True as that may be...for $2,450, one could buy a Galaxy S25 *AND* an S10+ Tablet *AND* a Michael Kors bag to put them in.

Or, with a few compromises...one could buy a Galaxy S25FE, a Galaxy Tab S10FE, a Samsung Galaxy Book 5 2-in-1, *and* a leather Samsonite briefcase to carry it all.

Props to Samsung for figuring out a way to enable those with a pile of money to visibly demonstrate their affluence, but that price tag is so eye-wateringly high that there's no amount of functionality that can justify just buying a phone and a tablet.

That's the official inflation rate. The stuff people actually have to buy has gone up way more.

There is no effective difference between IPv4 NAT and IPv6.

With IPv4 CGNAT ISPs do port range mapping and store the map with subscribers session history allowing disambiguation of multiple customers behind the same IP.

IPv4 NATs run by subscribers is effectively no different from IPv6 privacy addresses. Yes they get globally unique addresses however these are constantly changing. There is no way to link them back to a specific users or machine within the network after the fact.

Money only available in the future is on one hand pointless imo because this won't outpace inflation*. On the other hand, it will definitely turn peoples eyes toward the future, which is invaluable.

*Rich people money way outpaces inflation because they keep it in investment accounts, borrow against it at extremely low interest rates, and re-invest, providing huge leverage.

"I will illuminate this silence
I calculate to cure the virus
And now the seas are filled with poison
The solution was wrong." -- Haken "The Architect"

This is utter nonsense. Ukraine is huge, all 8k+ starlink satellites are in LEO and both satellites and ground terminals use phased array antennas in the Ku band. Locations of starlink terminals can be attained with relevant specificity even without multilateration.

That pretty much happens anyway. I'll give this admin this one little caveat: They're at least open and blatant with their corruption. It's not hiding and pretending to be something else before the bullshit moment. It's bullshit right up front and center.

Yeah, I can see it. Forget perfect upload capability. We'll train this constantly wrong LLM algorithm on your data and you'll live forever, bro! Granted, you're digital ghost will need to continue to pay $19.95 a month forever, or it will be deleted. No freeloaders in digital heaven.

"But other people are scary the may not like me without the latest filters and voice changers" and how would the build social hieracia's without a like/dislike counter. I only half jest, is seams a lot of people just want to be "popular" for the sake of being popular and not because they are genuinely nice/interesting/whatever. I'm not saying they are stupid/weak for wanting that, Humans are heard animals after all, and belonging to the right heard can be very important to individuals, esp teens.

And how woild they get their hands on bitcoin and/or other crypto without a bank account to und it?

huh I've never heard of a wpn service tha spesifically reject Visa depit cards, or ar those not a thing in the US? I only ask because it seams like a lot of people conflate Visa with credit only, wgich seams odd to me because evry Visa card I've ever had was a debit card, but this might be a Norwegian/Scandinavian/European thing

To Elon they are NPCs.

"I've not harmed anyone." ~Elon Musk

"Iâ(TM)ve only done productive things" ~Elon Musk

Honestly, if these nuns wanted to host a fundraiser, I know of at least five bands that would drop everything to go play a show for "The Rebel Nuns." And that's just in the local scene here in bumfuck South Dakota. This is the most "spirit of rock and roll" story I've seen in months.

Starlink knows the location of its terminals. They can simply whitelist Ukrainian terminals and geofence everything else so that it does not work in Ukraine.

Censorship comments make no sense because here terminals are only being switched on where they are allowed. This condition would not apply to people in countries seeking to evade censorship given Starlink is complicit in facilitating censorship in places like China.

Geofencing is baked into their business model so they very much have the capability. For example there is an extra fee to use Starlink beyond the internal waters of a country.

The real issue is Elon Musk is a Nazi.

You joke, but why is nobody building a clip-together of add-on screens for phones? Seriously, have the base phone with all the guts, then magnetized clip-ons for either side that you can expand as far as you're willing to go. That way we could go back to reasonable sized phones, and the "look at me, I have a full-fledged desktop pressed to my face" crowd could still have what they want.