Shurimal

One thing I've learned about stainless steel is it's stain less, not stain proof. It will rust in humid environments, it'll just do it slower than carbon steel.

Or many service providers competing on price, quality of service and features, not competing on exclusivity like they do now.

Like grocery stores. Imagine if only one chain has the exclusive rights to sell potatoes and another one has rights to pasta. They can ask whatever price they want, because what you gonna do? Go to another store to get your 'taters cheaper? Hah, you'll cry and you'll pay what we ask! (BTW, growing your own potatos and sharing them with your neighbor infringes on our rights and is illegal. We'll sue you to oblivion if we catch you doing it.)

Prime example that for a publicly traded company the people buying the products are not customers for whom to create value, but a resource to extract value from.

Shareholders are the real customers for whom they create value.

It all comes down to the size of the mirror/lense—the bigger, the better. Up to a point. The biggest problem is air currents and different air densities refracting light and distorting the image. That's what these laser beams are for on photos taken of astronomical observatories—they give reference light spot that can be used to calibrate adaptive optics to current atmospheric conditions reducing distortion.

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What we know about drones is that they have cameras that can discern individuals from 10 km altitude.

What we suspect is that US has Hubble-sized spy satellites that can do almost the same. There were a lot of classified military STS missions.

What is theoretically possible is that US drones and spy sats can function as very large arrays (we do this with astronomical telescopes already) to dramatically increase spatial resolution.

On my server:
OpenMediaVault (NAS OS based on Debian)
Syncthing
Home Assistant
Zigbee2MQTT
Docker
Portainer
Radicale
Navidrome

On my phone:
Syncthing
Tailscale
Feeder
DAVx⁵
OSS Document Scanner
RPNcalc
DSub
EDSY

On my PC:
Odyssey Material Helper
EDDiscovery
EDSY
ObservatoryCore
Paint.net and GIMP
OpenRGB
Tailscale

That's pretty much like Wild Weasel SEAD works. Get locked on by a SAM radar, lock your HAARM to that radar's signal and press fire🙂

Another audio professional here. For line level analog audio (it's different for guitar pickups and turntable cartridges) it doesn't matter much at all unless we're talking long cable runs (several tens of meters and more) or some badly designed equipment that can't handle high capacitance cables (eg I've had crappy amps going into oscillations with certain speaker cables). What matters is shielding (in noisy EM environments) and reliable connectors.

Digital audio is a different kettle of fish, but it's amazing what you can get away with when runs are a few meters or less. Consumer-grade equipment almost never has 75 ohm connectors for coax S/PDIF and no consumer S/PDIF cable is really 75 ohms. RCA connectors cannot be 75 ohms due to their geometry and BNC is a rare beast (I really had to go out of my way to set up proper 75 ohm cabling for digital audio in my home, and still am not sure the BNC connectors I use are actually 75 ohms).

I should also mention to all non-audio pros that you can't measure a cable's or a connector's characteristic impedance with a simple multimeter. 50, 75 and 110 ohm cables/connectors will all show milliohms on a multimeter and are all fine for audio frequencies. Characteristic impedance only plays role at high frequencies—MHz, not kHz range and when we need to impedance match the whole transmission line to avoid signal reflections.

I would be more worried about channel crosstalk when using a multi-core cable where conductors are not individually shielded as is the case with USB cables, but even 30 dB separation is probably fine for casual music listening.

Unless it's locally hosted, doesn't scan every single file on my storage and doesn't send everything I do with it to the manufacturer's server.

Everyone's seen it, everyone's done it, what's to hide?

Check out Behind the Mask: the Rise of Leslie Vernon. It's a satirical horror comedy that takes the common horror tropes, deconstructs them and turns them inside out, upside down in a hysterical way.