That's what I'm thinking @Bodhi - I don't know whether a mobile sim will work in a router (I'll find out tomorrow - I can pop my mobile sim and stick it in).
50Gb would suck balls - I want to go with EE as they own the mast. Virgin are apparently going to change who they resell next year otherwise I'd ask them.
It's a bit rich that they differentiate tbh - it's a connection to a network. Who can live on 50Gb? I use that in two days on videoconferencing alone!
I dunno. Just did a speed test from my mobile - 86mbps. That's 4G LTE.Not that I agree with it in the slightest - especially considering 5G has been touted as a way to do without fixed lines. Although as anyone who has used 5G will probably gather, that is complete and utter fantasy at this point.
Non of them like unlimited. 3 are supposed to be the data heavy one. Not sure what lte aggregation is.3 doesn't support LTE carrier aggregation which is a PITA as the speeds I'd get through them would be pish.
Virgin won't let me have their unlimited package because I'm not a broadband customer (have been for over a decade and only cancelled it last month).
EE cap at 100Gb. Which is completely inadequate (I'd use that on videoconferencing alone).
It's looking like the mobile broadband landscape is pretty fucking gash. Which I don't get.
It'll be money.Non of them like unlimited.
you or the missus dont have family with virgin and piggy back off their contracts to get the sim?Carrier aggregation @Moriath - you can use multiple 4G bands together.
Vodafone don't offer it here - I get 15mbps up and down on my Samsung Galaxy S10. However, virgin/EE do - and I get 80mbps down and 15 up.
So really I want virgin or EE to give me a fucking SIM. But it's proving harder than necessary.
It'll be money.
We demand unlimited data through fiber and get it. We should get it through mobile now too. It's all running off the same backbone.
But if they can charge more, they will.
It's a crap reason though - that's about speed, not about total amount of data transmitted.Backbone is the same, however the limitation is the bit in the middle, the masts/transmitters etc. The more people you have connected to them, the less throughput available for everyone - hence why getting a data connection at stuff like Glastonbury etc used to be so much fun.
FWIW I put my Orange mobile sim in my 4G router (TP Link Archer MR600) and it connected straight away. There are apparently sometimes profiles and things to deal with but this worked out of the box.Now, lets see if it really does work with the router!
Sons birthday? Family photos? Scheduling a zoom hangout?"My mind is always thinking about things he doesn't think about like the grocery list, our son's first birthday, whether we should take family photos for the holidays, or scheduling a Zoom hangout with friends," she says.
Interested to see what the ladies (pretty much only @Yoni's left!) on this forum think of this:
Coronavirus and gender: More chores for women set back gains in equality
Women take on the burden of unpaid chores during Covid, UN data shows, threatening gender equality.www.bbc.co.uk
Women doing more unpaid work around the house due to corona - and I look down the list and, whilst absolutely I agree that women do more of the housework in general this sort of stuff:
Sons birthday? Family photos? Scheduling a zoom hangout?
They're not chores. Those are optional things that she wants to occupy her time with.
If putting together a birthday party for he son is something she wants to do then she can't claim that as a chore. If women choose to drive that sort of shit, then fine. But don't then complain about it. Family photos? These are things that women in general take a lot more notice of (my o/h doesn't give a shit about family photos - I'm the one who records our life). One of my mates' wives organises a proper professional family photo every 5 years - but that's not a chore, thats what she wants to do with her life.
Walking the dog? What did you think you wouldn't have to walk it when you bought it? That's not a chore - that's a hobby, a break. It's a break you have to do, but when you bought the dog you chose that lifestyle.
If your hubby isn't doing his fair share of bedtime stories then absolutely that's something women are doing more than men - but then, a chore? That's the life you've chosen ffs! You can't then complain that the life you've chosen doesn't allow you to sit about watching netflix. (And you must force an equitable split if your partner's being a dick with agreements they've made).
My other half pretty much won't let me cook. She really loves cooking and will happily spend two (plus) hours a night in the kitchen using every single pot, pan and utensil we own cooking something brilliant, fresh and new. I eat like a king and it's provided to me. But that's not a chore - that's her hobby.
Given the choice, I'd cook a big fuck off chilli (the way I do it takes a couple of days) and pretty much eat that for the next week. It'd involve one big pan and whatever plates we need to dish it up to. So very little washing up (her only objection is that I don't do enough washing up - my objection is that if she must cook using every single thing as part of her hobby it's not right that I should be tidying up for her hobby all the time - I don't ask her to clean, maintain and buy parts / service our bikes or bike equipment, that's clearly my job). (Not that I do no washing up - I do).
There's a piece in there about the woman being jealous that her husband goes into an office and concentrates on his work all day whilst she does the odds and sods and fits work in between.
