They each fuck with my window arrangement on virtual desktops when rebooting in their own special way. I’ve switched to Wayland but x11 did feel more polished.

I'm much more partial to Courier

A friend of mine was very enthusiastic about this as well, he actually planned an entire trip around visiting the Schwebebahn. From his account it’s truly as wicked as it looks, and very stable as well.

Totally worked though

Website was hugged the first 24 hours, but seems to be better now! According to their email:

The first batch of selfies should be returning mid-summer

I’m thinking its harder to get sub 15ms consistently maybe? Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris, expected lightspeed times of 1-2ms, in reality you’ll get 10-20ms.

Global internet is optimized for global connectivity, I’m imagining resources are better spent optimizing the 50-200ms range than the 1-10ms.

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This is an Azimuthal projection with viridis, tried a few but liked this one the best!

That was experimenting, the actual graph shown is the other way around, so it shows the real differences, not just compared to lightspeed (ie I forgot to remove the ‘1 -’ from the label)

Looks great I’ll be checking different color scales, I’m still figuring out the plotting library though.

Ah yeah ofcourse I was experimenting with comparing it with the lightspeed itself, then inverting it with -1 so its coloured correctly. My mistake not changing the label enough.

Then the scaling goes up to 10

That is actually the real scale, in Europe we get theoretical speeds of 2-3ms according to the speed of light. Real RTT’s in Amsterdam for example are around 20ms, so you get values >10. The further you go from the EU, the closer to ideal times.

It’s interesting to see the places where connectivity is much better or worse than the surrounding areas.

Nice catch! I centered there to fit the entire world on the map. Here’s centered on London:

Azimuthal Equidistant Projection shows the equal distances, probably my favorite

Mercator Projection is good too

Hard to get the scaling right but I messed around a bit, here’s RTT / (2 * Distance / c )

Scaling on Europe is fun too

Great idea! I’ll be writing some code later to calculate distances first.

Thanks! The coolest part IMO is when you overlay it with the subnautical fiber optic network. The north of spain, the US east coast, South-Africa, Brazil, etc all show almost exactly where these cables connect the continents.

Beans/10

Oh ofcourse, but there being no price difference is definitely new for dell. I needed a Windows laptop at the time, but bought the Ubuntu one because it was literally €200 cheaper.

Edit: This is CRAZY, just checked Dell website. Buying one with Ubuntu instead of W11 Home will cost you €250 MORE. That’s insane.

Huh that might be new, when I bought my XPS 13 from them in 2019 it was a 200 euro difference when buying with Windows vs Ubuntu

Tesla doesn’t open-source their plans so you can build your own, better version of the cybertruck.