@firebreathingduck Puerto Rico.

@alienghic interesting. Thank you. I’ll try to get up to speed

Anyway. This is why I’m getting into Meshcore. 🤪

And…. Last but not least.

Having an unstable power grid goes beyond losing this month’s groceries. It is the surprise bill everyone faces. These affect decisions like having diesel generators, battery backups and solar panels.

The people running comms towers are facing those decisions too. Which leads to crappy internet connections. And you know what happens when your internet connection is bad, right?

Mind you, this is Puerto Rico. The market is super small.

The Iran war price surge is being felt on top of the computing fees, the sky high electric bills… and things like the Jones Act are all interacting in the background.

Something’s gotta give eventually.

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What is notable is that local businesses tend to be behind the times when it comes to adoption of newer tech. GenAI seems to be the exception.

This business in particular is a small to medium sized business with contracts to bigger and even international and publicly traded companies. They’re fintech mainly.

Two things I’ve noticed about local businesses souring on GenAI:

First one is a car insurance TV ad showing one of these phone systems mishearing a request for car assistance repeatedly and messaging that they will always have a human work with you.

The second one is this. Local software development job ad for entry level engineers: