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[–] 19 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Every time someone refers to mobile data as “wifi” I die a little inside. I understand that the difference is unnoticeable for most people, but it pains me.

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Same with Wi-Fi being used to refer to Internet access in general. I basically lived on the phone with our ISP's tech support for two days and one tech person even told me they needed to "reset our modem so they could get the WiFi flowing to our house again". I died a little inside.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Would've been real hard for me to not hang up the phone. And I'm not as tech literate as half the nerds on Lemmy, but I know enough to know when they're giving me wrong answers. Shit is frustrating.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Well it's not like Big They made it particularly clear with the naming scheme.

    "Wi-Fi" is an entirely non-descriptive name, it's supposed to be "like Hi-Fi, but with a W for Wireless." It doesn't indicate what it does at all. The typical unwashed mass just wants to know what button to push in iOS to make it get on Instagram. Wi-Fi is synonymous with internet access in their minds; iPhones and iPads don't have Ethernet sockets, and they've got no use for local traffic because their Apple products are thousand dollar Tiktok appliances.

    So yeah, "Wi-Fi" means "internet access" to more people than it means "IEEE 802.11"

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    Last time they said something like this to me, I pointed out that I had WiFi disabled other piece of crap router.

    I knew what he meant but had no problem being literal. Tech stuff s definitely an area where details matter

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