Auk

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[–] Auk@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

Sounds like the sort of thing that is liable to turn into a modern retelling of The Loaded Dog.

[–] Auk@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago

GPS tech is definitely decades old, I could dig out a couple of handheld units I have in a box that would qualify for that distinction (circa 2000) and those were a few models into what was available to consumers let alone unis and governments.

Using that specific application for decades is more of a stretch, but technically possible if you count all Mapfactor navigation and they first used it on a PC (released 2002 apparently). Even on mobile devices it's not that far off qualifying as possible though (released 2007 on Windows CE so 16 years).

[–] Auk@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

I have my firstname@lastname.email for my primary after deciding to try and reduce my reliance on gmail, that can get good reactions.

I bought ymous.[tld] deliberately to have anon@ymous.tld as a functioning joke email for when places request one, though amusingly the reason I didn't say which tld is that it's not one which allows whois masking so it's really not anonymous at all...

[–] Auk@kbin.social 0 points 8 months ago

Probably should take into account people with learning disabilities and processing disorders

As an option, definitely. As a default though I too would prefer the standard spoken form if the time is going to be spoken rather than displayed. It's a bit like how simplified wikipedia is a good idea but I prefer regular English to be the default version.

[–] Auk@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

Similarly putting stuff in the upper right is just asshole design for those of us who are left handed, unfortunately that's relatively common.

[–] Auk@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

Curiosity I guess, it's not like I've done it often.

[–] Auk@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

If you take the bag right out of the box it tends to be difficult to put back into the box, having seemingly become larger like the rabbit in the OP picture.

[–] Auk@kbin.social 52 points 9 months ago (3 children)

How pervasive surveillance and tracking of people (and their data) is in todays society. We've become accustomed to it but I'd bet people a century ago would be shocked at the idea of stuff like regular people being filmed from multiple angles when just going to the shops, having a device in their pocket constantly recording their location, receiving targeted advertising based on what information they've looked at previously, etc.

[–] Auk@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

OP is either worried about ghosts or the serial killer(s) whom he nicked a few bodies from.

[–] Auk@kbin.social 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Could potentially be confused with 'The Call Left a Message' though, which is a little different.

I do like the names of a few related ones, like 'The Call Has Bad Reception' and 'Got The Call On Speed Dial'.

[–] Auk@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thanks for the idea, looks like converting them might open up some more options for viewing. I'm only intending to view already created maps rather than creating data so I don't need GIS suite functionality once I get the maps on the phone (really only need geolocation, marker points etc are nice but not necessary), viewing as an OsmAnd layer sounds promising if I could get that to work easily for multiple files.

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