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As an introvert i hate it. It's always loud and temperamental and really if anything i should get a discount for using it.

Once did a late night Walmart run for a bunch of random stuff. Only to come up to no cashiers. Luckily the sweet girl at the self check out saw my panic and used a bar code scanner to get me on my way

When it just scans tags as i push my cart through I'll consider self checkout. Otherwise it just feels like I'm working for free.

You aren't kidding. My city was really slow on the Internet so i was using aol. Asking for certs and using CC generators. It was good times actually.

Then I tried IRC and kept getting kicked from every channel and someone finally gave a reason before before kicking me. When i messaged them explaining how i have no other way to access the internet they were actually really cool and invited me back to the channel. I didn't go back as I knew i carried an unacceptable tag.

A year or 2 later we finally got a provider and oh wow now i remember trumpet windsock and the chaos of trying to find anything.

I still remember seeing a Toyota commercial with a web address and being like wow this internet thing is really taking off!

Now we've come full circle and i have to argue with my parents about the "truth" on Facebook. It's got its perks but terminals and desqview times make me miss the simplicity.. or complication. Depends how you look at it .

Well look at that, a simple logical explanation.

Oh and thank you sir for your app. I went to paid version before i even loaded any content. I look forward to it's future

There are plenty of more justified directions we can go with pitchforks and torches for sure my friends.

VPN is great and a solution but it can also be a hassle in many configurations.

And really there is nothing stopping them from throttling secure traffic unless you buy a business plan or whatever they come up with.

I hope it can be reinstated because allowing ISPs to throttle various traffic gives absolutely no benefit to the end user.

Oh wow i just now saw this reply (thanks boost!) Seems very cool, many thanks!

I wish I could disagree with you but the path does seem pretty clear.

Collecting data relevant to the app is ok and logical. It's collecting unrelated personal info I gave a problem with.

And i can sympathize with you regarding users. I design control system interfaces and sometimes I go to extremes to make it good for idiots. And i still get calls at 7am, have to drop everything else and drive 40 miles just to point out the giant red ALARM text i specifically put there to make things easier. It's on the first fucking page!

It's nice that remote access is easier now but some of these facility managers... i don't know who puts their pants on for them because they don't seem to be able to navigate treacherous logic and reason.

I hope I didn't just quote your whole post, still trying to figure out boost hah

An app in itself isn't a bad thing.. it's the requirement that is wrong. Everything these days does seem to be geared around data mining and control. That well has to be getting awfully dry because it's getting worse and worse.

You can't even use many products without having an app that needs to be connected online so it can read your contacts and searches and such. Sites are getting harder to use if you have a DNS ad blocker or VPN on. Not sure where it ends..

Unless you hate remixes, check out DJ Trashy's version of it. It's old-school breakbeat so be warned.

Really his whole "Vocal Anthems" album is great. Basically high energy nostalgia.

Nuclear is great. A while back I came across a company that had developed a simple geothermal reactor (no pumps, cooling towers etc) that seemed neat but was probably just a VC bid.

They supposedly had a goal of building some tests in Idaho or something. They should have deployed it in PR after that hurricane. Would have made a great test site.

If course it's old tech.. I don't remember which one but a Japanese company developed something similar.. it was smaller than a typical Telco or isp pop is (or roughly 3x the size of your typical residential AC condenser) and could provide power for an entire community.

Funny how that stuff never materalizes.

Small scale modular reactors make perfect sense.. sorry I don't have any sources but you can search the above term and find all the pipe dreams i saw 10 years ago. Oil, gas, etc is just still too profitable.

The media.. that made me think of old days but right now I'm watching some hurricane coverage that is obviously in a helicopter. And I'm thinking why..

A large 6 rotor "drone" is cheap and can sustain a motor failure. Cheap compared to the camera it carries. You can have a fleet and maybe 2 cameras and just swap them out as needed. With gps the pilot just needs to tap on a touch screen, camera operator just has to get framing right, and the tech that maintains everything can be had at a poverty level wage.

Oof, that wasn't positive. But I do wonder what they use now. We had wall to wall coverge of trump flying his old 757 to Atlanta and back and really hope that was drones. Sorry heli pilots. You are still cool, it's just expensive.

This is the thing. It really has become unusable. Trying to find obscure information is insane no matter the keywords. It's always the same results and, ugh, YouTube videos. You can't find parts for older stuff easily, simple answers are gone.

Amazon is similar. Change the keywords all you like you still will get the same 'amazon choice' products and recommended alternatives for whatever you searched for lead to the same list. But i have to agree it really got worse unreasonably fast last few months.