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My daily boot into Linux I'm prompted by no end of updates. Hundreds of megabytes of core libraries, fonts, office suites I never asked for but are installed by default, and of cou…

I suspect it's the same reason why Microsoft just doesn't sell a version of Windows without telemetry for a flat rate: there is just too much money on the table for tracking and se…

Interesting! One of my goto's for programming is the soundtrack from the game LA Noire, with rain/storm sounds in the background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiGKxCAg_0o&list=P…

Thanks for the reply. First, while I probably have a few thousand hours in the F18 in DCS, and a few thousand takeoffs and significantly fewer landings, I'm just a flight simmer, w…

... and trained enough to handle any possible combination of inflight emergency, equipment failure, change of weather, safetly handle any last minute directive or change by ATC, et…

I've been a fairly serious flight simmer for about 20 years now, including 13 years of DCS, and have flown the DCS F-18 since it's initial release 4 years ago. This topic gets disc…

It can be hard for Linux fans to admit when anything on Windows is better, but Voidtools's Everything is one. I've used (and still use) most file indexing and search tools in Linux…

I'm curious if anyone has a similar image of the shoreline of the west coast of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington state, etc.

I've been wondering how the EV adoption will play out in Canada. For example, the city I live in with a population of 162k had a record all time low of -48.3 C, and average lows in…

> This happened maybe 10-15 times The fact that you tried this many times kind of makes you lose all credibility... > Deliveroo are so much better it's not even funny. It's like re…

If they're not connected, then they're just two antennas. What happens when you get far away from your wifi hotspot or a cellphone tower? The voltage/energy transmitted becomes van…

Thats interesting, thanks for pointing it out

I had read the LOTR several times, but it wasn't until I listened to it as an audiobook did it click for me just how much of the spoken dialog in the movies is pretty much word-for…

It's also the ongoing cost of the voice and data plans, replacement cost of the phone if/when it breaks, replacement cost of the phone when the $3 Trillion dollar tech company forc…

Running some "last mile" type infrastructure would help hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people in Canada who live close to cities. > Limited funds Using the term "Limited…

Yes, I won't disagree that running cable or fiber is expensive, but I'd like to see a push to run cable or fiber to places like ours which are on a major highway, and only a few ki…

Is this really reasible to scale for a company without their own launch platform though? As a Canadian living in a "rural" area, 15km from a municipality of 160,000 people with no …

I don't know enough orbital mechanics to understand the feasibility, but it's fun to consider that putting a shade over some of the hotter cities of the world - Phoenix for example…

It would be easier to attack/sabotage/JAM/DOS the ground stations.

I second this. If your goal is to release it publically, chances are most of your dirty laundry and uglier hacks are either pain points that are systemically hard (installation, di…

His show is a discussion and an interview, not a scientific debate, thesis defense, or a court hearing. It's up to us as listener to do as you say, use an open mind and question th…

I'm in Ontario, Canada, 46.5 degrees latitude and typing this on Starlink. Even with the occasional dropouts Starlink is 10-100x better than any other option that we have here (the…

Thanks for the reply, that image is pretty compelling, It seems that space based telescopes could be substantially larger than Earth based telescopes, based on not having to build …