I would do 12 x 12 nights on a mine. Saw some cool shit. Light pillars, and northern lights like you wouldn't believe. A few lynx.

Wouldn't do it again unless you at least tripled my salary. Nightshift gut is awful. feeling like you've got a sandbox in your eyes also sucks. Nothing like changing a tire on a pickup in -50C with no one around... Two nights in a row to support day shift.

I find I'm the most productive at 3am. It's a real shame that I'm forced to sleep through it.

Night owls are also an oppressive class. Drag lives somewhere with thin walls and can't get to sleep until the night owls are ready too. The parties are the worst.

To have some visibility, you can use one or two of these head strap lights. But make sure they are red, to not lose night vision

No, in some areas it is still very much real. I've had several friends who needed to dip around 17:00 or 18:00 because the latency of the online games we played got too variable. This is in Western countries.

Some areas may even rely on LTE.

1-3Mbps vs 30-50Mbps is quite a bit of difference.

It also depends on how oversold the links are. I could easily take guaranteed gigabit and sell it to 2 homes as "Up to 1Gbps". Or 5 homes. How many people would be using the full bandwidth 24/7 anyway. But it can also be far less reasonable. I can sell it as "Up to x" to as many as I want to. Sure, you may only be getting less than 100Mbps now, but if others stopped using the internet... It's still validly "Up to 1Gbps". Maybe you'll get it, one day, or night.

If you don't have an SLA, you'll just have to deal with it.

It’s a big problem in apartment complexes where one line is CGNAT’d to every apartment. In practice that means 20 people share the same line that a house would have normally, and in the evenings every apartment streaming or gaming can make the speeds shit.

Sucks ass but in the US you can’t do shit because the speeds you pay for are “up to” and if they’re not “up to” that the best you can do is kick rocks.

This also usually coincides with you being able to only get one internet service provider at that apartment, despite that being illegal now. So you’re locked in to shit nighttime service with slow downloads and giga latency

The internet is weird. You'd be surprised at some of the issues that still happen today.

I once had an issue where I couldn't log into the servers of an MMO, despite my internet being perfectly fine. After much trial and error, I figured out that the reason I couldn't log in was because while I played on East Coast servers, all login authentification was done through servers at the companies HQ on the West Coast, and there was a local outage of a DNS server or something out in New York somewhere, which meant that I couldn't reach the login servers. Literally nothing I could do because a line was down several states away and I therefore couldn't play the game.

My soul yearns for 4am-12pm sleep schedule.

Rules in the English language are an exception, not the rule

When I worked nights, twice a week I'd stay up 36 consecutive hours to realign my schedule with my partner's and then back to my job's.

I miss working nights and I miss being young.

Work more night shifts. Date more goths.

I commented on someone else saying this, but I'll say it here also. There's no way to isolate the variable of a noctural lifestyle. There are many confounding factors that can't be controlled. Is it that being awake at night that isn't healthy or are people who feel like being awake at night already typically less healthy? I'd bet on the latter.

We can take vitamin D supplements, so that isn't the issue. However, a lot about your lifestyle must change with this, as you say. Is this a cause? Are nocturnal favoring people associated with mental health issues? Do nocturnal people eat less healthy? (Fewer options to healthy eating open?)

Studies involving humans are flawed. We can't control every factor of someone's life, so usually it's self reported and also not forcing lifestyle changes on people —at least not for long term studies. They're still useful, but people often look at studies that say "nocturnal lifestyle associated with worse long-term health outcomes" and read "nocturnal lifestyle causes worse long-term health outcomes" which is a very different thing.

No worries, I take Vitamin D pills. I have surpassed my sun-addicted brethren.

Any studies concluding a corelation between being awake at night and poor health are likely measuring many confounding factors. There's no way to isolate that variable. Certain groups are more likely to stay up into the night, which could equally be the cause. It also requires, as the post implies, giving up certain activities. Those activities may promote good health in some way.

Any actual medical condition caused by nighttime activity could be managed, like vitamin D deficiency. The societal factors can't be, although if it was more common and acceptable that could level out some of the variables.

Studies show that losing weight is good for your health. What happens if you give that advice to someone who's underweight?

Different people have different needs and the studies on sleeping haven't yet caught up to that level of science.

this is why i want to live in a big city (for you americans that means larger than 100k people, i don't mean "tokyo"), you can always find something sensible open even if it's on the other side of the city, and public transport generally at least somewhat operates even at 3am.

Another thing that needs to change. All the night owls can have their night owl businesses tending to their night owl customers, and the basically-fascist horseshit ideas about nighttime activity being suspicious or illicit can die the deaths they never should have to die because they never should have lived in the first place.