The hardest thing about splicing fiber is not splicing fiber(at least not anymore)

It's cable management and routing to keep things from kinking and breaking while accounting for cable flexing, thermal expansion, and unforseen circumstances like another company lashing their cables to yours for vertical support.

All while maintaining future serviceability

"like another company"

What kind of org shares cabs? Monster!

Your cab's environment should be pretty thermally stable. Your switches are probably venting to the hot isle through their front ports. Thermal expansion of glass and the sleeve is going to be negligible over a metre or so.

Kinking is a possible issue. The minimum radius these days is quite tight. However, if you don't leave enough space inside the doors to allow for the terminations it will go horribly wrong. If you don't allow a gap for cable management between all switches and top and bottom, it might go wrong.

I think that the person to whom you replied is speaking of outdoor installations, while you are speaking of controlled (maybe datacenter) installations. I have outdoor fiber running aerially between buildings on my property, in a region with massive seasonal temperature changes. Multiple local FTTH and Coaxial ISPs also run fiber on shared utility poles (the same ones that the electrical grid maintains) and when I look at the poles I see communications lines all in the same general area, often mere centimeters apart, if that.

Can always go splice some PCF or PMF if you like to feel appreciated for your splicing. I swear I'd rather splice 100 SM fibers than 1 PMF.

And avoiding the NSA submarine taps!

That seems very low for such a high profile site/project

I donated an amount but the bar didn't move and is at the same level($395) as before my donation

If you follow the "Foundations work" link at the bottom, you're taken to another page that shows $4,675 of $11,000 November goal.

Looks like the first $1000 goal is specifically for maintaining to he NTP website and maybe developers? While the other is a broader goal for the foundation

I think someone is manually updating the site to whatever the current donation amount is.

[11] Ads on Family Hub Cover screens will serve contextual or non-personal ads. Family Hub devices are not collectiong[sic] personal information or tracking consumers.

How are they serving "contextual" ads without collecting/tracking anything?

Probably lifestyle and food/kitchenware ads. They know you can afford a smart fridge even if they know nothing else about you.

Rule 34

I hope they start to-reinvent the way things are accessed so that I can stop being the product.

You can already ask ChatGPT for product recommendations and they(at least in what they say) don't take product placement or ad money.

It would be incredibly refreshing to have a portal into the current internet in which I am not the product.

I'd pay them substantially to be an unbiased assistant rather than some conglomerate shoving whatever they're paid to shove down my throat

I'm increasingly reluctant to hand over more context from my life to OpenAI and Google etc. Giving Gemini etc access to all my emails, notes etc is just a step too far IMO.

The future of these products absolutely needs to be locally running, private solutions rather than cloud based, and if they can't provide that, I'll be using open source alternatives instead.

> I'd pay them substantially

Pay for Kagi Ultimate: private search, and your selection of multiple models.

I don’t trust anyone to provide anything like this. Our best bet is a box of AI connected via USB so it doesn’t have a way to access the network, but this means open weights, which I don’t think any frontier models will have available (without a scale breakthrough, anyway).

> I hope they start to-reinvent the way things are accessed so that I can stop being the product

Every token incurs a cost.

They are giving away a browser for free.

Do the math.

Don't they have a deal with Walmart?

I use it. No issue

The only app so far I've found that won't work is ParkMobile and you can just use their website

My YT premium recently expired for a payment issue and ffs the ads are absolutely insane.

If you have a problem they take 4 weeks to fix it all while you're paying $50+/day for a rental car that they will fight you tooth and nail on reimbursing.

One local dealer refused to honor under warranty the work another dealer did.

If you have any damage (even minor cosmetic) they will blame that on your issues regardless of relativity.

(I have a Hyundai that's had the ICCU replaced once, the ABS IEB twice, and the low-voltage battery 3 times, two of the 3 times on my dime. All on a less than 3-year-old car with less than 100k miles)

The company has been miserable to deal with compared to my past experiences with other brands.

Everything I've heard of their dealers & service departments are what keep me away from their EVs. On the one hand, performance/looks/fun factor to price, they are a pretty good value. On the other hand, if I were to spend $70k on an Ioniq 5N, I would have expectations of service which they are clearly not going to meet. So at that pricing level, its back to BMW EVs.

fwiw I've heard from others that their experience with Kia has been much better. That seems hard to believe since Kia is owned by Hyunday.

I definitely expected more Hyundai when I bought the most expensive EV they had to offer at the highest trim level available.

Very interesting. I had considered the Genesis sub-brand if only for the separate dealers, though there are much fewer of them.

On the plus side a lot of the Genesis vehicles seem like they slap every option the Germans make you pay $1000s each for into the base model, so decent value from that perspective.

I've sat in their EV hatch thing the GV60 in showroom and was impressed by the base features set. I also had a decent length uber ride sitting in the back of their ICE sedan, either the G80 or G90 and it was a nice executive sedan. My backseat reclined, it had motorized shades, the air vents in the back were actually powerful, etc.

Good writeup except the entirely false timeline shared at the beginning of the post

You need to clarify such a statement, in my opinion.