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Comment Re:100M is enough (Score 1) 135

I'm almost positive my uncle is also on a community well, if not his own personally well. There's no outside major pipe line going into the mountains there.

OK, but I've actually lived where I've been on spring water with a sewage connection, and where I've been on well water without one and using septic, and meanwhile I had to get internet via a local WISP. So while the water and sewage needs can sometimes be handled locally, the internet needs cannot and never can be by definition. But also, the internet is much easier to bring in, I can't reasonably send water through the air (though it does arrive that way sometimes) and I certainly don't want to airmail my sewage.

In some scenarios, your best bet would be more cell towers or satellite, especially if the alternative is attempting to blast or bore through rock.

That's really important to Morlocks, but not so much for the rest of us.

Comment They aren't massive (Score 1) 97

It's a tiny system on a chip. The screens are annoying as fuck though. When I'm driving around at 60 plus miles per hour I do not want to have to fumble on the screen to adjust temperature control or change the radio station.

As for the rest of the computers and software that's why you're able to drive a car.

People insist on having cars that can accelerate like mad but get good gas mileage overall. Even if you don't personally care about gas mileage we have to force you to have a fuel efficient car or everybody would drive gas guzzlers because they're so gosh darn cool and the price of gas would become prohibitive. Folks do not realize how big an effect all these fuel economy saving features have had. Also and you think this would be important for nerds who are prone to asthma but we need software to manage emissions reductions.

Comment Re:humble opinion (Score 1) 18

Microsoft differentiated itself from slower-moving rivals by being willing to embrace (etc.) the hot new thing. Now Windows is on most desktops and we mostly use office, despite both being shit. (Yesterday, Windows 11 forgot how to pop up right-click menus from the taskbar and office forgot how to open new windows, while I actually had RAM free... I love rebooting!)

As such it makes sense to AI all the things since that's what stupid people have latched onto now, and there's no shortage of those.

Comment Re:Putin's "Project Panama" (Score 1) 41

Just because it is sold cheap doesn't mean it isn't valuable. It may just be that people who value it don't know it exists, or it isn't available due to international shipping, or they won't start looking for years to come.

That's why I get scanned books onto the Internet Archive. Maybe nobody will care, but maybe someone will 10 or 100 years from now.

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