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SpaceX Starlink Satellites Have to Dodge Objects in Orbit Nearly 140 Times Every Day

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  • Yeah, before Starlink I was paying $150/month for 15 Mbps down, usually getting half of that or less, and it was transmitted via radio so it always stopped working when it rained. It was barely usable, but too important to stop paying for.

    Now I pay a little less and get 100-150 Mbps down, and the rain usually doesn't affect it. Latency is better too.

    And I'm just 20 minutes from a fairly large city in the US. There are a lot of areas with less service than I had.

    Musk can eat shit, and I hate giving him money, but Starlink has made a really big difference.

    • Meta will kill small instances! Please read.

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  • It's not easier for them, and once there's enough people to matter then it's too late to kill it. The fediverse is growing, and they want to stop that before the fediverse is big enough to matter.

    • Meta will kill small instances! Please read.

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  • that is happening regardless and is not a harm that is a result of federation

    Yes, it is. Read this: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

    There goal is to launch a twitter competitor with a lot of users and make money off advertising.

    They can do that without integrating with the fediverse. The reason they're going to integrate with the fediverse is to embrace, extend, and extinguish.

    • Meta will kill small instances! Please read.

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  • People have articulated all kinds of actual harms, including two possibilities in the OP, but frankly they're irrelevant.

    We know what Meta's goals are, and we know they have absolutely no moral standards whatsoever. Exactly how they try to accomplish those goals doesn't matter. We shouldn't give them the opportunity to try anything.

    We should be scared of Meta, and we should keep them as far away as possible. Anything else is reckless and stupid at best.

    • Linux gamers, what distro are you currently on?

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  • Unfortunately it's pretty much impossible to support Nvidia on Linux unless you have a large enough team to test each of their GPUs individually and find workarounds for all of the bugs. Their Linux drivers are really bad.

    The bigger projects have been able do that, but if it's a relatively new project with only a handful of people working on it, and it's not used on the steam deck, there's basically no chance it'll support Nvidia.