yaroto98

Heh yep, in fact they're not lasting as long as they were supposed to.

Companies like Viasat with GEO sattelites have the advantage of one mololithic sattelite with massive coverage. They have a ton of little antennas on each sattelite that they can adjust as demand changes. Need more coverage in an area due to demand? They can task an antenna not doing anything over there.

Latency is a B though. Minimum 500ms each way. Which is minimum 1sec round trip just physics not actual. What's interesting is the layperson (non online gamer) doesn't notice much. It's not abnormal for a rando website to take a few seconds to load on my wifi. Or for a netflix stream to take a few seconds before it starts buffering. The biggest problem a company like viasat has is old tech in the sky. They can't handle the load of everyone watching netflix. So, they have to data cap everyone. It'll be interesting to see if their new sattelites later this year fix that or if they keep the caps on.

The tech behind starlink is good. LEO satellites play a purpose. Upsides are they have less latency than GEO satellites. Speeds are the same though.

Downside is you have to deploy them evenly as a constellation or else you get service inturruption. Which means if you look at any population map 90% of your constellation is going to be underutilized, and the other 10% is going to be full.

The real target audience should be mobile broadband. Airplanes, ships, RVs, cars, phones, etc.

But what do you do in the meantime? Fill in the unutilized constillation with rural residential. You can't compete with fiber tech, so you sue the govt for free money.

Go OLED if you can, grab a 1tb sdcard for storage expansion. Watch a few people tweak the settings of a game and the graphics card. You can force lower settings and make a game have higher fps and much longer battery life and not really see a loss in graphics due to the smaller screen. Also watch a few tutorials on tweaking steam controller settings. So you can pick up some rando game that's built for kb/m and make it work nice with a controller. Especially gyro, FPS games are more fun being able to gyro the crosshairs a little for micro movements like targeting the head.

Also once you get it, play Aperature Desk Job. It's free, and is a nice 30min tutorial of your deck.

This was my first thought too.

I LOVED Dying Light. I tried to get my wife to play with me, but she quit after 30 mins and had to calm down. It was too scary/stressful for her.

I recall doing an experiment in high school where we weighed a balloon that was blown up vs deflated. The one that was blown up weighed more, but by barely anything.

Assuming gas composition and compression and moisture and temperature of breath are the same as a fart, then yes you lose weight.

But methane is lighter than air, and there are so many other variables that it's possible a fart would make you lighter. However that's because of boyancy, you are losing mass plain and simple.

Rocking Garuda here!

If you read the wiki article department stores wanted to collaborate on colors. Most stores were doing all colors for babies, but it's easier to mass produce one color per gender. There was a time where different stores were doing boys pink (because red is masculine, so pink is baby red) and girls in a feminine light blue. Eventually they settled on girl pink and boy blue. It was utterly arbitrary. Yellow was used for gender neutral.

It's only recently with online shopping that we are getting back to being able to buy baby clothes in any color once again.

It's a modern thing. Basically it's all just commercialization. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendered_associations_of_pink_and_blue

You mentioned you like the light-heartedness of the bobiverse series, not necessarily the hard science aspect. There are a lot of "Slice of Life" fantasy out there. I'm not aware of too much slice of life sci-fi.

Take a peek at:

• Beware of Chicken
• Legends and Lattes

If those are things you are interested in, let me know and I can recommend more.

Good to hear!