There are a lot of other chips that go into phones. Modems, etc. Broadcom makes shitloads of these things.

Please show proof of specifically anyone of consequence calling for Sharia Law. I want a name, and a quote. No generalistic fuckstickery like what you just wrote.

Next, show how that could even happen. Hint: it would require constitutional amendment. Go through the steps of how you get to 280 in the House, 67 in the Senate, and 3/5ths of state legislatures ratifying it.

Now kindly fuck off. Adults are talking that actually know how our government functions.

"bothsides" is lazy bad faith argumentation. Corruption is not a digital on / off. There is a scale of how corrupt each and every politician is, from not-corrupt-at-all to our current high office holders.

To put an equals sign between someone who fixes a parking ticket and the guy fleecing us for billions is unbelievably stupid and only serves to make you look ridiculous. Yes, both are degrees of corruption, and should be dealt with by jurisdictional authorities. But there is a gradient of "what a douchebag" to "he's tearing apart society for his own financial benefit" and about a billion points in between that all have a gradient of punishments from losing elections to federal prison.

But to go on equivocating and excusing unprecedented rank corruption and lawbreaking as some kind of two-wrongs-make-a-right my-tribe-versus-your-tribe schoolyard logic beclownery?

Is that really what you're going with?

Well hot damn, if you think the market is ripe for more competition, get down to the bank and get yourself a business loan and build a billion dollar fab that will be obsolete by the time you open it.

Have a fun talk with the loan underwriters. And maybe you'll learn why nobody else is doing that either.

High precision, high yield, high density lithography is hard, and burdened by patent hell by the companies that do it best. You can't get the machines to actually make RAM modules, because the company that makes them has months of their own production spoken for already by the incumbent competition trying to increase their own manufacturing capacities to get a larger slice of the backlog pie - they are going to be able to hit the buffet long before you.

Oh - once you do actually get a merchantable product, JEDEC will fuck you with a new DDR spec forcing you to retool or watch your market dwindle to embedded systems where they buy for pennies because it doesn't matter how fast the RAM is when the system only runs at 250Mhz.

I really don't think you want to get into a conversation about whom on the political spectrum is "outright lying about every issue imaginable and denying reality."

Stop chugging kool-aid. The GOP, it's members, and it's multi-billion-dollar right-wing media propaganda machine are lying to you WAY more than anyone else out there - except for maybe Putin and his government-scale propaganda machine.

Every tightie-rightie accusation is a confession of their own behavior.

Read your first sentence and stopped.

I don't care how "temporary" a President is, and how "outlasting" Congress is, if neither are doing their Constitutionally mandated duties.

The President should be executing the laws passed by Congress. He is not. In fact, he is regularly violating those laws.

Congress should be conducting oversight to make sure the Executive is executing their laws. They are not. They are putting on blinders, earmuffs, and yelling LA LA LA LA LA LA LA instead of doing anything about the blatant violations of law.

Even the judiciary is compromised - the trial and appellate judges are still doing their jobs, but SCOTUS is totally shitting the bed and making up shit that doesn't actually exist anywhere in law, or the Constitution.

This "temporary" damage is about as "temporary" as dropping a low yield nuke into a city. Will the entire city be glass? No. But it will be completely fucked for years longer than the prompt event that fucked it up to begin with.

And you don't see how the scientific method and peer review is meant to eliminate that bias?

And you don't see that as an outlier compared to all the other scientists out there with full postgrad educations that delivered important research to create the society we have today.

Why bother with this picking of nits?

Please point to anyone of consequence "calling for Sharia law."

We'll all wait patiently for your forthcoming evidence of your claim. You will not reply.

It doesn't matter what the plaque on the door is, if the output is still lies.

See: Department of Defense / Department of War bullshit.

It didn't even look like they saved a bunch of money on paper when you consider the ramifications of some of the critical things they cut. Example: the screw worm infestation in Texas / Oklahoma is going to cost us WAY more than the entirety of the DOGE cuts.

Penny wise, pound foolish.

And I'm addressing why massive radiators to shed hundreds of thousands of watts of heat won't work. The bigger they are, the more chance of them breaking and taking the whole thing out.

There is absolutely no common usage scenario where orbital data centers make sense, that doesn't make more sense being done right here on the dirt.

And we all know that increasingly large things in orbit never have a correlative increase in the probability of being hit by other things - grains of sand, micrometeors, other tiny things that aren't mapped capable of punching holes in your radiative surface and instantly leak out whatever refrigerant you are using to conduct the heat efficiently.

What's your magic fix for that? More fuel use to reposition the giant thing out of the way? Where is the fuel coming from, since these are disposable and won't be serviced at all?

The bigger the thing, the more fuel you need to move the thing. The more fuel the thing has, the heavier it is, and volume becomes bigger, which means more launch cost to loft it to begin with.

But you thought through all of that, I presume, before posting your "solution."

I don't, nor have I ever owned an Oppo phone. But I'm also not an ignorant idiot that wants someone else to answer their question for them, that they can easily answer themselves in less time than to ask. This is a site for people that have enough curiosity to be able to do that much, and quite frankly should expect to be mocked if they are so incurious as to not be able to type "oppo phones" into Google.

At some point, if someone is curious enough, they need to learn to answer their own god damn questions.

So what about the rest of the internet? Does it get to talk to these magical data centers in the sky, or does everyone have to get a Starlink terminal in order to make use of this?

Think about what you're saying, and think about the context of a cellular network. Yes, we all have cellular modems in our pockets, that talk to distributed cellular networks. Those anntenna have back-haul network that is NOT cellular, which routes you through fiber to the cellular provider's core router, where you enter the internet as packets that look largely the same as every other packet, going where you need to go.

Nobody has to install 4G cards in every fucking server for you to use it on your phone. This is exactly the same as that, which means that "back haul" network is still susceptible to attack, just the same as central switching offices of telcos are still centralized equipment centers.

Nothing about Starlink changes the fact that at some point you EXIT THE STARLINK NETWORK to get where you actually want to go.