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I mean, yeah, you could do that.

I'm not sure if it would be better than a secret underground base... But you could do it.

With an underground base you could even have the one connection to it be a hard-line, not wireless. You could construct it with a smaller crew, easier to keep under wraps. And I expect that would still be less than 1/100th the price of building it on the moon.

Anyway, I do think the ultimate off site data storage location is a pretty entertaining idea, i'd bet it could make sense for some things, I just can't imagine what.

If you were on Mars, for example, you would not want to have to contact Earth every single time you wanted to load a web page. And so you would contact Earth the first time to load it. And then it would be saved locally.

Don't ISPs already do something like this to save on bandwidth on their side? Just saving local copies of commonly accessed files.

At least I remember hearing about that a decade ago, I wonder if that can still happen now that there's basically https everywhere.

But at any rate, I believe there are at least well established methods for that.

Ok... Data redundancy is a possible application... I will tentatively say that's a feasible goal, if still probably a stupid one.

I mean, how often do data centers upgrade storage drives? Cause the cost of doing that in space is... unreasonable.

You joke, but actually that is a thing.

When research projects involve super-cooling a substance, after you've done as much as you can with convective cooling, researchers will sometimes use lasers to cancel out vibrations within the substance, and cancelling vibrations essentially equals cooling.

Lol, this is the truth. There are many cool opportunities for industry in space, but I gotta be honest, I don't think datacenters are one of them...

Yeah, I mean what's this Charles guy's deal? Is he just like... nice to everyone? What an asshole...

You can even make it "private" (not federate) to keep others from coming in and recreating the problem you just fled.

So assuming you don't like to only talk to yourself, how do you decide who to let into a private instance?

And if you stay public, let's say for argument's sake, that the same thing that made you leave this first community immediately happens in the new instance, then what?

It all depends on what you value.

If you want the fastest phone for the lowest price, then you're buying into those shady business practices and something akin to slave labor. (Not to sound judgey, I've bought my share of iPhones and galaxies too)

But if you want a phone that won't contribute to a landfill as soon, was made by people paid a fair wage, where any hardware failure doesn't make you start over with a new phone. Then try something like a fairphone. Specs aside, you're paying for a different set of features.

I second this comment. It can be extremely tricky to solder something so small with so many contacts so close together.

But... if you get some sharp tweezers, I wouldn't be surprised if you could pull some lint out of that USB port. And more often than not, that'll make all the difference and it'll charge normally again.

Blown capacitors are nice and obvious.

Most capacitors you'll find are cylindrical, with a flat side of the cylinder pointed up. They'll usually have a big X cut into that top side, allowing it to flex a bit. But if that top side is bulging a lot, that's a warning sign, if it bulged so much that it opened up and it either looks burned on top, or some kind of paste is actually seeping out, then that thing is way past done.

With capacitors a visual inspection is really all you need. You'd actually need more expensive specialized equipment than a standard multimeter to actually test their capacitance. But if you look at it, and your description might include words like "exploded" or "popped", or "wtf is this mess?", then it's bad.

Yeah, it sounded weird when I had it like that, so I added the disc to the end. Turned out, it was only 4 characters, so not a big imposition.

We are in space near the sun... And we have successfully used solar as far out as Jupiter.

Haha, no I didn't account for lunar eclipses, but that lasts what, 2 hours?

But yeah, not falling over definitely improves the whole mission. No argument there.