To add some insights into this, granted I'm a sample size of 1...

2.4GHz spectrum from my unit is fairly crowded.

But 5GHz lack of ability to penetrate many walls means it is almost entirely clear. And as of right now, I cannot see ANYONE else using 6GHz from my scanning, so I have 100% availability currently of this spectrum. Granted, 6GHz devices are much newer, as 5GHz goes all the way back to the original 802.11a spec, but even then, I see minimal usage on two channel ranges at 80MHz channel widths, with the four others entirely clear for my usage.

It isn't 5G. They're point-to-point fixed wireless bridges operating at 60GHz. I've had the service in the past without even realizing they were using fixed wireless in my previous apartment building. The service was solid, reliable, and maintained speed at all hours. But I do agree that the name is highly misleading at this point.

I've been negotiating with ISPs to get better internet service in my building. "Google Fiber" (which isn't even fiber, its fixed wireless access in my area), wanted to charge a reduced-rate-per-unit to deploy access into my building. The problem however, is that a large number of units dont need/want it. We have several elderly retired people who have no internet access at all. Anyone who would want/need higher end access, such as business w/ static IPs, would still need to get their own separate ISP, and pay for both. Anyone who would need higher bandwidth would need to pay for both. Anyone who would want cable television and/or telephone service would need to get those separately with no option to bundle. Its literally all about getting vendor lock-in and a single bill from the building, rather than one-bill-per-unit. They want to simplify things on their accounting department, that's about it, but it doesn't matter that it absolutely removes options from consumers.

Kids say dumb shit, film at 11

Battery Life.

Nuf said.

PCs still cannot even remotely compete w/ Apples actual real world battery life on their laptops. This is their killer selling feature. Everything else is just fluff. "I'll just sit at my desk all day plugged in" - well, good for you then, I guess? The rest of us will enjoy our portability.

But but but
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...

Oh, and
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

And there are plenty more, but i'm too lazy to google more than 5 seconds

Because there are essentially only 2 or 3 SMS gateways, which all have really damn good filtering at scale.

Not talked about much, but the backhaul SMS network (known as "aggregators") is similar to the internet in that there are large backhaul providers and then "last mile" providers (such as cell carriers, or companies like apple / google / twilio) that all run through the same aggregators.

The aggregators are pretty damn good at processing / filtering spam. Also, when you see text messages that say you can respond w/ "STOP", this is handled at the aggregator level, and will block that originator from issuing more messages your cell number.

100% the same setup here too. I've had a "catch all" email address that Gmail polls and fetches, then sorts based on the destination email address. Without this now, and due to other shit Google has been doing, I don't see a reason to keep Gmail as my email client anymore. There are plenty of feature-parity-enough web based email clients in the world now, I don't need them anymore.

Gmail being the email client effectively makes it a "single machine" - and this has worked well for over two decades until now.

Replying to myself since I was curious and had to look it up:

The International Space Station has about 100 kilowatts power generation capability.

The article says "datacenters" - plural, but for now, let's just assume a single gigawatt datacenter in space in 20 years.

That's about 7300 days.

A single gigawatt datacenter would consume about 10,000x the power generation capabilities of the ISS.

Starting today, we'd need to launch more than 1 ISS PER DAY to reach this goal in 20 years, for a single gigawatt datacenter.

I think this brings the absurdity of the situation into a little more crystal clear of a picture.

This is the same type of investor hype bullshit Musk has been peddling about sending people to Mars.

Throw out some wildly huge numbers with minuscule small timelines.

Why? Because they both own space agencies. That's it. That's all it is.

They're both already doing really cool and innovative stuff with their space agencies! They don't NEED to be blowing smoke out their asses, but they're constantly in this pissing contest to see who can come up with the most "believable" and yet wildly outlandish idea of their capabilities.

Oh, so THATS why IBM purchased RedHat, so that way they have an alternate name to scapegoat and not impact their own reputation or stock value!

"public" interest... you mean "billionaire owner" interests, am i right?

consolidation at this scale has never helped individuals or communities other than those at the top. this is just more of the same BS.

Okay, now show us the results. "like slack or teams" doesnt mean much, you're obfuscating what it is actually capable of. Are we talking a generic chat system, super basic? or IRC level with users/rooms? what about user registration, activation, moderation? Does it do multimedia like slack/teams? Can you audio/video call?

This right now screams of over-hyping its capabilities and the replacement of human developers even tho it can't do a fraction of what humans can.

When TVs were relatively shit-tier compared to what we have today, a 14in tube sitting on a desk... Movie going made sense.

The same cost/value of that old CRT then, now gets you 4K 65in at home. We've reached the point where it is "good enough"

Plus holyhell are snacks at the movies ungodly expensive. And the cost of the movie tickets themselves. I don't wanna spend $100-200 to take a family or group of friends out to the theater and get snacks there. We can have a more enjoyable experience here at home for a fraction of the cost with better food/snacks/drinks and enjoy things on our schedules, not someone else's. And once the movie is over, we can shift over to gaming on the same screen too!