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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

things that bounce from ionosphere. shortwave radio, AM broadcast, some military communications. couple of radiooperators will take a break for a day or two until space weather gets calm. unlikely that satellites would get fried

if you're lucky, you might see aurora tomorrow, even if you're in area that usually doesn't have them (easier for southern hemisphere)

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago (7 children)

my read of the situation is that it's another phenomenal softbank L even if they timed this sale at the top of the nvdia valuation. if they thought it's a bubble popping soon, they would try to get out of openai deals, but they're doing the opposite. most immediately, they need money to dump 20B-ish into openai by end of the year, triggered by that no-profit transition, and it's money that they apparently don't have. that their stock dumped like 15% in a week probably didn't help either

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago

These people aren't looking for scientists, they're looking for alchemists

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

can you pull ethernet cable along power cables, wherever they are?

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago

regular ethernet should work on this kind of distance, but it means digging

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago

and only feels cool and useful when you're learning to write

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Mate do i have just the right thing for you, but it requires some soldering. It's also probably cheapest solution working over longer range than you need

First you need two directional antennas. Use this https://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/wumca/cup.html the 13cm design specifically. Design of the dipole element is on another page https://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/wumca/sbfa.html They're using hard to get semirigid coax but you can really just use common RG178 with braid tinned to make it stiff. This way you don't have to leave D section they way they did, you can just solder core to the shield at the end while preserving total length (or ~1-2 mm less, because wifi is slightly higher frequency; 53-52 mm total). That dummy cable thing can be just any stiff piece of wire. Good way to get this would be getting a pack of u.fl-SMA pigtails, which you can also use for connection.

You also don't need special aluminum housing like they do, cookie tin of the right size would be sufficient, or any other container of similar nature. If you can't weatherproof it, putting it inside on windowsill is also fine

Then, plug TL-WN722N into it, or some other single-antenna thing, and you're set. This one connects over USB and has removable RPSMA antenna, so you can connect it easily with correct cable (SMA plug - RPSMA plug)

to your new directional antenna. This thing works well over 200m distance, provided clear line of sight, and probably more than that

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

here if you need anything over certain power (6kW; depends on country i guess) you need a three phase installation, and even if you get single phase, it's really handled as three phase split between single phase customers (a block gets three phase supply, then splits flats in three groups, each group gets connected to one phase). this gets supplied by a distribution transformer that might serve somewhere around 200 people per (in residential areas)

i understand that sometimes americans also get distribution like this, with 208/120 three phase coming from substation, without 240v available

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

american version would probably only have two phases at best, and possibly just one

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago (5 children)

wait, how do you route cables in there? is there just a massive bundle right through the middle?

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i think you need to be a little bit more specific unless sounding a little like an unhinged cleric from memritv is what you're going for

but yeah nah i don't think it's gonna last this way, people want to go back to just doing their jobs like it used to be, and i think it may be that bubble burst wipes out companies that subsidized and provided cheap genai, so that promptfondlers hammering image generators won't be as much of a problem. propaganda use and scams will remain i guess

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