#and doesnt have service or wifi

[reading-writing-dying]

The first full day I've gone without talking to her since mid-late May I'm sad :(

[snowflakeb0ttles]

god the internet is being so fucking weird right now i hate spectrum with every fiber of my being

[feelo-fick]

IM DONE ok so later in the morning ill do chemistry and then at home ill finish up computer science and then ill be DONE FOREVER (until they give more work)

halfway done with this homework... yay...

[redbeanpandashfts]

Scripting: The Internet, and Technology

* The internet is a friendlier, more sensible place.

* Social media companies actively do something about bots, trolls, racists, sexists, etc and they get punished.

* Cringe culture is dead.

* Ads and sponsorships are not aggressively pushed to users.

* Ads cannot be implied sexual, explicit, political, promote gambling, or other harmful behaviors.

* Companies do not sell your data, and if they do, they punished way more harshly and face consequences.

* Privacy in general is taken more seriously.

* Minors have safe spaces to be online that are educational and/or fun.

* Minor and adult spaces are kept seperated, and childrens online activity is monitored more seriously by parents.

* Internet safety is taught in all schools.

* Shoving electronics, and online media in front of children is looked down upon

* No AI slop, no NFTs, no silicone valley bullshit, or cryptocurrencies, and they are all highly scrutinized.

* Mr. Beast does not exist.

* "Clout chasing" is looked down upon.

* Companies cannot raise prices on you or simply change the terms of service on its users.

* Companies cannot interfer with "password sharing".

* Companies cannot put "you cant sue us, no class action lawsuits" in their terms of agreement.

* The FCC is much faster and efficient in handing out punishments to shady companies.

* Black people have their own safe spaces, and social medias.

* AAVE isn't called internet slang and is used only by black people.

* Companies cannot automatically "opt-in" users to certain features.

* Companies cannot just "sell you a license to use" or tell you what to do with a product you own. If you bought it, you own it.

* Companies cannot change terms of service to take advantage of countries with looser privacy laws.

* Companies do not copy each other (like Tiktok, Insta Reels, Youtube "Shorts".)

* Companies cannot put spyware, and useless bloat on your device.

* Unless its an MMO, or multiplayer, or live service: games do not need to have wifi in order to work.

* Companies need to have end of life plans for games, and cannot outright kill a game when they don't want to support it anymore.

* Companies release roms for games they're no longer supporting.

* Nintendo doesnt have a biblical amount of greed.

* Games have both a physical and digital copies.

* You do not have to repurchase any videogame for different platforms, they can be transferred over.

* Companies cannot push alt-right propaganda to people, and known altright grifters get banned.

* (Might just script out algorithms entirely): No algorithms, no "for you" sections. You have to curate your own experience online following the people and tags you want to see and blocking/ignoring the things you don't. (Like Tumblr) Your internet experience is YOUR responsiblity.

* Companies cannot show you ads on anything you have to pay for. Ever.

* Any and all games with any type of gacha/rolling/pulling/ or luck system garentees you get what you want after a certain amount of pulls. (Might just script out these out entirely as gambling.)

* Appliances (like a dishwasher) do not need an app to work or you can't use it

* No "enshittification" of an app or product.

* You have the right to repair any device you own, abd don't have to use a companies' services.

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

WIBTA if I asked my boyfriend to not use his phone when we go camping with my family or to not come at all?

I have been going camping with my family every year since the yeat I was born. I am an adult now and have been with my boyfriend for several years, and he has come camping with me a few times.

The place we go camping only got cell service/electricity in the past few years. Which means for 90% of my life, I came up here and had to "unplug". I used to not like it as a teen, but as an adult with a real job, I really like getting away from it all. My family is so used to not having internet/ cell service/ wifi up here, that we still use it even though we can now.

This year, I noticed my boyfriend has been on his phone alot scrolling through social media. We camp with a lot of family friends (like, 4+ other families), so we constantly have people popping in and out of our site to hang out, chat, catch up etc etc because our site is in a central location. He obviously doesnt know these family friends as well as I do, but it feels rude that he essentially sits in a corner on his phone when there are "guests visiting". No one else really uses their phones either.

