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by callalex 3y ago
We’re going to get to the section of this video about ad-free YouTube, but first, a message from our sponsor, VPNOfTheMonth! <insert some scare mongering directly into the video stream that premium doesn’t remove>
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by callalex 3y ago
You’re still the product. YouTube screwed up their monetization scheme so badly that any content worth watching still inserts its own non-Google ads directly into the videos. So I would be paying to remove ads and…still see ads.
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by callalex 3y ago
The compression level of MMS is set by the carrier, and cannot be changed or even queried.
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by callalex 3y ago
Really? The lesson I learned is that if you make a product that the US government relies on, you are immune from prosecution. It works across industries from oil to manufacturing to computing.
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by callalex 3y ago
It’s holiday season, I still have a bunch of crappy quality calls with my family all the time. Talk to any doctor about their tele health experience, crappy WiFi gets in the way of them providing care coooonstantly. It’s WiFi that is the we
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by callalex 3y ago
That’s not what I meant/said. It’s insane to me that we don’t just throw more spectrum at the problem. WiFi has definitively proven its utility and popularity. It’s insane that we allocate more spectrum to things hardly anyone uses ins
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by callalex 3y ago
My point is that there is so much other stuff sharing 2.4 ghz and it makes no sense to also have the most used wireless protocol also stuck in that same congested area. If we actually allocated spectrum in proportion to how people actually
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by callalex 3y ago
Yes, they can advocate for getting better spectrum allocated to WiFi. They would have a strong case since WiFi is by far and away the most used wireless technology it’s just that nobody is really advocating for it to politicians in any mean
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by callalex 3y ago
> but you can't stop collisions with neighbors I’m not convinced this is true. Right now all equipment screams at full power all the time, but it doesn’t have to be this way. They control the spec. They could enforce self-limiting w
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by callalex 3y ago
I don’t deny that what I’m asking for is challenging, but if anyone would have the power and influence to pull it off it would be the WiFi alliance. Going higher and higher in the spectrum just sucks for the end user. Something in the 1-2 g
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by callalex 3y ago
The WiFi alliance seems to be singularly focused on corporate/institutional deployments of WiFi while ignoring the needs of most individual consumers. I guess that makes sense because that’s where the money is. The top priority of indi
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by callalex 3y ago
Im confused, everyone here is talking about improvements to video conferencing and streaming, but those applications use UDP instead of TCP so I don’t understand how this will change anything.
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by callalex 3y ago
While software certainly has improved phone photography, the sensors have gotten much much larger, and the lenses even more so (phone cameras are thicker and heavier now than they ever were in the 2000s) which is where much of the improveme
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by callalex 3y ago
It’s funny that as a young-ish American, this is not what I thought of at all. Instead when I hear VW I think of the company that destroyed the lungs of a generation with cheating on emissions tests. I think you are probably right about wha
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by callalex 3y ago
During the end of a dry summer, large swathes of California have the power intentionally shut off for days at a time if moderate to high winds are expected. In those cases there is no emergency at all, so using a car battery works great. As
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by callalex 3y ago
And yet they keep doing it, over and over and over and over again.
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by callalex 3y ago
If you find yourself on the “she shouldn’t have dressed that way” side of the argument, it’s probably time to take a step back and reevaluate.
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by callalex 3y ago
You are mixing AC and DC here.
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by callalex 3y ago
> Who's paying to expand the pipes to customers? The customers are. Comcast is charging every one of their customers $80+ per month to connect to internet infrastructure that they update maybe once every 20 years. They have massive
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by callalex 3y ago
I don’t see how that’s an obvious comparison at all? Food has a per-unit cost, while data packets (which is what I think you actually meant, not bandwidth) have at most a marginal cost that is nearly zero once bandwidth has been built and a
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by callalex 3y ago
https://www.ebay.com/itm/225089488340
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by callalex 3y ago
The seller is “UK In-Stock Components” I don’t understand why the author is being so coy about defending a scammer. https://www.ebay.com/itm/225089488340
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by callalex 3y ago
The people here honestly, genuinely believe that they will be the next Musk if they just code hard enough.
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by callalex 3y ago
Ok but reality doesn’t care much for your feelings.
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by callalex 3y ago
In amareicanese the government is called the administration.
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by callalex 3y ago
There is no world in which supporting an operating system for 14 years, 8 years past the support of the vendor, can be described as “extremely inconvenient”. Again, they are not deleting anything off of your computer so your snark about wip
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by callalex 3y ago
The point is that it’s intellectually dishonest to present a power generation technology and not even once mention how much power it generates.
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by callalex 3y ago
Was that really the important part of the whole debacle? Or was the important part the actions of the board?
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They have given you ample warning and did not stop you from downloading any games you purchased.
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by callalex 3y ago
> One thing this study didn't investigate is how much power it could be expected to contribute on an average trip – and that, along with space considerations, will be key to whether systems like this reach widespread deployment. Som

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