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Damn, now I need to write my own launcher, just to have the unique second party launcher

I don’t think it’s the same, we already have the infrastructure for the network in most places with a dense population. Existing infrastructure is of the similar quality to Starlink, and the maintenance cost for the existing infrastructure is lower.

In case of GPS, the infrastructure existing before was much worse.

The only cases I can think of, where Starlink outperforms the existing infrastructure are:

1. Areas with low population density - the problem, in those areas, by definition, there aren’t many customers

2. Situation when someone is actively trying to sabotage the existing infrastructure, like those ships, that are breaking underwater internet cables, or the active jamming near the front lines - what happens in the Ukraine shows that Starlink is great for that case. It is enough to treat it as strategically important, but it doesn’t justify the starlink valuation. I really hope this market won’t grow much.

Starlink is basically a military tech that is too expensive even for the US military, so it was sold to gullible investors as a great deal… It won’t ever be profitable, at least not near the level that was promised. But it might turn out to be essential during a few wars.

What does this headline even mean?

Are electric horses better than gas powered horses or what?

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gSquito - Instead of drinking your blood, they will steal your data

So you tell me I can be a movie star!

They are doing it poorly, most “ugly” people in movies are just super-models with thick glasses and bad haircuts.

I tried playing games so much more demanding than my hardware that I had 3 SPF… Not 3 FPS (frames per second) but 3 SPF (3 seconds per frame… Took 3 for one frame to render) the game was unplayable but PC was okay.

One of them is a good boy, and is proud of themselves, the others are billionaires and deep inside they know they are useless.

I actually thought that I was responding to the comment about not using social media… But I agree with both comments. I’m just surprised how much enshitification happened to social media before we noticed

It’s always funny (and sad) when someone from the USA points out that almost all internet services are US owned, not European, it sounds like they did all the work developing the modern internet, and while Americans really did a lot, they also bought a lot of services created in other countries.

Fun fact: there was a period in time, when the main use for Facebook was to stay in touch with your friends… Or at least this is how I, a naive person, saw it.

The US constitution said clearly “if you have more than 1 billion dollars, whatever you do, its legal”… Or at least it looks like it does, no idea, I didn’t read it.

They organise special space operations

Google CEO is OK with data centers that illegally suck

Yeah, I am pretty sure CEO also uses that data for bets, but they call it investments and praise him for it.

eating a watermelon whole

I think it’s yawning

The article looks like it was written to advertise renting.

The summary sounds hilarious

If you buy a decent house in a decent area, and plan to live there for quite a while, then buying a home could make sense.

No fucking way? Now let’s make a similar analysis of owning a car or a smartphone…

“Well, if you really plan to use it, then I assume owning it might make some sense”

morning I was reading headlines about how close the US and Iran were to a deal to end the war.

The Trumpet needed to sell some stock. Now we are back to the buying phase.