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I think thats rude for the termites. :(

Yeah, there once was an insatiable demand for pick axes, mining supplies, saloons and "related services" - until one day it was not.

Eventually we got the same ghost town after this AI bubble madness.

Its not about lowering their prices - they shouldn't have abandoned their regular long term customers (e.g. normal people) to just chase AI fever drem money bullshit.

They would still make a lot of money but without making a lot of bad blood & making a massive opening for chinese competition.

But greed is greed...

Why not just put it on F-Droid or self publish it rather than go through this bullshit ? :)

Well, FDroid has many apps that are basically done, open source & build from said source. Thats how it should be done.

"Never liked participatory theater & this one finally ruined it to me for life."

Well I am sure the subscription shenanigans helped Krita and Libreoffice. Graphene OS seems to be gaining traction & Sailfish OS exists as well.

And making media subscription more expensive will just push more people to piracy, so they will just loose money due to their greed.

What a convenient excuse.

I am not saying this drones is Iran made (it is most likely built by gang pressed teenagers in Alabuga like other Geran drones) just that Iran has a bunch of drone designs, including jet powered ones:

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2019/09/the-oryx-handbook-of-i...

Also would not be surprised if there was knowledge sharing either previously when their let them clone the main Shahed variant or even to this day.

Well, the propeller interceptors worked - it forced the Russians to upgrade their attack drones to use jet engines, making them more expensive. Still an issue if they get through but also a question if they can do a big swarm the same way the could with the lawnmower engine type.

Also I expect similar Ukrainian adaptation using some sort of jet propulsion or even rocket assistance to counter them. Not to mention getting a jet powered response in the Russian direction.

I think the current interceptors are optimized for one way attack - just enough flight time to catch the target and detonate. Any extra systems (such as guns or recovery hardware) make the interceptor more expensive.

Also these kamikaze drones are not flying in huge flocks like WW2 bomber that tried to cover each other with machine guns - even if a gun armed interceptor shoots one down, it might not be able to intercept another during the raid.

Some bigger, L-39 sized jet drones on the other hand could be quite capable, possibly launching separate one-way interceptors on top of guns.

Iran does manufacture a lot of drones, including similar looking ones.

I still thing that if you burn enough people there will be pushback.

Yeah, its taking some time. :P Have been hearing about some smaller RAM stick manufacturers starting to use RAM chips from chinese manufacturers - hopefully the pace will pick up.

Yeah, that would be the main issue for optical imaging. Still rapid change detection could be doable and of course sigint.

The only reason is greed from Sony.

Switch supports SUB-Ethernet adapters - could have used that to satisfy their stupid cloud requirement.

Even if it worked for some games and users - this still demonstrates the fatal flaw of cloud gaming. Total vendor lock in and no user control.

If they decide one day to fuck you over, there is nothing you can do about it.

Yeah, like we don't have enough centralization, no control & force feeding already. No thanks, take your Minitel 2.0 and shove it.

Yeah, at least since Steam Deck launched & especially with Steam Machine now also being available consoles really don't make any sense.

All the lazy complaints about "I want it to just work", "I don't want to build & maintain a PC" etc. really make no sense any more.

And arguably the breaking point has been much sooner, with the PS4 & Switch both selling you back commodity hardware (x86 APU with FreeBSD for PS4 & ancient NVIDIA Tegra for Switch), just totally locked down, user hostile & with overpriced games.

I'm not sure how an unmodified JDAM would handle highly supersonic slipstream. Best case is the guidance section just falls apart. Worst case - the bomb smashes into the aircraft on release, killing the crew.

Would not be the first for the related A-12 program - the D-21 drone program managed top get 3 people killed due to crashes on release.

So you have these LEO Internet satellite constellations with thousands of satellites that have a number of satellites above any place on Earth at any given moment...

Still, I don't think anyone is ever going to hand assemble thousands of tubes for nozzle cooling & prepare them for brazing.

Not when you can get the same for a fraction of the cost by CNC milling the channels & then shrinking a jacket over it. Or in some cases even 3D printing the thing.

No, gross negligence -> jail. Next question.

Do Aero Arrow next! ;-)

F-35 can shoot stuff, unlike the SR-71.

Military fighter jets quite often had external starters to save weight.

Yeah, big car engines is actually not that impressive, rather surprisingly primitive. Modern jets have external APUs for starting, usually via compressed air, that have compact yet powerful gas turbines inside.

Sure, less impressive than a contraption with a bunch of car engines but much more powerful.

I bet they are bankrupt by then & the executive team is in jail.

They should be giving a fuck if those bullshit companies go bust and now they have all their fabs tooled for useless overpriced regular people won't buy.

Also at the same time as Chinese companies massively scaling the production of regular RAM.