There’s a lot of hidden cost associated with supporting legacy features/standards/technology

Do they have different frequencies? Require different antennas?

Are there cost implications for radios / amplifiers? Do ASICs support only newer modes? How much obsoleted / legacy HW is required?

And that’s just from a manufacturer standpoint.

Are more licenses required? Or other regulatory impacts?

What a blast from the past

It’s what the models are trained on.

I’m sure they’d be treated extremely well. Usually there’s some good incentives to encourage defectors

And that’s exactly why they want to stop it

Leaded is objectively better for everything except health/pollution. Which is the point of RoHS.

Leaded solder has a lower melting point, flows much better, easier to visually see bad solder joints, and doesn’t form whiskers. Also less brittle, so cracked joints are less likely.

Fumes don’t contain lead, it’s not nearly hot enough. Those fumes are flux burning.

Lead free sucks ass and you can pry my leaded solder from my cold dead hands.

Seriously just wash your hands.

What downsides?

Put it on the parents. That’s enforceable, and the root of the problem…

Yeah, that probably sounds so unintuitive and weird to anyone who has never worked with RF.

A voltage change on the consumer side means increased current through a resistance somewhere in the line… Something undersized or overloaded, or a bad connection, for that kind of voltage drop.

Still, that should not change the AC frequency of the grid significantly in this case… You’re never going to have a different frequency than the power plants. They’re all sync’d and the entire grid would go down if the frequency changes too much.

But, but, AI!

That’s so janky lol

It’s a fair metric IMO.

We typically judge super computers in FLOPS, floating-point-operations/sec.

We don’t take into account any of the compute power required to keep it powered, keep it cool, operate peripherals, etc., even if that is happening in the background. Heck, FLOPs doesn’t even really measure memory, storage, power, number of cores, clock speed, architecture, or any other useful attributes of a computer.

This is just one metric.

AI isn’t going to train itself!

And the reddit hug of death issue…

Imagine letting an unpaid position on social media “make life hell”

It really is that simple. I wouldn’t chose it over wired, but it’s still pretty good. You’re going to beat the latency of satellites every time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Internet_service_provider

If you’re on a boat… fair enough.

Otherwise, look into WISPs… Wireless Internet Service Providers. Great for rural areas, the infrastructure is point-to-point radios, so it’s super easy to go large distances without the cost of fiber or copper cables.

Best part is, if you have any neighbors that are interested, they’ll often give you a discount if you let them put a sector antenna on your barn/silo. Or they can also erect a short tower if you let them too.

If there aren’t any in your immediate area, reach out to ones nearby. They’re always looking to expand.