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So fucking glad I canceled starlink after the nazi did the nazi salute
I was also recommending my family not get Starlink, though many people on the right shill it (reviews seem to be skewed for purely political reasons). However, on the technical front, HughsNet and one other service (I forget who) use higher orbit satellites, and apparently, their speeds and bandwidth are garbage for the price people pay for that sort of thing. To be fair about it, however, your biggest issue with Starlink is the surveillance, as it could be offered for free in the future. However, if that's the case, it's our data we pay with instead of some sort of monetary value.
Yeah, the privacy part is a huge factor too. Yes the speed and performance was very good for me, especially since I am rural. I wouldn't go for starlink unless it paid me enough to pay for a different ISP
I think you can easily use a VPN at the router level for you (as long as you have a modem set to bridge mode, and bridge a router of your choice to it), and that way, you'll at least protect yourself a bit (DNS comes first).
Absolutely, those are great tips for being safe, but my money would still go to musk, and that I can't abide. While its very difficult sometimes to avoid putting money in questionable places we try to vote with our wallets
It unfortunately goes to a Khazar (I'm a partial Khazar, what most of y'all call a partial "Jew"), so I get the sentiment.