But we do have flying cars. They’re called planes. You can get a license to fly them and everything.
Planes are not flying cars. They’re flying buses.
You can get tiny planes that seat 1-5, like a car.
Sure. But you need to think lived experience, less technical specifications. Think of how these machines actually interact with everyday life. Car and bus are socially defined categories. We could just classify them all as automobiles, but we have separate classifications for cars and buses because people interact with them in fundamentally different ways.
Right and I’m saying that there is a class of small plane that people, particularly in remote areas, use as personal transportation. Commercial jets are flying buses, the Cessna 172 is not. Your “um actually” is a false generalization.
And some people use full sized buses as their personal vehicles. Weird edge cases aren’t how we define words. Your exception proves the rule. This isn’t “umm actually,” this is you being deliberately obtuse.
We’re talking about how 99% of people actually interact with these machines, not a handful of oddballs living in rural Alaskan homesteads. Those few rare edge cases are not how words are defined.
Planes, for 99% of the population, are more like buses than cars. When people say, “flying car,” they specifically mean a flying vehicle that:
- Can provide point-to-point transport.
- Can be operated on your schedule.
- Doesn’t require expensive licensing and training (at least no more than a regular drivers license.)
- Can be owned or operated by the typical American family living in a typical American neighborhood.
This is what a flying car is, and it’s why planes are not flying cars.
Have you literally never seen any media depicting flying cars? Are you really that incapable of seeming the difference between this:
And this?:
For 99% of the population, the idea of using the latter for a personal vehicle is comical. You need to have a pilot’s license, and you need to own a god-damn runway in order to use it as a personal vehicle! The vision of a flying car has always been something that you could park in an ordinary suburban garage, pull it out into the driveway, and vertically takeoff without requiring you to own a giant piece of land. This is why you only see two types of people use planes for personal transport - the incredibly wealthy, or folks who live in extremely rural areas where large amounts of land are comically cheap. And it has to be something you can keep on your own land. If you have to drive to an airport to use it, you’re no longer fulfilling the point-to-point on-demand dream that the vision of flying cars represents.
Again, you need to focus on the social definition, not the technical one.
We also have actual flying cars but they consume so much energy that they can only fly for a few minutes. Turns out rolling wheels is a lot more energy efficient than lifting up a 2000 pound vehicle.
I hate that anything smart needs my location to be enabled before it will work even if it’s use is unrelated to location. Like my smart light bulbs. Why do they need to know a location ever
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As a rule of thumb those device go straight back for a refund.
I always download the app first before buying. If it requires an account (and they usually do) I don’t buy.
Take it a step further and don’t use anything that requires a proprietary app. Even if they don’t require sign-in they’re still hoarding an egregious amount of data on you. I’ve been free of those shackles for years now.
They really don’t. Look into home assistant, there’s no reason the network packet controlling your light bulb needs to go across the internet at all!
And stop buying from vendors that don’t allow full free local control (Google, etc.)
Was actually looking at these probe thermometers to give as Christmas presents this year… some brands actually advertise that they connect to nothing and need no phone or account to operate.
Those are strong selling points that we’re all going to be looking out for constantly now.
Didn’t this guy get banned? Or was that a slightly different username?
Unbanned 14 hours ago, per the modlog.
I purposely bought the Typhur Thermometer probe for Christmas because it has its own base. It can connect to an app, but you don’t need one.
I resorted to fuckin’ building my own thermometer because I was so fed up with proprietary crap.
https://github.com/CapnBry/HeaterMeter/wiki (not my design)
Found my first new project of the year! Cheers for the link.
It’s a scientific fact that dads become 69% hotter when they wear a dadbod T-shirt.
Source: my crotch
You sure you’re not just a furry?
Absolutely fucking not. LOL. I appreciate and respect the furry community, but I want human dads with human moobs.
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To gauge internet consensus on these kinds of questions, I check if the character is on R34 and/or CivitAI.
The answer is a resounding: ‘oh yes’
Pussy
That verifying email for everything shit is something else all together. And yes it is true. Like what the fuck man? I am glad my fridge and stove and microwaves are all low-end crap that do the one basic job they are required to do (and they do it very well mind you).
My refrigerator gives me recipes to use up expiring ingredients and can send the recipe to my stove to preheat. That’s my flying car. We’ve peaked.
Does it know which items are expiring, or do you select items that you’d like to use in general?
It has a camera that recognizes and logs items going in and out (and occasionally my dong if I raid the fridge naked)
Okay, that is actually really cool. If it could function without WiFi I’d be all over that. However I’m not down with my fridge and stove accessing the internet.
We do have various flying vehicles that have been described as flying cars. But it’s fair to say that the Back to the Future II-style mass adoption hasn’t happened.
