I live in West TN and no one here totally relies on GPS either. GPS is constantly trying to push people down dirt tracks, can't really call them roads, across farm fields, and into creeks where there was a bridge "planned" decades ago but never actually built. But the easement data shows that there 'could' be a bridge there. We know that in the dark, in an area we are not familiar with, ignoring the GPS in favor of larger, lit, roads is always a good idea.

Within just a few miles of where I live now, I can point out half a dozen "roads" on GPS that do not exist, are actually driveways, or were closed years ago. And no amount of sending in 'suggestions' to Google can get that data updated because they are getting automated data from somewhere else that they trust more than personal suggestions.

So, as long as we are blaming Google, we may as well blame the people that provided Google with the data.

As someone that has worked in tech nearly my entire adult life, and has also lived where internet connectivity didn't exist my whole life, these grants are doing wonders in rural communities. Our local power company got the grant to deliver broadband to all of their customers. They started pulling fiber last week. We should be fully lit up in about a year. Many people here much earlier.

Meanwhile, the local telco has been telling us that broadband is coming to our area soon for over 10 years. I'm still on a 2mb DSL connection that on average has an uptime of less than 72 hours. Sent a deposit for Starlink 2 "years" ago and still haven't been given a date for me to get my equipment.

Rural broadband will be huge for many of us. It will bring more businesses out here, it will allow for more work-from-home opportunities, and at least here, we are already discussing the possibility of opening a tech center for both training and new businesses. None of which can, or would, happen without real broadband.

Private Minecraft servers are an entirely different animal though. We have a family server for me, my kids, and my grandkids to play on. Even my wife logs in to do things with our grandkids that live nearly 1k miles from us. We get far more time with them this way than we would otherwise.

Agreed, last time I looked satellites had a real hard time taking pictures of anything that wasn't already "outside in plain view"..