Have you ever wondered what people mean when they say they want to be off the grid? You do this just by not touching your phone, right? If I just put it down, I won’t be tempted to scroll forever. Then my brain is off the grid, that’s good ‘nuff.

Have you ever wondered how Airplane mode works? Why that’s any different than just like… not using your phone?

Here’s why. Your phone is a pocket computer. As part of the hardware package, you have a fancy teeny tiny radio connected to your pocket computee(mispelling on purpose, it’s just a fun word). This radio connects your pocket computer to the cell phone network, which is a lot like the internet, but semi-private, and runs over the air, shit is wild.

When your pocket computer is on, and your radio is not connected to a network only it knows how to connect to(cert, IMEI, frequency, username/password), it is in fact, in a constant mode of beaconing. Beaconing is your phone’s radio sending out a message, “HELLO, I CAN TALK ON XXX FREQUENCY. CAN YOU ALSO TALK ON XXX FREQUENCY? ARE WE RELATED? MAY I PLEASE ENTER A CONSTANT COSMIC STATE OF CONNECTEDNESS WITH ALL OTHER HUMAN BEINGS WITH YOU?”

Only it does that, an asston. A metric fuckload. A capacious bucket with a hole at the bottom. Then, you’re on one airplane with 150 other dorks who ignored what the Captain said and kept their phone turned on the whole time, because they thought they would miss something important, like game scores, or CT fuckin dumb tweets. The airplane electronics radios have to weed through a metric assload x 150 dorks to = important messages that only they should really have and make actions as a result of. Like so they don’t fly a goddamn plane into another plane. How many planes?…That never happens x.X yes, it fucking does.

This is dumb, do not do dumb shit on purpose. Turn on airplane mode.

If you value the term, off the grid, at all, you have to know how this works. You are not on the internet/cell network with a PC, a phone, a tablet, a smartphone, a microwave, a smart tv, a smart microwave, endless amounts of other shit that store your data without your consent even trying to get online by beaconing. Literally no one is safe.

[$BillyMays]

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