One night there was a firefly between our tent and the tent's rain cover that was putting in light show that was really cool to watch! But my boyfriend kept going on his phone, and the light from his phone was blocking out the firefly lights. I asked him to put his phone away because this was a magical experience for me and his phone was preventing me from seeing it. I felt bad asking him to put his phone away, but I have been camping here for XX number of years and having a firefly that close has never happened.

I think thats when I started to get concerned with his phone use. The idea that this magical once and a life time nature experience was happening, and he would rather be scrolling through social media which he can do the other 358 days a year. He also like to "update me" on all the horrible doom scrolling he sees on twitter etc, as well as try to show me memes and "group chat jokes." Even when we have people over and Im talking to them. He is NEVER like that in the "real world"

I talked to him about he behavoir a little bit, and he said that since he has ADHD he needs to be constantly stimulated and can't just "sit there and do nothing." I normally read while camping but he hates reading, so that doesnt work for him. He also complained about how my family just "sits around" while we go camping. I didn't say anything because I was embarrassed to tell him that I like that about camping too.

I have been thinking about asking him to either use his phone less next year, or to not come next year (he hasnt come every single year with me anyways, depending on his schedule). Cause to be it seems like he's not enjoying the 'camping' part of camping. I don't want to force my "unplugged lifestyle" on him if he really cant stand it. Nor do I want it to be an ultimatum that he has to "conform to my unplugged lifestyle, or not come." I also feel like asking him not to come is going to hurt his feelings a lot. This would have been easier if our campsite never got service or internet. He used to be a boy scout and go on week+ long camping trips, so its not like he's new to camping as a whole.

tldr: Im annoyed by my boyfriends excessive phone use while camping. WIBTA if I asked him to either stop or not come next year?

What are these acronyms?

[mangocurist]

kwwagdoons disneyworld concepts

wifies is like "ive never been to an amusement park actually" n ken is like "we gotta get u to disneyworld right meow"

reddoons somehow accidently breaks a ride and doesnt tell everyone until like 2 hours later

wato gets so. so lost. and everyone has to spend an hour looking for her

ashswag gets one of those mickey hats but he keeps leaving and coming back with a completely diffrent ickey hat and no one knows where hes getting them

ken keeps spouting out random disneyworld trivia. out of nowhere

wifies has so much fun yayayay

YESSS SO TRUE.!!!! that clone has never a day in her life experienced the joy of spending too much money at an amusement park and screaming his head off on roller coaster rides. thank u ken for doing everyone a service. also ash stealing random mickey hats from diff parts of the park is so real they get off a ride and hes like Hold on. ���️ One second. and then runs away. they think hes going to the washroom but no he comes bsck with six mickey hats stacked atop each other. the sixth is for the car. ken knowing random disney trivia is soooo real to me they just know everything always. also reddoons breaking a ride somehow 😭😭😭 he fucks up that one hellevator ride and everyone who goes on it afterwards plummets to their gruesome deaths and an article is written on it a week later and hes like. Oops that. that may have been me guys i cant lie

[hopepunkhealer]

Hey hey hey!! Ghostflower!!

On the topic of physical media, for that debate, if it ever comes up again, tell your teacher that when they get married (or imagine the wedding they already had). The DJ they hired shows up. Their entire system is built on streaming because it’s accessible and the easiest way to get into DJing anymore.

But uh oh. The service isnt great. Or they forgot to download something to play offline. Or the wifi is being weird. Or they were planning on using spotify and suddenly spotify changed their terms of service and wont function as a third party service for DJ equipment (cause that actually happened). So now the DJ you hired doesnt have access to many songs, let alone the ones that you requested for specific moments. So now what? Without physical media, your wedding is out of luck.

The point is, just because the majority of people dont use it regularly, doesnt mean its not something that other people dont need. DJs *need* to be able to make and use physical media. Im sure there are more professions that need it too. But if you want your wedding to go smoothly (music wise) you should 100% have a DJ that has physical media at least as a back up.

