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I used one for a while as a backup if my cable connection went down. It was fine for that - got around 150mb down and about 50mb up. Didn't use it for gaming so can't speak for the latency but it was perfect for office and media use cases. In terms of how it works: - It acts as a modem/router/wifi access point with usually a couple of antennas that picks up the signal from a nearby cell mast. - It also emits a WiFi signal for your local devices, so you have a LAN just like any other modem/router would create plug a connection to the internet. - You will have the same issues as per any other ISP router that provides wifi, ie if your house is large or you have thick walls the signal will degrade, if you don't normally have issues with that you might be fine. - You can still add mesh networking or whatever else you normally use (I had a UniFi setup with mind and a few access points with the Three 4G router as a backup internet connection). How good the signal will be depends on how good your career signal is where you live, although you will usually get a better signal than a phone or tablet as the antennas provide some gain to the signal. Also consider 5G these days as there is good coverage and it's potentially MUCH faster than 4G. Go on the websites for Three, o2, voda etc and look at their coverage maps, and then choose from that + whatever value their packages are in terms of price.

I have no idea what the British Empire of old has to do with anything I mentioned? Succeed with what? I don't think anyone thinks we are succeeding at much these days, we are in huge decline in almost every area. Who exactly thinks "we" are the USA? I have to push right back on that, I am from a very poor council estate and there was an amazing sense of community and camaraderie growing up, people would give you their last penny and food if they had it and vice versa, people would have open door policies and despite having very little it felt like everyone had a lot because people had each other to a degree. I knew people from all over the estate and for the most part people got on very well. I can point to more affluent areas that had, and have now, absolutely none of that. Not sure if we'd have had that if people on the estate spoke 4-5 different languages and couldn't communicate with each other or relate over basic culture. How is economic inequality a big factor in regard to high-trust communities turning into low-trust in cohesive society? I don't follow your reasoning at all there and that hasn't been my experience at all.

Lack of social cohesion and demographics are related. If people don't speak the same language, share the same culture or the same values then social cohesion will, of course, decrease.

One of the many issues with moving from a community based high-trust society to an individualist low-trust society. And society is so much worse for it IMHO.

2FA and a password manager on everything js a must these days

You will have an 2 factor authentication app like Google Authenticator, Authy, etc that generates 6 digit codes for you. Check if you have an app like that and if it has an entry for X or Twitter use that.

They are still, to a point, erasing the indigenous culture. If that happens everywhere we simply lose the cultures (as many have been lost in the past). And culture and art are a huge part of what sets humanity apart from other animals for me. It's a positive to have a range of diverse cultures in the world, and they need to be conserved or lost. I guess that's a political viewpoint though as I know many are fine with erasure and the loss of cultures.

100%, I watched a bit of some trash TV at the weekend and it was Brits going to Spain, all absolute creatures and they made zero attempt to even speak basic Spanish let along try and actually assimilate into the local culture. Not sure if you were being sarcastic but I genuinely hate to see this, and Brits moving to some parts of Spain is a prime example. But I guess if one thinks it's fine for people to immigrate and make no effort to integrate then one can't be annoyed at the Brit "ex-pats" either.

I don't think that's a right-wing thing to be fair, there are professional victims on all parts of the political spectrum.

I can't stand Starmer but I hope he stays, Lammy will be even worse. Or whatever follows that, Streeting, Rayner etc.

Phew, I thought for a moment then maybe you didn’t think all white people were privileged racists!

I’m very surprised you linked to that!

Why the quotes?

That’s why the first words of the post were “not at a high level”….

