Air to ground and satellite connections for in-flight WiFi: https://onezero.medium.com/what-makes-it-possible-to-browse-the-internet-at-35-000-feet-1afaea83eb5
(It's expensive, affects the plane's shape and fuel efficiency, and the fastest is still only 100 Mbps!)
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Reading the beta 4 release notes for Haiku R1, it's striking how much work it is to support modern WiFi protocols: https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/r1beta4/release-notes/
Previously, 802.11ac was only supported on Linux and OpenBSD! (Ignoring proprietary operating systems)
Did a fresh Arch Linux install on a new SSD today. It was easier than I remembered, even with LUKS and LVM set up.
Configuring wifi cards has got much easier: it's really important for the initial bootstrap these days.
I rather like that npm says "installed 123 packages from 45 authors". It gives you a sense of how big the team you're depending on is.
I'd love to see something similar for other parts of the stack: "43 kernel developers have worked on your wifi driver!"