Excalidraw is nice. Also, I want to throw in a mention for mermaid.live (mermaid js). A little less flexiblity but itβs nice. Thereβs also kroki.io which hosts a lot of these types of apps.
Iβm assuming that instagram would be showing the email address via some sort of contact list integration, but otherwise, youβre right.. this meme is BS (surprise surprise).
Thatβs his first mistake, taking the phone into the woods.
edit: Hey gang itβs me, dipshit. I made this comment in jest originally, because the guy wasnβt really using it as a rescue device to begin with, and because there are some legitimately good reasons why you may want to leave your phone at home or in the car, depending on your goals. Assuming you want to survive, yes, youβll probably want to bring your phone with you but depending on your equipment and certification you may have even better options.
If youβre going an area where you know youβll have service, taking a phone is a great idea unless your goal is to connect with nature and you feel the phone is going to get in the way of doing so (e.g., disconnecting from work or spending all day in your tent on the phone). If you take your phone with you and you have spotty service, try getting to a clearing or some view of a developed area or city - your phone is up so high that itβs going to have a pretty good chance at reaching some signal especially on LTE. Basically you have more signal βstrengthβ and a greater distance with each foot you ascend.
If you plan to do this sort of thing often, you should probably get a device made for this sort of thing - one that has the ability to send short messages to 911 which can be done via satellites and not land-locked cell towers; one which has GPS and relays your coordinates to 911 or your friends / family at the push of a button. This comment not sponsored by Apple but the latest iPhones have this capability too.
If youβre going to do this sort of thing as a group at a large gathering like a festival or other event where you suspect the cell towers may be overloaded (e.g., burning man) you can use 900mhz mesh devices which support encryption such as meshtastic.org devices. This is a more diy solution but it allows your friends to have the p2p messaging via your phoneβs bluetooth connection and the device, acting as a bridge to others.
Thereβs also satellite phones if you think youβll need more than just basic 911 sms services out whereever youβre going. Or, if you have a ham operatorβs license you can use portable equipment to talk to the next city, county, state or country over depending on a lot of factors.
Is there such a thing as a βheavenly murderβ? I thought all murder was bad. Seems odd trying to demonize murder more than it already would be. Like, would it have been better if they were crucified? Yikes.
Eth has moved to staking, which is good for the environment because it doesnβt have a bunch of computers competing for transactions, unlike bitcoin - instead the network picks a computer for the transaction and takes staked coin if the computer does something nefarious to the transaction. The problem though is that staking requires coins / money. Mining requires electricity and can make money (albeit pennies depending on your setup and electricty costs). For this reason, itβs not just bitcoin thatβs a problem, but a whole bevy of other mining-based coins like bitcoin cash, cudos, etc. That problem (the desire for folks to spin up new farms to mine crypto coins which they can mine using the spare CPU/GPU cycles) is likely not going to go away soon.
When you close your eyes, does the world vanish?