Infrastructure can be a real problem in some places.

I’m currently on a mountain and since they upgraded to a hybrid satellite/cable system the speeds have skyrocketed. Laying cable/towers is just not viable, especially with dense rock peaks blocking line of sight.

Also I have coworkers in Nigeria who lose internet multiple times a day (and often don’t have the bandwidth for a video call) but most of them have bitten the bullet and paid the high up-front cost to get starlink at home. And now can do HD video calls with zero interruption (unless they have power issues, but that’s a whole other thing).

So I think there’s a lot of use-cases for sattelite, especially for people who aren’t considered worth the investment in non-sattelite infrastructure.

It’s just unfortunate that yeah, space junk is going to one day (suddenly) be a massive problem.

Edit: ah I may have replied to the wrong comment

A whole new generation of the Kobo readers just came out too!

I’ve got one of the previous Gen and I was so happy to find they have models with the clicky buttons to turn the page.

The main thing stopping me is that I only use my PC for gaming, and I know the support for drivers etc isn’t as good on Linux (though I know this is debated).

However if Linux became more centralised, with a “gaming first” distro like this, the graphics drivers would have a “main test case” to work with.

This is my theory anyway.

You don’t know any 5yo software engineers?

Great, so when they abandon the nuclear project in 18mths who will maintain them?

Fight in the middle east, we will

It took me a moment to notice those weren’t specifically security terms…

I’ve been burned before by these.

I checked it thoroughly for a smaller Africa inside it before taking it seriously.

Thank you!

Management get to say they’re doing big fun events for morale etc, but the employees can’t make it look like they did a bad job of it (i.e. did not make the party entertaining).

Can you tell me more about this? Or just a link would be amazing.

I’m worried about what this could mean about further SEO enshittification.

I always liked how GOD had a blue checkmark.

Like, “over here is confirmed to be the real Barack Obama, and over here is confirmed to be actual God”

And for a reasonable price, the AI corporations will sell you the chance to survive in the world they created for you.

• Viewport engineer.
• Browser-space technician.
• Microsoft painter-decorator.
• Inferior decorator.
• He-who-responds (on the bugs channel).
• Scope denier.
• Manager disappointer.