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Sounds like a portmanteau of republican and pedo to me

If you're forward thinking for future speed generations you definitely should go with singlemode fiber, by the way. Multimode is mostly done at 10Gbit/s as far as I know. There are some things like 40G and 100G SR4, over multimode but they use 4 fibers in each direction. Whereas I have personally installed 100G bidirectional lines already on singlemode over 10 km already, that's easily commercially available (though it would be ridiculous for home use).

I think the price difference between 10G single mode and 10G multi mode gear has also decayed enough that taking the step up to singlemode is no big issue anymore.

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You're right and I'd go a bit further: It's none of their business what your age even is, they need to know only one bit for their legal duties, over or under age of majority.

Basically what is really needed is a certificate of majority digitally signed by the government bound to some identifier, email address or full name. All this uploading faces or ID card scans is ridiculous.

Well I have never tried to deliberately break a fiber, usually my goal is to have them work when I'm done. But the bare fibers without mantle are really thin (250 micrometer is typical, 125 for core and cladding, and 125 around that for the coating) and you have to treat them carefully. I think if you bent them tight they would break. I know splicing tools have special cutters included, but my understanding was that those are only needed to make a proper 90° cut good for splicing.

It's been a while but in this very comm someone posted pictures of a quadcopter drone with a 41.4 km drum. I'll try to dig it up.

Here's one https://sopuli.xyz/post/21919901, it was a hexacopter, not quad.

And in my search I also came across these links:

• https://en.defence-ua.com/industries/ukrainians_made_an_fpv_with_fiber_optic_cord_stretching_for_41_km-13327.html

• https://defensefeeds.com/analysis/how-do-fiber-optic-drones-work/

And finally here is even a demo video:

• https://sopuli.xyz/post/18922497

It seems fiber works fine even on manoeuvrable drones.

A friend at work has started experimenting with 10G LAN at home and at that speed one interesting observation is that the copper interfaces use significantly more power, like 8W vs 1W for an optical one or something like that. But it's only really worth it if you have a significant portion of end devices that have SPF+ slots directly, with the converters you get the worst of both worlds really. Except for range.

Oh dang, here's a screenshot at least:

Cabled G657.A1 fibers with a LSZH mantle is going to be more expensive compared to this bare fiber G652.D of course, but yeah there are people who start using it at home. The main issue is finding end devices with SFP slots, so you don't have to convert between optical and electrical all over the house.

It's difficult to say what was just conforming or if there was at any point genuine belief in the child form of me.

I remember that as a small child I was already confused. I kept asking question like how genesis and the big bang fit together, and how we could know god was listening to any prayers, how it could be true that someone dead was not dead afterwards etc. My parents are religious in a passive European way, but they are okay with playing god of the gaps, so they never lied about the world to me for the benefit of religion.

I did have my first communion event at the age of 8 or 9. I don't think there was any choice by me involved. The ceremony was terribly and embarrassing as hell. But it was just something that we did.

Then came the religious classes that happened after normal classes in secondary school (starting grade 7, age 12) once a week. I remember we had to fill out a worksheet on the topic of the period between the protagonist rising from the dead and ascending and how he visited people in between. One question at the end asked if we believed in this account. I wrote something with a childlike sense of diplomacy. Something like I believed in god but not that a dead person can come back to life as reported here. Nobody ever said anything about that to me though.

Not too long after my mother allowed me to withdraw from the rest of those classes, recognising they were fairly pointless, and not even well done for their goal. A few years later, I think when I was 14 or so, we were invited to begin the "road to our confirmation", which meant attending church a certain number of times and maybe helping out with church activities. I never participated, it was clear to me at this time that I simply wasn't buying any of it.

Around 16 or so I started calling myself an atheist, having become aware of that term. Only at the age of 20 did I finally do the paperwork for formally leaving the catholic church so those child fuckers and their defenders wouldn't get any taxes from me.

Overall I'm leaning to "no"

Not that expensive, probably under 10 USD for 10 km, given that I can find offers like below in a few minutes on Aliexpress

https://aliexpress.com/item/1005008412846430.html

There is no way these bare fibers have the tensile strength necessary that you even could drag kilometers of it back to the operator through the terrain. You need to know, these are not full cables as you would normally use them for networking, that would be to heavy for the drone. Instead it's single fiber strands without any mantle.

Are the drones actually dragging around cable?

Not quite, they spool them off from the drone as they go, so they don't have to deal with any drag across the ground.

This can’t be glass, right? Plastic?

As far as I know they are using standard telecom fiber, so it's silica glass, partially doped to make the refractive index between core and cladding different