if you’ve ever used one then you know that that is indeed it

it is unusable

nice comparison but hilarious to call AOSP not FOSS but the other ones somehow FOSS. do they know where the other ones come from?

Starlink is definitely faster than all but the most expensive GEO services (and those require specialized hardware)

there’s no fundamental physics limitation that makes this true. in fact, light in a vacuum travels faster than in glass fiber, so the theoretical latency of LEO internet is actually faster compared to fiber over a certain distance

Yeah it’s an enormous pain in the ass. I don’t bother anymore

I’m glad it works for you, but this would not work at my company. We have much stricter network controls

it’s also not always easy to buy those. nobody wants to use cryptocurrency unless it is easy to get cryptocurrency

Yeah, go ahead and install your own Linux distro. Now you can’t authenticate to the internal network or use any of the services.

At the end of the day, corporate being able to manage Linux is what makes it possible to be used in an enterprise environment. There are regulatory and auditing requirements that would otherwise make Linux not an option.

Many of us find ourselves to be more effective on Linux. There is some business requirement in terms of the service runs on Linux, but they didn’t have to let people have it on their personal workstations

that’s not true if it’s company managed

I would say service based

yeah this isn’t necessarily true. I work at a large company and run Linux full time.

they are not all the same.

we even have dedicated Linux IT

no! there is GSConnect which is a gnome extension that provides the protocol as well

right but unless you sign a contributor licensing agreement when you contribute then the copyright owner can’t relicense code you contributed.

so if you contribute to a GPL codebase it’s pretty legally perilous to try to unilaterally relicense code that isn’t “yours”.

this is pretty nebulous territory anyways, but I’d argue it’s pretty unethical to relicense to a more restrictive license essentially “taking” the GPL code from contributors

I work with a lot of gen z engineers that are very competent

Yes, with the current network this is true. I guess it feels like you’re discounting the future growth of the constellation

Beam steering largely mitigates most of these problems. Fiber is definitely more scalable, but also far more expensive (somehow…) to provide last mile to the entire planet.

that might as well be AI generated. there are no numbers, just some dumb matrix with arbitrary reasoning and now evidence. I’m all for evidence to the contrary, but this is not that

You seem to know a lot about these limits, can you elaborate?

I don’t think there are actual physics limitations on network capacity right now

ah. tailscale is great for that. I personally just leave my home assistant exposed behind a reverse proxy