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   tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Apr-2023 09:16:15 JST tech? no! man, see...

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   • golly josh darn

   @csepp @klardotsh good old "workaround for the bug of not yet having abolished global capitalist hegemony"

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     Csepp ? (csepp@merveilles.town)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Apr-2023 09:16:16 JST Csepp ?

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     • golly josh darn

     @klardotsh I'm still of the opinion that the correct global optimum solution is at the human and machine protocol levels. Software and people should be more delay tolerant and require less bandwidth. Video chat for example is already recommended against due to its carbon impact.

     But of course if you lose your job if you refuse to participate in the bitrate churn, this is of little consequence. But as a species, we shouldn't need Starlink.

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     golly josh darn (klardotsh@merveilles.town)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Apr-2023 09:16:17 JST golly josh darn

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     Inseego exists in high orbit, but is ludicrously slow and expensive.

     ViaSat and related all exist in high orbit and are ludicrously slow and expensive, *and* typically require fixed installations.

     Option three is "don't sail outside the range of cellular towers" which is... An option? Not a great one, but an option?

     So anyway I take the good with the bad, and will hope for an eventual less impactful true-remote-places connectivity option to eventually surface.

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     golly josh darn (klardotsh@merveilles.town)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Apr-2023 09:16:19 JST golly josh darn

     Tons of hate for rockets today on the timeline and I'm just sitting here with my Starlink dish (which has no meaningful competition for what I have to assume is a variety of complicated political and financial and logistical reasons) being the primary way I'll have internet connectivity and the ability to do my remote job for the summer like :thisisfine:

     I can hate space being taken over by billionaires as much as anyone but there are distinct positives use cases from SpaceX, too.