Nah towers are incredibly cheap and can be easily maintained for decades if not centuries. Quick googling around seems like 1 modern towers costs 100k (in the west) usd compared that to entire satellite and launch overhead which seems to be at least 3.5M tho in reality much more. Thats 35 towers for 1 satellite not even considering maintenance and longevity.

Towers are also straight up superior tech that will forver be better than satellites due to simple distance physics.

Rough quick napkin math: earth’s land area is 140m km² and 3g tower can cover 300km² as best - to cover THE ENTIRE EARTH we’d only need 500k towers. That’s like nothing.
That’s 50 Billion usd without the infrastructure and cable overhead ofc but the towers and obviously we’d want play it safer on range so 10x that and it’s still only half a trillion.

Low orbit satellites are inferior tech that is only good for extreme situations like ocean coverage.

You’ll never win against AI haters. Nothing is perfectly accurate and even if LLMs are less accurate than average it does not diminish the use case potential.

If someone’s eats a dradly mushroom based on 1 research source then really thats just natural selection at play lol

I really dont get cable simping here on Lemmy. It’s awful UX and yall can’t hear the sound difference anyway lmao

I usually buy an e-sim when I’m traveling and you can get usually get 10-20$/mo unlimited data at reasonable speeds everywhere in Asia except China which is an entire different world of its own and really not worth the hassle so you take what you can get.

One exception is Thailand where I buy 1 year prepaid sim for 40$ unlimited 100mbps which you can keep extending year after year for almost the same price.

All of these prices are irrelevant without considering local salaries but cellular data is really good in Asia. I’ve seen cell towers deep in Vietnams jungles and was actually texting from a cave there. This is why low orbit networks like starlink are severely overrated and will always lose to cell towers.

According to whom? Distros like omv are incredibly easy and once setup basically 100% hands off and will last you for years without any proprietary shit that might break at any point after 1 year warranty expires.

Not sure what you mean by that. Cancel culture is absolutely real and while there are cases of it overextending and being misused it’s obviously a net good for our society overall. People organizing and putting pressure on injustice is what society should be all about.

So we should just throw away the entire concept of specialization and do every single thing ourselves? Pretty dumb take my dude.

Nah, they’re not victims.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and I’d abstract it to “losers in a shameless culture”.

Generally our society would have time to correct itself and face saving would be important enough to contain the losers in their own circles. However the current western culture is completely shameless and incredibly fast meaning that being a loser is kinda ok and easily justifiable. This leads to a bunch of losers getting together and cognitive dissonance themselves into some sort of dumb pointless ideology that’s wouldn’t be sustainable otherwise. Add money into the mix and you’ve got yourself real growth.

I lived in Japan for a while and still come back there every now and then and its such a good illustration of this concept. It’s an extreme face saving culture. So you have this Tate-like world of Japanese incels hiding under internet anonymity but if you are not Japanese you will never see this because the losers are contained as they’d never dare to display themselves in public.

That being said, I’m quite optimistic and I think cancel culture and western face will come back from the current slump and restore some balance eventually.

Not sure if proprietary NAS tools are any easier tbh

I think the IT consumer culture is just lazy. If you don’t know how to fix your sink you’d call in a plumber but if your home server breaks ppl just sit and whine how tech is too hard rather than you know paying someone to do the job for them.

Consumer NAS devices is a lost plot point either way.

Buy a 2nd hand thinkpad or a gaming PC for basically the same price as synology tray and you’ll have not only a NAS but a full home server that’ll last you a decade and play video games as an extra.

That scene in particular - spoilers - is her realizing that she might be a cylon and literally not being able to control herself to reveal there’s water cause she’s a sleeper agent.

Fallout is actually great tho!

It’s so annoying. Miscomunication and coincidence is just such poor writing. Surely there are other more meaningful ways to move the plot right?

It’s a soap opera and if you treat it for what it is It’s quite fun! People who never watched soap set expectations too high and expected real plot and depth of a real TV show which it never set out to do.

The most infamous example of this is Supernatural where the first few seasons were very episodic and exactly what you described. Then, after season 5 it keep escalating until dudes are fighting off the end of the world for the 6th time lmao

Wish you and me luck then as I’ve been dodging spoilers for years now in hopes of getting this done eventually lol

Such a shame too. The premise looked really interesting at first.

The Expanse but I’ll try to give it another shot one day.

The first season shows 2 perspectives - detective in asteroid belt and some of the most bland, basic and incredibly uninteresting dude going somewhere. Just kept falling asleep during those scenes.

I heard the layer seasons are quite interesting so I hope to at least skim through it or read the books but tbh the first season feels like it ruined the world for me already.

Wheel of time just finished the latest season in the background and its fun just bad. I’ve tried reading the book before and it’s pretty terrible nonsense too so my expectations were already quite low. I do find the main plot point of basically temu Buddhism and the Witcher cocktail very atractive but it’s just so poorly executed. All characters are meaningless. The world has so many plot holes that the wheel might as well just stop rolling right there.

Carnival row - not sure if this counts but it really sucked past season 1. It felt like something was there but it was really ruined by poor writing and Cara Delevingne and her character are so incredibly bad it really ruined any chances the show might have had.

You can pay someone to do that for you tho it’s not any different form paying someone to verify you ina centralized way. Its really not that hard.

Even with more complex setups like mastodon servers you already see markets for this. You can get a basic managed instance for yourself for like 15$/mo - that’s basically nothing for anyone who needs to verify themselves as a brand.