if the incumbent(s) don't invest in infrastructure (which can actually be cheap) and start losing customers at 3mb to starlink, they can justify the expenditure.
I remember when speed cameras first became popular in europe. People would ride up on motorcycles, throw a tires over them and set them on fire.
I don't think vigilantes should go setting things on fire, but I also think corporate surveillance is way beyond unethical. Will we ever get a balance? Are individual rights a lost cause?
there was a paper (can't find it) saying finnish males using a sauna 4-7 times a week for 19 minutes at 174 degrees had a 66% less chance of all cause mortality.
Wonder if it just works out to be an extra year of life?
I don't know, "heavy technical improvements" might not be necessary, but I remember when skyrim first came out and it was sort of an amazing, immersive world.
I understand that maybe pixel graphics games can be really mindful and charming, but sometimes the AAA games have not only tech, but all the rest too.
Not that it's a sure thing. I also recall roger ebert reviewing transformers: revenge of the fallen
"Of course there will be many more CGI-based action epics, but never again one this bloated, excessive, incomprehensible, long (149 minutes) or expensive (more than $200 million)."
These are the kinds of things you look at and think - maybe I DO need night-vision, or a soldering iron with a cpu, or a thermal imager, or a steerable endoscope or now an acoustic imager....
Though all these satellites might give fixed-location folks higher bandwidth, they could also service many more concurrent mobile customers. Connectivity would probably be better too because more satellites would be in view.
Also, don't underestimate the benefit of robust competition, even if you don't use starlink.
I also think there are areas where automating things is clumsy.
My pet peeve is that macos is really unfriendly to people solving their own problems.
It is really hard to script anything.
I know that there are shell scripts. I know that there is applescript and automator.
In my experience, if you want to do some script-level task to make your life easier - the effort required is high and the chances of success are uncertain.
Is this by design? Do they want you to buy your tools and scripts instead of easily creating them yourself?
If you have the perseverance to automate things, you have to dig deep into the apple-invented compiled languages objective-c or swift.
Now with ai, I suspect people will be able to leapfrog over the no-scripting canyon and do the things they want.