think it is colloquial at this point. No sense being pedantic.
No, it's not, and yes being peda tix about terms is important. It's education.
I have an internal wifi network for devices that don't have internet access. I also have a wifi network that is connected to the Internet.
My wifi doesn't work..figure out what the heck is wrong.
Bro can't spell in his own semantics argument.
Blame shit phones and trash auto correct.
aChuAlly they're called smartphones, not shit phones
Go lay down.
What kinds of devices are these? Surely you must know that I'm talking about the general public's phones, laptops, and desktops—not specialized use cases.
Laptops, desktops and servers, automation hardware. My comment was more educational, not a personal attack or anything. Just wanting the correct terms to be used. ISPs have done a great job uneducating people is all.
It's like saying your electricity is out, when you mean lightbulb is broken. People would say call an electrician, when in reality you just need to address the bulb and not the entire houses electrical system.
Okay, well, that's fine, and I didn't even think it was a personal attack, but the beef I had with your initial comment:
... was that you said what not to say, but not what to say instead. So all I can deduce is that you mean for people to say "access to the Internet by means of mobile data instead of Wi-Fi"; is that right?
There, I edited the post title, haha. For what it's worth, I don't think these other Lemmy users should be putting you down to this extent, either.
Are you stupid? No one says thier electic is out when a bulb is out. They mean thier entire electric is out.