Going below the surface has been a big thing in London for a while now, it's real estate so limited and above ground so expensive. Many of the most posh neighborhood townhouses in London have deep multi-floor underground layers.
With an environment that seems to be continually warming and becoming more hostile, going underground will probably become a natural defense that humans will take as we retreat from the harsh heat, wildfires, etc.
Agreed. The whole premise of this article is absurd. An apples to oranges a comparison. The Pi is a platform for embedded systems development and design. And is excellent for what it is designed for. It's not a desktop workstation.
I'm currently evaluating both on the same phone, and I have not had that experience. If Helium had as good coverage as Tmo, I would have already switched. Fortunately, Helium usually has coverage when Tmo doesn't, so I may keep both since Helium is quite cheap (and even close to free with discovery mapping turned on).
They’re not owned by T-Mobile, but they’re just an MVNO.
Everyone can save by switching to an MVNO. The first trade off is that the big 3 carriers have essentially a tier list of customers based on what type of service they have for network priority. E.g., postpaid customers are highest priority, big carrier prepaid and big carrier-owned MVNOs are second, and unaffiliated MVNOs are placed based on the specifics of their agreements with the carrier. For example, Google Fi has high network priority because they undoubtedly pay more to use their networks than lower cost MVNOs.
The second trade off is that MVNOs handle customer service and a lot of the customer facing administration. This can vary but is often pretty barebones for lower cost MVNOs.
I think you are better off not saying that. If everyone were to switch to an MVNO then the large carriers MVNOs depend on would not offer as favorable rates to the MVNOs. Reminds me of when Apple licensed their OS and promptly got spanked.
Well, still, MVNOs aren’t for everyone. That statement in particular might have been a broad one by me.
One Postpaid carrier strength is family plans. The per-person cost for 4 people is very comparable to MVNOs and you get better service.
The next is phone financing and subsidies. If you’re the type of person who wants a new phone every 3 years, a postpaid carrier will have some of the more low-friction options for that.
Finally, MVNOs simply don’t offer high usage plans for heavy users. For example, my current postpaid plan gives me something like 50-80GB of monthly tethering allowance before throttling. There isn’t really an MVNO offering that at any price.
So, I think postpaid plans fit a higher income heavy user and/or a family pretty well.
+1 to Helium. I’m currently on Verizon on my iPhone, but got a second phone (pixel) that I got Helium on, grandfathered in to $5/month since I was early on.
I don’t use it super often when out so can’t comment too much on the data service quality, but whenever I do use it, it works fine.
As somebody who recently used Claude Opus to help quickly and affordably solve complex problems in 3D design work (OpenSCAD) while designing a marketable product, I have my doubts about your analogy. Prior to the availability of affordable and accessible AI, I could have taken some Bitcoin and paid somebody smarter than me to help me with this work, but I guarantee it would have been less economically viable, both in terms of financial cost to me and in terms of energy consumption costs.
If you need it to do small standard tasks that normally requires an expert, then these AI can often solve them for you.
If however you need an expert to do a longer term project, then these AI can not solve them for you. It does replace some jobs as you say, but most people don't work on short term project consultation so overall it doesn't matter much.
> and in terms of energy consumption costs.
Did you include the cost of training the model? I'm pretty sure the total investments that goes into AI today way outspend the cost of such small consultation gigs that AI can replace currently. Customer support is the biggest moneymaker so far and even that is hard to do right with customers suing over lies from the AI bots.
My recommendation to you would be to use a different platform that is designed for this exact purpose. Buy me a coffee comes to mind right off the top of my head but I know that there are sure to be others. Stripe is good for straight up e-commerce but it does not work well for your use case. I think the characterization of likening stripe to PayPal is way off base. When it comes down to using a platform like stripe for monetization of services and goods it really is important to rtfm. Good luck to you out there!
With an environment that seems to be continually warming and becoming more hostile, going underground will probably become a natural defense that humans will take as we retreat from the harsh heat, wildfires, etc.
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