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“I can complain about Starlink raising their prices, but it’s the only genuine option we have,” former Nebraska state senator and Republican Julie Slama told the Washington Post last month. “Once they have rural customers on their service with no meaningful alternatives, they’re free to raise prices at will.”
Should we pull up the record and see who voted to allow that to happen in Nebraska while on the subject?
"We only have the option to use this hyper expensive private satellite service... because we spent all of the wired rollout grants/funding on bullshit."
because we spent all of the wired rollout grants/funding on bullshit.
Oh, it's worse than that. The grant money was the wrong party color, so it had to be disposed of rather than lead to a positive outcome.
But you see, if they took the grant money and used it for something that people liked, they'd have to admit that the party they don't like did something useful! Can't have that!
"I can complain about Starlink raising their prices, but it's the only genuine option we have," former Nebraska state senator and Republican Julie Slama told the Washington Post last month. "Once they have rural customers on their service with no meaningful alternatives, they're free to raise prices at will."
Yes, that is what everyone has been warning about for years and why we want the communication monopolies torn down... Fucking leopards running loose out here eating faces and they still just kinda shrug and go "wish there was an alternative to letting all the leopards run free eating our faces".
To be fair, if you've ever had to use HughesNet, a leopard eating your face is a welcome change of pace.
You should only be a Starlink customer if you have no other feasible choice.
We've noticed that our service no longer works properly, so we're going to charge you more for it.
Sending money to a clown and NOT expecting a fucking circus, are we?
How could someone who knows all about computers and networking not predict the logistics problems for such projects? /s
That tweet is almost impressively stupid.
What the fuck does the download size of Wikipedia have to do with anything?
I can also fit some of the largest LLMs on my phone. Where is all that AI investment going to???
The world's first trillionaire doesn't get to call anyone else greedy.
The country that invented the internet... has the worst internet infrastructure in the developed world. Worse than some developing countries too. Astonishing.
astonishing
No, its pretty in character.
"High demand" meaning underprovisioning.
This is sooo on cue, right as my AI loving IT colleagues are talking about getting starlink, only to have a backup internet connection in case of an outage.
I just can't imagine having such excessive wealth and not saying "eh, whatever" when someone tells me I'm losing money on some internet fees.
You fucker, you could make the world at least a tiny bit better for billions of people at virtually no expense to you, but you just keep playing your stupid fucking rich manchildren games with your billionaire parasite buddies.
Keep grinding bro, maybe this way you'll get used to the feeling of having your bones crushed in the grinder.
It makes more sense when you realize his wealth is all smoke and mirrors based on a shared lie.
Ah great. My Starlink hardware just arrived.
I wasn't charged any high-demand surcharge though. I probably wouldn't have ordered it if I had to pay one of those.
I don't think my area will have high demand for Starlink anyway. Even their fastest options are slow. There are options for like 5-10x the speed around the same price in my area. The only downside: There's like a 50% chance of lightning frying my modem each year, and it takes like a week to get a tech on site.
Starlink is a great backup connection. It's cheap to just keep in standby mode (~$15/month, IIRC). An unexpected, heavy surcharge might be a deal breaker though
America will do anything except lay some fucking cable to provide internet to the ruroids.
Including paying companies specifically to lay that cable then never forcing them to actually do it.
It's crazy how behind US is on that. Americans say "yeah but US is bjg and mostly empty space" so is Asia and the rest of the world yet they are not defeated by a cable. It's just cable laying - come on, we solved cable laying 50 years ago.
I have a neighbor who has access to 1gb cable and 1gb fiber from two ISP's. Both have high data caps. Instead he is rocking the starlink and I can't for the life of me figure out how he thinks that shit is somehow better than a hard link.
This is why satelite internet is a dead end. The latency and bandwidth are fundamental limitations of physics which are incredibly expensive to scale up compare to cable and cell towers.
Even if we have a complete satellite roll out we'd still have to go back to cell towers for better latency. So why even entertain this detour if not for war machines - one niche where satellites are actually better.