Is that not a life choice? Could she not choose to do a job that requires retreating into an office all day? If, between the two of them, they've agreed that he does the main breadwinning and she does a higher proportion of childcare work that's not a woman's emancipation issue - that's a life choice.
Even if they wanted kids and he refused to give up his working practices, she still had choices and she still chose to have kids with him, chose to work like that rather than sorting alternative arrrangements - alternative arrangements also potentially being finding a partner who was happy to find a more equitable (but potentially less lucrative) solution to that problem.
Amongst my friends and family many of the women don't like their jobs. I'm not surprised - a lot of the men hate their jobs too. But the women that have dropped down to three days a week or decided that they're not going to work - these women complain the loudest about how busy they are and how much they have to do and how little time they have to fit anything in between the cooking and the cleaning and the kids.
The women I know who work five days a week don't say that. They just crack on. And I've only ever met one man who left work to bring up his kids. He was a total wet blanket but he was one of the happiest people I ever met - the rest of the men I know don't realistically see that as an option. The fact that many women's desires to step down to 3 days a week are accomodated without issue isn't seen as a massive luxury or benefit - it's just taken for granted.
Why am I bothering with this text wall? Well - I think the debate about equality (certainly in the western world, lets exclude the African continent and other countries - where it's clear the differences are quite stark) has become so polarised and so focussed on where women are losing out to men, that there's no balance on where women benefit.
I'm not saying it's perfect but I think that women's life choices are much freer than mens. Less judgement is placed on women who want to prioritise different things than 24/7 work. I think, in many ways, women have more choice than men.
Women in our organisation have kids and boost through the glass ceiling if they want to. Some don't have kids - some do. But it doesn't look like the kids are a barrier - it looks like whether they want to burn up so much of their life in stressful jobs are the barrier. Men seem to be compelled to say that they're ambitious or they get looked down on - even if they don't naturally hold that ambition. (Stating that you don't want to go for that promotion and your happy where you are seems to be a one-way ticket to the redundancy line).
You could point at metrics (number of women in executive positions, number of women in lower paid positions, wage stats, etc.) - which paint a "there's less women executives", "more women in lower paid part-time work" - well shit. I'm absolutely behind that there's definitely structural issues with the number of executives and minorities in exec positions and think it's right that we are taking action to fix those things.
But in the day-to-day, non-executive "normal" world of work - a lot of part time positions are chosen not because there's no good work out there - but because five days a week is shit, and three suits some people better.
Again, for the avoidance of doubt, I do think there are imbalances. But we're doing quite well in the western world, so recognising that there are serious issues for the work and quality of life for members of either sex (or penguins) seems to me to be the next leap we need to make.
For me, I now think we really need to be looking at how do we make society fairer for all.
So. I've taken my first sick day in 2 years...
Agree with this. As you said - most men pull their weight (some don't) - but the act of having kids was a life choice, so ultimately that's an optional buy-in. But ultimately it's not a problem for wider society in terms of equality of women. We're at the point where people in relationships need to be allowed to make their own decisions - and if women nowdays don't feel able to demand equality of chore-sharing then maybe we're teaching them the wrong skills when they're young - like self-resilience.1. Women do create extra shit to do which by any rational reckoning, is optional. But its only optional as a technicality. The mental well-being of your kids means you end up doing lots of stuff by choice initially, but it eventually becomes part of the fabric of your life and hence a chore.
Completely. Once bought in then they're jobs that need doing. As long as there's agreement on the division of labour between both parties then there is no equality issue here.So my wife organises the kids' activities, but by and large I physically take them. Yes, we could choose not to do that, but we love our kids so we don't. Now, given free reign my wife would fill our entire lives with this shit, and its my job to reign her in, both to protect our time, our bank balance and because I'm a better judge of how much "scratching their arse playing video games" time they need. My point at a fundamental level is that just because something is a choice doesn't mean it somehow doesn't count as a job that needs doing.
Again, yep. It's driving a victim narrative and in many ways it's unhealthy for both men and women - because women are being primed to feel like they're being hard done by all the time when sometimes life is hard, and you just need to pull your sleeves up instead of blaming the patriarchy.2. In terms of "traditional" chores; cooking, cleaning etc. I don't know many men these days who don't pull their weight. We certainly have a division of labour from breakfast to bedtime and while I'd certainly say wife does a bit more than me in the average day, it balances out because I do all the time intensive stuff like gardening, decorating and repairs. What annoys me about the BBC article is that it does that thing that all women's equality pieces do; use the global figures as a stick to beat western men with (I noticed it in that Bill Gates article @Job posted the other day, and plenty of other times). What's the point in using global figures for workplace participation or domestic work levels if the figures are so wildly variable? I constantly see articles pointing out all the woes of women in the workplace and when you actually look at Europe in particular, they are profoundly misleading.