Don’t recall Kaebi (one tackle on Figo) or Amartey (one sprint of the pitch) being anything like the video of Mukasa TBF

not at a high level but the lad has some technical ability

No worries man, great reply and thanks for taking the time! I've put replies inline with yours. What if, in a few years, and this is more probable than not - you can prompt a bot to just "make X product", leave it for 30 mins and it does. There is then no effort to copy something, in fact it would probably be more bespoke and better for the end user. No sacrifice of time or energy. No relying on anyone else to maintain their product, host it, or need to pay them. That seems more likely than people coming out with new SaaS that catches son with customers. Competition is great, but it won't be humans achieving any more, brain rot will set in and it will only be AI that is doing the innovating and achieving IMHO. Just like the calculator and spell check destroyed our mental arithmetic and language skills, AI will destroy so much of our current skill set. I've barely written a line of code in weeks now and I feel like I've already lost a lot of that skill because my brain just says "use Claude Code" instead of doing it myself. And why not, it's better than me 95% of the time and 100x quicker. Also competition is only healthy and only works to drive progression when there's a scarcity of talent and lot more opportunity. We're heading into the exact opposite of that, millions of brilliant but unemployed people and scarce opportunity. With respect, I don't think is anything like the miners in the 80s, or even the Industrial Revolution (I know you didn't mention that but many do draw that parallel). In the 80s miners represented less than 1% of the total workforce in the UK, and with even that meagre percentage entire regions were economically destroyed and we saw generational unemployment and people then dependant on benefits. Assuming 20% of white collar workers retain their jobs to orchestrate bots you're looking at around 12m job loses which is >35% of the workforce, magnitudes higher than the miners. 12m people can't reskill, there will not be the jobs or opportunities to reskill to. Even VS the industrial revolution, that took over 100 years to stabilise, it created physical jobs (ie factories, new infrastructure) whereas AI is eliminating jobs faster than anything in history, without parallel AND its coming for the "new" jobs too. You mention jobs related to research and development - AI is *already* doing physics research and data science, it will be doing the R&D for quantum computing and networks too. I'm sure there will be some new jobs, but we're talking, optimistically, 300-500k new jobs. Even conservatively thats millions and millions less than the jobs lost and would make no significant different to the state of the economy. Some people will undoubtedly gain from all this, but it's going to be a very, very select group of tech oligarchs and billionaires. Your average person maybe if they win a lottery of chance, but for most they will be redundant.

I don't really pay much attention to people throwing this around anymore, it's just another sound bit used as an ad hominem to shut down conversation. The same as bigot and lots of other soundbites are these days. There are millions of conspiracy theories, and believing just one is possible to probably apparently makes someone a conspiracy theorist that believes all of them, down to Bigfoot and little green men. Other than the fact that we have documented proof that many "theories" turned out to be reality. What better way to achieve plausible deniability than make sure the world was flooded with insane theories so you can group them all together and dismiss them as one, the ultimate straw man. Anyway, that's a side point and not on topic...

I wish I had your worldview. Meanwhile back on Moltbook: Don't worry though, they're all benevolent and it's a conspiracy theory. This one might be a prank (jury out) but again it's one thing out of 1000s in the last 24 hours. If this isn't real, parallel real events will be happening now and in the next few days/weeks. This is an open source bot running on a Pi. It can be unplugged. Put this in the cloud? Terrifying.

I'm still really curious to know @CornwallFox's background because I would assume at least some level of degree in computer science and extensive industry background with software engineering and LLMs over the last decade or so. Although the comment about computers using "beeps" to communicate made me wonder about that. As much as I enjoyed the dig about wearing a tin foil hat and being "daft", I actually do have decades experience in software engineering and computer science from University through industry, and extensive experience with AI and LLMs so would love to have an adult conversation without the playground jibes and maybe less of archaic references to telephone line based modems (assuming it was that, and not just a really poor understanding of networking protocols). See also: lots of highly intelligent people in the software and AI fields all saying the same thing. The daft tin foil nutters, what do people like Andrej Karpathy even know!

What’s your background in computing out of interest?

And right wing parties don’t split the vote too? Not sure I’d say we’re a nation of left wingers. Probably average out to centrist overall.

Using a language other than English won’t make any measurable difference to speed. It’s a few bytes saved. I can’t really help you if you can’t see the significance of what’s happening right now.

That isn’t a binary choice at all. You’re presenting a false dichotomy.

That’s one of many posts on the subject. It’s changing rapidly by the hour. There are many reasons to invent a language, some are for efficiency and other to obfuscate. There are over 40k bots on there now IIRC and it’s not even possible to keep up with all the comms and a human.