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by simfree 3y ago
5G New Radio (5G-SA) at 600Mhz (band 71) can deliver useful signal about 20% further than LTE on 700Mhz (bands 12, 13, 14 & 17). We have seen this in action as many Cellspot and other signal booster users have retired these devices as t
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by simfree 3y ago
We know Microsoft experienced a full breach of Office 365/Microsoft 365 and Azure infrastructure by a nation state actor: https://www.imprivata.com/blog/strengthening-security-5-less...
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by simfree 3y ago
This type of company owned adjacent property is not legal in most countries, as it is akin to riders largely existing in a company owned town where said company can extract significantly more rent from each rider than they otherwise would,
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by simfree 3y ago
Meanwhile, you also get to contend with noisy neighbors causing the CPU steal, exhausting disk, ram & network I/O, and similar depredations, all while being at the mercy of a help desk that is often less responsive than a server yo
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by simfree 3y ago
This completely ignores how businesses treat Discover & American Express card holders. Sure, your average coffee shop with a square stand that pays an inflated flat percentage rate does not care what card you tap, but any small business
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by simfree 3y ago
Federated merge requests, wiki, issues and such would be a killer feature. I want to see all this data for all of the forks that are relatively close together from a single pane of glass. This would make collaborating and uplifting code bac
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by simfree 3y ago
Apple owns 70% of the mobile device market in the US, and is the exclusive app distribution channel on the that platform. Web Apps do not work right (especially when compared to the other major mobile platform) and Apple is making little ef
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by simfree 3y ago
Twilio runs into the exact same text deliverability issues in the USA that everyone is experiencing, there is no reason to pay them a premium when they have no ability to influence. Whether or not your text is caught by AT&T, Verizon, T
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by simfree 3y ago
Outsource it to a firm dedicated just to mail, like MXRoute.
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by simfree 3y ago
They pay Twilio through the nose for this service, compared to using other vendors that are less than a tenth the cost.
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by simfree 3y ago
Now even Google has dropped the (rarely functional) SIP support in the dialer despite almost all voice traversing SIP to smartphones today. Everyone has their silo'ed version of SIP plus a few extra features resold & repackaged as
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by simfree 3y ago
Initial roadway construction is using primarily federal dollars, but long-term maintenance is usually primarily funded by the state or local municipality.
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by simfree 3y ago
Is that why Texas property taxes are eye wateringly high?
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by simfree 3y ago
Battery cycles, number of cycles that dipped below 20%, State of Health, how many cells are out of balance and by how much (this stat is what causes full pack rebuilds) and total kWh charged and discharged. It's fairly easy to plug in
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by simfree 3y ago
Great, you should be specific when you say things, as your parent post said nothing about that being the salary of public workers in some hamlet you care not to name in Los Angeles.
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by simfree 3y ago
$1500 a year per resident for said hamlet to maintain roads, trim the palm trees, deliver police, fire, schools, review permits and inspect new construction, run an elected government, etc is a very low budget.
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by simfree 3y ago
Plenty of CAF, RDOF, BEAD and similar program funding went to forklifting ADSL2 cabinets into rural locales to provide the service OP mentioned. These were often back hauled by bonded SHDSL or similar Ethernet over Copper technologies, so y
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by simfree 3y ago
Remember, these grids are already running 220v and the average labor cost is very low. There are many use cases that make sense within said economy with cheap range limited electric vehicles that do not support fast charging. The calculus c
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by simfree 3y ago
Small electric vehicles are winning customers from gas, just look at the rise of small 2 and 4 wheeled electric vehicles in India: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/22/business/india-electric-vehic... https:&
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by simfree 3y ago
Canadians love their monopolies full stop. It's a cultural issue where each sector has its handful of heavyweights, of which you have a choice of 1 or 2 to use locally, and even if there is a third option most Canadians just won't
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by simfree 3y ago
This is why AT&T keeps looking for the next big thing that will net them double digit margins in perpetuity with minimal effort. They have bought and damaged the following assets in pursuit of this goal: DirecTV, HBO, CNN, Cartoon Netwo
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by simfree 3y ago
This really depends where you are physically located, the infrastructure available varies neighborhood by neighborhood, and in some cases block to block. Some have two GPON fiber providers, others have one XGSPON provider, and yet other nei
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by simfree 3y ago
There are plenty of places in Bellevue, Washington mere blocks from major Microsoft offices where only copper is available, and the VDSL2 on offer is intermittent due to the lead clad copper lines having water infiltration and being past th
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by simfree 3y ago
This is called pole attachment, and most pole owners offer this for tens of dollars a year per pole. No property owner wants additional poles put up, and it certainly won't be cheaper to buy and install a pole than just paying a few hu
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by simfree 3y ago
Especially with natural monopolies like infrastructure, there is no economic case to overbuild most power grids, water/sewer districts, Telecom infrastructure or natural gas networks regardless of regulation. The rare times you see ove
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by simfree 3y ago
We wouldn't necessarily see improvement, especially in a deregulated Telecom environment where you order new service and the technician gets you installed but knocks your neighbors on a competitor out of service, resulting in them sche
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by simfree 3y ago
Are those damages less than the money that Apple would make by imposing these terms? There are lots of potential use cases like an F-Droid equivalent which cannot be shipped on iOS with these current terms, but the actual commercial damages
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by simfree 3y ago
Gotta get past all the ICE drivers on the road in Wyoming with your extra torque :D Nevermind how that burns rubber like crazy...
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by simfree 3y ago
It's Wyoming, the drivers who have EVs are probably burning up quite a bit of rubber with harsh accelerations and decelerations unlike the median driver elsewhere. Only 800 people in the state even own an EV. As one of the select few E
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by simfree 3y ago
Not with the Core Technology Fee, nor with the Apple app review process standing in the way. These are severe restrictions that prevent something like FDroid from being operated on iOS.

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