The C'wth sloshes billions into #Telstra and #Optus coffers to rollout #5G infrastructure which is wholly inadequate and poorly suited for regional and remote conditions, while even basic phone service is unreliable, patchy or just downright unavailable many people. We need appropriate, rugged, reliable and resilient communications infrastructure, not gimmicks and techwank.

Meanwhile #NBN contemplates retiring #SkyMuster and handing regional and remote users cash and our data over to #JeffBezos and #Amazon through #ProjectKuiper

#MobileBlackspotProgram #AppropiateTechnology

https://paulbudde.com/blog/mobile-communications/rethinking-5g-why-faster-isnt-always-better-especially-in-regional-australia/

Rethinking 5G: why faster isn’t always better, especially in regional Australia - Paul Budde Consultancy

Back in 2019, I wrote about what I called “Peak Telecom”—the moment where the traditional telecoms industry hit a ceiling in growth and relevance. The internet had commoditised bandwidth, and telecoms were left managing an expensive infrastructure business, while others—Google, Amazon, Meta—captured the digital value. Five years later, new evidence shows how deeply this shift […]

Paul Budde Consultancy
Wheelbarrow

- by Ashley Neal

Coroflot

@suttonart @harleygold Tesla is single handedly responsible for the insane #BatteryBloat of EVs... Convincing people that unless theyve got a $85,000 100kw/h battery and 500km range that they can't possibly manage their 40km commute. End result is they are literally clawing a hundred tons of rocks out of the Earth to blast with acid, chemicals and heat to extract a single ton of exotic ores, to haul around in a battery that they will never use more than 20% of, only to get scrapped when it degrades. Absolutely stupid. I had a small iMiev city EV with a 16.5kwh battery that did absolutely everything I needed when living in town, and could hire a car or take the train when going long distance. Sadly that car is no longer made and the only real replacement is something like the Dacia Spring (small but super practical hatchback, 28kwh battery, no frills or BS #techwank, cheap and simple with a tiny, low power motor that means fewer rare minerals for its smaller magnets), which isn't available here and will soon be discontinued, despite being wildly popular in Europe :(

We need smaller, simpler vehicles (EVs or hybrids) built around #AppropiateTechnology as part of *reducing* our footprint, not just "transitioning" it from one horrific extractive practice to another. Also, vehicles that can easily have their design shared and assembled locally and easily repaired and rebuilt over and over again in the field. We want vehicles that can be kept running for decades and half a million KMs, with a set of hand tools and parts made in the field.

#degrowth #EVs #Tesla