True. But it's either that, or whatever the racist yokel intercepting you on your next walk has in store for you.
With one option, you get a public defender, at the very least. The other option, your next of kin gets a really somber phone call. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Knife, pepper spray, taser, air gun, brass knuckles, monkey fist... There's lots of options if you can't or don't want to carry a gun. But you unless you can fight, you shouldn't go unarmed.
This is assuming OP is in the US. Right now they should be taking any racially-charged threats very seriously, as fascists are becoming more and more emboldened. If OP's aggressor decides to escalate things and get physical, camera isn't going to do much when the police and the courts are on the other side, anyway. Other than make for a really depressing snuff film.
Unless OP lives in a civilized country. In which case, maybe keep a really good flashlight with you on your walks, too.
Doesn't have to be a gun.
A camera's cool, but you should probably also carry a weapon. Yes, even when you're just walking the dog. What starts as a threat today can become an attack tomorrow.
Dad, get off Lemmy!
Humans famously struggle with this, as well.
Because there's only so much space on the internet.
Sounds like bi-curious, to me.
The real reason is boring: CDN logistics.
This will be a grossly oversimplified explanation. Streaming platforms mirror their files across dozens - sometimes hundreds - of server farms. However, it's not efficient to mirror everything in every location. For instance, if a YouTube channel has a viewer base that is 99% located in the UK, it wouldn't make sense to waste the bandwidth to transfer those files and the storage to keep them on servers in the US, in the off-chance an American clicks on that channel's video. So when you try to play a video that isn't already cached on your regional server, you have to fetch it from a farther-away server, which results in degraded stream quality as you're literally accessing a file from a physically farther location. But a larger channel with a more widespread audience is more likely to have viewers in farther regions, so those files are more likely to get mirrored to other server locations.
Ads, however, are smaller files, and are generally going to be locale-specific, so it makes sense to keep those cached in all the local servers. So you never have to reach far to pull an ad, but you may have to reach far to pull the content you actually want to see.
Can confirm. I used to fidget with the charger on an old laptop of mine by just spinning it in place in the port. Over time, it loosened up the connections to the point where I had to duct tape the plug into the port.
Which is an outcome I actually worry about, if they implemented this feature in Funkwhale. A fascist fork of the app existing and having a userbase gives it legitimacy. It immediately sells itself to those people: "Come to our free speech music platform" will bring in a lot of new users, very easily.
This advice only applies if you have inkjet showers, this isn't an issue if you have a laser shower.