(Using weddings as an example cause that tends to be the end all be all event for a lot of people that they always want to go perfect - same could be applied to any event you hire a dj for)

- @safety-pin-punk

my teacher was on my side of the argument, it was my classmates who were against it.

it started because we brought up music streaming, and I mentioned if you lose the account you bought music through or streamed through, you lose that music, and one particular classmate told me I was wrong (her favourite thing to do, mind you), and that streaming services are a perfectly fine way to do music. and yes, spotify is quick, its convenient, etc. but the example I had was ITunes, specifically the fact that my mum lost hundreds of dollars of music when apple switched from Itunes to apple music, because she doesn't use apple anymore and couldn't sign anything in.

classmate and i then went back and forth for another 10 minutes and classmate finding some kind of counter for every single (what I thought were good) argument I made.

but either way, my general statement in most things, is that physical media is so important, not only because of the "it means you own it" argument, but also for media preservation. so many streaming services just take down shows or movies or music just to clear server space, and it means there is more and more lost media.

like think ahead in your life if you have young kids in your life (be that students, friends kids, family, etc) and you want to show them what you were like as a kid/teenager/young adult/etc, one of the best ways to do that would be pictures in a photo album where yes, something could happen to that photo album, so its a good idea to keep back up copies online anyway, but having that solid tangible picture is so special.

[baradragon]

oomf from argentina is flying to florida today where im gonna meet him at the airport and hes currently in panama on a 9 hour layover and he has not texted me that he made it so im assuming he doesnt have service/wifi for his phone so im just gonna show up at the airport tonight and just hope he's there hehe

[beannary]

Tell me absolutely everything about this Percy Jackson au please

ok so i wrote a WHOLE ANSWER to this question while i was walking back to work after my lunch break and long story short my phone refused to post it because it did not want to connect to the museum wifi and there is no cell service where i work so i may miss some things as im writing it out now because ive already written it out once before but OK LETS GO

so Hamato Yoshi moves from Japan to Hollywood and becomes famed movie star Lou Jitsu, and falls in love with Big Mama, the owner of the Lotus Hotel in Las Vegas. When Lou proposes to Big Mama she accepts! But she also is like we need to have our wedding or the honey moon or something basically she's like we need to go to my hotel and Lou is like sick this is so cool and normal and BOOM two seconds later like multiple decades have passed .

Baron Draxum is a scientist/historian who has fallen into this ancient greece sort of niche. He's not a demigod BUT he has the ability to see through the mist and has seen weird things happen and has dedicated his life to figuring out what is up. He manages to figure out that the mist exists and that it has something to do with ancient greek mythology, and he manages to figure out how to tell if a location is like enshrouded in the mist, which leads him to the lotus hotel. Draxum knows something is up with this hotel but then he starts noticing people who are dressed as if they are from completely different periods in time, and THEN he notices famed movie star Lou Jitsu and he's like ok theres some weird time thing going on here and he connects the dots between the Lotus Hotel and the Lots Beds from the mythology and he basically just yoinks Lou out of the hotel who is now like girl what on earth is happening its WHAT YEAR?????

im trying to figure out how the boys get in the picture. I was thinking that Draxum while doing his research ended up finding these four boys, who he determined somehow were the children of gods, and he wanted to do research and experiments on them. I think this would happen before he rescued Lou Jitsu from the Lotus Hotel maybe a few months before? Draxum ends up taking Lou Jitsu to his home where Lou is like thanks for saving me dude real cool of you, wait a second are those KIDS? YOURE DOING EXPERIMENTS ON THEM? and basically Lou is like actually no we are leaving now actually and he nabs the boys and dips in the middle of the night

Raph would be three, Donnie and Leo two, and Mikey one when Lou Jitsu takes them from Draxum, and I think the four of them were just in various orphanages or group homes before Draxum got them

Raph i think would be a son of ares but im still debating that Leo is a son of athena Donnie is a son of hephaestus Mikey is a son of apollo

The boys would have done the demigod thing where they bounce around schools every year. Leo is actually the one who gets expelled every year and he has a reputation as a trouble maker, but he's actually covering for Donnie. Donnie's you know super into tech and building but a lot of his stuff explodes or attracts monsters. Leo takes the fall for all these accidents and all the destruction because donnie wants to go to like higher education, wants to go to like university and whatever and it would look super bad on his record if he was getting expelled from every school. Leo on the other hand doesnt really care and he's normally around when Donnie's doing his inventing so its pretty easy for him to take the blame.

Because the boys are constantly bouncing around schools they dont really have any friends. Theyre only friend is April O'Neil who is their neighbor and who is able to see through the mist. She really runs with their chaos and all that. OH also the boys don't know that theyre demigods until they actually end up at camp, and Lou doesn't know the godly parents of the boys until again they end up being claimed at camp.

