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  • How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?

  • Just here to comment that I only pasted the title of the article as the title of the post. I find the content of the article interesting. I'm not actually asking that question, though answer it if you please.

  • How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?

  • There will be no repairs in space. Everything they launch is set and done and comes crashing back in the atmosphere 5 years later. They fully expect radiation and debris to render the space data center satellites unusable after 5 to 7 years (in the article). We all know that after 5 years those chips will be obsolete anyways.

    This is a huge issue, the amount of mass being sent into orbit that is planned to just burn up in the atmosphere 5 years later.

  • How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?

  • The article goes somewhat in depth about it. Basically, heat dissipation in space is a solved physics problem. It is now in the engineering domain to try to make it more lightweight, efficient, scalable and ultimately cheap. Ars Technica does reference a great video by Scott Manley where he just does the math to figure out how large the heat sink panels need to be. His back of the envelope math leads him to believe that a starlink sized solar panel or something in that order of magnitude will be enough.

  • How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?

  • Though I am confident they are going to try really hard to make it work. They just want to time it so that VC doesn't hold the short end of the stick when the music stops (lol I love mixing analogies like that). I am worried of the impact of launching so many vehicles into space. They will launch a lot of vehicles, there is no denying that, even if it doesn't get to 1M satellite constellation. All the shit they send to LEO will have to fall back down eventually. It will burn up in the atmosphere. That's a lot of extra stuff in the atmosphere. That's also a lot of stuff up there that will interfere with astronomy. A lot of stuff that can lead to Kessler syndrome.

  • How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?

  • We live in the same word as billionaires. They exist, they don’t exist in a vacuum though maybe, briefly, they should.

  • If you could see one statistic above every person's head, that is updated in real time and never goes away, what would you choose?

  • I just want a music player indicator to see what they are listening to without have to listen to their music. What they listen to can be pretty telling.

    Would be magic if I could press pause as well, for the people without headphones on the train.

  • Computers can't do everything

  • Neither can a dead deer on the side of the road

  • Someone put up a tent on their balcony to escape their heat-trapping apartment during the night.

  • Mosquitos: “looks like meat is back on the menu boys!!”

  • Friends claim influencer injected himself with gold to gain “superhuman” powers before his death

  • Can he talk to Mitch? We’re trying to hear from him

  • The Ol' Switcheroo

  • Yet Roombas exist in the wild, how strange

  • French town is switching their computers to Linux. They will no longer purchase Microsoft Windows or Microsoft Office

  • Paraphrasing from the video: it’s a small town (2k people) in the Loire region. They claim that the transition to Linux wasn’t as hard as anticipated, meaning it wasn’t as hard to teach town officials to use it as they thought. Users are happy to see their machines run faster on Linux than on bloated Windows They are looking forward to saving money on SW but also on equipment since they don’t have to buy new machines for the Windows 11 planned obsolescence madness. However, the main reason the town switched was for privacy. They handle confidential info and are betting on Linux track record as less of a target of ransomware and other exploits, hopefully protecting their citizens data better.

    10/10, who ever the mayor or city manager is, I applaud their clear mindedness and courage to make this transition. Hopefully, seeing the benefits, more towns will follow suite.

  • My steam machine arrived!

  • My threshold is $10. Not $10 discount. $10 or less total price w/o tax. I’m gonna wait a long time.

  • Do you buy PC games from third party key sites or from Steam?

  • I’ve used Kinguin a couple times to get keys for games so I could buy them at sales price during regular price season. It worked twice for me but don’t know if they can be trusted, do your homework

  • Anybody? Thought I'd ask here. Poor little guy

  • It was also pretty disgusting to clean. Always a mess of wet gunky hair in the brush and dirty water bin. It sadly didn’t clean super well but was better than not cleaning.

  • Framework proved repairable laptops can work, but almost nobody is willing to buy one

  • I don’t understand what you mean in your first point. There are clear pathways for companies and schools to buy in bulk on the framework website. Not saying that FW is successful in that way but it is there.

    I agree on your second point but would tie it to marketing. Having your laptop on sale at Costco is a marketing strategy, which for better or for worse, FW doesn’t do right now (and probably doesn’t have the ability to do)

  • Valid point

  • What is your secret? The doom rectangle cannot be evaded…

  • Anybody? Thought I'd ask here. Poor little guy

  • That’s a scooba. Rare obscure product no one bought. It had a water tank and scrubbed your floor while vacuuming up the dirty water.

  • Apocalypse Bunker Fails as Wealthy Residents Turn on Each Other

  • Genius. I’m getting my asteroid ready. Get your telescope lined up.

  • Not owning makes you less materialistic and is a virtue

  • It’s kinda what I’m getting at. To me it feels like the debate is really centered around the CD, the physical media. I wish it was more focused on the DRM side and the licensing. Sony doesn’t want you to own. Their method is the DRM and their new enforcement mechanism is to force the DRM through a digital only store.

    Instead of pushing back in the digital aspect I wish we were pushing back more on the DRM aspect. I wish there was a way to resell a digital copy on a digital second hand market.

    However, following this perspective the big casualty will be brick and mortar game stores. They need physical media to get people in the store to buy merch and other trinkets. I don’t really know what to think about that. I’m not super attached to those physical stores to start with.