Thats pretty impressive it it was that bad it generated that many reports.

Id only expect to see that in a alpha channel for those excited to try something new.

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But I could become a billionaire when my old computers become worth a fortune since there are no new computers!

No, im sorry I dont have time for that, but have you heard of Linus Torvalds?

I ran into my first people doing that for Jesus in many years last weekend. Was so bizarre. They just approached me randomly on the street.

Im still waiting for the foretold Oscar Mayer-Intel

One day I’ll own something that can tow, and be able to do things like this.

How much solar capacity do you usually take with you?

Hey just FYI, if you do decide to get something, the AC180 is last years model and is upgraded by the Elite 100v2 even though they still sell the AC180.

There’s a comparison on the elite 100 page about half way down, but if space is one of your concerns, it’s smaller, and 12lbs lighter for only 130wh less. It also chargers faster from solar than the AC180, but a little slower from wall power.

With 1800 watt output power (3600 surge) it can run anything a normal 120v outlet can run before tripping a circuit breaker, which will include any coffee machine, however if the coffee machine uses the whole 15amps while the heater is on, it’ll only run for around 45 minutes.

I have the 100 and really like it

https://www.bluettipower.ca/products/elite-100-v2-portable-power-station

Edit: oh and I wall charge mine. I have 200w of solar as backup for emergencies but I haven’t used it to power it beyond testing.

Ya, I don’t think you really need that much as a UPS but if you ran the AC180 in UPS mode, it would turn the fan on every 15-20 minutes as the circuity in the battery is still powered by the battery, even though the power is fed to your gear from the wall power. That results in it slowly going to 99% and then charging, which is noisy on the non-elite models in a quiet room. These LFP models are good for like 3000 cycles though, so using it as UPS it’ll still last a decade or longer with 80% capacity left over.

There’s the Elite 30 which can be a nice little battery backup / be portable and isn’t too much more expensive then the comprable SLA types that don’t last long.

Chech out what Bluetti offers. They’re LFP portable batteries but with a UPS features. You’ll want the elite versions though, all the others are noisy with the fan, which the elite series fixed. The tech is pretty new with these showing up in the home portable battery market, but they will last longer in both battery longevity and power during outage than the old SLA type ones. And if youre travelling / going somewhere and dont need the UPS active you can take it with you and be useful!

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Oh also, I remember Elon once talked about how the upcoming cars would get bored when they weren’t doing anything with all that compute while parked so they could do use that compute and pay people for it.

Paying for the compute isnt a terrible idea in the future, but become bored? LOL. Fucking crazy talk.

Like even if it was a true AI that could be bored. You’re now going to enslave it to do what you want on its free time?

Ya i agree. The whole infrastructure of how these work is flawed for a true AI/AGI.

It might be able to do a lot of cool things, but its fundamentally flawed at its core.

Someone will need to figure out something completely different for a true AI.

Dolby: we have a patent that ug let’s you do shit to a file so it comes out in another format. We own all formats now and forever!

I mean I don’t specifically know how much over capacity they are adding specifically so they can serve urban areas, but I do know that they are trying to reach the specifications set out by the FCC so that they can be considered broadband for rural applications. To qualify for that you need 100/20 down/up with latency requirements.

What I do know though is that they even with their full network, they aren’t reaching that in all rural areas yet, only some (I vaguely recall something like 40-60% have met it?), so it’s not like the existing network is over capacity specifically for urban right now, they still have more work to do on rural.

Edit: I think my 40-60 number is also about a year old, so its probably a little higher now.

Ya, that would get costs down further if they were able to amortize it over a larger quantity.

We could also get them pretty far out with starship refuelling, but refuelling a starship back to full capacity to then go somewhere would raise the cost a lot. But imagine a 7x 8m folded hexagon one sent out into deep space. That would be super expensive though, we wouldn’t get a lot of those haha.

This is all a massive big IF though. Starship being fully reusable like they think is still very far from a given, so none of this might come true in our lifetimes.

Oh, I wasn’t thinking swarms the same way these million sats will be, I was thinking just using the whole payload diameter of around 9m for the lens/mirror (minus any housing) but they could potentially just buy the whole starship and be cheaper than past options and that is the housing.

James Webb cost billions because of it’s complexity and launch costs, none of which is needed when there’s 9meters to work with without any complexity at all.

If you wanted, you could make a super crazy expensive satellite that worked just like James Webb and have a massive mirror as well, but that’s a bit different than my large quantity of cheaper telecopes in space. I wonder how big you could get the mirror if you did it James Webb style in starship.

While this very well might fuck up land-based stuff looking at space, people are often overlooking what this would mean to stellar photography from space.

If they can truly launch these million data center sats profitably, that means starship works. That means payload to space is relatively cheap.

That means we could also send large quantities of large telescopes into space on the cheap, and avoid the crazy expensive cant fail telescopes because the cost to get them up there isnt prohibitive and a technical failure in the telescope isnt a disaster.

Things very well might change, but it will also open up possibilities in the same area.

Space is very big. A million is nothing in the grand scheme of things like launching at a specific point.

You realize to reach rural / ocean areas and have continuous service, they do typically at some point fly over urban areas.

There are lots of pockets of rural all over the place and if you want to get it all, you’ll end up with a global service where you have bandwidth to serve urban areas.

Edit: they also serve air traffic where ground service isnt available.