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They spent years lying about their encryption algorithms too acting like they’re more secure than Signal when they never were

Also, if they don’t identify themselves the state literally gets to assume they aren’t feds, lol

RISC-V isn’t in the same scenario. There’s one company behind ARM with a few external companies with architecture licenses (who doesn’t share their contributions), and ARM competes mostly just on the same commercial terms so for a long time it wasn’t worth investing in single core performance because they could instead fill the efficiency niche.

Also there’s more knowledge on how to build high performance cores. Doesn’t mean it’s trivial, but it means the lead isn’t several decades. With enough investment you can make it happen faster. And there’s a national security motivation for investing.

RISC-V already exists so why not build on that?

Doesn’t matter had majority

Then you cite GOP doing it as precedence

Ignore the ruling. They won by a bigger margin than Trump.

FYI digging through documentation reminded me of squashfs. It does what it sounds like. But it’s read only, so you would have to use an overlay FS to cache changes and then overwrite the whole squashfs volume at once to sync changes.

https://medium.com/@akashsainisaini37/how-overlayfs-and-squashfs-power-embedded-linux-storage-75273028ef20

Both are possible but read only is more common

RAM drive is when you hold the entire file system in RAM, it’s used for stuff like Linux Live CD boot with no writable storage but you can use it for anything.

Make sure you’re actually filling the volume, and also keep in mind reporting may be different (with or without filesystem index metadata, etc)

Also, you can simply use regular file systems and compressed files, and then use a RAM drive (assuming you have enough RAM free) and access the files that way instead

They aren’t thinking about the consequences

Considering everybody talking about using these things in war it has the benefit of not being a suicide beacon visible to instruments for many many miles, unlike the microwave transmitters everybody else here want to carry with them

Also see;

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/05/09/powering-drones-with-ultra-thin-flexible-perovskite-pv-cells/

If you actually want to extend the lifetime of high performance autonomous drones in the field then it’s more practical to do battery swaps

Those efficiencies are for large senders and receivers. When you have to make it small for a drone the numbers gets worse.

None of those make continous evasive maneuvers. All the things you mention works because the flight path is fully known in advance and you have full synchronization and ability to lock orientation. None of this works on a drone in urban environments where you’ll constantly lose line of sight.

Dude I’m not talking about heat I’m talking about literal about the literal MW receiver’s physical LOCATION on the drone body AND THE ACTUAL PROPULSION IN FORM OF MOVING AIR, because the receiver has to be large, and oriented to the sender at all times, which means there are orientations in which it will block at least some propellers from pushing air physically downwards, unless those also are built to extend far out AND CAN TWIST THEIR ORIENTATION TOO

(remember that propeller flight obeys the laws of Newton, pushing air down keeps you up and if you tilt your drone to align with the microwave center then you must tilt your propellers or you’ll be flying sideways, unless you put receiver on a gimbal in which case it’s stupidly complex and you now have to adjust airflow across non-blocked propellers when the receiver is below some of them)

You can not win an argument by misunderstanding the counterarguments. You lose by not even being able to imagine how a drone actually flies physically in the air, not to mention your lack of ability to just read

Not to mention that you didn’t even ask yourself what happens to a microwaved power transmitter in war. Guess what? It gets targeted and destroyed in seconds. You’re dead now. Bye.

And you can’t even make a drone swarm work. Either you have a dozen transmitters (lol good luck) or a phased antenna array in which lol fucking lmao that thing will spew out heat losses and get banned from operating near any remotely populated area due to radio interference

If you think that’s not practical, wait until you see something microwave powered trying to make quick moves. I want to see what you think it will do when it suddenly has to pass through an urban environment with a ton of obstacles. Are you gonna MIMO the damned microwave beam!?!?!? With millisecond trajectory updates!?!?!?

Not mention that a microwave power transmitter in war will die faster than any mobile radar station because it’s so god damned trivial to detect and lock onto, you’re losing that bullshit in seconds of turning it on

The only scenario where this wouldn’t be total bullshit is perimeter monitoring drones flying a fixed path, where you for some reason really don’t want to have to have multiple drones in rotation (which honestly doesn’t make much sense either but at least that’s just 80% BS instead of 100% BS)

Has already been done

https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/solar-powered-drone-design-2025/

The only two metrics that matter here are W/m^2 and weight.

You can’t make a reasonable microwave receiver lighter than solar film and efficiency peaks around 50% in FIXED installations and you can easily assume less than a quarter (under 10%) when the target isn’t just moving, but is also changing angles and distance (you’d have to put the receiver on a gimbal like for cameras) and now it’s also interfering with flight (propeller airflow, unless you do weird propeller geometries or tilted body flight

Tldr DUMB

Microwave power transfer only make sense between distant fixed line of sight locations with minimal infrastructure available. On earth that’s literally just island mountain tops. Even then it’s easier and cheaper to still just install solar

On the moon, it would basically just mean you have one big generator and everything gets powered by the sun when in sunlight and switch to microwave from the generator when in shadow, which is pretty much the only configuration that even make sense

The microwave receiver will not be small or efficient

Solar power is still more practical

I saw the same restriction on the Swedish site