I don’t use maps often but what’s been going wrong in Google maps? I know whatever Uber/Lyft was using was having a hard time keeping up with local changes (bridges being shut down for months would stay on every driver’s directions), they’d switch to Google to get an accurate map

That was my first thought, the instance was likely one from Canada

Throw in the exoskeleton for your upper legs and you’re halfway to being a cyborg.

https://hypershell.tech/en-us

These things may help a small market, but I feel like anything with a power source will end up leaving someone stranded that needed assistance to get where they got.

I guess what I want is an actual virtual private browser. Where thousands of people send their requests to a virtual browser encrypted, it makes the request from that browser then sends the data back encrypted on your end. End goal being to not only cloak the IP, but also cloak the browser uniqueness trackers. Essentially it would end up with sites getting thousands of requests like normal, but they would all look like they were coming from the same browser/user. Thus, they still get their view counts and have some non-targeted advertising if they must, but we can keep our privacy.

Yeah how exactly do they expect to sell twice as much product to a population that doesn’t have jobs/money to buy it.

I agree it does matter to a degree, like if you wound up on Hexbear you would be blocked from accessing some things. That said… if people were recommending users just joined some of the larger instances like world/ml and then spread out they would figure it out for themselves. Personally I started on .ml, made an account on .ca/.world, then found dbzer0. I also have a Hexbear account I haven’t logged into in months, because I thought it would be interesting to learn what that whole culture was about.

At the end of the day I stay on dbzer0 and world… but that’s years of use that narrowed me down to that.

I don’t go on reddit anymore but during the 3rd party app shift a lot of people complained about not knowing exactly where to sign up because they didnt understand piefed.social, would be able to see and respond to the same content as lemmy.world. Then people would scare them because they would say things like well this instance is all blank. ML is only Marxist Leninists and whatever else. Yet if users just signed up on .ml, .world, . whereever, they would have learned everything they wanted to in a short amount of time and subs would be more active with users so the whole “well they don’t have niche things” complaint would have fizzled out rather quickly. And likely would have got a steady stream of users over time.

That’s not what everyone wants granted, but in my experience setting up an account, using it and then finding an instance or 2 to settle in was simple. (Then you flip between them in your chosen app, which would have more funding and support do to more user base)

Can excrement weild the ring of power. Welcome to BuzzFeed where we’ve assembled 30 random people to figure out if it’s possible.

Yes, the ring has to encompass part of you. Being that the ring is in a tube that is “outside you” it never would be encompassing you. Unless it got stuck somewhere and wrapped around your intestines

Spider’s-Men?

I saw something the other day where they were discussing how if frodo swallowed the ring he wouldn’t disappear because it is outside of him. As in your intestines and stomach are “outside your body” as they are essentially a tube feeding all the way through you. This reminded me of that for whatever reason.

When was that, apparently I missed that. Apparently a few people know about it because at least 3 people downvoted for it haha.

I’ve been using them for years, it’s been good for all of my uses. Their prices are cheaper than what I see from other companies. I haven’t used their dedicated IP service yet, but if it is as decent as the rest of their services it should be good.

I’m in Tennessee, maybe they made it automatic for the people in the EU, and left it opt in for the U.S.

Yeah it’s annoying still, I have an 80gb partition I put windows on for work purposes, I told it to check for updates yesterday when I was signing off for work. It popped up with an option that said Security updates are ending Oct 14th, and a box to click to enroll for extended updates till Oct 14th, 2026. I clicked it and it said I was enrolled for another year. It’s a sure sign they are trying to force people to move to Windows 11, but apparently they will be making the security updates all the same and not sending them to everyone by default.

Maybe a “moto g 5G 2024” using CalyxOS. I haven’t used it but it’s listed as supported on CalyxOS website.

They usually have great battery life but I assume you can find one for around $100

Yeah, isn’t truth social part of activitypub, just defederated… like Mastodon instances probably have blocks up if truth social doesn’t have it on their end

More than a handful, less then a metric fuckton.

Yeah, I have the advantage of knowing what to look for as well, as I’ve deployed Windows to 1,000s if not 10,000 computers or more over the years.

So I knew to look to make sure it wasn’t going to auto update, which I assume many don’t think of it

It would keep on without him, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be inticed not to do so.