• Ajen@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I remember this article… He went for a hike and didn’t tell his roommates when he would be back. He didn’t answer their calls (I’m assuming he needed some time alone), and was gone for more than 24 hours so they reported him missing. He just wanted some time away from his roommates and they put him the the national news.

  • Surreal@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I wish people texted after failing to call me. I don’t answer calls from unknown numbers either but if you know me then text me so I know it’s not a spam number

  • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Because of capitlaism everything has to be ground into the finest point with the sharpest edge to make money. So the ability to talk to anyone on earth whenever you want has been reduced from a marvel scifi authors used to dream about to its current state were is an annoyance used to make your life worse whenever possible. It would be trivially easy to make like just a little bit better but that isn’t good for the gdp so people in risk of death can only assume the system is out to harm them

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    1 year ago

    If it’s important, they’ll leave a message. Otherwise it’s just another scam anyway

    • quarrk [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      “Hey, sorry to bother you, was just wondering if you were dead. Please call back at your earliest convenience.”

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        1 year ago

        Yeah right, as if I’m dumb enough to fall for that one!

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        1 year ago

        You should have GPS without any service at all. You might need data for the map to load, depends on the app. If you’re lucky and the app automatically cached it when you had signal, or you manually downloaded the offline map, then you could navigate home in airplane mode.

        All of this is moot because I think I remember reading the rest of this story. The hiker wasn’t really lost, they simply went on a hike without telling anyone, and ignored calls during that time because they were trying to unplug.