No way I am going to have a massive and expensive piece of equipment run unmanned. My family owns three tractors ranging from a small 20 horse ($18,000) to a 75HP ($60K.) Then add in the implements.

Now if you have a perfect piece of land under perfect conditions, then this may work for row crops.

My usecases are for livestock, bushhogging, and hay. There are too many variables that can come into play. Hell, if you get distracted even for a few seconds, disaster can easily follow.

The only row crops that I mess with is a tiny 5 acre lot that the church uses as a community food bank. Even then there is always an anomaly that requires constant attention so no one gets hurt or something is damaged.

If you think about it from an enterprise perspective, VMware is a dying product.

On an intel desktop, you have several high quality FREE options for a hypervisor, and if you are on a M1 Mac, parallels and opensource is your only option. Vmware is vaporware on that platform.

If you have an existing datacenter with VMware, you are getting screwed with license fees, so you have either moved workloads to a cloud somewhere, or are considering an alternative hypervisor, or moving applications to other technologies like Kubernettes. VMware has encouraged this by their very aggressive HCL updates with ver 7.0.


New companies/datacenter updates are usually building the data centers in a cloud, or are looking at anything but Vsphere due to its costs.

Small organizations and new companies simply can not afford VSphere and its hardware requirements. Successful small companies grow into big companies and become locked in datacenter technologies. VMWare has forgotten this. VMware has also forgot that systems admins love to experiment. Forcing them to either pay $200. a year to run the software on current hardware, or forcing them to consider piracy, is a bad idea.

Finally opensource hypervisors and management systems have really matured in recent years. Look at xcp-ng + Xen Orchestra ( paid or compiled free version) or KVM for examples. In the Microsoft world, hyperV is also attractive for small companies to start with.

I know from experience, it is trivial to migrate from vSphere to xcp-ng with XOA. For many organizations this is all that they need.

Every ham radio operator out there who starts to experiment a little bit, runs into this.

When running linear sats, or listening to a repeater offset, there is a little delay and you slow down until you learn ignore it, or run a pair of headphones with. a direct feed from your microphone.


Now the phenomenon is even more common with SDR and remote listening via remote web sdr sites.

If a state wants their rural areas to compete in the 21st century, then they can work with private enterprise to bring things out.

I moved to rural Arkansas after spending 25 years living in major US cities in order to get decent internet.

Nearest town of 100 people to me is about 5 miles of dirt roads, and the nearest walmart town is 10 miles of dirt and five miles of pavement away.


Why? Because several years ago Arkansas decided to funnel the USF ( universal service fund) and other grants away from telcos and opened it up to companies who can demonstrate that they can deliver a min of 1gig fiber to the rural areas.

The Co-op electric companies jumped on this and created ISPs. Right now they are ahead of schedule and something like 99% of rural arkansas that is served by Co-OPs will have 1 gig fiber avalible by 2025.


The hilarious thing is that the cities can not keep up and now have sub par internet than to the homes/farms in the rural areas.

Well, and the fact the the US has a dramatically varied climate than to Italy. Summers where I live (Arkansas) are 90-100 degrees every day at 90+% humidity. Then the winters run 20-30 degrees with also 90+humidity.

Really? I am in rural Arkansas and just had a dual stage 4ton heatpump installed for my shop a couple of months ago. I litterally called the HVAC company and they installed the next day.

Where are you in the US that you have to wait more than a week or two to have a heat pump installed?

Is it just me or is this sounding like MS FUD spewing from Gates mouth in the 90s? I guess I am getting old.

Why does a LEFTIST not recognize the right to self-defense?

For the right of self-defense to be acknowledged, then the state has to allow that the individual has ownership of their own life and the fruits of their labor. Thus individuals can use whatever force is needed in order to protect their lives, and the fruits of their labor.

When the state does not allow self-defense, then it is obvious that its subjects do not own their own lives or the fruits of their own labor.

Most people do not understand that gun control has nothing to do with guns violence or safety. The US already has plenty of laws on the books to deal with that. They just need to be enforced. Gun Control is all about CONTROL. Armed citizens will not willingly allow themselves to become subjects. For the LEFTISTS to create their society based on positive rights, the US population must be subjects

What a crock!