I think that Casey will also be a demigod? a daughter of ares i think. and about april i want her to either become the oracle of delphi like rachel does in the pjo books, or i think she'll start learning how to manipulate the mist like hazel does in hoo

all of this i just thought of today though so im bound to change things as the au develops and like feel free to chime in if you have any ideas because im really just flying by the seat of my pants with this one

[sillybigbird]

Internet companies in mexico sucks ass, man. I was watching Modern Family at 6:12 pm, just waiting for my online class at 6:30. When the WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD just fuckin disconected from the server, and it was only the company we hire. That is supposed to be the best one in mexico but still doesnt allow me to stream stardew valley at 1080p on twitch because its too much for them. The worst part? Is that I couldnt comnect to my 3 hour class. The internet came back like at 11:30 pm. (Yes i played solitary all that time, listening to mecano and metalica) And god knows i would completly lose my shit if it wasnt for my download music and the fact that Indesign doesnt need internet to work.

My Dad tried to call the company to complain, but they closed the telefonic lines and put a robot message that said "Estamos teniendo interrupción de su servicio en su zona" that just pissed him more. And i told him: why complain. Whinging about not having wifi its not gonna help anybody.

And then, my laptop decided to froze when i was rewatching the recording of my class.

I literally have gotten YEARS of penalty by riot in valorant because the wifi doesnt want to cooperate. (Thank god my laptop doesnt afford Valorant anymore).

To make you an idea, 200gb its one of the highest plans of internet you can get, for a super elevated price and the service quality does depend in the zone where you live. EVEN IN BIG CITIES

Im done man, i want good wifi for once in my life

[kittycatcarla]

As a mainly pc player i got so incredibly mad when i couldnt play minecraft on a self-hosted server with a friend who was on ps4 because the ability to connect to a third party multiplayer server is paywalled behind playstation now or whatever the fuck it was called

THE CONSOLE IS PAID FOR. THE GAME IS ALSO PAID FOR. THERE IS A WIFI CONNECTION. WHAT IS THIS FUCKING SHIT. DEATH. DEATH TO SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES TO USE THE THINGS YOU PAID FOR. Whether it refers to your console playing online ot your car having heated seats, A MONTHLY SUBSCIPTION IS THE WORST WAY OF DOING IT

And yes, i know, someone might say "But Carla, consoles are sold at a loss by manufacturers!" And to that i say: so what. Theyve always been. Thats because thr manufacturers get a share of the profit every time you buy a game for thst console. Thats why the SteamDeck can be so much cheaper than an Ayaneo handheld for example. Subscriptions to use internet services arent so that they could scratch a profit. Its so that they steal more money from you

...

What if people started boycotting in front of Nintendo's and other manufacturers offices. I mean yeah i know that Nintendo doesnt give half a shit about its users and community, but it would make them look very bad if people start gathering in front of their HQ

i think that we as people need to get more pissed at nintendo for making nintendo online a subscription service like actually they should go fuck themselves for that

[c0rpsedreamz]

10:38

I should not have a patrol officer out looking for my boyfriend!! What if its all so stupid its in our heads what if hes just out being silly with a work friend and doesnt have wifi (oh but then again what if they fucking killed him) what if what if what if god i cant stand it why doesnt he just have cell service or where is he why didnt he come home whered he go why isnt he here

[stanford-pines]

Honestly fuck apple im gonna use my hand me down macbook until the fucking thing stops working entirely.

[loredwy]

LMAO

I mean, I can try giving you some ideas, but whether they work or not will be a mystery until you try them (?)

Give me a sec because tumblr posted this instead of saving it in my drafts and I didnt finish putting links about everything LMAO -> about tumblr, there is not much you can do, it is a hellsite. It works weirdly sometimes

However, the delay may have to do with it failing to connect to the servers correctly, as when your internet connection is slow / does not work. You can try checking your app config, and make sure that Tumblr can use internet without data restrictions nor battery restrictions (both of them could make tumblr work slower / not work if the app is not opened)

Ok, the electric razor and the charger ones could possibly be because of hardware damages, like a loose wire, lets say, which is why they need specific positions or connectors -> could be the bluetooth case too, but tbh it would be more funny to just imagine they need moral support

There's not much you can do with those, other than sending them to tech support or buying new ones (?)

