Posts by jonfr400 33 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Jun 2025
I guess it is time to move away from Linux. Since using a.i slop is never ever going to improve anything. It is going to allow massive security problems into the Linux kernel and those security problems are going to remain hidden for years.
I guess FreeBSD is maybe a usable option.
The reason why DAB and DAB+ is bad in United Kingdom is lack of transmitting power. That was pushed through by people who claim radio waves are a human health problem. They successfully managed to get the government to limit the transmission power of things like DAB, DVB-T2 (and DVB-T when that was on the air). Also managed to limit transmission power on 2G, 3G and now 4G and 5G. I am seeing small change in this when it comes to DAB transmissions, that they are being moved up to 20kW in the United Kingdom. That either means the regulation got removed at some point, since the claim that was made at the time was always false. But replacing transmitters might not happen, since everything is moving to streaming and that includes services like radio, along with television. The reason is that its cheaper and only two set of infrastructure is needed. The fixed line infrastructure, that is being upgraded to fibre internet (very slowly) in the UK. The second being mobile internet infrastructure, that is now 4G and 5G. In both cases that is a cost that the owner of a radio station or a tv station do not carry directly. They have connection cost, but that is one payment and its many times cheaper than running 1000+ network of transmitters with required frequency licence and connected costs.
https://www.ukwtv.de/cms/grossbritannien-dab/west-midlands-dab.html (example of transmitters and their output power in United Kingdom).
The Desktop version of FreeBSD is GhostBSD. There is also MidnightBSD that has similar features, but it is claimed that MidnightBSD is very difficult to use. Making GhostBSD a better starting point for those not used to BSD operating principles.
As for FreeBSD. I find that to be great as an operating system for server operations for anything supported on it. Using it for a desktop has not been a good experience when I have managed to set it up in such way.
The problem here is that higher frequency gives less coverage. The lower frequency gives better coverage and lower speeds. This is a physics problem that they can't win, even with better protocols that are going arrive with 6G. Multi-linking frequencies might work in cities. I do not think it is going to work in rural areas with just one mast, even if that mast is broadcasting at many frequencies at the same time.
With end of broadcast television (both terrestrial and satellite) the mobile sector might be able to get frequencies 21 to 48 for better coverage and 10.70Ghz and up to 12.75Ghz. But the higher frequencies require that the mobile phones have some type of wave guide. This is also needed for the higher frequencies already allowed by the 5G standard (n257 to n263). The lower end is at 26.50Ghz and up to 71.00Ghz. With gaps, because many of this higher frequencies are used for fixed radio link operations of all types.
I also see that newest update to the 5G standard has allowed for non-terrestrial range 1 at n248, n247 and n509 and n508 (n508 is non-terrestrial range 2). This is from Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G_NR_frequency_bands
I expect that 6G is going to have similar allocations once it gets going. It should be expect that 4G network start to close around the year 2035 to the year 2040. Depending on how things goes in the world.
A nuclear war is going to result in a restructure of human society globally (because, collapse). I don't know when it is going to happen, but my own current estimate are around 2050's, either early or mid around 2050's. We are already in the decades leading up to that outcome. There is nothing that can stop that outcome from happening best I can see (it might get delayed, more than once). With collapse of the United States and wider North and South America in that process. Its a complicated mess that is about to start and how and exactly outcomes go are impossible to know for sure. This is like forecasting the weather very far into the future. Everything is uncertain.
What is clear that current structure of companies in United States won't make it trough that collapse. Don't store your data online, because that won't exist in very near future.
This technology works in Iceland, up to a point. But it has limitations. Here is current live stream of Icelandic Met Office fibre earthquake detection. There's a lot of noise in the signal. Weather, cars and so on. But earthquakes appear as horizontal lines in this tracks. Cars are vertical lines that move around on this trace. This stream can go offline without warning, then you have to find the new stream once it is re-started.
https://www.youtube.com/live/LNq5cC17d8A?si=NSB_gdP5c8U8xULP
Some people did two separate traces of who is making those age verification laws everywhere. Meta seems to play a very large part in this push of getting this into laws.
Here are the related links. They have been removed from reddit and other social media. I do believe this information is accurate. I am sure that is there's more into this than appears in this research.
https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
https://web.archive.org/web/20260313090844/https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/
This not computer "hacking". The police fucked up. This their own fault. This is at most, accessing material he was not supposed to have access to, because the police messed up. He could have told the police that he had deleted the files and they would never had know, or just moved them to a removable usb stick or a external hard drive from his main computer (if this was not a mobile phone or a tablet). This man also got greedy and demanded, possibly money for deleting the files. That is only going to get him a jail sentence at most. I don't think the other stuff is going to stick, but I don't know how courts in the Netherlands work, so I might be wrong.
Current debt level is at minimum around 6 Trillion dollars. Based on recent-ish numbers. It probably is much higher because debt can be hidden in various way. Their income is only few billion dollars at best. Way lower than to pay all that debt.
