This. It burns too much electricity, wastes too much water and is wrong 70% of the time. Even if its private and offline the problems with it go waaaaay beyond that.

https://youtu.be/U9t-slLl30E

2011, contracting for a web marketing agency I came across a tool they used that aggregated data from Market, Salesforce and data brokers.

You could put someone’s email in, and it would tell you every bit of info they ever filled out on a form for a sale or a freebie.

Name and address were often there, sometimes DoB, sometimes other PID, then there was shopping habits and history etc.

It was creepy as fuck. I dropped Facebook and twitter at the time. And I never filled a form or answered any questions at a till again. Then I started blocking trackers.

Would be awesome to create an offlined ZIM archive with this like they did with FreeCodeCamp so you can use on your local device with Kiwix.

And then you added 1, right?

…right?

It can only hit the side of the planet facing the sun at the time, unless (and heavens forbid) it was some sort of massive coronal burst that was wide an deep enough to bombard the earth for a complete 24 hours.

Usually the initial bombardment that would be powerful enough to take radio signals down isn’t very long, and thus can only hit one side.

You can only talk in written terms about hemispheres with a common point of reference. That reference is the axis, with both hemispheres centred on the axis and forming the equator in the middle. Once you have told the reader it affected both hemispheres you need to establish the east-west sections. Which they do by mentioning the Americas and Pacific.

At one time it was common to see the use of longitudinal and latitudinal spans, but most people are not as familiar with the lines since globes are not as common and digital maps don’t usually display them.

The two hemispheres are the northern and southern hemispheres when discussing earth, and both were affected.

Red Dwarf did this in an Episode as well where the new AI decides he’s not crew and no longer has a subscription to air.

Correct.

This is me, though I figured out a while ago it’s better if I just ignore Daylight Savings.

My inner clock doesn’t “switch”. There’s no change. There’s just half the year where I’m up an hour earlier and forcing myself to bed earlier and it completely fucks my energy cycle.

ROTFLMFAO

Inflation has made the hospitality industry mad run from 2000-2020 die and it will go back to what it was in the 80s and 90s when people had less money like they do now. It was a good run but unless you have a middle class with money to spend, no one can afford to support so many restaurants.

This is what CB Radios are, and many more people used to have them before cell phones.

People in mountainous areas where a cell phone is useless still do.

Religion will become popular again and people still start falling for nonsense like ghosts and superstitions. People born after the 80s don’t really remember just how batshit crazy people went for misinformation before we had the internet.

We need a new internet without corporate bullshit and some integrity in terms of knowledge. But seeing what happened to the current one, I don’t think that will be possible until we kill capitalism.

These days firing employees when turning a profit is what makes the stock go up.

Use DKMS drivers. They rebuild for the latest kernel as its upgraded. Using precompiled libs is a problem as many vendors dont keep up with the kernel.

Also, consider an OS that isn’t just a Ubuntu variant. Broken kernel upgrades are a thing of the past since our house dumped Ubuntu based distros.

Luanti (Minetest) folks.

The modding momentum is picking up quite a bit and as a game engine its far better than Minecraft.

StreetComplete to help fill in the gaps. GeoShare to translate google/apple maps locations to geocoordinates for OSM, and then adding the place in OSMAnd if you login with the OpenStreetMaps editor plugin. This is how those of us who adopted Google Maps early added so much of their data…

I use OSMAnd and the search is a lot better, not sure what client you are using.

The only difference between these maps and their data is the effort by the community to update it. Google doesn’t pay people to update places, they entice them with points and advertising. Google and Apple maps would be no different from OSM if no one updated them