The newer ender printers are definitely less drama than the older ones. Unless you go higher end with them where they have bed leveling and more sensors I’d recommend something more plug and play.

Big fan of Prusa.

The ISS has a lot of big solar panels. The other big panels they have are thermal radiators.

They have to have quite large thermal radiators because it’s very inefficient. The ISS has people and a very small amount of computing power.

Data centers generate several orders of magnitude more heat. You would need several orders of magnitude more thermal radiators than you would solar panels. The bigger you make the data center, which is important for density since you’re introducing a lot of lag due to the speed of light, the less room you have to put thermal radiators or solar panels.

Then you need to work out how to get spare servers, and/or server parts up and down from the Data Center. All of these things are consumables, and all of them have significantly more wear and tear outside of the Earth’s atmosphere.

It is possible. It is not efficient or sensible. It sounds cool, it doesn’t require buying land, and there aren’t currently international agreements about doing dumb stuff in space in the same way there are for doing dumb stuff in the ocean.

While you’re at it, don’t worry about Grandma Coco’s grandparents.

Renewable works, people are just weird about it because of propaganda.

I have two 500W solar panels that I mostly bought for camping but are hooked up to my house because why not. They average ~5kWh a day over the year which is about a gallon of gas a week (~34kWh). Every gallon of gas I’ve ever bought I’ve set on fire using it and have to buy another one.

The panels will be good for a few decades, though eventually it will take them 8 or more days to generate “a gallon of gas worth of electricity”, and at that point they’re mostly aluminum, glass, and silicon, which are all extremely recyclable. The degradation of solar panels is because that the shapes they need to be in to harvest sunlight get bent out of shape over time. They don’t become worthless afterward.

I absolutely hate that my subscription page is basically just recommendations and shorts at the top that I have to scroll past.

Small airfields?

IDK maybe they can be repurposed into something. Industrial sized microwave?

I want them to survive so bad.

I don’t need my vehicle to be a third place. I don’t want a molded dash with an entertainment center that will be obsolete when it’s new and unable to be modified because they abandoned the DIN standard so you could only buy factory replacements. I just want a thing that can do ~50+ miles a day and recharge that overnight. Which Slate could do with just a regular 120v outlet.

Who knows if they’ll actually make it to market or if it’ll be $40k+ by the time it does, but even without the EV incentive $28k puts it among cheapest new cars in the US. I’m just severely unenthusiastic about any other newer cars on the market if my current one dies.

Cycle count is important for the lifetime estimate on the battery, how long before you have to spend a large portion of the cost of the car on replacing / refurbishing a key component.

“Fill up” time is the most obvious and common ‘maintenance’ anyone will ever do on their vehicle. One of the biggest objections large swaths of the population have about EVs is/was that could take an hour or more for each stop on a long road trip or if you can’t charge at home. (apartment / street parking / etc.) They usually do 10-70%r 80 or whatever because the speed trails off exponentially closer to 100%. (logarithmically? whichever.)

It’s the Walmart model. A lot of the frustration is that it’s a systemic problem where individuals are incentivized against their best interests and the best interests of their communities.

Because shareholders. The Line, must go up.

Thankfully (/s) Amazon has enough money that it’s cheaper to bribe politicians than provide a better product. So systemic solutions are that much more difficult.

Half the issue is they’re calling 10 in a row “good enough” to treat it as solved in the first place.

A sample size of 10 is nothing.

Frankly would like to see some error bars on the “human polling”. How many people rapiddata is polling are just hitting the top or bottom answer?

Because the Department of Homeland Security has broad powers and very little checks and balances to it’s discretionary use by the Executive branch. It’s the thing people have been warning against since it’s creation after 9/11.

more than 300 million Americans

I know wiggle room is the gold standard of journalism… but you can just say “all Americans”.

They can also be, not to put too fine a point on it, petty dicks about it.

My city banned Flock cameras. So there are a bunch of them juuust outside the city limits. Since official city limits lag behind development they’re at intersections you would otherwise think were in the city.

You can still get cameras and screens for the Fairphone 2 from Fairphone. No they’re not making more, but they also have never said “unlimited support forever”.

That the process doesn’t require prying apart glue alone makes it significantly more repairable than any other mainstream phone.

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Are they close to feature parity with Steam yet? Like after a quick search of it looks like they added cloud saves but that took years.

Fair.

Other than the “not actually a monopoly” argument, I think it’s important that Steam has that marketshare because they add value. They have a stranglehold on the market similar to the way BarCodes do. You don’t have to register your product with the bar code authority, but it will sure make your product more accessible to more people.

And that’s before cloud saves, achievements, patching infrastructure, community forums, game recording/streaming, and other stuff built into the Steam client/API.

Whether that’s worth a blanket 30% is absolutely a conversation worth having. Maybe it should be a sliding / bracketed scale depending on revenue or units sold or something. But like you said, the big lawsuits are coming from competitors, not smaller developers.

Agreed, just, that camera might as well be as capable as possible.

The camera and the IP rating are my hangups. IP might just be complacency, but I like not having to worry about rain or where to put the phone while paddleboarding or whatever.

Camera… I might be okay with a dedicated one of some kind. I have an old DSLR, but it’s too big to carry everywhere. Which means I have to purposefully go on a ‘photo trip’. Could of course get a decent pocket digital camera and the price of the Communicator + camera will probably be at on par with a new flagship phone.

Not looking to reserve but will probably have to think more about it once it’s out.

I mean service accounts and email groups are a thing.

This sounds like someone asked an LLM how to give them an email account and it parroted the instructions for a regular user because no one involved new any better.