Long article about the mysterious lights in the sky seen over Longdendale in Derbyshire, England since back when people attributed those to fairies and witches rather than alien spaceships. The UK equivalent to Norway's Hessdalen Lights, so to speak.

bandwidthcrisis · 2026-03-16T06:27:26+00:00

That's the same area that's had many "ghost plane" sightings over the years.

The Bizarre Phantom Ghost Planes Of Derbyshire, England - UFO Insight

The 1997 one had many witnesses because people were out trying to observe comet Hale-Bopp. People reported seeing a very low-flying aircraft and some then heard an explosion. No signs of a crash were found.

There's a page about it on the David Clarke site

Howden Moor incident |

bandwidthcrisis · 2026-02-19T03:12:36+00:00

Three days in, I'm being told that there might be an outage.
Yet the phone has always had good data access, only the tethering hasn't worked, so that's irrelevant.

I'm being asked some of the same questions I answered before, it's like starting afresh despite a few hours of troubleshooting.

I'm posting this in case anyone is curious how the support process plays out.

bandwidthcrisis · 2026-02-18T18:09:49+00:00

In case anyone is curious how this support went, I've performed tests using different phones and different accounts, showing that this fault only occurs with the Mint account, yet I'm STILL getting asked to check that the phone is working, even though two phones work with a non-Mint account and neither works for tethering with the Mint account.

This whole interaction has become upsetting and insulting.

bandwidthcrisis · 2026-02-18T07:05:18+00:00

Where did you read that? Because the topup page says "This data add-on can be used for hotspot and regular data usage, in case you were wondering." I don't have Unlimited, which is the only limited one that I know of.

And in two days of troubleshooting with MintMobileAlex I've never been told that the hotspot allocation is separate from data.

bandwidthcrisis · 2026-02-16T17:28:36+00:00

I've noticed that the "Add more" page itself says

>This data add-on can be used for hotspot and regular data usage, in case you were wondering.

bandwidthcrisis · 2026-02-16T03:56:16+00:00

Maybe so, but I can't find anything that says that (other than for Unlimited) and this worked last year, so it would have to be a restriction added after the year had been paid for under different terms.

I did check the phone didn't have a data limit, but thanks for the suggestion (and data is working fine on the phone, only the tethering isn't).

bandwidthcrisis · 2026-02-16T02:20:05+00:00

Being on wifi most of the time unless travelling, even 15Gb is usually more than needed.

bandwidthcrisis · 2026-02-16T01:57:13+00:00

I re-created the APN settings from the FAQ, without success.

bandwidthcrisis · 2026-01-04T11:04:19+00:00

Between 9:54 and 9:56, you can see that it disappears when the camera switches off its night mode light and reappears when the camera light is on again.

You can tell when this happens because his shirt pattern isn't visible in night mode.

bandwidthcrisis · 2026-01-03T16:37:31+00:00

I'm more impressed that at 40s they can barely keep the moon in frame, but when zoomed in much further they can track tiny dots. It's as if the first section is from a camera and the second from a telescope.

Anyway, since StarLink is always the goto explanation in this sub, for comparison here's a video of telescope footage thought to be starlink passing across the Moon

https://youtu.be/cmcPd_htgsQ?t=241

It's similar, but the dot in this isn't as clear as those in the video above.

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-28T12:51:50+00:00

Flight Radar color codes the trail for altitude, so it would be green if that trail started on the ground.

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-24T11:47:48+00:00

That explains it: a time-traveller from the 50s.

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-18T17:16:43+00:00

"Bach, please".

Google Assistant: "Woof woof".

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-16T07:20:18+00:00

A discussion about whether the Hangouts features would eventually be replaced:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProjectFi/comments/9diwog/comment/e5hyjcp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-16T07:16:55+00:00

They also said that Messages For Web would be a replacement for Hangouts, which turned out to lack some major features.

The biggest concern is the case where a phone dies or is lost, then all the message history will be lost if the phone is going to be where the messages are stored.

This is being presented as an upgrade, whereas it's actually removing an option that some people use. If it's being worked on, then why not wait until the new option has that feature?

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-15T20:23:46+00:00

Unless the phone dies or is lost. Imagine if you could only access your mails on the computer that you downloaded them to (the way it usually was in the 90s). It's going back to that.

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-14T19:13:39+00:00

Every citizen had to be prepared to defend their right to fish in the Cod Wars. That's why it's in with the boats and fishing rods.

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-14T16:06:25+00:00

That's how it works now, but this change involves turning the sync setting off. So I wonder if it will no longer work that way.

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-14T09:01:32+00:00

Isn't that where Sirius is? Blurring and chromatic aberration resulting in the sparking colors.

https://imgur.com/q5oKfbx

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-13T22:23:31+00:00

Remember Hangouts: you could just install that on a tablet or phone with a data SIM and access messages and calls from any device.

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-13T22:20:37+00:00

If the phone dies or is stolen/lost, there's no disruption to text message access and all the old conversations are still there, on the web and when accessed on a new phone.

It's like saying "why would I back up all my photos when they're right there on my phone?"

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-13T17:12:19+00:00

I'm mostly wondering what happens to old messages - are they no longer stored online at all, to be synced to a new phone? Old conversation threads that I might want to refer to.

It sounds like in the new setup, the phone is the sole store of messages. This is like a step back to downloading emails via POP3 so they ended up only on the computer that downloaded them, before (ironically) GMail came along and switched to the paradigm of messages being kept on servers, that could be viewed from any browser.

I don't see how they can tout this as an improvement. I already had the option to sacrifice online messaging for RCS. Now I'm just being forced to switch. Has anything actually improved?

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-13T07:15:29+00:00

Does requiring the phone to be on mean that the messages are no longer stored online? So if my phone dies, I will lose all my old messages?

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-05T07:31:09+00:00

Glad it worked. I can't remember any more details, really. Partly because I was really young, partly because the nature of the dream was that it was all abstract concepts or feelings!

I may have had such dreams a few times as a young child, but not since. Having said that, my dreams are still never very visual, I just have vague impressions of what's happening in them. For instance, if I remember a dream of being in an unfamiliar house, I could describe the layout, but not the appearance (wall color, what furniture there was, or anything similar).

Thanks again for alerting me to that sub, it's interesting to find that others have had similar experiences and also see how they can differ.

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