Is there a possibility to create a wireless point-to-point link ?

Yes. You can actually buy pairs of antennas (basically an AP pair) that do just that. The only downside is that the signal quality varies based on weather.

If you want something more or less weather proof, you can get microwave P2P links that run in licensed bands and you don't get any signal interference from similar nearby antennas.

Both WiFi and Microwave equipment act just like bridges and you can connect them to a switch or router.

We have an ISP (Monkeybrains) that offers this in SF but it’s only up to 100 Mbps each way.

I recently tried AT&T fixed wireless which runs over the mobile network but it seems too congested to offer high speeds so ended up back with Comcast.

This is interesting, for sure.

Thinking about this, I think what happens if we take it to the extreme - a system that lets a single user enter his route to work - and compare how various transportation systems, including innovative ones, would impact his day to day.

It's really hard to build such tool, and if it's done well and made appealing to users, it could be the base of a political tool for people to pressure their representatives to implement new and better systems and improve voters lives.

About integrated memory: Gemini says that between 85%-90% of PCs and laptops never upgrade their memory.

On the other hand, multi-die integration can greatly increase memory bandwidth.

So it's a reasonable move to integrate memory.

It's probably possible to develop analog adsl chips in 1990 semi tech. But pretty difficult.

As someone that is sensitive to displays, one of the best features of XFCE, unlike others desktops, is that it doesn't cause eye strain, probably because it doesn't play tricks - a pixel at a certain color is stable, and not dithered(if you choose) and higher level primitives are also stable and don't play time/frequency based games.

I hope XFCE preserves this, it is a killer feature in today's world.

On that same note,of reducing the barriers for Linux usage.

Would it be possible to create a Zorin OS USB drive that after inserting it into the USB drive of a laptop:

The user would get a running Linux, with the UX they know(win 10/11), with full speed and full capabilities - without installation ?

System from USB will feel sluggish. Users could get a feel for UI, but I think it would be inadequate for a long term usage.

That just sounds like a live USB?

windows subsystem for linux, it's builtin to windows (after download from microsoft) and no USB needed

There was a podcast with Mark Andreesen, the VC, and he said that Elon has deep understanding and involvement in the technical side in his companies.

Wow if Marc Andreesen said then it must be true.

I agree. The Arduino brand isn't for professionals.

But let's say tomorrow they come together with bundle/partnerships to create a new, great dev environment, very easy, that a mechanical engineer can prototype a great robot for a niche use case,and continue to use that chip and code, with some changes in V1 production ?

Is there value to the Arduino brand and community than ?

Arduino is used by many professionals. It is cheap enough that you can buy it on your corporate cards and you boss won't ask many questions. As such many products start with an Ardunio based demo, and if/when the demo is a success it moves to a real company project with a real budget.

The question though is does this add value for the owners of Arduino? All too often when a project moves from the demo to real engineering (making a demo something you can sell is typically about ten times harder than the demo) you select all new hardware.

When professionals use Arduinos for such use cases, do they use the Arduino software platform or do they use the chio verndors' toolchains? Just curious how the professionals work with these things.

It depends, really. Mostly on who does the project.

Some people hail from hacker town and will use whatever they have at hand. Some learned on vendor tooling, and would want it to be "proper", and would always try to use a vendor SDK with a vendor IDE. Some learned on vendor tooling and prefer not to use vendor tooling for "familiarity breeds contempt" reasons.

As a degenerate case: I've seen software for an ESP32 board that was prototyped entirely in Arduino IDE, and we almost shipped it that way. Because the prototype team cooked, and when the "make it an actual product team" tried to remake it in ESP-IDF, they ended up with less features and more bugs. They got it together eventually though.

Thank you for sharing. As a hobbyist with a devotion to the field, I'm fascinated by how the actual professionals work. It's a very challenging domain.

From what I've heard (primarily in the music hardware space) is that it depends. Some use Arduino's software and language while others use the lower level toolchains.

This is prototyping mostly so I'm not sure if any of the Arduino code actually gets shipped with production devices.

We use the whole Arduino software packages(IDE/toolchain/flashing tool). It's fast and proven to work.

For ex, we want to prototype a new mux switch, and need to toggle some gpio from computer. We finished in 1 evening, with arduino and python on host.

Zorin OS is very similar to windows, regular users just use it, without learning anything new.

But still, marketing this must be brutal.

//And the ability to speak English natively is already in high demand throughout most the world, meaning if you ever get tired of online work and want some people time, you can have a job in like 5 minutes, particularly if you look decent and have a college degree.

What typed of jobs is this referring to, besides teaching English ?

The obvious one is definitely teaching, though not just English. For online teaching, English is a major lingua franca and any skill you might want to teach, from chess to calculus - there will be plenty of online students available in English, even if that may often not be their native tongue.

For in person teaching it's the same thing. Most countries have a system of bilingual schools, international schools, and then university type schools. And all of these offer English language instruction in everything from PE to Calculus. The major difference between a bilingual school and an international school is that the latter will generally pay much more and expect much more with certification a stated requirement, though in practice it often is not.

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Outside of that there's endless odd jobs available that are in need of English speakers. I have friends working in everything from marketing to rehab. A good idea there would be to pick a country you're interested, find the common job boards there (which LLMs may be excellent for, though I have not used them for this myself - yet) and simply search for 'English' or other such keywords. You'll be surprised.