Here’s a reputable site that says SpaceX is no longer operating (or has otherwise lost) 378 of the 5000 satellites they’ve launched
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/09/starlink-7-2-6-14/
However that’s an all time number, not just the last few months. The biggest single hit I’m aware of was a batch in 2022 that hit a solar storm that engineers thought they could weather.
I’ve seen it done in data center environments where there are two connections to two different switches - so you can do maintenance on either switch without downtime.
Same reason for having dual power feeds to each machine.
I run a wireguard service on my Unifi Edgerouter and it works pretty well for that situations. I can also (in theory) send WOL packets from home assistant but i’ve never tried.
One benefit of using Cloudflare DNS is that you can place a CDN on the domain apex. So if you’d like to have https://domain.com instead of https://www.domain.com then they can make that happen.
As a resident of Longmont CO who’s had municipal fiber for 5 or 6 years it’s been nothing but a win for the city. Conveniently Centurytel and Comcast both offer gigabit (or faster) speeds, but they didn’t do that before they were forced to compete.
Hard to say if the number of tech people buying homes here is a result of that or a result of the increase in prices in Boulder, but I’m sure it’s helped bring people here (and further drive up prices). Plus it meant during covid that the city was able to give free fiber to low income kids who needed to switch to remote school.
Plus it’s had a 60% take rate, which is way higher than the original projections. That did certainly increase the capital costs of the rollout but it’s meaning the bond payback is ahead of schedule. I’m just trying to find a good excuse for why I need 10G service.
Azure Blob Storage at their Archive tier level is 99c/TB/month, but it’s definitely spendy when you try to extract data from it.
I like the term from Jathan Sadowski that it should be called Habsburg AI
Maybe it’s a long game to well cybertrucks to people who want to own the libs, but it feels shortsighted. I seriously expected my next car to be a tesla but cant support this shit
I suppose it’s strange to reach a point where I have 3 choices for gigabit and multiple much faster choices and not opt for the faster. This is literally the first time in my life that I’ve not had the fastest plan I can get. I can absolutely afford 10G service… But you are right, there’s really no reason for it right now
Yeah, i’ve reached the conclusion that gigabit is enough for now. I can get 1.2, 2.5, 6 and 10 at my house but i’m staying at 1 because it’s honestly plenty fast for a family of 3 - even with 2 of us working from home.
Except facebook used to be like that, and somehow we did just fine. Shit myspace just gave you Tom when you signed up for a new account and nobody found that confusing either.
Standards have certainly changed, but it’s really not that hard to follow a few people that look slightly interesting and grow your network based on who they post.
Imo old people are sometimes worse with this.
100% this. We were paranoid that facebook would melt our kid’s brain, but in reality it’s messing up our parents’ generation.
My 9 yr old is conflicted because all his friends are on Messenger Kids and he wants to talk to them, but doesn’t want to give facebook access to his data.
That’s very true too. I like the way Matthew Crawford talks about the Attention Economy and how we’re essentially selling our attention to websites in return for “free” content.
I also think there’s a real difference between actively sourcing information and mindlessly consuming it. Going to Netflix to specifically watch Black Mirror or Orange is the New Black is substantively different from opening Netflix and letting the algorithm suck away a few hours of your evening. Youtube tutorials are amazing and I’ve used them for all kinds of home, work and personal projects but it’s also very easy to watch a bunch and feel like you know how to do something. I expect watching a really satisfying video of someone hand-cutting a dovetail joint between two pieces of wood releases a good chunk of the dopamine of actually doing it yourself, but it’s not the same… not at all.
I disagree, I have a 9 yr old son and he’s all about how everything works. I think the problem is that it’s too easy, for most of his questions it takes literally a minute to find a youtube video that explains nearly any concept. I certainly don’t mean to belittle that but he’ll have some question like “how can a cluster of satellites observe the entire planet” and he can have that question answered in seconds, and be force-fed ten more youtube videos on more of the same.
When I was his age (would have been 1989) that’d be a very difficult question for me to answer. Even though that problem had been solved for hundreds of years, I’d have probably needed to start with an encyclopedia and try to find enough about orbits to dig more. My dad knew a bit about space, maybe he’d have been able to point me in the right direction, but there was never an easy video to answer that.
There’s an ability to access knowledge like there never has been before, the breadth and depth of knowledge on the internet is something we could only have dreamed of 30 years ago. The dream was that this equitable access to information would create a more informed and more inquisitive society, but somehow it’s just made us lazy.
I’d like to see my kid realize there’s not an easy youtube answer and actually go do more digging and synthesize an answer. I think he’s well-placed to develop that skill but it’s not something most people posess.
Yeah, especially when you imagine that they are accustomed to not having to seek out knowledge or even entertainment. When algorithms feed you everything and your attention becomes a commodity you don’t need to develop the skill to actually find it, or the wherewithal to even imagine that you need to go out and find it.
I believe those of us who were online in the 1995-2010 era remember what it was like to have an internet full of possibilities that you could explore and discover, but that was the exception.
A few apps like Photoshop and Fusion360 keep my running Windows. The graphics card situation is also a giant pain in the ass, my laptop has a Radeon and a RTX 3080 and I can’t get any kind of prime offloading to work. I’d really like to use the radeon unless i’m running something intensive that needs 3d acceleration, but i think I’d likely have to reboot to switch between them.
That leaves me running the RTX chip the whole time so the laptop draws about 40W at idle, when running windows it’s more like 10W because the nvidia chip is completely off.
Slackware was my first distro too, probably around 95 i think as I got a CDR copy from a friend in high school. It’s certainly not been my daily driver for that whole period, but I think I’ve probably at least had a linux system operational for nearly 30 years.
I’ve been using Windows since maybe 92 and MacOS since 86. I think Solaris is the only other OS I’ve used a significant amount. There days I’ve got a Macbook Pro for work, Windows 10 for photo editing and Kubuntu Jammy for everything else.
If you buy eggs preshelled in the US then they are required to be pasteurized - something like this would be good https://vitalfarms.com/pasture-raised-liquid-whole-eggs/
In theory you can pasteurize an egg in its shell, but they aren’t very common round here.
About 45W for my router, fiber endpoint, switch, three wireless APs and a Pi4 running Home Assistant. I’ve got a synology running separately that I suspect uses more, but I haven’t measured it recently. Thinking about putting the synology in the crawlspace as it’s kinda loud.
I was thinking about hooking one up to a GPS module to run a local NTP server
https://blog.networkprofile.org/gps-backed-local-ntp-server/