> The tone-deaf responses of tech people to normal peoples' plights never ceases to amaze me.
In this case though it is a response to another tech person. Maybe the general public would get some sympathy here, but this person had a vanity domain that they used for something important then let expire, and should know better.
> The telephone is not an essential utility that people will die without, either.
There are obvious circumstances where this is very much not true, so your call for empath back at you: just because you have never been in a position where phone comms are that important…
>it is a response to another tech person. Maybe the general public would get some sympathy here, but this person had a vanity domain that they used for something important then let expire, and should know better
Fyi... the person in question (Emily Cordes) doesn't appear to be a techie. Her "About" page says: Emily is an Exercise Physiologist
She's a non-techie that happened to get a domain name. She let it expire without realizing the interconnected consequences (email address recovery) which seems realistic for non-techies to overlook.
Even a tech company like Microsoft with dedicated IT department made the news when they accidentally let their domains expire: passport.com, hotmail.co.uk
> There are obvious circumstances where this is very much not true, so your call for empath back at you: just because you have never been in a position where phone comms are that important…
Yes, many farmers in poorly developed nations, now use SMS on ultra-cheap mobile phones to discover prices at the local markets. If they lose mobile phone service, it absolutely harms their income. And, many of these people are barely above substinence farming.
In this case though it is a response to another tech person. Maybe the general public would get some sympathy here, but this person had a vanity domain that they used for something important then let expire, and should know better.
> The telephone is not an essential utility that people will die without, either.
There are obvious circumstances where this is very much not true, so your call for empath back at you: just because you have never been in a position where phone comms are that important…