• Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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    2 年前

    TIL: The majority of Lemmys have never lived an hour from the nearest population center, down a dirt road, on a few hundred acres of wilderness. I fucking HATE musk and I still have an RV kit in my basement so when I’m traveling around hours from anywhere, Starlink works perfectly.

    • DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.ml
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      2 年前

      Don’t blame the people because the private sector doesn’t gain any money from this investment in this infrastructure.

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      2 年前

      Yeah, Musk has gone insane, anyone can see that.

      But Musk aside, LEO satellites are still really the only viable and economical solution to the problem of broadband in rural areas, and Starlink seems to work great.

      Also, the objection that resulted in pulling this funding looks pretty bullshit. Several other broadband providers are getting these same funding deals for doing basically nothing.

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      2 年前

      I live two hours from a city, waaaay up in the Alps and I have gigabit fibre for€40 a month lol

      Your infrastructure sucks donkeyballs 😂

      • PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world
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        two hours is waaaay out there guys!

        My sides are in orbit! Here is a side-by side of the Alps

        next to a small section of the American Rockies,

        which is still nothing compared to Canada (yes there are people in that big empty area).

        No offense, but true European rural doesn’t exist.

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          No offense, but true European rural doesn’t exist.

          Bro, come to northern Sweden and say that again lol

      • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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        2 年前

        No where in Europe is “remote.”

        Come to the South West US where you can drive 100 miles in any direction and barely see another human.

  • Melco@lemmy.world
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    2 年前

    Its simple like many Musk projects he over promises and under delivers.

    Starlink performance is slow and unreliable. Sometimes you get 100 Mbps and sometimes you get < 1 Mbps with the average being around 25. So it cant even really be considered broadband.

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    2 年前

    musk is one of the richest man alive, why does he need subsidies to do his job??

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      This isn’t really a great argument. Subsidies are there to promote the things we want to come to fruition. Want your people to have solar? Subsidies for putting one on your roof. You want more electric cars on the road even though more expensive? Subsidies.

      You want a billionaire to help a new technology reach people he wouldn’t bother with? Subsidies.

  • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 年前

    Because as we know, the only way for companies owned by the richest person on Earth to do business is if they get hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money first.

    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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      As if giving it all to Comcast and Spectrum for the 47th time will make things any better? Starlink is actually something accessible for a lot of these people, while legacy ISPs just pocket the money and claim its too hard to serve rural customers.

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        2 年前

        Anything is better than Starlink, Starlink is just extreme useless pollution for something that normal ISPs can achieve.

        The government needs to step in and make internet more of a utility like in like every other successful country.