If they sell the hardware to get the money back for the debt. I guess the market is going to get flooded with used hardware once the current I.T and A.I bubble crashes.
When the a.i bubble crashes. You won't be able to read about it online. Because most of the modern IT infrastructure is going to be bankrupt. Some government IT infrastructure in Europe and Canada is going to make it....maybe in some cases. Since I am not sure on how this is nation to nation in Europe.
The rest. Going to be sold for cash or just abandoned or whatever happens in a very large scale bankrupt.
I wonder where they get that number from. I am can be heavy user and I am no where near 360GB if I have a fixed internet connection. If I only have 4G internet (sometimes happens). The usage can quickly go well over 500GB.
It is possible that they are basing their data on users that have only their internet over 4G and 5G and do not have access to fixed internet (VDSL, fibre).
Outside of cities, there is not much use for this much spectrum. This is country specific. More dense countries require maybe more spectrum, even in rural areas. However. I don't think they require this much spectrum. They are overestimating the usage of 6G by a factor of 100, even more in my view. For less populated countries. Like those in the Nordic region (where I am from). None of this high frequency spectrum is going to get used. They currently barley use the n77, n78 in many parts of those countries. For both 4G and 5G, usage in band 8, band 20, band 28. Depending on the licence that the mobile network has.
Here is all the spectrum that has been allocated for 4G and 5G. As they turn off 4G with time, along with 5G. All that spectrum is going to be free for 6G when that time arrives. Currently, old 2G and 3G services are being turned off in the Nordic countries. Plans are not the same between countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_frequency_bands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G_NR_frequency_bands
One thing that is not considered is that Red Dwarf stars are a dead zone. If not for the lack of usable energy. Then for those insane flares that kill everything in their path. Large stars are also dead zones for different reason, but also large solar flares. The space science community seems to ignore this for the wishful thinking that there is life around such stars. So far they have been searching and finding what I've always expected them to find. Nothing but dead planets that have always been dead and if they are not dead planets, then the Red Dwarf makes sure that those planets remain dead with its flare activity that kills anything that might have started living in such star system.
Sorry for my confusing English.
The last generation of NMT-450 (there was also NMT-900, but it was less common) had an common antenna designed at the time (bit long, but on my phone I was able to push into the phone). This can be solved with a half-wave antenna or other solution to fit into a modern phone. I know that 450Mhz is used in Denmark and Norway as a 4G internet only service. Its called Cibicom in Denmark and they use 450Mhz for M2M service only. I am not sure what that is. Since I no longer keep up with what's on the market (its endless, so I don't bother). I also don't care, since I am just broke consumer with slight interest in communication technology.
I have a watch that gets a time signal at few kHz and its just normal sized watch. I also have a weather station with the same feature. I don't think the antenna design is the problem today when it comes to modern mobile phones.
The mmWave band has been allocated in the UK I believe. I don't think it is in use though. Since no mobile phones sold in Europe support it. Maybe they allocated it for the tourist from the United States that can use those bands. Not every country in Europe has allocated the mmWave band. Like Iceland. There are no allocation there, because its not of much use in Iceland because of low density and long distances between places.
I don't know how much spectrum mobile networks need already.
They already use from 700Mhz to 3700Mhz in Europe. With 24.25Ghz to 27.50Ghz also made available to them for 5G. I don't know of any mobile phone on the EU market that uses those frequencies. Current 5G standard also allows for frequency range from 24.25Ghz and up to 71.00Ghz. Along with several satellite frequencies that 5G can use (this is not available to 4G because of the standard). Mobile networks have a lot of frequencies that they can use. But they don't and for some reason demand more spectrum.
For instance. 4G supports band 31. That is 450Mhz band that was used for NMT (1G standard) few decades ago in Scandinavia and few other countries. In some countries this is being used by 4G as a data only network. This is also supported by 5G standard.
I plan on using Windows XP for very old games that don't work with Windows 10 or Windows 11. Because Microsoft doesn't provide proper backward compatibility for 25 year old games. But that can be understandable for most part. But they also make running older operating systems really difficult.
What they are going to find is that people, most of them are simply not going to do this. They either move to a site that doesn't have this or if they can't. Just stop using the internet for most things.
Then they vote the politician out of office that put this laws into effect as a revenge. I just hope they don't vote for the extremist far-right in their place. Since they have been very much in favour of this type of surveillance.
All new computer cases have that problem there is no space for hard drives. Unless its a ssd or m2 hard drives. There is sometimes space for one or two hard drives at most. In many cases there is no space for normal hard drives. Making it impossible to have many hard drives installed.
They clearly want to move us all to the internet cloud.
As always happens in this mergers. Most of the 3 UK mobile network is the one that is going to be turned off. Outside of few places where Vodafone did not have proper coverage and 3 UK had one. I guess some radio spectrum might be freeing up in UK in the future. Depending on how this all goes.
