Really, they should only be able to sell 50mb/s service if their network can provide that to all of their users on at any point in any average day.
All residential ISPs are over subscribed. If they could provide the full bandwidth to all of their customers simultaneously, then most of that bandwidth would go unused.
Utility meters last for decades. Making them reliant on a cell network that’s constantly changing wasn’t such a good idea. They should have licensed some low band UHF frequencies and set up their own network. It doesn’t take much bandwidth to read some meters.
Cylindrical cells won’t swell up. They go open circuit if they start building up pressure.
For android, run yt-dlp in termux. For PC, use yt-dlp.
It’s a bit trickier than that. They won’t run from USB power alone. The battery has to be replaced with a battery eliminator circuit.
If the phone is new enough, it may have an option to prevent the battery from fully charging. If it does, you can enable that and leave the battery in until it’s completely worn out. That way you have a built in UPS.
I thought the Pi 5 was too expensive when it came out. This is just ridiculous. For most uses, a used PC, phone or tablet would be a much better choice. The only Pi I would even consider using is the Zero 2W, but they’ve been out of stock all year.
Nice, I hope we get bluetooth headphones using high quality PCM audio with super low latency soon.
I would have to be crazy enough to use google photos for them to scan mine.
The scrollbars in Linux are functional. They can be rather narrow depending on the DE and theme, but it’s usually easy enough to make them bigger if needed.
This will just result in more companies blocking France.
What a big surprise. They downgraded the memory on all of the new models, so people are using their old phones for longer.
They made a large chunk of the internet inaccessible without javascript.
There are ways to obfuscate VPN traffic that’s resistant to DPI. It makes it look like normal HTTPS traffic. That will make completely blocking VPNs difficult. I’m sure even more effective obfuscation methods will be developed if VPN blocking becomes widespread.
There is Luanti if you want something Minecraft like. It has a built in modding API and tons of mods available. It supports multiplayer over the LAN. It’s also very lightweight, it will run on almost anything.
MeshCore runs at 2.73 kbps and it can send a short text message in a fraction of a second. The short turbo preset on Meshtastic is 21.88 kbps, but that’s still too slow for images. The higher speed reduces the range by quite a bit too.
For images, you would be better off using WiFi HaLow, which runs several mbps on 900 MHz.
If you have a ham license, there is HamWAN and ARDEN as well. They are fast enough to stream live video. They can work over long distances, but the high gain antennas have to be aimed carefully.
I’m using Purelymail with my own domain for email hosting. It’s been working very well for me. It supports CalDAV and CardDAV for calendar and contacts. It’s US based though.
I would recommend paying for an email hosting service. As long as you use your own domain, you can switch email providers and keep your email addresses. If you have a static IPv4 address, you can host your own inbound email and just use the hosting service for outbound.