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 yep, i'm a copper and optic fiber maxi, for a reason

there is a great little display in an antique shop window of an old school telephone, and someone put a little sign on it saying "we were more free when our phones were tethered" or something along these lines... words to live by

i'm not that worried about it though... i reckon that if we don't see one incident of massive outage of wireless radios from a solar flare in the next two years we definitely will see one in 11 years time... and once half the planet's mobile and wireless networks all go down because of being fused by too much radiation coming from the sun it's gonna change everything

but i'm planning to build myself a house that is radio free and uses optic fibres all through it where possible, and shielded by tin radiation shielding, because it's going to be bad not just for our electrical and electronic devices, it's going to be bad for us to be outside for long periods of time at some point in the next 30 years, and i'll have my shelter all ready to go