My first solar pannel was given to me in Takilma ,Oregon, early 90's, and performed the magical feat of restarting my camper bus
by charging it's battery.
That panel was purchased by the guy I was aprenticing with from the founder of Real Goods, who he knew personaly, the founder of Real Goods was the worlds first retailer of solar pannels, and the only seller for years.
Now that solar power is fully verticaly integrated, ie: solar is building solar, the real economics of that will be felt in every market, and bucking it is a lost battle.
humanoid robots require an order of magnitude better battery technology that does not exist yet.That technology will change a lot more than just having viable robots
more like an older order is re aserting itself as the whole planet levels up it's technology and applys it's growing industrial might to the pragmatic solution to civilisations needs.
Many old cultures in the world maintain ancient knowledge concerning the order of events that happen durring times of disruption and how to best respond to external challenges, the givens bieng unchanged and as unchangeable as human motivation's are.
it is about etymology and how tech companys continiously hijack words, definitions, and whole concepts along with the worlds money, power, and authority, the whole move fast and break stuff thing now running up against people who are objecting,pointedly, increasingly with sticks, and perhaps more tellingly, with genuine befuddled disapointment to find the grasping grinding overreach happening in every last tiny purely intelectual nook and crany.
while I aplaud the very well thought out and implimented design for a computer interface
(it has very strong space ship vibes)
there is a fundamental flaw in the premise, in that ergonomics implys some optimisation of the physical(cardio) effort(impact, strain) and comfort of useing a tool, which is impossible while hunched over a static device making very small partial body movements. So this set up will very likely optimise well for speed run missions,but the cost will actualy be greater pressure and strain on a persons body overall, and the only answer for that is to fully detach, relax, exercise, and rest between missions.
except for the fact that while evolving towards eating ants is inevitatable, then something? happens and extinction follows,
This disscussion troubling, and others like it are exclusivly about trying to sell the advantage to eating bugs as some good and natural optimisation couched interms like efficiency, but ignore the nastyness of eating bugs, and the very strong likelyhood of our devolution and extinction in the long run.
The ants remain, where did those 12 species go? is the important lesson.
Most of the world is now operating in a legal no mans land where basic human rights are bieng violated on an industrial scale by
an unholy private alliance of beurocrats , billionares, and tech companys.
The casual ending of the right to private comunications that has been central to successfull civilisation for millenia, is at the core of the unfolding situation.
Add in the impossibility of verifying what comunications are legitimate ,local to an indivual and based on verifiable facts has pushed, countrys, most recently Iran, to cut themselves off from the internet.
As to implimentable solutions, there are technical changes to hardware and software that would establish a fully distributed internet with allocated space for everyone by law, with "platforms" bieng trimmed back into take it or leave it entertainment
channels that can never access personal information.
Personaly I am abandoning online services
unless there is income bieng generated directly from then.To make the point, yesterday I cancelled and deleeted my online bank account, with my hinky cheap phone and off brand browser it became untenable , not counting the online banking "service" bieng
massivly tilted towards selling things under cutsey labels.
I will go back in and remove most of my "payees" as I will no longer let the bank have access to a full picture of my financial activities, and I have done the same with Government and do ALL my interactions with them, in person.
No more figuring out where things are burried on sites, or the slow creap of adds,
updates and verifications.
What it boils down to is that I very strongly believe that civilisation can not be run by an alogorythm no matter how baddly beurocrats and people in power want it, and that the current situation is created by blaming people for that failure, which is of course continiously imenent, staid off by ever greater technical efforts and violations of citizens rights.
I was on the fence with switching to starlink from cellular data, but I realy cant stand the idea of a wrestling match with another giant corporation, weaponising "may", might", "occasionaly", "certain terms and conditions", "reserve the right to"
better the perv I know then some new more ambitios one.
It's gross, but of course we think many ISPs are abusive in similar ways? I haven't ever used a Starlink connection, I wonder if their latency a problem for VPNs or tunneling.
I've recently spent a few hundred hours playing Arc Raiders on Starlink from a small island in the Pacific. ~80ms ping to Australian servers is pretty mindblowing. Jitter and packet loss also tend to be insignificant in the absence of obstructions.
My home server back in New Zealand is behind CGNAT and I had issues with high birate (>25Mbps) HTTPS streaming over Tailscale. I suspect MTU size causing packet fragmentation combined with DERP relay fallback under CGNAT was the culprit, but that's outside my expertise to diagnose fully.
Reverse proxying to a VPS in Sydney with Pangolin achieved much better performance, almost 100Mbps over WebDAV. Somewhere inbetween I tried SMB over Cloudflare WARP (~70Mbps), but allowing Cloudflare to terminate TLS seemed incongruent with self-hosting everything else.
Indeed that is the case - all the other major consumer ISPs have ties with media companies and have much more incentive to collect and abuse user data than Starlink does.
Consistent 25-35ms to 1.1.1.1. You won't see >60ms unless you're deprioritized, and that's about your choice of plan not about what the network can do.
i have my starlink plugged directly into a gl.inet router that runs a wireguard client. all of the clients connect to the gl.inet wifi. absolutely nothing unencrypted goes out the starlink wan.
it works fine.
i have the exact same setup at home with cox cable, because they will data mine the shit out of your traffic (and they have your phone number and home address to link it to). most terrestrial residential isps do this shit. vpn everything.
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