Um Ackshually, NextNav’s proposal doesn’t involve satellites at all, at least directly. As I understand it, they would use the 900 MHz band to triangulate between cell towers with the technology. (As a convenient side effect, once the 900 MHz band is reallocated cell phone companies could use it too, which I’m sure NextNav can make money from.)

Having a source of good position information that doesnt rely solely on satellites is important. However, the proposal hinges on NextNav’s assessment that the band is “underutilized”, though, which all sorts of people are objecting to. Still, this is the era of Trump, and anything can happen with the proper bribe.

More technical into here: https://spectrum.ieee.org/gps-alternatives-nextnav-interference

You can’t tell me what to do

YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT YOUR CAPS LOCK KEY IS STUCK

The picture is a bit blurry regarding the specs of the controller, but it looks like it has an Output spec of 12A. So as long as you keep your overall load below that, it should be OK.

12 A x 24 V is 288 W. I don’t know what your project is but a quick Google search indicates that these strips consume far less than that unless you are going hundreds of feet.

When I click that link, and go there in a browser without logging in, I only see 70ish comments listed. But I also see a lot of removed comments as I scroll down, mostly from a single user. My uneducated guess is that there was already some chicanery in the thread, which the Mods have dealt with, and you are seeing the result of that.

As far as what can be done about it, there really is little to be done, as log as Lemmy remains open (and federated). Posts and comments hop around from one instance to the other, and while some instances can take a hard line against bots some other instance can be more permissive then it becomes a game of whack-a-mole. Active, open moderation is the best cure, but takes effort.

Reddit still publishes RSS feeds, so you can use an RSS reader to see the latest stuff. You can’t interact with it, but who wants to trade shit posts with bots anyway?

This is how I keep up with my Sportsball teams since that community hasn’t really taken off here yet.

What’s RIF? I joined when BaconReader stopped working

She’s fake, she can be whatever she wants to be.

But in the US (and I assume in Canada), many people identify based on where their ancestors came from, even if they came over several generations back, as long as their family still associated with that country’s culture. Because let’s face it, unless you have native heritage your ancestors came here from somewhere.