Monkey With A Shell

Disney used to do that a lot, ‘get it now before it goes back into the vault’ in some effort to make it special/get-it-while-you-can.

Having everything available all the time would leave them with little to put on a pedestal as a coming soon limited time thing. Just one person’s theory though.

Should not, wonder if there’s any adguard/pihole lists to smack OneDrive/box/Dropbox/etc domains and just take these services out before they can start.

A deadline set by a government agency for government workers, NOT a ‘Google Pixel Deadline’. Stop writing alarmist headlines to make it sound like Google is gonna shut off your phone if you don’t comply. You should update, but knock this writing style off people.

Plugging a modem into the POTS made them smart I say.

Are you looking to complete a bingo card for billionaire dumbassery?

Stop using southern Indians as your drinking vessel and that wouldn’t be a problem. Daft auto written headlines…

And the world was shocked, SHOCKED I say…

Not contracted monopolies or direct city run, but like ‘IAAS’ seems to work. Much like how you see some small cell companies providing unique offers riding on one of the big carriers networks. Often those small carriers provide better deals, particularly when the carriers they ride on are forced to sell wholesale access at reasonable rates.

The city selling wholesale access funds the infrastructure maintenance and the carriers are better able to compete with each other since all they really have to do is set up a router and pay the city’s access rate fees.

Not so far off, providing infrastructure locally then leaves a lot of the major transit to backbone carriers to make the interconnects. Those providers are largely transparent to the end users. Now nationalizing carriers like that would be a hefty lift, but if we can take the local service out of the ISPs hands it would let the municipal hosts negotiate those peering arrangements in bulk. How many towns are well equipped to handle that might be another matter though.

Pretty well every case I’ve read of municipal owned fiber nets has been a grand success, barring interference by the local carriers. Let the city own the infra and the carriers compete for access. Of course you get the whinging about ‘muh free market/choice’ but that’s the case for any public works really.

Hard to say, but with how few sizeable chunks of natural stone/metal meteors make it through it’s tough to expect some relatively fragile satellites would survive the trip down.

The problem really stems from men being given a strongly conflicted message of what ‘being a man’ means, particularly in the ‘default’ spaces. There is still a very strong undercurrent, at least in America, that men are supposed to be this strong, independent, stoic figure relying on themselves. Without a reinforcing support to acknowledge that asking for help is ok it’s easy to leave just as conflicted as one comes in.

Censoring opposing opinions isn’t an answer, but leaving them to their own devices in the public spaces is just as bad or worse. There needs to be a reconciliation between the warring perspectives if any kind of progress is going to happen.

If you’re not living somewhere with carrier pigeon level internet sure.

That too, I haven’t delved into the whole AR space a lot but would plenty well like the option to connect something lightweight and have a virtual giant screen.

The other question I’d have for something like that is the contrast levels. If it ends up as a ‘ghost’ overlay it could make doing things with a lot of text/terminals a big strain to look at.

Make it cost less that $2K and enable the use of a standard OS and I’d give it a go. Would also be great if the glasses could somehow not be wired, but trying to power them for any length of time would be a pain.

Lemmy git right on that boss…

From the client to the VPN host it’s feasible to do protocol/port identification and prevent it that way. Some are significantly more difficult to do that for though, particularly when it uses something like HTTPS to blend in with the general flow. It’s possible to set up a national level proxy gateway, but that would require a user’s system to trust some alternate CA which would be really hard to enforce.

Short version, there’s always a way around, but they can make it real tough for the average user.

I’ve been a user of GOG for a while principally because of the no-drm ability to download a copy of what you bought. When the library starts getting past a certain size though you start to wonder about those things like what if the producer has a falling out and wants to yank it from the platform, does it vanish from my library then too? Are there contracts that say ‘forever’ when they offer it? Would love to find some ‘download all’ option to take a full copy offline of the bought items at once but it’d probably overrun the monthly ISP limits even if they had one.

Seen too many things on Netflix or Spotify that I liked vanish because ‘fuck off, we can’ and although I never anticipated it being ‘bought’ in those cases it does give a lot of justification to find alternate means to reestablish that access.

Nuking anything is never the right decision unless you’re heating up some leftovers. There is no such thing as a justified mass destruction weapon.

Fair point, useful for the city but not missing out on anything by having a private well then though.