My point was more about instantaneous communication for civilians between a ship in the middle of the sea and an airplane half a world away.
Even if the plane existed you’re not gonna be running a telegraph cable to that or the ship. Even if you focused on radio, a general passenger wouldn’t be able to use it on a whim.
American Airlines is offering free WiFi via AT&T. I also found out if you have WiFi calling enabled you’ll even get phone calls. But that also translates into SMS over WiFi. Baring that, iMessage, Signal, WhatsApp and Messenger all work over WiFi as they don’t need cell service, just internet.
I picked a longer timeframe because I knew people would have focused on non-civilian communication being possible.
Agree with you there. I used to just tell people owl was traveling and couldn’t respond. But it’s still pretty amazing that it’s possible now.
Damn. I actually thought the inverse.
Damn, I knew I missed my calling to become a mediocre athlete, good enough to make it to the Olympics but not enough to medal and use that as my method to get out of the country.
It’s self powered by a turbine with the flow of the water. It either has a built in cell antenna or searches for an open WiFi hotspot.
OnePlus is owned by Oppo, so that’s applied for a while. Now they’re just making it clearly known
I thought the difference there is that they were upfront about the feature in Knox and you can still install another OS, it just disables Pay and the Secure Notes part. Also it was something there from the start.
This feels markedly different as it’s retroactive and a full brick, which is much more severe and a bait and switch.
Holy shit. I wanted to say something constructive, but just…. holy shit. Intentional hard brick of a customer owned device….
Haha. Nope but that does fit. Edited the title.
San Antonio traffic signs said “ICE PREVENTION OPERATIONS IN PROGRESS” at least TxDot understood the assignment.
I don’t know which is worse. The joke, or the fact i groaned because I actually understood it.
On the other hand, “Saving Ryan’s Privates” is a completely different type of movie.
Don’t know where you’re saying that. There were over 14,000 gun related deaths in the US in 2025. That’s more than 38/day and that’s not including non-fatal shootings. January 1st saw over 90 deaths alone.
No fewer than 19 people were shot and killed each day in the United States. (One of those least deadly days was in Q4, on November 24).
One of many reports. When you have that many, it very much is a “daily occurrence” in the US.
There are quite a few bullets capable of >4,000 feet per second (or 2,700 mph, or 1,220 m/s or 4,390 kph).
You could call them an everyday occurrence if you live in the US
Didn’t he mock a disabled person before that?
Diabeetus….
American? This shit is happening globally. The Korean and Taiwanese companies are more than onboard with this.
I loathe (couldn’t figure out a synonym more than that) the word agentic. It sums up everything bad and wrong about AI.