It used to be easy to look at the night sky and see stars.
this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2026
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My 13 yo son finally got to see the big dipper this summer. I feel ashamed.
I live in the middle of nowhere so thankfully I can. I saw Sirius and Jupiter and Mars the other night. Yes, I'm aware only 1 of those is a star. I saw a meteor too!
Technology. Can't buy ram because of ai
It's been a drought for a long time on the GPU side
Just doing a simple transaction. I need new tires for my car. Do you know how annoying it is that places will REFUSE to simply... take cash and put new tires on? They want my email, my name, my address, etc. Stop fucking datamining me and provide me a service!
Being comfortable away from civilization.
I mean, very few people go off into the woods anymore without some way to communicate in case of emergency.
In the mid-80s I'd go off backpacking with friends for a week or ten days, and the only hope we had if we something went terribly wrong was the occasional park ranger, or other hikers. We might run across four or five other people on the trail per day, but some days no one at all. We'd set up camp by a pond and be the only ones there, and probably for miles in any direction. We never thought about it, because there wasn't the option of taking a GPS, or phone, and we didn't bother with a radio because we never needed one before, so we just never thought to take one.
It was fine. We had skills, we were prepared, we had each other. We had experience. That's all we needed.
I suspect that is very rare now. It would be considered foolish. Fewer and fewer people have the experience of being that disconnected anymore.
It's fun to take mild peril and up the stakes.
I hope you never find out just how much the wilderness doesn't like humans.
We all made it out unscathed, after about eight summers of doing it together. We were all in our twenties, and believed we were immortal. I haven't been in many years, and won't be going again. It probably IS foolish today with the options available, but still something is lost when we're never incommunicado anymore.
Most countries have a code you can dial before a number to hide the caller ID. It's #31# in Australia and *67 in the USA.
Technology has still ruined it though, since most people don't pick up calls from private numbers any more because a lot of them are spam.
Postal chess, killed by computers. Regular over-the-board chess at high levels has turned into a police state with metal detectors and stuff, but at least it's still doable. Online chess, lol.
A quiet train ride.
Art. Always have to second guess everything because it might be clanker generated.
You can spoof your phone number. That's what spam callers do.
Silence.
Being alive