Valetudo, though an absolutely amazing software, is no the replacement I was meaning. I meant we need a fully open source robot, from software to hardware, and that can be adapted. Of course there’s always blobs which are not open source, but that’s the case already for many things

Clarify where I did goal post moving

for war and extreme remote areas, everything else is already solved.

Yes and if you read carefully my answers you’ll see that my arguments were all related to this, not the “normal case”

We need open source alternatives

Oh I’m all for Musk to eat shit. I was arguing that satellites are better, not starlink in particular. Lemmy seems to have issues separating their (valid) hate for muskrat with some of his companies or related technologies. And OP was arguing that cell towers are an improvement over satellites? Wth

Why can’t we have a publicly funded satellite constellation?

Yes and we can also use a solution which requires absolutely no cables and digging at all, and that doesn’t disrupt any natural environments and occupies land.

And yes I’m aware of the impact satellites have on the atmosphere. There’s no free lunch.

And wires are not bound by physics? To run cables over such long distances you have to boost the signal at periodic distances to avoid voltage drops and noise

Satellites are not there for speed, but breadth

Spoken like a true spoiled city person Good luck getting the necessary infrastructure built (cables, towers, et al) to really remote places. It’s probably more expensive in the long run than having a satellite constellation.

The good thing about science is that it doesn’t care if you disagree, it just works the way it does