I read the upcoming slate truck might be that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_Truck

https://www.slate.auto

Unlike most vehicles sold in the United States, the Slate Truck is not expected to have any in-car entertainment system; instead, customers are expected to use their own mobile device for audio streaming, navigation, and over-the-air updates for their trucks.

tesla let you do this too - they would pull the e-sim. They mentioned that wifi would automatically connect to tesla hotspots at the dealer.

yeah, the article though says...

"The apartment has structured cabling -- each room has one or more RJ45 sockets in the wall," ...

Which is the main problem most folks face.

wish the standard was "conduit" instead of "bake-this-years-tech-into-the-wall" which doesn't always last...

Folks have been saying that conduit is the way, and the fiber is the future, and all kinds of things like that for decades so far.

But the simple truth for all those decades is this: When there's already cat-whatever cable in the wall, it generally still works.

Decently-installed conduit (ie, actually-usable conduit) adds a ton of time and expense, which is why it is very seldom used for data circuits in residential structures.

The cable that exists is a lot better than the conduit that doesn't. And copper ethernet is bog-standard like MP3 is: It isn't the best in any technical sense at all, but everything supports it. Universal compatibility is pretty nice.

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So the ongoing cost of copper 10gbe is electricity. Someone else here in the comments says that a copper 10GBe SFP+ module can use ~3 Watts, or that a newer one can use about 1.5 Watts.

We can be generous by using the larger figure of 3 Watts, and 8 devices..

With 4 ports, eight 10-gig endpoints @ 3 Watts each, and $0.19 per kWh [delivered]: That's $3.28 per month, or about $400 per decade.

If we assume 1.5 Watt endpoints, then that number halves.

If we subtract the power consumption of fiber SFP+ modules (or media converters or whatever) to make the number a relative comparison instead of an absolute, then that figure goes down further.

Not so bad, compared to conduit.

At costco they already sell an ipad for $299

That is just £219 and the article wants £200

you seem like you are isolating yourself.

But as long as you replace all this with meaningful connections with people, groups, communities I think you will be much better for it.

I kind of wonder if someday a reckoning will occur.

By that I mean AI coding pricing will go up.

happened to the railroads. They were supposed to be a cheap and efficient way of getting produce to market, but the market could bear lots more than it thought.

personally, I think grocery stores do it in reverse. They raise prices across the board, and lower them if you give them your data for a loyalty program.

Even though the price goes down, they adjust prices for you based on your personal data. You pay more if you don't give it up.

Not the same thing, but...

I used to run a macos vm under proxmox, and I just used screen sharing to remote in from my apple desktop. Copy/paste of even complicated stuff works fine between the apple desktop and the vm desktop. Also drag and drop files, etc

more like "Sam Altman said"

I hate this kind of thing.

I can imagine if vi or emacs wasn't open-source, and then "someone" decided that it was cryptic and not new-user-friendly. Then they decided that their "notepad with emoji" would be the replacement.