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> Once fully deployed, you'll have the same connectivity in the remotest wilderness as you do from your living room. What a dismal prospect that would be. Why
by marssaxman 3y ago
> Once fully deployed, you'll have the same connectivity in the remotest wilderness as you do from your living room.
What a dismal prospect that would be. Why bother going at all? Might as well plug ourselves into those bio-pods from the Matrix and be done with it.
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- andrewmunsell 3y agoThere's always the option to turn off your phone entirely, leave it at home, or simply buy a dumb phone incapable of using these new satellite features. There's always going to be that one person blasting music in the wilderness, just because some people want to be disconnected doesn't mean we should eschew progress towards tech that can save peoples' lives.
- marssaxman 3y ago> turn off your phone entirely, leave it at home, or simply buy a dumb phone It's not the same; that's just play-acting, and one will not be able to pretend one doesn't know that.
- grecy 3y ago> Why bother going at all? I've been exploring the most remote corners of the planet for over a decade now, and while I understand what you're saying, constant connectivity is not a problem if you don't want it to be. I personally don't have a phone, and I prefer not to have "comms" when I go out. I want to be in the wilderness, not connected. So what I do is carry a turned off sat communicator tucked away safely in my "go bag". If something ever goes badly wrong (worse than it has so far), it will save my life. Totally worth it.