lazynooblet
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- Comment on 10 to 100 Times Faster than a Starlink Antenna, and Cheaper Than Fiber: Taara Unveils a Laser Internet That Could Shatter the Status Quo 11 hours ago:
I don’t think this technology is intended to be used for global internet. But for giving access to a remote town, this is many magnitudes lesser in cost than a satellite.
A brief internet search tells me that a Starlink satellite is ~$1 million apiece, and lasts 5 years. With the additional cost of the launch the annual cost is ~$300,000 per year per satellite. You can work out the cost for 10 masts and tell me that its much cheaper.
From a consumer perspective, Starlink is amazing. Fast, relatively cheap, available anywhere. From a labour and material cost, its incredibly expensive. If a town can be serviced by cable, wireless, this new laser or whatever then the economical and environmental impact (in terms of materials) are a fraction.
Whilst masts will face the same prejudice as windmills for destroying landscapes, Starlink has already been causing issues with stargazing and night sky pollution. And this is only the first commercial venture for low-orbit internet. I can imagine there shall eventually be multiple of these setups, each with thousands of satellites (Starlink is at 7k+ now I think) which will only exacerbate the issues.
The point being, that having other technologies with overlapping abilities isn’t a bad thing. Choice is good.
- Comment on 10 to 100 Times Faster than a Starlink Antenna, and Cheaper Than Fiber: Taara Unveils a Laser Internet That Could Shatter the Status Quo 15 hours ago:
Hang on that’s not a fair comparison. So you will need to deploy some masts to reach remote areas, got it.
Satellite internet then needs to fire a satellite into space to cover the area of which now there are thousands of then And the satellite has a shelf life and will eventually burn up in the atmosphere requiring repeated deployments.
Masts sounds easier.
- Comment on Meta is making users who opted out of AI training opt out again, watchdog says 1 week ago:
Meta have always done this. Years ago when I used to use Facebook they would constantly change privacy settings so my posts or whatever were visible to my more then direct friends.
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- Comment on Bet 5 weeks ago:
I had to come to the comments for an explanation as my head started to hurt
- Comment on wrong again 2 months ago:
Bird flu running rampant with little oversight or control of the problem. Or, it is using that as an excuse to constrict supply and make $$$. Take your pick.
- Comment on The clever feature that makes cheap heaters safe - and why they're actually dangerous 3 months ago:
Same! Clever guy, well articulated.
- Comment on Ubisoft announces studio closure as it lays off 185 staff 3 months ago:
Lots of hate on ubisoft. I think division 2 is a great game though, not so much the rest.
- Comment on The amount of ads cycling on Fextralife 3 months ago:
I have fextralife black listed. I don’t know what their game is but it feels fake. Long winded introductions with little substance and recently ai slop.
- Comment on WTF 4 months ago:
Elon is so uncoordinated, socially awkward. I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t imagine what this would look like.
On the other hand he is also a cunt so likely knew exactly what he was doing.
- Comment on I'm trying to use Microsoft Excel 2019 and have Outlook as the default email program. Excel won't open outlook and I can't figure out why. 4 months ago:
The send to email function doesn’t work with the New Outlook. You could switch back to Outlook classic.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Instances have a choice to enable a new Lemmy feature that will proxy all images through the local instance. Whilst your instance may not do that today it may do in the future. Or you could move to an instance that has this enabled. I don’t know how to list instances with it enabled but it should be obvious by the URL used by images when viewed from an instance.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces RTX 50's Graphic Card Blackwell Series: RTX 5090 ($1999), RTX 5080 ($999), RTX 5070 Ti ($749), RTX 5070 ($549) 4 months ago:
I expect they tell us it can achieve that because under the hood DLSS4 gives it more performance if enabled.
But is that a fair comparison?
- Comment on Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users [404 Media] 4 months ago:
I read that all the popular chat services provide similar information to law enforcer agencies. I don’t think telegram is special in this regard.
- Comment on Can't throw me off the scent 4 months ago:
The cables are capable of 100kw and are thick and heavy
- Comment on Can't throw me off the scent 4 months ago:
They are starting to rip out the cables used in car chargers. It’s only 2m long, costs £300 to replace and the thief strips out £4 worth of copper.
- Comment on I'm seriously proud of this 4 months ago:
You’re welcome.
- Comment on I'm seriously proud of this 4 months ago:
On android, what keyboard do you recommend for swipe typing?
Moving the cursor by swiping in space bar is also something I haven’t found in other keyboards
- Comment on GET REKT 5 months ago:
#[ X ] Twitter
- Comment on Why does the Music Industry allow Spotify/Apple to profit off of them? 5 months ago:
The film/TV industry splitting into 5+ services wasn’t a good thing. Advocating for the same system for music could be good for artists but would suck for consumers.
- Comment on "Let's rock..." 5 months ago:
It isn’t? Going to give me nightmares
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 6 months ago:
I was thinking the same thing. And you got an answer too. Cheers 🥂
- Comment on UK will have removed China’s Hikvision surveillance cameras from sensitive sites by April 2025 as further risks through connected cars, EVs are addressed, report says 6 months ago:
I like their ColorVu night vision technology so was going to buy a bunch of these for my next home.
Same as what I have done here, I put the cameras in their own isolated VLAN with no internet and they only rule is to allow the NVR to access those cameras streams.
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 6 months ago:
In the same fashion that cigarettes are no longer on display in stores this will absolutely have an effect. The supply chain will eventually evaporate so once stores are out of stock it’ll no longer be common place. Sure, they could be imported but stores that don’t comply won’t be common and will stick out easily.
- Comment on In the Netherlands, we’re closing our emptying prisons. What can other countries learn from how we did it? | Renate van der Zee 7 months ago:
Please elaborate.
- Comment on Work 8 months ago:
I guess all people can be assholes so no doubt there are bad royal mail postmen. However my experience is royal mail have been the exception. They knock and wait.
Amazon however, especially since COVID, dump and run. This hasn’t been the norm in the UK but now they do it all the time.
It won’t get long before we get porch pirates like in the US.
- Comment on Steam’s latest update to user reviews doesn’t find your “jokes, memes, ascii art and other content” as funny as you do 9 months ago:
We and our 692 partners process personal data
Jesus Christ every website is like this now. Wtf
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 9 months ago:
- Comment on Speeding ticket goes from 0 to 100 with the quickness. 9 months ago:
The guy was a complete asshole and the cop showed recently restraint. But I don’t understand why they arrested him when the situation had ended. The citation was delivered, the guy walks into his house. The event was finished. And then the cop escalated it again. Why?
- Comment on The circle of life 9 months ago:
Haha meta :)
