The one “saving grace” is that CECOT isn’t so much a traditional prison as it is a slave manufacturing complex straight out of the Stat Wars Andor series. It’s in their interest to keep everyone alive as long as they can keep them passive.

This doesn’t do anything, all these aircraft are already in trusts. You can still track them, the N number/ICAO ID is what people are using

In fairness, I think the possibility that someone might light your car on fire is a stronger incentive to not buy a brand than internet posts making fun of the brand. It also means now they have to beef up security at all of the dealerships. Car sales are surprisingly impulse driven, hence the famous high pressure sales tactics, so it’ll be harder to get people in the door if they’re strip searching everyone and if they can’t have as much inventory on the lot, customers can’t drive home with the options they want so less impulse buying. Also full coverage insurance, required for financing, will get more expensive or even impossible to obtain which possibly means a massively decreased customer pool.

I think a better counter argument is the environmental damage caused by lighting all the cancer boxes on fire.

Nextnav

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-24-776A1.txt

There’s already a startup trying to get the FCC to give them half of the 915mhz band (meshtastic, smart home stuff, ELRS, ham radio) for a pay to win GPS alternative.

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That’s kinda what SAR sats do. They’re using radio waves but they illuminate swaths of the planet with a big dish/array and then look at the reflections. LIDAR sats too.

Context?

Yeah that’s the real answer…

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Only if you unnecessarily include a ChatGPT voice assistant

Oh 100% magic. And SMT hot air soldering is voodoo magic

They’re the only hobbyist manufacturer with any scale. If you look at the Dedrone stats it’s just entirely the DJI show followed by AUTEL by a mile and then DIY stuff. The DIY drones can be built from anything and can be trivially designed to avoid surveillance so you’re not gonna get anywhere with them anyway.

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Yeah the FPV community is way better because they actually have to know what they’re doing mostly. They’re mildly noncompliant but only regarding the regs that shouldn’t apply to the size of stuff they fly; RID, registration, and BVLOS don’t make sense for airframes lighter than a goose. They tend to avoid other people because they understand the public is wary of drones and they’re wary of Karens and untrained cops. They put far more hours on their airframes than any of the other amateur operators but every single time I’ve been near a drone doing something dangerous, stupid, or annoying it was a DJI.

Just get the lead free solder and no clean flux, it’s much less cancer

IDK, most of the kits require soldering (because the industry is fundamentally braindead) and if you go look at the various online communities, you’ll quickly see that this is one hell of a filter.

I used to do some work with Qualcomm and ARM IP. They both need to die. ARM is holding back all manner of technologies with their absolutely insane and byzantine licensing scheme and Qualcomm is one of the most evil tech companies in existence, you just don’t hear about them because their particular evil is constrained to B2B interactions.

They better not have changed the fucking pinout again…

Also, Xilinx, get your shit together and release a PCIE 4 capable device in this price bracket already