I was just going by what the article said, thanks for explaining.

The article says that Ukraine has been assisting in opposing groups in the region funded by Russia. So is this the pot calling the kettle black?

I’ve got the update waiting to be installed. I read the reviews and haven’t installed it. But it nags me every few hours.

I’ve been a Linux sysadmin for decades and Windows for the year 8 years or so. I started using Windows with an air of contempt, and still do. I hate myself for saying this, but Powershell is better than bash. Bash is very limited if you consider only bash. For bash to be useful you need the entire GNU suite with grep, cut, awk etc.

I don’t think this technology is intended to be used for global internet. But for giving access to a remote town, this is many magnitudes lesser in cost than a satellite.

A brief internet search tells me that a Starlink satellite is ~$1 million apiece, and lasts 5 years. With the additional cost of the launch the annual cost is ~$300,000 per year per satellite. You can work out the cost for 10 masts and tell me that its much cheaper.

From a consumer perspective, Starlink is amazing. Fast, relatively cheap, available anywhere. From a labour and material cost, its incredibly expensive. If a town can be serviced by cable, wireless, this new laser or whatever then the economical and environmental impact (in terms of materials) are a fraction.

Whilst masts will face the same prejudice as windmills for destroying landscapes, Starlink has already been causing issues with stargazing and night sky pollution. And this is only the first commercial venture for low-orbit internet. I can imagine there shall eventually be multiple of these setups, each with thousands of satellites (Starlink is at 7k+ now I think) which will only exacerbate the issues.

The point being, that having other technologies with overlapping abilities isn’t a bad thing. Choice is good.

Hang on that’s not a fair comparison. So you will need to deploy some masts to reach remote areas, got it.

Satellite internet then needs to fire a satellite into space to cover the area of which now there are thousands of then And the satellite has a shelf life and will eventually burn up in the atmosphere requiring repeated deployments.

Masts sounds easier.

Comparing Nextcloud to O365… well, I think you’re missing the point and I’ll just leave it there.

Yeah this is true. I sometimes need to stop myself in a project with “don’t let perfect get in the way of good”, else I end up pouring time and energy on what is really not all that important. The same can be applied to a lot of things, including services purchases.

I can see there being companies looking for alternatives and then saying to themselves “but feature X and Y are such nice things to have and alternatives A and B aren’t as good in those areas!”.

I think a good example if Entra Conditional Access. It is a powerful security tool that pulls in information from other MS services, device health, etc. and apply other policies based on criteria. Google and AWS have similar alternatives, but I don’t think I have found an alternative. But also, this is not a critical system, its just nice-to-have.

Okay just take my Microsoft example and template it for Google and AWS, the same point applies.

I’m hoping for a home-grown alternative to be born and adopted.

I agree they should be sourcing local services, but I don’t think there is a service offering that is comparable today. Microsoft’s iron grip on businesses is due to multiple services all working togethor, easily administrated, highly customisable. OS, Entra, Intune, Exchange, Defender for Endpoint, Sharepoint, Teams each are on their own are not that great, but all togethor for a single fee with support (key for businesses) is attractive. An open source, or Eurorpean alternative is likely some years away but I read on Lemmy a few weeks ago of several initiatives that look promising.

This is for their cloud services, not operating system.

Oh yes I know this feeling. Even building new VM template it was always a ^2 disk size.

I find 22T to be perfect. When formatted it is just a little over 20T making a satisfying total size round number.

What were the benefits

Same problem for CGNAT users

I can’t find the original thread now but there was some drama surrounding the author of this project and his views on gender language.

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814

This was also his project at the time. Shame I can’t find the Lemmy post.

I get warm and fuzzy when I see another user from our instance :)

I expect it’s actually a political piece attempting to further the rhetoric that America is up in flames. And likely so they should.

But also, McDonald’s prices are outrageous now. I can feed my family at a sit in restaurant for a similar price.

Thank you for this insight. I’ll be more aware if this in the future.

I’ve never really understood the whole ADHD thing. They never spoke about it when I was a kid, and I’m skeptical about it now. Probably me just being an old codger.

But something that happens all the damn time is during my driving. I listen to an audiobook for any journey but I end up relistening to the same part constantly rewinding because I get distracted either just in my own thoughts or to what is happening around me. And this meme depicts exactly that. Interesting.