22 karma · joined February 1, 2018
Thank you!
Home network is all character names from LOTR, home office is Expanse, etc.
It's fun to try pick suitable names from the movie, for the device, eg my HTPC is Gimli, because it's a small case but carries more than its weight. Gaming PC is Gandalf because it's entirely white.
Sub-categories of characters is good for sub-categories of devices, so all our phones/tablets are named after the Elves.
The main problem with this method is the HOURS you spend angsting over the correct names because it's actually fun.
Admittedly, a few seconds of thinking made me realise they'd never do that... but it's easy to see why people are getting confused, which is EXACTLY where Trademark stuff comes in.
Also, the sheer amount of effort and skill/talent involved in doing stuff like this is mind bending.
It's super handy for us, having 2 people in our family with illnesses that require regular doctor visits (once or twice a month on average). If it's night time and we need the GP, we don't have to worry about waking up the baby, loading up the kids and nappy bags and everything we need into the car, etc.
We only go and visit our actual family GP if we need prescriptions renewed, or we want to talk to him about a bigger issue or general questions. Eg stuff that isn't urgent, so we don't waste the home-visit GP's time. Then again, the home-visit GPs have told us multiple times that they're happy to come out no matter how small the issue, and they prioritise/triage calls so you're never keeping a more urgent case waiting.
I can also go to ATMs using their Cardless Cash option in the app, which solves your other point.
I've loved 80s/90s Japanese cars since the 80s/90s, then got sucked into the social pressures and spent 5-6 years in a couple of different brand new cars. Last year after a horrific experience with a brand new VW (3 page list of repairs and replacements in the first year of ownership, they bought it back off us), it hit home how screwed we are when a modern car breaks. They're so complicated now, with so much electronics. They even steer and park themselves. You can't tinker with them, tweak the ECU to your liking, or fix things yourself. There's some you can't even service yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_YCC
Now I'm back in 90s cars. Something breaks? Buy the part on eBay and swap it out yourself. Anyone can do it really, they're such simple cars. They're still comfortable, have aircon, generally higher quality than modern cars, way cheaper, and they can't ever track/sell your data.
They only narrowed it down to his residence, then he himself said it's the miner. It's totally possible he used it as a scapegoat for something else he was running.
Anyone can submit a story but ideally it would have some kind of not-voting system for quality screening (long term users earn the right to approve/bury? No visible vote-counts to stop reddit-syndrome).
Fully anonymous, in the sense that it shouldn't leak your mobile number, device ID, name, any of that. A hash/something of your device ID creates a unique identifier for your account, stopping people making lots of fake accounts. One per device. It should also let you use a nickname, with no need to sign up (maybe by default it's like 4ch, your hashed device ID is your trip code, then you can optionally set a nickname if you want).
Mesh networked means it's good for countries with strict/filtered internet. Users should be able to sideload the app manually in case app stores are blocked (pass it around on a USB stick).
No idea how data would be stored, that's above my skills. Ideally not centralised, but that's probably unrealistic. I guess maybe something like torrents would work. You're constantly caching/sharing what you've looked at for other people within a few steps of your mesh point, but centralised databases spread around the world to fill in the gaps if no one has a cache of what you're trying to look at?
56k was just the last version of Dial-up. I started on 9600baud (9.6k) and it started well before that even, at something like 0.1k.
The emails can be blocked easily, but the SMSes don't come from a number, they just have a random word in the "From" field and they use a random one each time, meaning blocking the "sender" is useless. They also come at all sorts of hours, so I can get 2-3 SMSes at 4am advertising Amazon crap, or other affiliate spam.
Spam seems to be getting worse and worse, despite all the efforts to combat it.
Your first and second points could be satisfied by showing a small PDF icon where the thumbnails currently are. Whatever size that allows the listings themselves to be as close together as possible. The PDF icon could also be different colours depending if it has a paywall, or an money symbol over it.
The really big thumbnails that mostly all look the same make the site look very amateurish on first sight.