I don't volunteer either piece of information, but sooner or later someone is going to overhear me ordering vegan food or see me opening my lunch and the dreaded conversation will have to happen. I wish people would just let me make my own food choices in private without making a big thing about it.

You're thinking of profit. Revenue is all money coming in before expenses. Revenue is still a big number even if they're losing money.

I was just thinking about this. I'm really not sure. I think technological progress is not the core issue but rather a sudden paradigm shift in how you interact with what you use on a daily basis.

For instance, there was a generation that grew up without cars and never learned to drive even after they became commonplace. Just too big a jump from previous methods of transportation. But their children who grew up with cars didn't have any issues as the technology matured and new features were added.

So the question is will there be another significant paradigm shift in our lifetime that isn't just an evolution of current interfaces and tools, but rather a sudden change in how we interact with technology?

Who knows...

If you think about it the fact that modern English uses "Have" in this context (primarily describing something you own) is actually weirder than "Am" (something you are)

Came here say this. Absolutely agree. Being able to reduce background noise is huge.

As a side point - having a car that's quiet has really allowed me to enjoy music at a much more reasonable level when driving as well.

They're working on removing this. When you read about the dev "stripping out websockets" that's part of what's changing.

... they sold it off to squarespace

Not what you're asking but since it's been covered well:

Buy your own cable modem and put your own firewall behind it. Not only will this save you money in the long run, you'll also have no issues with things like port forwarding. I use Comcast/Xfinity with a docsis3.1 cable modem + a decent firewall and it's a good way to go.

You're not wrong in spirit but yeah... they're battery operated.

Thank you, very helpful! And also thanks for putting this info on lemmy :) I figured asking the question here was a good way to get some of that insight here.

Depends on the country / provider. Many cell companies provide battery backup & even gas generators

I think that's great! I would talk to anyone who was genuinely interested 😊.

Ooh I'll look into Mayan. Seems very feature rich. Thanks!

Thank you! This really helps

Oh I didn't realize that, thanks!

I'm on 1.2gbps with my own modem... That's the fastest available at my address.

Sadly about 50. But that's all my plan allows at my address so not a hardware issue.

Depends. They might have a proxy in the network config or DNS or any number of non-network based methods of logging and tracking.

Agreed, I was being a bit melodramatic about them.

Huh... Looks very nova-esque.

Agreed!

Since I didn't see it here.... Banner saga 1,2 &3 are absolutely wonderful.

Looks interesting, I'll check it out! Do you like the combined messages / conversations feature?

Thanks for the recommendation!

Haha perfect!

Says not available on the play store... So I see what you mean. I'll try to grab the GitHub version

Haha 😂 I'll check it out, thanks!

Yes I forget exactly where but it was on GitHub

I installed it but def need to give it some time. Pretty confusing at first. Seems like a super neat idea though! How long did it take you to get used to it?