explorator_1317

It’s seems like every time someone figures out the supply issue, they come along, put in a few road blocks and charge you money to get though to what you had before for free or way less.

I mean yeah, that kind of thing has been the foundation of wealth for like... thousands of years, I think.

1. Acquire thing that lots of people want.
2. Secure it from anyone being able to get any of it for themselves.
3. Require people to give you money/labor/whatever in exchange for it.
4. Set the price as high as people will tolerate.
5. Profit. So, so, so much profit.

The point is not, never has been, and never will be, giving people things they want cheaply, the point is profit. Giving people things cheaply is beneficial when it lets you undercut the competition from other people selling the same or similar things. So much the better if you give what you control to people really cheaply at the start, and then raise the costs once your new ~~livestock~~ customers get settled in. But point is, at the end of the day, this type of behavior is how the profit motive plays out.

I'd love to see simulations of what the inside of such an object would look like. Is it dense all the way down to the black hole, or does it take just a little bit of falling hydrogen to create enough "solar wind" to hold the rest of the gas up like a hollow shell around it?

Yeah sorry, I had assumed your posts were automated since they were so constant and whenever I looked at your profile it seemed like all that was there was an endless stream of article posts. After making the above comment though, I looked again and saw breaks and comments for the first time, realized my mistake, and then deleted my post.

EDIT: I think I deleted my post. It looks deleted to me, but maybe it doesn't look deleted from other instances? I apologize again.

People act similarly for stuff like Linux though. Gotta build a cool brand for the Fediverse!

It’s not… Deal with the fact you need a phone to be a functional part of modern society.

Talking with people on the other side of the planet in real time didn't used to be possible either. Submission to a king used to be required to be a functional part of society. Lots of things are impossible until people make them possible. That's the whole point of things like Meshtastic to begin with. People like OP, trying crazy things and making mistakes and figuring stuff out, are the vanguard who make these changes possible.

Good to know, thanks!

Good to know, thanks.

I've thought about it. Eventually I suspect I might. There's a few reasons I'm not doing so right now though:

• I want the server we start with to be highly reliable, and that means I'd prefer to trust a host with more admin experience than I have.
• Self-hosting is a non-option for me right now in any case.
• While technically I could afford to pay hosting fees, I'm trying to spend as little as possible right now.

Eventually, I think I will want to set one up, just not soon unfortunately.

OOOH

I had not found this, thank you!

Is there a given reason for this? Is it something they're working on changing? I know very little about cybersecurity, but that sounds like a suboptimal situation.

Could you elaborate on what those "shady encryption practices" are?