You might be right. I wonder about the bandwidth too. Starlink is already over subscribed and starting to enforce limits on its unlimited service.

These satellites would be in LEO and fall back to Earth after 5 years anyway. They are thinking like Starlink where they need to launch thousands a year to maintain the constellation. The server hardware will be obsolete by then anyway. What sucks is that then we can't buy it used for cheap, and the fact that all that crap is burning up in the atmosphere and releasing who knows what.

If the cost to orbit is low enough, and there are no land taxes or electricity costs in space, and it solves the locality and latency issues for them, it starts to make more sense. Watching Scott Manley's videos, I was surprised by the thermal and electrical realities of putting stuff in orbit, but it's actually not nearly as bad as you might first assume.

I suppose to be fair when it comes to data centres the NIMBYs are probably right.

Scott Manley did a video about this, and it's not quite so half baked.

Teams works?

Seriously, Teams is one of the worst bits of software I have ever used. It seems like it was designed to be unspeakably awful in every way. It's quite remarkable that they made it quite so shitty.

I haven't used Element, but I'd be surprised if it was somehow worse. Teams is like the absolute zero of usability, I don't think you can go lower than that without breaking the laws of physics.

GPUs usually have a serial number as well. They will ban not just your CPU, but also your GPU, and probably any USB device with a serial number as well.

TPM 2.0 includes rate limiting, and in most cases now it is actually an fTPM built into the CPU which is even more secure. This 45 minute brute force attack doesn't work.

Secureboot is not a sandbox. It is a certificate chain that validates that the OS bootloader, kernel, and basic drivers have not been tampered with. Malware used to replace the NTFS drive in Windows so that anti-virus software couldn't delete its files, and it effectively sandboxed the whole OS by controlling what it could see on the disk. That became impossible once Secure Boot was enabled, because the NTFS driver had to be signed with the Microsoft key.

If you care about security, you can use the same measure to make sure your Linux OS hasn't been tampered with. You can load your own key and sign your own kernel too, it's a mandatory requirement of Secure Boot.

The problem on Earth is mostly NIMBYs, and also a bit the time it takes to set up new electricity supplies.

It looks like the cost to orbit is going to decrease substantially, and solar up there can cover all the power needs 24/7, and so far Space NIMBYs have not had much effect on those mega constellations.

They used to say this about gay people too, but in fact in both cases there is a biological cause.

In fact it would be odd if transgender people didn't exist, given that conditions where part of the body develops as the opposite sex to the rest of it are far from unheard of in humans. The idea that the brain would somehow be excluded has no scientific basis.

Has the "it was worse 1000 years ago" line every worked on anyone?

True. It's never just one bigotry.

The one he was grooming to be his protege turned out to be transgender, and thus started Musk's descent into transphobia. It's not clear if he was always quietly transphobic, or if he just can't stand the thought of his designated successor being a woman.

To be fair I do tend to strip it down a bit on my systems. For a year I ran 10 on 4GB of RAM and a SATA SSD.

Interesting. That is the opposite of my experience. Chrome is noticeably faster than Firefox on every machine (desktops, laptops, Android phone). Even with the limited uBlock Lite on Chrome.

From a technical point of view that makes sense. Chrome has some performance features that Firefox lacks. Execution of Javascript while it is also being compiled is one example.

I stick with Firefox for other reasons, but speed is not one of them. Then again, although I rarely use Chrome these days, it never crashes, and certainly never did back when I was using it as my main browser.