I’ve played with GPS from several different directions. There are a lot of GPS receivers on the hobby electronics market that will offer that level of precision, but not accurately. The aviation wide area augmentation system significantly increases accuracy to the point it can be used for precision instrument approaches.

You think there are hundreds of thousands of GPS satellites in orbit?

Yeah, I’m white.

Retirement doesn’t exist. Only hospice.

Absinthe makes the mind go wander.

I was going to make that point. Especially in the horror or boner comedy genres where being outrageous is the point, movies are often edited for an R rating for theatrical release and then will proudly boast being unrated on the DVD packaging.

The MPAA is not a government agency, it’s an industry self-rating board. Same shit, different decade as the ESRB. You can make, distribute and exhibit films without an MPAA rating in the United States. But, most theaters especially the large chains will refuse to show your film, it won’t be broadcast on television, and most if not all cable channels will refuse to show it, either by contract or simply as a business decision.

Can you create a movie similar to the “Serbian Film” while overseas but will it be approved by the MPAA for theater screenings?

Yes. A Serbian Film (2010, directed by Srđan Spasojević) was rated NC-17 by the MPAA and its first ever screening was in Austin, Texas.

Okay, Zen_Shinobi got the details wrong but the landscape right. It wasn’t that difficult to rack up a long distance bill with your computer. It usually wasn’t your ISP collecting that bill though.

In the early 90’s it wasn’t uncommon to have an ISP that wasn’t your phone company. AOL, Compuserve, all the little Randonets. The first ISP my father used was NANDOnet, which was operated by the Charlotte News and Observer. We were in a different area code than Charlotte, so using his state of the art 14.4kbaud modem to access NANDOnet accrued a long distance charge like any other phone call to Charlotte. You don’t remember the likes of Earthlink and AOL advertising “more local numbers?”

Well into the 90’s, you’d have use for a modem even if you didn’t have an ISP at all. BBSes were often a computer with a modem attached. You’d dial directly into that BBS. No TCP/IP at all going on; you essentially had two computers connected together with an arbitrarily long serial cable. These BBS systems were owned by random nerds scattered across North America, so using BBS systems almost certainly meant long-distance phone calls. Doing things like multiplayer gaming in something like Doom over a modem could, theoretically, be done over a long distance line if you were that kind of decadent.

Anyone remember porn dialers? There were probably other industry sectors that used this business model, but it was commonly associated with the early internet porn industry. It’s the 1990’s, nobody’s got a Venmo account, hell you can’t rely on every American having a Visa card. How do you bill your customers? What you do is you host a website purely for advertisement purposes, you don’t ship your actual product over HTTP at all. You offer a download of a scummy piece of software that uses the customer’s modem to directly dial your 900 number. They can download…almost certainly pictures probably not video, while connected, and then their phone company bills the customer for the toll. Not unlike a phone sex service, same business model, slightly different product.

Fortunately Lemmy is an open source project with accessible documentation: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/administration.html

Dolly Parton was a major philanthropist, she did a lot of work in children’s literacy.

That technology 100% exists and I’m in favor of installing it.

The GUI app stores are much better than any helper script I could write.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Something I would approve right now is a solar panel that plugs into the wall, and then a device plugs into the panel. So functionally the panel is an extension cord that generates a little bit of power. It would only power things down stream, wouldn’t put anything back onto the grid, but if you have a load that’s continuously heavier than what the panel puts out, like say a refrigerator, who cares? It powers the device from solar and makes up the difference from the wall.

I have a device that does exactly that with the addition of a big honkin’ battery. It can power devices entirely independent of the grid, function as a UPS, and it even has time of use functionality. If you’ve got variable rate power, this unit can be set to run on battery when power is expensive and recharge when power is cheap, while blending in solar as much as possible. It won’t put power back on the grid so it’s already UL listed and as far as I’m aware it’s already legal everywhere in North America (I have the US model with NEMA 5-15 sockets) as we speak.

Radar doesn’t work underwater. Sonar does, though most subs want to be stealthier than constantly shouting downwards.

apt-search and dnf-search both exist. I have used both. I prefer a GUI for that because they’ll provide things like screenshots, no CLI tool does, neither to TUI tools like Aptitude.

Cats are a newtonian fluid with a melting point somewhere around 75F. If I cool the house to 74 or below, Izzy loafs or curls up in a ball. If I let it get warmer than that in the house she stretches out. They remain viscous and cohesive with a high surface tension.

Note this testing is done at around 29.8 inches of mercury ambient pressure.

Then make themed instances. Everyone wants to make general purpose instances probably with our particular brand of politics on it so we get soc dem c/linux and dem soc c/linux and communist c/linux and we have no values of our own other than hatred of America c/linux.

Make an instance where only communities about music are allowed. Or about sports, or TV/movies. Let that be where that content lives, on a website that refuses to host religious content like c/fuckcars at the domain level.

Phrased another way, trying to make !charlottehornets@sh.itjust.works is trying to start a niche community in a niche community in a niche community. Founding !charlottehornets@sportslemmy.net is one fewer shell of nichedom.

Well here’s what I’ve seen tried:

Make a WHOLE BUNCH of communities on a general purpose instance, one for each team in a league, and then add a bot to each one that posts game results or scores or whatever the fuck they’re called, so that anyone sorting by New sees nothing but redundant sports statistics until they go through the process of blocking everything you’ve done to make the rest of the platform usable again.

The United States was at one point a manufacturing powerhouse. We built the materiel to fight our own two front war and a lot of the kit used by our allies. Our solution to any other nation on Earth trying to put the thumb on the scale should be to shrug our shoulders and just fucking win. We’ve got manpower, energy and resources falling out of our ears.