jawsua

@jawsua@lemmy.one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mycology⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  oh goodness, Maynard should have been the composer for the Dune movies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I live at a place where I needed Starlink so I feel entitled to comment.

  Ordered, and it took 6-7mo to allow me to start. In the meantime T-Mobile Home Internet let me start immediately. I kept both because when one had issues the other would be better (storms, updates, tower maintenance, downtime, Russian attacks, etc). But I noticed that Starlink kept getting worse. Lower speed, worse jitter/ping/bufferbloat/etc. it would routinely fail to hit 100mbps down with good sky view, mounted to a pergola. TMHI would routinely be above 250mbps, and I move to using it more often. Eventually a local ISP got a grant to roll out FttH in my area and I got rid of both.

  It’s been a bit over a year since then, maybe things got better. But I noticed Starlink overselling their nodes, being non-communicative for support issues, and missing these easily attainable FCC goals to people that often have much less options than I did. There’s no reason for them to get absolutely wiped by a cell phone tower. Hope they made enough by packing on customers, because they just lost $900m

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cooling Paint: How to Make Surfaces Stay Cool in the Sun⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I understand it right, it’s not a laser shooting heat into space. It doesn’t require a clear sky to function. It’s just moving the heat effectively away from itself by bypassing the atmospheric insulation, wherever that might be. And that goes for pointing it as well, except you wouldn’t really want it under direct sun for best heat transfer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based Lucille Ball⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Battleship, for sure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leased Solar Systems Are Failing Across America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, given 10 million years head start plus building time, you could use a Caplan Thruster stellar engine to make that 100% sure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It would be less dramatic though⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw someone once theorize that the console designers knew their creations would get dumped with tons of heat and current under battleshort conditions, and had to come up with some fallbacks. So they just filled it with a ton of mass to soak it up as long as possible, a big hunk of basalt. Unfortunately, when it gets overloaded, it tends to explosively fracture. But that’s better than cooking every ensign to touch a panel when under fire

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But he must have gotten the joke at least by the time he melded with Bones to transfer his katra. And he never mentioned it after, probably because he realized how much they liked it