Bad press doesn’t mean they can start losing even more money on space data centers (which are going to be incredibly inefficient and costly). They already do not make a profit, they’re all deep in the red.

Drag is not the only problem (even though these would definitely be LEO, it is just even more expensive to not have them in LEO and it increases latency), nor are bit flips. The biggest issue will continue to be heat. If you haven’t been to a data center before, you may be surprised at how much heat they generate. I’ve only been to non-LLM data centers, and the heat in the warm aisles was unbearable.

And that’s without the sun heating the exterior to incredible amounts. You cannot use contact to dump heat into space.

You might also be surprised at how much e-waste data centers generate, especially LLM-geared data centers. They obliterate hardware, even with optimal cooling, and that hardware requires constant replacement. How are they going to manage that?

Also, unless they use nuclear (which would drastically increase costs and add heat) they’re going to need gigantic solar arrays, much bigger than the IIS’ array.

This is exactly what I meant, thanks.

Good thing the whole idea makes no sense, because repairs are impossible, you can only vent heat in infrared, you have to use expensive rockets to get them up there, and if they’re in LEO, they’ll fall back down to earth. Oh, and there’s more likelyhood that bits get flipped from all of the high energy particles up there.

It’ll just make LLMs at scale even more infeasible.

This is true, yeah. I’m referring to the “normal” rpis, though. The ones that are the most affected by the price increase. I struggle to understand the usecase for those.

I didn’t say anything about “owning the name” other than just buying a domain in general (which you’d also need to do for something self hosted). I am simply saying that using providers that allow for catch all can give you privacy while also giving you the ability to jump ship.

My primary domain, for example, is not memorable, and it does not have ease of verbal transmission. It’s a string I randomly generated.

What is this endeavor? Control? Your own domain gives you control. Privacy? This is dependent on your provider, VPS, or otherwise. SMTP is generally blocked on residential IPs, so you’re going to have to trust and give up control and some level or privacy somewhere. Having a domain gives you the ability to self host if you desire, and if you don’t want to do that, then having a domain gives you the ability to easily change mail providers if needed, without the need to change hundreds of accounts.

NUCs and other mini PCs are better (for the most part) anyway. Many have msata or nvme support, replaceable and expandable memory, better cooling, more powerful CPUs, and some have the ability to add in PCIe cards. Some even allow for CPU replacement/upgrades.

For lower power stuff, esp32s are where it’s at.

I’m not sure what the usefulness of using a raspberry pi is, anymore. If you have something that you don’t want to suck power, ESP32s have you covered and will always use less power than a rpi. If you need a bit more performance, a mini PC will almost always outperform a rpi.

I was using Tuta to mailbox as an example for this very reason: you can move your catch all inbox from Tuta to mailbox.org, since it also supports catch all. I’m trying to highlight the benefit that using a service with catch all functionality adds, which is flexibility and easy migration. It was not meant as a recommendation to use Tuta.

You don’t need your own server to have the benefit the person you’re replying to is pointing out. If you control the domain, you can just point your DNS at another provider. For example, you can move your catch all inbox in Tuta to a mailbox.org plan with a catch all with a simple DNS update. Then you don’t need to change your email addresses anywhere.

What VPN do you use that isn’t subject to that? Also, do you have any evidence that they collect logs at all?

It is a trade off, but it’s well worth it, since most of it requires no actual maintenance (after you migrate of course) unless you have to leave for some reason.

That’s a benefit, IMO. Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket with bundled platforms.

Whatever you decide to migrate to, don’t put all of your eggs in one basket. Give yourself the flexibility to move one enshittified service at a time.

I use a mix of Tuta, mailbox.org (for one of my other domains), vaultwarden/bitwarden, and nextcloud.

The important part is to not put all of your eggs in one basket. This makes it so you can migrate off of one at a time rather than your entire life at once.

Wow, I see hundreds of people with this virus right now! There’s probably more, too!

Easily manipulated investors do, and that’s all that matters to them.

Then OpenAI scrapers will stop DoS’ing my website, right? I’ll never see an OpenAI-owned ASN ever again, right?

Devs know the real deal, this is for investors.

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No. That’s the main catch with Tuta. You can only use their clients.

If this is a problem, maybe mailbox.org would suffice?

Just gotta migrate it manually, I suppose.