My wife had one as her primary machine for years. It’s currently in the ewaste pile…

They used to have a reputation for employing smart people… Dumbass middle managers took over a while back and started making the stupidest decisions.

Gen Xer here…

It didn’t use to be this bad. The FCC (and ftc) dropped the bag (regulatory capture), letting clear channel gobble up stations.

When I was a kid had a couple great local stations back in the day. One was a highschool station that local bands could send in cassette tapes and they would play them on Tuesdays. They had a Mosh Monday curated by local metalhead kids/young adults (there was vocational training at the radio station in evening classes).

Even the commercial channels were better. Not great or anything, but they had a lot more variety.

https://chamfr.com/sellers/johnson-matthey/

The marketing team for those over priced bike tires probably.

You can change the Af temp, but it is not relevant in this case because they are using the superelastic properties, not the shape memory properties if Nitinol.

https://matthey.com/products-and-markets/other-markets/medical-components/resource-library/nitinol-specification-guidelines

I question many aspects of this design for the consumer market, but not as you describe. Seems to me it’s likely to be very expensive, and while you might not get flats it is still going to wear no matter what.

SEO spam gives them ad clicks

It does? I thought the point of SEO was to show up in search results without having to pay for keyword placement.

I’m in the sticks and have no T-Mobile signal at all. I have to rely on wifi calling when I’m at home.

I only can get DSL, and only at the lowest tier since I’m at the edge of the delivery area, I checked the signal to noise that the modem reports and it’s not good (apparently)

I was considering getting starlink but I would probably need to place it on a big ass tower https://www.amazon.com/Rohn-25-40-Basic-Tower/dp/B077ZF7V1Q/ref=mp_s_a_1_8_sspa?crid=3MNO34QHYV0Q5&keywords=self+supporting+tower&qid=1694711820&sprefix=self+supp%2Caps%2C235&sr=8-8-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9waG9uZV9zZWFyY2hfbXRm&psc=1&smid=A34PUGV9QVBZZY

And from my understanding, they EXPECT the network to become clogged and unusable, and it is already starting to happen…

At this point I have to pray for municipal network which is never going to happen.