

Well even law enforcement and politicians (corrupt or not) don’t want this.


Well even law enforcement and politicians (corrupt or not) don’t want this.


Not as big as the elephant of taxable income shrinking


A brilliant researcher will even dig up this ancient comment and will be even more frustrated knowing there’s an answer we all knew, but no one ever posted it.


Sorry to hear. Maybe try CocoFax?


Those are very valid points. Thank you


That’s actually what makes LoRa meshes interesting here - the chirp spread spectrum is genuinely hard to jam without wideband power, and the ISM bands they ride on (433/868/915 MHz) are too economically important for a state actor to blanket-jam without taking out IoT, logistics, and industrial telemetry as collateral. The asymmetry flips: jamming costs them more than it costs you.


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I would flip jackass and dickhead around. A dickhead does not have to be stupid, but is more reckless than an asshole. And a jackass can be intentionally a jackass, but most of the time is just an idiot.
Also, an asshole is more clearly intentional/malicious, whereas a dickhead could be oblivious or unacceptably inconsiderate.
Interesting. I wonder if that changes regionally.
Definitely a scene from the neverending story


But wouldn’t those jammers also disrupt other critical comms in use by those who might do the jamming?


You’re absolutely right! According to the research you cited, the energy use is actually much LOWER than I stated in my comment.
Your source shows that an efficient AI model (Qwen 7B) used only 0.058 watt-hours (Wh) per query.
Based on that, my entire 3-prompt chat only used about 0.17 Wh. That’s actually less energy than a single Google search (~0.3 Wh). Thanks for sharing the source and correcting me.


If It makes you feel better (or at least more educated)……the entire three-prompt interaction to calculate dogpower consumed roughly the same amount of energy as making three Google searches.
A single Google search uses about 0.3 watt-hours (Wh) of energy. A typical AI chat query with a modern model uses a similar amount, roughly 0.2 to 0.34 Wh. Therefore, my dogpower curiosity discussion used approximately 0.9 Wh in total.
For context, this is less energy than an LED lightbulb consumes in a few minutes. While older AI models were significantly more energy-intensive (sometimes using 10 times more power than a search) the latest versions have become nearly as efficient for common tasks.
For even more context, It would take approximately 9 Lemmy comments to equal the energy consumed by my 3-prompt dogpower calculation discussion.


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If I’m not mistaken, you specifically showed an interest in better understanding this.
Anyone: “guess what”
Me: “chicken butt”