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Neo-[Tech Thread] for the cyberpunk present where Net Neutrality has been murdered

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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    Phones are already too big, I need to them to be scaled down so I can actually hold them

    Smaller and not the thickness of a piece of paper

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    Good to hear about the wireless charging. I might buy an Apple case and see how it goes

  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    edited June 2018
    I use one of those popsocket things to help with holding my phone

    Goose! on
  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    uh excuse me those are called poopsnooglers

  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    uh excuse me those are called poopsnooglers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXk5ru5gJQM

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    What is this, a phone for ANTS?!

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  • HoA-playerHoA-player Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    tynic wrote: »
    Phones are already too big, I need to them to be scaled down so I can actually hold them

    Smaller and not the thickness of a piece of paper

    A few weeks ago when I decided to replace my HTC One (m10), instead of getting an even bigger phone, I switched to the Sony Xperia XCZ2 Compact.

    So far I'm pretty happy with it. It fits my small hands way better and is easier to fit into pockets.

  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Yeah, I think Sony are the only brand selling phones with top-end internals in a mid-size form factor. Plenty of companies do smaller phones, but they've always got mid-tier hardware in them and that's no good if you're like me and want to keep a phone for as long as is humanly possible, and use it extensively.

  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    I just want smartphones to be the size of an iPhone 5, that felt like the perfect size.

    I don't need a sheet of paper.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular


    Where's the escape hatch for this nightmare

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  • SleepSleep Registered User regular
    KetBra wrote: »


    Where's the escape hatch for this nightmare

    Oh dam dominoes makin that play for dystopian mega corp status... bold strategy pizza guy.

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    remember when snowcrash was satirically dystopian instead of just the news

  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular
    The worst part is people cheerleading that in the replies

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    I'm not sure I understand

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    I'm not sure what's bad about fixing potholes

  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular
    edited June 2018
    Fixing potholes is a great thing for the government to do

    If the government cannot do it and instead your local (multinational) pizza parlor has to what the fuck are we doing as a society

    KetBra on
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  • SleepSleep Registered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    I'm not sure I understand

    Our governmental systems are breaking down so bad that dominoes pizza has to fix our fuckin roads instead of the government we pay our taxes to for that reason.

  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    there are worse ways to spend ad money

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    Corporations taking over more and more of the functions of government is a common cyberpunk dystopia trope.

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    Yeah it's shitty that it's such a widespread problem but I ain't gonna blame Dominoes for throwing a few bucks at it for the sake of PR.

    I will, however, go to their nomination thing and send in my neighborhood in NYC because it amuses me to imagine someone at Dominoes trying to figure out how much that would cost them.

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    edited June 2018
    you have sprawl to blame for poor road conditions

    it's a very well-kept secret, but very few cities can actually afford to maintain all their roads in addition to the rest of their infrastructure

    and I don't mean, "right now"

    I mean that most cities couldn't afford to maintain their roads if they doubled their income

    most would have to at least triple it

    we just expanded too quickly and too sparsely

    Shorty on
  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    I would probably deface their fuckin' logo they left on the pothole though
    if they want to be charitable they could donate funds for road improvements to the cities or do the fills without turning the road into a billboard ad

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  • SleepSleep Registered User regular
    I would probably deface their fuckin' logo they left on the pothole though
    if they want to be charitable they could donate funds for road improvements to the cities or do the fills without turning the road into a billboard ad

    But that's what really sells it as some cyberpunk dystopia shit. Just random dominoes ads all over the ground

  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Shorty wrote: »
    you have sprawl to blame for poor road conditions

    it's a very well-kept secret, but very few cities can actually afford to maintain all their roads in addition to the rest of their infrastructure

    and I don't mean, "right now"

    I mean that most cities couldn't afford to maintain their roads if they doubled their income

    most would have to at least triple it

    we just expanded too quickly and too sparsely

    It's okay to have dirt roads.

    My hometown has some back roads that they started paving a few years back and there's like.. 3 houses stretched over 10 miles on it. It had been a well maintained dirt road up until that point. Not sure why that changed, I guess people wanted to go faster than 30 mph or something? I dunno. But I'm sure that drastically increased the maintenance of that road too.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Shorty wrote: »
    you have sprawl to blame for poor road conditions

    it's a very well-kept secret, but very few cities can actually afford to maintain all their roads in addition to the rest of their infrastructure

    and I don't mean, "right now"

    I mean that most cities couldn't afford to maintain their roads if they doubled their income

    most would have to at least triple it

    we just expanded too quickly and too sparsely

    It's okay to have dirt roads.