The reason americans are consuming more non-US material is because people have access to it. We have hit the threshold where almost all people own a roku or something similar.


The lockdowns forced people to have more time on their hands. Hollywood did not release or produce their usual amount of crap, and there was no real sports this year.


The more adventurous went to other parts of Netflix and Amazon video and realized that there is some decent stuff out there, and started to look around in their Roku for more.

BTW I looked it up. Only 62.7% of Americans live in an urban area. Since that accounts for only 3.5% of the land mass in the US, the remaining 37.3% of Americans live in the other 96.5% of the country.

Can you guess where the airports are located? They are located in the 3.5% of America and exist only to move people around in that 3.5% urban area.

There is some train transport in the rural areas, but in reality it only serves to transport people from various points in the urban 3.5% of the country. Unlike Europe, it is not a realistic option for most people since it is completely unreliable in the rural areas. The people who live in the rest of the country relies on ICE based technology to live their daily lives.

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Lol. We have someone who must think that no-one lives in flyover land. There is a significant portion of the US where people lives three or more hours from even a secondary public airports. Pick any state that is west of the Mississippi. Then add in the rest except the few eastern states where the entire state fits into western counties. This is the population who uses ICE based vehicles the most since they have no choice for bother inter and intra regional transportation.

Yes this (much more then 0.1%) will stall the shutdown of ICE based transportation until alternative vehicles have over 500 mile range, easy to access and readily available charging. Next these rural areas will either need to have realistic mass transit both inter and intra region, or ICE will stay around until the alternative technology reaches the point of quick charging which can allow for travel patterns similar to ICE based technology.

What I see happening is the the urban centers will focus on building out their mass transit systems as a way to deal with reduced road taxes which is based on auto fuel sales and to reduce congestion. This will lower the demand for vehicles in those regions. The vehicles that will be marketed to the regions will be small short range vehicles ( something like a Leaf) which is designed for personal chores and to transport people to mass transit stations. Think of how people use cars in middle to northern Jersey. Fast forward fifty years and 100+ miles from all of the major US cities will be something simular. If you look at the UK and much of Europe, this is exactly how towns are laid out. There are still rural areas with out mass transit, and their economy is based on owning ICE based transportation.

You must not live in the US. So you have the option of mass transit. If you do live in the US, then you live in one of the major cities.

People in rural areas must use their cars for commuting and travel. These people typically are at least 3-5 hours from an airport or train station.

One of the major hurdles that must be addressed with electric cars in the US is that we either need to invest in a realistic and useable national mass transit system which has access to rural america.

I have seriously considered an electric car for my two homes (central Oklahoma) and my soon to be retirement home in rural Arkansas.

Neither case is realistic for electric. In OKC my commute is 80 miles each way with ideal weather conditions. This leaves out a Leaf. There are NO charging stations available to me. The Tesla station would be a 30 mile out of the way drive.

My rural home in arkansas is over 100 miles from the nearest charging station and to do something like travel to my family in south st louis, would require traveling 280 miles with no access to a charging station until I reach St. Louis. That station is 40 miles from parents home ( out of the way.).

I would love to have an electric car. the lower maintenance appeals to me. Once the range of the cars get to be a standard of 500 miles and the charging stations get into the rural areas, it will be generations before people switch from gas.

The common carrier statutes are about to be applied to social media. Zuck is trying to get Fecebook out of the focus of this mess.

I have an electric bike and they are a great idea.

The problem with them is twofold. First they are two fast for bike lanes, and too slow for car lanes.

Next until a $3,000 bike is considered no different than a $3,000 motorcycle or used car, there is no point to own one. If a bike gets stolen, the police will do nothing about it. If a thief is caught with a bike, nothing is going to happen to them. This has to change.

Every single IT person....

Hell no.


Bring back a macbook where you could upgrade the ram, upgrade storage. Then add in at least a LTE Cat-18 modem and we are talking.


Then let me have the option of a rugged macbook also upgradable, and has a CAT-18 LTE modem.


Until then WSL + x410 for me. I hate desktop linux it always seems to break when I am stuck with a crap internet connection.