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Ummm….

“All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landing there.” - Arthur C. Clarke 2010

This is just dumb

My main problem with this is I can’t sell or trade a digital game after I’m done with it. This needs to be felt delt with legally.

Yeah I totally missed that.

Well TIL … I subscribed to the first two but the last one didn’t work for some reason.

Not to my knowledge. But I assume this is nothing new and any reasonable person could come up with the same thing. I did google the ISS thing so that part may have come from there.

One think I miss from reddit… /r/datahoarder

These were my people. I probably have 100TB but it certainly isn’t in my home directory. I’m not sure if I should be immpressed or freightened.

And Bezos apparently…

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bezos-says-the-only-thing-holding-back-orbital-data-centers-is-cost-not-science-as-he-says-ai-will-create-jobs-fc49d5d5

These chucklefucks are just trying to get some sucker… er I mean investor to fund the whole thing so their respective space companies can do the job.

And after doing to some very cursorary research other issues like…

• Radiation and reliability - apparently cosmic radiation is a bitch
• Lifecycle costs - I should have thought about this one. It’s not like when a drive dies in space you just drive down to the DC to replace it. And not mention we recycle out compute about every 5-6 years or so.
• Connection - somebody mention this already in the thread but yeah you ain’t hanging a fiber cable to a satellite

Two main problems with data centers. Power and cooling. In space the power is doable. The cooling is a major pain in the ass and always has been. There are only three ways to get rid of heat. Conduction, convection, and radiation. The first two don’t work because of the vacuum thing. The third is horribly inefficient. Just look at the ISS and the giant fins that only dumps about 70 kW of waste heat through radiator “wings” that weigh several tons. A single rack in a high density compute rack can generate 100kW by itself.

So yeah given the expensive and how inefficient it is, it’s a terrible idea.

Edit: I’m a system architect so dealing with data center heat is something I’m familiar with.

Yeah I’d bet this. Had my keyboard set to GB something once and backspace and tilde were all messed up

I too like to press wildflowers.

You are the man (or woman or whatever).

Thanks!!!

So I took it as rolling your own steam, not aggressive.

I looked not long ago for a steamos iso… does that exist somewhere?

Don’t fucking scare me like that…. Gees.

That’s kinda neat looking honestly.

I totally agree. It looks like a startup made a concept of a vehicle in a movie. It’s not ugly by any means ugly but when I see a Ferrari I KNOW it’s a Ferrari. Same way with a McLaren or a Lamborghini.

Until you can’t download it anymore.

The “retro” gaming market is going to absolutely suck in 30 years because you don’t “own” anything.

TIL what a banchode is….

“Banchode” (often spelled “banchod” or “benchode”) is a vulgar Hindi/Gujarati slang insult roughly meaning “sister-fucker,” similar in strength to “motherfucker” in English.

Yeah that’s a real prolapse of judgment …