Cowboy you get to live a normal life in modern times compared to the other two. A modern day pirate is a shitty 3rd world existence and a samurai means being in Japan. I’ll take Cowboy with a loving wife and kids raising cattle and in the evenings getting to stream 4K content with Starlink on my OLED tv eating amazing BBQ anyday.

This is awesome so many uses I never even considered.

It’s probably NTP a lot of banking apps have extra protections and if it can’t determine the time from its own trusted authority it may not allow the connection.

I was being sarcastic too

Or that’s exactly why they do this type of shit so we think they can’t never discount the 4D chess angle.

I wonder how much of Californias is entertainment and tech related with the Midwest being more manufacturing and production focused. Will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next century as tech gets more mobile and Hollywood losses influence to YouTube like sites (Yes also CA based as of now).