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When you choose an eccentric lifestyle you should accept the loss of certain features.
by jaoane 1y ago
When you choose an eccentric lifestyle you should accept the loss of certain features.
- dingnuts 1y agothe article is about a retired woman who lives twenty minutes from Asheville, NC. The terrain is rugged there, but it is not an "eccentric lifestyle" It is extremely typical, however, to see the most basic needs of Appalachian people ignored on the grounds of their perceived choice of lifestyle just this weekend I endured yet another incest joke.. I bet you have one of those ready too
- dboreham 1y agoThere's plenty of locations with houses in Montana that have no cell service too.
- dingnuts 1y agothe article isn't about them. Montana by and large is a lot less dense than Asheville NC, which is a small city surrounded by normal towns. Asheville would only seem eccentric if normal is San Francisco.
- hedora 1y agoThere’s no cell service in many places that are 20 minutes from Silicon Valley or SF. Heck, there are places that are a 20 minute walk from Apple and Google HQ without cell service.
- pyrale 1y ago> When you choose an eccentric lifestyle Many "eccentric" lifestyles are not chosen. For instance not owning a smartphone or not having access to power easily is not necessarily limited to well-off tech-savv hipsters who want to make a statement, homeless people, older people in less connected areas or people in developing countries can also be in that situation. When you make your services depend on specific access, and you give people without it no escape hatch, your service becoming successful usually means worsening access for people that have fewer means to adapt.
- modeless 1y agoHomeless people get free smartphones and free service in the US. Living in very rural areas is in fact a lifestyle choice. Not all choices need to be subsidized.
- pyrale 1y ago> Not all choices need to be subsidized. Interesting choice of vocabulary. You could decide not to serve people without also describing them as freeloaders in order to feel morally righteous about your choice.
- modeless 1y agoPeople choosing to live in rural areas aren't freeloaders. Until they demand the rest of us subsidize them. The demand for subsidies is what makes a freeloader, not the lifestyle choice.
- jjulius 1y ago>Until they demand the rest of us subsidize them. I think the discussion is less around "subsidizing" them and more why requiring a cellphone with 2FA to exist and do basic things is kinda stupid.
- pyrale 1y agoMy original message was simply here to remind people that technical decisions we make have consequences on who can use our services. You were the one introducing this vocabulary (as well as claiming everyone living there does it by choice). Now you try to move the debate again with people "demanding" stuff. None of this vocabulary or framing exists in the original article, or in mine. Let me clarify the question: why do you insist on framing this debate in a way that makes a moral claim about people's character?
- dheera 1y agoWe should support the rural lifestyle choice. For one, the food you eat comes from there.
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- fullstop 1y agoI'm pretty sure that their mother lived there before SMS was a thing, it's not exactly eccentric. Especially in the USA. You're not seriously suggesting that she leaves her home because of poorly implemented 2FA?
- mikestew 1y ago20 minutes outside of Asheville, NC is hardly "an eccentric lifestyle". Let's break it down: which part of this is "eccentric"? 1. Has internet, has WiFi calling. 2. Has a cell phone, but the signal is crap at the house. Before you answer, that describes my house exactly. And I live in Redmond, WA, and a 10 minute drive from the Microsoft main campus. Though the neighbors might disagree, there is nothing eccentric about my lifestyle.