I quit caring a while back so I could be driving up the numbers.

I’m repeating myself a lot in this thread, but everyone seems to be sleeping on Telesat Lightspeed.

All of that seems perfectly reasonable.

And it’s also perfectly wrong. Because Telsat Canada has been working on its LEO constellation for about 10 years now. And it goes live in about 2 years.

And yes, it will be superior to Starlink in multiple ways.

Saying cut starlink out is fine and all but there are lots of places and communities without any decent broadband options at all (in Canada and beyond).

You may be unaware, but Telstat will have their LEO constellation and subsequent high speed satellite internet up and running by 2027. A Canadian solution to a Canadian problem.

I have two superpowers:

Mosquitoes don’t find me delicious. When everyone else is getting hammered, they generally leave me alone. When I do get bit, the bites barely swell and they don’t usually itch.

Rock star parking- Anywhere I go, I always check out immediately in front of the place I need to be. There’s almost always an empty spot, and if there isn’t there’s someone just leaving that I pull into. I dunno how that helps me fight crime, but it sure would be useful if I were a bank heist getaway driver.

I yearn for that one M1 Abrams in a column of them to focus its turret on the tribune as it passes.

Damn, I’ve heard jokes about quebecios being snobby with their French but that seems excessive

It’s not snobby. From an anglo perspective, here’s how it plays out in reality:

WAITER: Qu’est-ce que vous voudrais? ME: Huh? WAITER: What would you like? ME: {proceeds to order}

…And life goes on.

Welcome to the club. Fuck that place.

After a decade there I also got permabanned. And then I got permabanned 3 more times with alt accounts for saying some pretty innocuous shit, but almost always political.

I finally got the message. Fuck you Reddit.

> That being said, electronics in our devices do tend to reduce the amount of water and power that appliances use. Dumb devices are extremely inefficient, even though there are fewer points of failure.

I fail to see how electronics in these (unpowered) devices in any way reduce the amount of power that they use.

Due to some of them having a higher orbit. It’s an interesting solution. Imagine how different Ukraine would be if they weren’t geo-restricted.

Most people don’t think about this stuff, but if you need computer cables- power, networking, adapters, hdmi and other AV, etc, Startech is a Canadian company that makes good stuff and is very well priced. You’ve probably encountered it before but didn’t know that it is Canadian.