kalleboo

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[–] kalleboo 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

People keep buying them and signing up for an ink subscription. If people are that dumb, they'd be insane NOT to milk them for cash

[–] kalleboo 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This grant was originally not going to even allow satellite providers - the idea was it was going to go to hundreds of small fiber and wireless ISPs who needed the money to build infrastructure to rural areas that is not profitable on the face of it.

A one-time grant like this isn't going to make or break Starlink - they're not building anything infrastructure with the money (the satellites burn up in a few years and need to be replaced - are they going to need ongoing grants?), so basically it's just giving free money to SpaceX. Whereas if the money went to a company building fiber or wireless repeaters that money would pay itself back over and over again and the fees would just pay for maintenance

[–] kalleboo 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"RDOF rules set speeds of 25/3 Mbps as the minimum allowed for broadband service delivered by winners. However, participants were permitted to bid at four different performance tiers: 25/3 Mbps, 50/5 Mbps, 100/20 Mbps and 1 Gbps/500 Mbps"

If SpaceX had bid on a lower tier of service that they were actually capable of delivering, they would have been fine.

This grant was not designed to fund the development of new technology, it was designed to build infrastructure (fiber, 5G, WISPs, etc) and they were originally going to exclude satellites from the bidding completely. The companies who would have used the grant to build fiber or set up point-to-point wireless would have had no problem meeting the requirements since it's all proven technology.

[–] kalleboo 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like using wired headphones when I take phone calls. The headset profile that Bluetooth switches to when it needs to activate a microphone sounds like total ass and I have trouble understanding what people say as it is.

[–] kalleboo 7 points 1 year ago

Finding a less potato image of this device on Google, the red sockets are not testing sockets but "pin straighteners"

[–] kalleboo 3 points 1 year ago

They sell access to data (i.e., ads) - that is far more lucrative than selling the data itself. Only companies that are bad at tech just sell the data (credit card companies, retail, etc)

Cambridge Analytica was far more stupid - that was them just giving away data for free. Their old Facebook Apps APIs were wide open to collect whatever for free for anyone who would use your app (CA made those "do this fun quiz and invite your friends!" kind of FB games) and the APIs just said "we require you to delete this data when the user is done with the app" with no way to enforce it

[–] kalleboo 4 points 1 year ago

Private Equity?

RIP Italians

[–] kalleboo 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Once Intel gets to 2nm

So in like 10 years from now?

[–] kalleboo 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The biggest spikes look like the correspond to new year. So my guess is that the spikes are vacations and show the difference between home PC and office PC usage.

You can see the same spikes on e.g. Googles IPv6 chart - when people are away from work IPv6 penetration goes up, when people are at work it goes down.

[–] kalleboo 4 points 1 year ago

Slow charging speeds at home/work are fine, nobody is burning 100% of their range daily on their commute. The people with 200 mile daily commutes are not buying EVs

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