And from the ashes, another sentient life form will evolve and repeat all our mistakes, perhaps make even worse mistakes. Instead of mass suicide, how about we focus on solving the problems you identified? There are indeed horrible humans, but there are also plenty of incredibly wonderful humans.
I mean instead of using the radios to communicate with towers, use them to communicate with each other. Don't know if the phone's cellular radio could be used but certainly WiFi direct would work?
That's exactly what I was envisioning, thank you! I wonder if radios in smartphones (cellular module or wifi direct) could be leveraged to do the same in densely populated areas. Could there be a meshtastic app for phones? Free, decentralized mobile phone calls.
Curious: Is there some decentralized version of mobile phones? Like a mesh network for communication over walkie talkies. Your walkie talkie would help extend the range of nearby walkie talkies and route communication between them.
Agreed, or a burner alternate email. If Google didn't give any option other than phone number maybe we could make a case of ill intent.
I think the main driver here isn't that they want your phone (although they're happy to have it, I'm sure), but they don't want the tech support headache of manually verifying and unlocking accounts for tons of people.
What if you are just a vector solver but don't realize it? We wouldn't know we have neurons in our heads if scientists didn't tell us. What even is consciousness?
Glad we have that tool đ but it's not a full migration to my knowledge. I don't think your post history migrates with you, for example. Just one ramification of that is if someone replies to an old post of yours, you won't know on your new instance.
Also folks that have established communities on an instance (shameless plug for !streetwear@lemmy.world) can't uproot and move it to another instance (yet).
And from the ashes, another sentient life form will evolve and repeat all our mistakes, perhaps make even worse mistakes. Instead of mass suicide, how about we focus on solving the problems you identified? There are indeed horrible humans, but there are also plenty of incredibly wonderful humans.