The lid one could be because of the pc suspending itself (a windows battery saving mode that pretty much crashes your pc if you dont have enough ram, happens to me) -> you can disable that

The mouse deactivating could be something having to do with firefox somehow disabling stuff from your pc -> it could have to do with incompatibilities or other problems

For your phone changing timezones, you can disable roaming time and automatic timezones, as to define it yourself. It could also be thinking youre somewhere else because of google sync detecting your location wrong -> check where youre logged in just in case

The mcaffee thing may be mails or a chrome extension, or sth that your pc is sync to, which is why its showing those notifs -> if you recieve another, you can disable them

Also, I recommend MalwareBytes to check your antiviruses, because its the only one Ive used that detects niche spam apps installed accidentally (in my experience)

For your pc taking so long to turn on, you may like disabling your apps at start. About the windows updates, it probably failed it once, and tried fixing it ever since (which never works, because its windows) -> try executing the windows fixer service (you dont have to download anything, saying it just in case), may work or not. If it doesnt, you can disable automatic updates.

For your pc turning on in the middle of the night, it may be windows defender or sth? Trying to analyze your files and failing horribly, opening them instead. You can try disabling that. Otherwise, check that the game its not tasked to open at certain times just in case.

For your keyboard turning on and off, you may want to check your drivers (uninstalling and installing them again) along with other configs like the usb ones, or check that it is not accidentally pressing some shortcut that disables it.

Good luck 🫡

For your phone, after falling into water, it does not surprise me that it is acting weird from time to time lmao. You can try disabling the wifi switching tho, in case it works, for your languages, check that you havent selected multiple languages or that your google account has english as its main one.

please do share all of your tech mishaps

ok, here's a little insight into my hell:

My laptop doesn't charge unless it's got two chargers and is held at a 90 degree angle, and won't charge in direct sunlight

It also just installed Cars 2 and keeps trying to open something called 'wonderprojectj2' which has got to be a virus but my antivirus isn't detecting malware

Firefox regularly disables my mouse, and sometimes keeps playing the audio from youtube videos even once the browser is closed and if the laptop lid is down - it also stops working completely at random on my laptop, until I pick it up shake it, and Microsoft Word usually crashes the laptop entirely

If I either queue posts or post them from drafts Tumblr yeets them into the aether - usually they show up 5-15 minutes later, but some show up hours after, some are returned to my drafts and some just never show up at all; it also crashes completely if there is already a tumblr tab open or if I have tumblr mobile open on my phone at the same time

My alarm clock changes timezones at random

My electric razor won't work unless it's fully submerged in water first for 2-3 minutes

My desktop takes 10-15 minutes to start, and I can't touch the tower because it's as hot as the sun - it also downloads the same update over and over every time I shut it down, and sometimes it turns on by itself in the middle of the night and runs Ace Attorney Chronicles

My keyboard turns on and off for no reason every couple of minutes

I switched antivirus and ever since McAfee sends me these threatening pop-ups saying "do not Leave" - which I thought was a virus, but my new antivirus says there's no problem

My bluetooth headphones won't connect to new devices unless I sing to them - I know that makes no sense but I swear to god I've tried over and over and no matter what they never work until I start singing

I spent some time in Singapore a few years ago and now Singapore Airlines randomly sends me texts saying 'Welcome to Singapore!' and every time they do my phone clock automatically changes to Singapore time for some reason

But on the positive side, I dropped my phone in the Amazon River about a year ago and had to dive into the water fully clothed to rescue it, and now it holds charge twice as well as it did before - but now it switches wifi networks at random, repeatedly tries to access strangers' hotspots, and if I ask it to forget a wifi network it connects to it automatically and changes the language to german

i cannot explain any of this, if you have a solution to any of the above please let me know i'm so tired

[faggotri]

saw a guy at the gym with an ipod shuffle that he had clipped to the front of his shirt,, kin

[keichanz]

most people when taking a shower: is there life after death? what am i even doing with my life. what does everything mean? i need to make some changes. why does time exist? is the universe finite or infinite?

me when i'm in the shower: what's the REAL reason steve left blue's clues?