I have actually hit the same hurdles (also predominantly Fi). I found two carriers and have been thinking about switching.

Cape (https://www.cape.co/) seems to be a neat option. It’s an MVNO (just like Fi) and is very privacy oriented. It’s definitely not as affordable as Fi, but it’s not terrible IMO. You’re paying a premium for the privacy aspect after all. It’s $100/mo for unlimited talk, text, and data.

Phreeli (https://www.phreeli.com/): another privacy oriented MVNO (I think it’s an MVNO). Has more affordable plans with prepaid options for data (more similar to Fi in that respect). Their flex plan is unlimited talk and text, with 2GB of data for $25/mo. Each additional 5GB is $20 (with rollover).

I don’t have a recommendation for the phone app as I also have been using it. But I plan on just cold turkeying after I switch carriers.

Agreed on the stratt change. They seemingly watered her down a ton. It is what it is though. They also cut out a lot of the prep side if the mission. However they would have to cut something, it was already a 2.5 hour movie 🤣

I was so sad this wasn’t there. It was such a badass scene in the book. It was effectively just STRATT pulling the Ron Swanson “I can do what I want” and winning.

That’s a good comparison. I assume you’re saying that a car is like a mechanical radar and a train is the phased array, right?

Wasn’t Chevron 9 used for the Destiny? IIRC it was because Destiny was moving, so they needed a velocity coordinate.

Chevron 6… Encoded

Gotta kill 10,000 people just to get a message to one place.

What happens if you die in transit? Could you? 🤣

If this were the case, what if your soul also had to adhere to the speed of light on its way to reincarnation. So iw you were reincarnated into a creature 1000 LY away, it wouldn’t happen for 1000 years.

Yes and no

What do you mean “tab completion is AI based”? We have had tab completion for years before LLMs were a thing.

If you have access to the router, you could probably adjust their device to have random packet loss. Which would effectively slow them down, might piss them off.

As for the deauth attack, it definitely isn’t “easy”. But here’s a tool to do it. https://github.com/aircrack-ng/mdk4. However I doubt this’ll be interesting to you.

Also, microwave (2.4GHz interference) won’t affect Wifi 5/6, given they’re in the 5+GHz range

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Similar to “boi”

I don’t wanna be the “well the book said…” Asshole, but it is one of my favorite books. So…

Well the book said that they actually have a dedicated (well a few, redundancy, you know?) Astrophage powered DC generators. They turn miniscule amounts of astrophage into electric power for the ship to run its systems. There’s also battery backups.

Minor spoiler for something that had more detail in the book, but also happened in the movie (towards the end, with an explosion).

The spin drives also don’t generate electricity for thrust, so there isn’t really any way to “siphon” it off.

However I am inclined to believe your train of thought, if nothing else maybe they just didn’t have a way to use the DC generator while fuel wasn’t flowing for the engines (although that seems like a design flaw, but the ship was definitely rushed)

Good point on the radiators vs astrophage. Gotta say I didn’t think about what would need to be radiated.

Thanks for the pictures, definitely nice to visualize it! I will continue to think that they’re radiators as that makes more sense, and it was just a goof that they were rotated the wrong way. Makes me less angry than there being solar panels on an astrophage powered ship. Unless it is there as a backup method?

Hmmm, maybe. But same question. Astrophage can sink a ton of heat energy, so you theoretically wouldn’t need radiators. Granted, it would only let you cool things down to 98°C (or so, can’t remember the exact temp) which isn’t exactly cool. But still.

However I’m gonna stick with your interpretation, since I like that better.

Yeah, the centrifuge is really my biggest issue with the movie.

And then fact that the ship has solar panels.

Other than those two minor nitpicks, it’s a fantastic movie. PHM is one of my favorite books, so I was pretty happy with the movie overall.

I have had it favorited in my photos for years. It’s so funny