Where are you seeing support until 2038? I see support until 2027.
Even if it was 2038, Win10 LTSC only supports hardware from the time it was originally released. That might or might not be a problem today, but it definitely will be problematic long before 2038.
We're approaching the point where someone will put together every form of energy harvest, solar, kinetic, temperature, air pressure (from wind, etc) and just store it in a super-capacitor for whatever you are wearing/holding, watch, phone etc.
Garmin already has solar on many watches to extend battery and the Kinefox is already doing kinetic on animal tracking
Solar and body heat are overwhelmingly the most potent out of all of those. And even then the only reason I'm listing body heat is because of how often things will be in pockets or bags and therefore not exposed to sunlight — small heat differences are fundamentally inefficient to extract useful work from.
For motion: The "standard" calorific demands of a human work out as about 100-120 watts or so; adding some mechanism that extracts energy from your motion, makes your motion harder by that plus whatever gets lost as heat (which can't be extracted efficiently). Something that makes you burn an extra 500 kcal/day would at best be 24 watts, but whatever it was it would basically have to put continuous resistance on some of your movement to get that, like an exoskeleton but it doesn't assist you it just slows you down the whole time.
Now, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think human biological efficiency is around 25%? So that 500 kcal/day -> 24 watts actually looks like (6 watts of mechanical output + 18 watts of heat)?
And those 18… the theoretical maximum efficiency depends on the difference between the hot side and the cold side, so to be as efficient as possible you'd need to be somewhere cold. The Carnot efficiency limit is η = 1 - T_cold/T_hot (absolute temperature, i.e. in Kelvin), so human body temperature of 310 K (37°C), somewhere really cold 253 K (-20°C) -> 1 - 253/310 = 0.184 (18%), which gets you 3.3 W from an extremely unpleasant experience.
Even the full 24 W is about what you'd get from a T-shirt made from the best solar cells with a reasonable assumption about capacity factor.
The only places I'm aware of where wind beats muscle, is inside a hurricane or a tornado. And that's if you could harvest it on a size scale comparable to your body.
> Garmin already has solar on many watches to extend battery and the Kinefox is already doing kinetic on animal tracking
Some of the mechanical watches when I was a kid were advertised as keeping themselves wound from body motion. Apparently those predate my birth by over two centuries.
My school calculator back in 1995 was already solar powered, too.
https://cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace also tells you your IP address (but not both), and is notable because it works on any site that cloudflare attacks
It wasnt because of Tariffs, its because its clear that they have no soverignty being apart of the F35 program. USA can try and keep up with China in sixth gen with its own money now, instead of spreading the cost amongst allies. Trump might be playing 4d chess but hes blundering queens left right and center
I was a highly trained endurance athlete my entire life and covid/long-covid absolutely destroyed all of that, permanently
After 5 years I would happily trade only a 10% performance loss for the days and nights full of nerve damage pain (neuropathy)and what seems to be 30% performance loss
BTW very relevant to your daughter's story:
the first year of long-covid I was absolutely certain I had permanent lung damage and started searching everywhere for solutions
There are two possibilities that might be hopeful for her
The first is that it might not be permanent alveoli damage (which do not regenerate in humans) but rather obstruction from a "hydrogel" that forms during active covid and takes many many months if not years to dissipate entirely
which are simple enzymes, you can buy Natto-Serra on Amazon and very very slowly perhaps over many months it might help her lungs (this is just a guess)
Thank you for the information, and I'm sorry to hear about your struggles.
> The first is that it might not be permanent alveoli damage (which do not regenerate in humans) but rather obstruction from a "hydrogel" that forms during active covid and takes many many months if not years to dissipate entirely
I didn't go into too much detail in my original post, but we think this is likely what happened to my daughter. Post-COVID, she could still go for long durations at 80% but when she pushed her limits, she would hit a wall and start to experience asthma like symptoms along with the feeling like she had mucous in her lungs that she couldn't get out. It took close to 2 years for her to stop experiencing those symptoms, at which point her competitive running peers had passed her by. She's happy to be able to enjoy running again but she did lose out on the competition part.
That is a very deceptive video/article (at least the first half above the paywall). It is true that a few of these sats will have to come down each day, but the video is of a booster failure/explosion, not a normal planned obsolescence sat re-entry.
And re-entry is part of the cleanup plan. All satellites responsibly launched need a plan to deal with possible orbital waste. By decommissioning in this way, we're reducing overall impact of the constellation.
Given the immense possible good worldwide internet can provide, and the virtuous cycle it creates for the US launch industry, it's really hard to take these claims seriously.
It is impossible to make any improvement without some impact. We're way, way past any real problems when discussing a few 100kg of metal falling into the upper atmosphere every day.
Growth versus preservation. India is trashing its air quality burning coal near its cities. Yet that power is lifting millions out of poverty and into the world's second-largest middle class.
Everyone would prefer clean air ceteris paribus. But for a lot of those people, economic security is "more important than preserving the environment."
I believe that an atmosphere compatible with human life is a bit more useful than internet by satelite. The fact that the impact of re-entry of satelites is absolute insane. Any good engineering company would study the whole impact of scaling up before doing so. The fact that spacex didn't do that is really worrying and regulation should come to stop what they are doing asap until the impact is better understood. Some more serious engineers at Japan aerospace are studying wooden satelite which is a quite approach to the problem.
I am not aware of threats to the atmosphere from the entry at a 100kg/day scale. And nobody is. At this point risks are hypothetical to the ozone or other layers.
if the aersols do cause any problems we're done for quite a while as they do not seem to come down. As I understand it the amount of aerosol will be quite significant in this layer of athmosphere. https://csl.noaa.gov/news/2025/427_0428.html
if you combine all the fallen starlink satellites and the debris/waste they produce in a year, it comes down to about less than 0.1% of what the earth receives from space in the same year
Okay, that makes sense. The reading I did indicated that the composition of the man-made mass is very different, and could greatly elevate the amount of certain elements released in the upper atmosphere, like aluminum. Is this not cause for concern?
The worst thing about space exploration is that it's not fun and optimistic like it was before this specific 2020s phase of capitalism, the best thing is that this crop of billionaires will all be dead before the real cool future stuff could happen anyway.
They're planning to live forever. All of them are investing in longevity research & some of them are young enough to live to see a few breakthroughs that might meaningfully extend their lifespan.
Why assume it's people who can't Google down voting and not Russian and Chinese plants. There's all kinds of topics on here that trigger a down voting campaign that works pretty well on non top comments.
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there will probably be ATMs running LTSC even past 2038
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