I’m happy with those broadly staying science fiction. People already can’t drive in two dimensions. It’s worrying to think how awful it’ll be if they’re ever given a third.
There are a far fewer pedestrians and walls and lamp posts and motorcycles in the air than on the ground, though, so there’s a lot more margin to be awful without endangering anyone other than your own family.
At present it takes considerable effort or lack of skill for someone to crash their car through the roof of your house. Once morons can fly, all bets are off.
There’s a reason passenger planes’ safety engineering is so much better than passenger cars’: if your car just goes completely dead, you can probably still steer it somewhere safe and get out. If something goes wrong with a plane and there’s no backup system, it’s just become a glider with one chance at landing wherever happens to be available. If your flying car is in the city (and most cars are in urban areas, because most people are) there won’t be anywhere available to land, and it’s going to hit a building. If the pilot fucks up then it might be worse than a glider and just drop out of the air like a stone.
Yes, but there are still pedestrians and walls and lampposts and motorcycles on the ground. I would imagine accidents would be far more disastrous and dangerous than in 2D.
~Add in people in convertibles who aren’t wearing safety restraints (or a failure of said restraints) if/when the vehicle does a 180° flip (for any reason).~
Add in people in convertibles who aren’t wearing safety restraints (or a failure of said restraints) if/when the vehicle does a 180° flip (for any reason).
Well, a car falling from the sky (car crash or ran out of gas) probably wouldn’t be very safe either. I’m absolutely not trusting the average nitwit who pays more attention to Instagram than to the road to operate something akin to a mini-plane.
Flying cars costs 10 times as much as a regular car, and are not that great at flying or driving. You need driving and pilot license. Needs to take off from an airport or request special permission. It’s just not as practical and cheap as portrayed.
Helicopters are basically flying cars.
Based. This is what I post every time.
TBF, flying cars in most sci-fi rely on some kind of crazy convenient anti-gravity tech that allows vehicles to hover while still somehow retaining lateral friction so they don’t drift sideways when turning.
A lot of space sci-fi spaceships have basically flown as if they are in an atmosphere, with a more-or-less aerodynamic shape and turning as if there are control surfaces in an atmosphere making them move more-or-less in the direction that the spacecraft is heading.
Fucking FR
The “internet of things” sucks.
Smart local devices rock though. Its not the technology but the implementation for many IoT devices that sucks 🙂
I have this pipe dream of a noob friendly router/hypervisor/NAS combo that would trivialize the installation and running of server-side apps like nextcloud or home assistant. The reason it’s also a router is to automagically forward ports so you could have remote access without
someone else’s computerthe cloud.Zigbee has been great, as I know it’s a local device. Finding WiFi devices that don’t phone home is impossible.
Not if you flash them with Tasmota or ESPHome
I got two e-mails just for these type of situations.
One e-mail for the accounts I REALLY need/want/will keep (games, social media…)
While my second one is just used for accounts I’ll only use once and those types of stuff.
I use simplelogin.io plus a cheap throwaway domain, every single service I sign up for has different credentials, so the absolute worst that could happen if this server got hacked is someone could log in as me.
This is exactly what I’m looking for. Thanks.
This is the way.
What my sibling does is create a separate email (though an email service that supports it like proton) for every service. If someone sells them out to marketers, the spam will go to “patsdogfoodemail@protonmail.com” or something like that, and they’ll know exactly which company was responsible, and where to block all the spam from.
And keep yet another, totally unrelated email for finances, so there’s less chance it’s ever hacked.
We gave them different fake names. Now we’re getting ads addressed to Horatio Q. Tilwiwllilsmith and I can’t remember who I gave that name to.
-a personal email
- a bank email
- a school-work email
I’m looking for the same but since Proton mail is this popular, i fear enshitification is only a matter of time.
Any secret tip with unlimited adresses?
I don’t trust Proton much, either. The more a company talks about how secure and private they are the more I think they’re a honey pot, but maybe I’m paranoid. But I trust them more than I trust Google.
Not sure what you mean by a secret tip other than don’t use Proton Pass’s suggested email when it asks you if you want to create an alias when signing up for something. It just uses the domain name of the site minus the TLD as the address name. I make an alias using a random word. You can put a note with each alias that says what it goes with.
Not sure what you mean by a secret tip
For a trustworthy mail hoster with unlimited addresses, not in danger of enshitification.
I’d say look at where the money comes from, and especially who the majority stakeholders are. If it’s a publicly traded company, steer clear. Proton is majority owned by a nonprofit, so there aren’t stockholders to maximize value for.
I’m not naive about Proton but you could do a whole lot worse than them.
In a perfect world it would be easy to self host email. It’s easy enough to set up a bare SMTP server but that won’t work outside of a lab.
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