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watch, or leave running as background noise …
Any recommendations for shows that make good background noise? I wish they had more concerts.
kids these days mostly use youtube or twitch for background noise i think
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But with lasers, it makes sense to route your packets via space. For example traffic to a different continent would be faster (and cheaper) through space. Furthermore, I assume lasers have more capacity than gateways, so they could increase capacity of one satellite by bundling with more gateways.
I thought that Starlink always "landed" to a base station back in the same jurisdiction? I think relaying through space could open a regulatory can of worms.
> "We actually serve over lasers all of our users on Starlink at a given time in like a two-hour window" I can't figure out what this sentence means.
I think it means pretty much all Starlink users have at least some data go over laser links every two hours. Which is a bit of surprise to me, if true. I have a year or so of fine-grained latency detail taken with IRTT on a Starlink connection, I should sit down and see if I can see times I'm using a satellite. Latency is highly variable in Starlink though so it's pretty noisy data.
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Netflix uses 3-7GB an hour. The average person is spending 4-5hrs a day watching TV. I’d say most are above 100GB/month. But that’s me.
Who has 4-5 hrs a day to watch television? ..or am I completely out of touch?
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Is that still a thing with young people? I associate leaving the TV on in the background as an older generation thing.
I'm middle aged. This kind of background noise sounds terrible to me. Maybe I just grew up in a quiet place.
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_actively_ watch? Probably not many. Having it on as background noise however? 5 hours is pretty easy
Is that still a thing with young people? I associate leaving the TV on in the background as an older generation thing.
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The distinction here is that ships are built by nongovernmental private enterprises, whilst Starlink is operated by a nongovernmental private enterprise. With a somewhat volatile executive. Which isn't unprecedented. But it's also far from the equivalence your comment suggests.
The US military already uses commercial satellite communication systems.
and commercial cargo transport.
And lots of other stuff.
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At the ground stations
Starlink is rolling out "direct to cell" connections, where the satellites connect directly to GSM cell phones. Is any ground station involved in a cell to cell call?
But practically what happens is the phone connects to a sat, the sat connects to a local ground station, then across conventional fiber to another ground station, up to a sat and then down to the other phones.
The are likely doing that because regulation and so on. But the do what you suggest.
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How do you spot a satellite? I've never seen one.
I can guarantee you you have. You probably just thought it was a star or a plane. They move but relatively slowly (even a fast LEO sat will cover the sky in about 5 minutes). They look just like a star apart from moving slowly. Depending on angles they can look pretty dim, especially the latest SpaceX sats. But the ISS is usually really bright because it's so huge and technically it's also a satellite. You can tell t…
The flashing of satellites will generally be gentler than the short burst strobing of an aircraft.