    My hometown has some back roads that they started paving a few years back and there's like.. 3 houses stretched over 10 miles on it. It had been a well maintained dirt road up until that point. Not sure why that changed, I guess people wanted to go faster than 30 mph or something? I dunno. But I'm sure that drastically increased the maintenance of that road too.

    well small towns and rural areas can usually manage just fine, because their cores tend to be dense enough that they can collect the taxes they need to keep their busiest roads maintained, since there just aren't very many and they're not so busy that they need to be resurfaced every five years

    it's medium- and large-sized cities and suburbs that are in trouble

  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
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  • godmodegodmode Southeast JapanRegistered User regular
    Weird choice for Dominoes. Filling holes seems like a much more logical venture for Pornhub.

  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular
    Filling potholes isn't terribly sexy, though

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Shorty wrote: »
    you have sprawl to blame for poor road conditions

    it's a very well-kept secret, but very few cities can actually afford to maintain all their roads in addition to the rest of their infrastructure

    and I don't mean, "right now"

    I mean that most cities couldn't afford to maintain their roads if they doubled their income

    most would have to at least triple it

    we just expanded too quickly and too sparsely

    It's okay to have dirt roads.

    My hometown has some back roads that they started paving a few years back and there's like.. 3 houses stretched over 10 miles on it. It had been a well maintained dirt road up until that point. Not sure why that changed, I guess people wanted to go faster than 30 mph or something? I dunno. But I'm sure that drastically increased the maintenance of that road too.

    Not necessarily - maintaining dirt roads is a very intensive process. They need grading and rolling very regularly, and building back up again after every few gradings. Laying asphalt (if done well) weans that road maintenance becomes far less frequent, and is typically just filling cracks after winter for the first few years, then potholes after that.

  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Shorty wrote: »
    you have sprawl to blame for poor road conditions

    it's a very well-kept secret, but very few cities can actually afford to maintain all their roads in addition to the rest of their infrastructure

    and I don't mean, "right now"

    I mean that most cities couldn't afford to maintain their roads if they doubled their income

    most would have to at least triple it

    we just expanded too quickly and too sparsely

    It's okay to have dirt roads.

    My hometown has some back roads that they started paving a few years back and there's like.. 3 houses stretched over 10 miles on it. It had been a well maintained dirt road up until that point. Not sure why that changed, I guess people wanted to go faster than 30 mph or something? I dunno. But I'm sure that drastically increased the maintenance of that road too.

    Not necessarily - maintaining dirt roads is a very intensive process. They need grading and rolling very regularly, and building back up again after every few gradings. Laying asphalt (if done well) weans that road maintenance becomes far less frequent, and is typically just filling cracks after winter for the first few years, then potholes after that.

    The winters are extremely rough on our roads. It's not unusual for the high traffic roads to get repaved every 2-3 years up here because of it.

    The paved roads that were once gravel/dirt just have giant tears and potholes in them now that the residents just fill with rocks because the county won't do it.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    roads were a mistake

  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    we just have to go somewhere where we don't need roads

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Doobh wrote: »
    we just have to go somewhere where we don't need roads

    So, the ocean? Haven't you heard of the Terror From The Deep?!?

  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    guns are cheaper than roads

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    roads were a mistake

    God damn Romans

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    Doobh wrote: »
    guns are cheaper than roads

    if we shoot the concept of the distance between two points we don't need to travel!

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Doobh wrote: »
    guns are cheaper than roads

    if we shoot the concept of the distance between two points we don't need to travel!

    The shortest distance between your hands and the ground better be your entire body, pardner.

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    Gonna be trying replacing ICs on my black screen c64 whenever the replacements show up.

    Time to learn to use a desoldering pump! The old PLA isn't socketed so I gotta remove it from the board and add a socket to put the new one in.

    Also the new 6510 is going to take forever to show up because it's shipping from china.

  • pimentopimento she/they/pim Registered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Doobh wrote: »
    guns are cheaper than roads

    if we shoot the concept of the distance between two points we don't need to travel!

    The shortest distance between your hands and the ground better be your entire body, pardner.

    It took me far too long to actually understand what you were getting at here.

  • MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
    Well, Dominos used to be worse - at least they're spending money on something useful instead of the owner's insane far-right cultish Catholic town in Florida.
    Because of course it's in Florida.

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