Hey thanks for sharing your project! H hopefully this feedback is helpful.

I wasn’t able to get far on mobile. It was annoying to have to be in landscape mode, and then I couldn’t advance the tutorial in the demo.

If it is supposed to be keyboard-based, maybe just don’t allow phone users?

I would want to get on a de-Googled grapheneos phone, but I know some apps will be painful to give up (e.g. Google Calendar) and I can’t predict how many apps will not be installable or not work correctly without Google Play services.

It really is a trade-off with convenience because auto connecting to Wi-Fi is wonderful, and Wi-Fi-corrected location data is much better for navigating in urban areas.

Is it wrong to want the convenience and the privacy, both?

Hehe I like the pilot more than all the episodes… I mean I like them too but I loved that action sequence.

We have not completely done away with the barter system. It is just less visible.

I worked on a farm for a while that grew vegetables, and bartered some of those vegetables for other products from neighboring businesses. We got a pallet of apples in exchange for squashes from a local orchard, and seconds frozen pizzas in exchange for veg for pizza toppings from a local restaurant. We even bartered labor. There was someone who came in every week and spent a few hours cleaning and organizing the tomato cooler in exchange for some tomatoes that were on their way out.

In each case it was mutually beneficial for all parties to exchange in kind without using cash.

So while bartering is not common, it still exists.

I mean there might be reason to panic and a fallback on the barter system, both.

The point I’m making is that the government has already decided to maintain the highways, so continuing on is the status quo. If they wanted to make new railroads they’d have to expend political capital to get anything new funded.

Yes for sure! But if you didn’t download executables or other files that could contain code, you were usually ok.

The crazy thing about it is people got digital music from all kinds of sources back then - mix CDs, recordings, etc, and would create the title/artist/album tags by hand, so you’d see all kinds of wrong information.

Like you could probably download “Dancing in the Moonlight - Van Morrison.mp3” on limewire, but really you’d be getting either “Moon Dance” by Van Morrison, “Dancing in the Moonlight” by King Crimson, or rarely, something else entirely.

They could call him double-M. Night Shamalan because of all his plot twists.

The “you got mail” was also part of that response for me since it indicated a connection.

Dude limewire was great. Nice logo, good color scheme, had pretty much everything. Other things have just gotten better in some ways, and worse in others. (Torrents are often way better quality, but it was nice being able to search limewire vs. searching the web and wading through sketchy torrent sites).

I used to loathe the smell of ciggies, especially when it lingered in fabrics and on surfaces. My parents didn’t smoke and I knew it was bad for people.

Now I like the smell of fresh ciggies :/

For me I’d put the old Internet and the edutainment games in the good category – most were pretty good, only some were bad that I can remember.

Although Gmail, digg, and reddit pretty much changed the game for what was possible on the Internet.

Yes that was bad. And it was always so loud for some reason. But I’d argue better than waiting in silence.

Does pine pods do syncing?

I’ve never used Antenna Pod, but I’ve used Podcast Addict for more than a decade, I’ve paid for the pro app, and I’ve been really impressed by what it can do.

I like to have many podcasts downloaded to my phone, and Podcast addict has really granular controls for what to download and keep for how long, in the general case, and for each podcast you can dial in custom settings, for example not auto-downloading or deleting. It helps me have plenty of audio to listen to at all times without blowing up the storage on my phone.

The various automatic playlists for downloaded episodes, new episodes, and recent episodes are also very useful to me.

I’ve found the developer to be really nice and he will personally respond to bug reports and support requests if anything doesn’t go as planned.

It would be more interesting to know how many miles they completed with the safety driver in the vehicle.

I’m not so sure. Infrastructure is hella expensive and the US government already maintains the highways that make trucking make sense.