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All the other shit aside, it bothers me that so many areas now rely on Starlink, handing Elon the keys to just cut access for whomever whenever.
I was at a gay campground last summer and the guy I was with pointed out two Starlink receivers, we were both amazed that community-oriented queer men would just fork over money so they could watch TV. At a campground. They weren't even boomers, they were Gen Xers. People are just so addicted to modern convenience they don't care about who's supplying it.
I've been in the car with a transformers when they insisted on going to Chik-fil-a for lunch.
It legitimately made me lose a lot of respect for them.
I have a disappointingly large number of LGBTQ+ friends and family members who eat there regularly.
Paying for Starlink is a sin against Elohim, those two guys aren't getting into heaven.
Alec kinda hammered this in with his last Technology Connections video briefly.
It really was easier/better to launch millions of sattelites into space instead of just getting AT&T or whatever other telecom to extend a cable 50 yards? Really?
The coverage at sea is pretty helpful. Ideally it should be under UN control, if just to stop every country or block wanting to set up their own version and causing massive amounts of orbital clutter.
This comment has massive "I live in a suburb" vibes.
I know people who would have to spend more than the cost of their house to get mains power or fibre Internet.
They have to spend that much to install their own mains because none of the local telecom companies have extended theirs to service those customers despite having gotten grants from the government for the explicit purpose of doing so. 🤦♂️
nationalize starlink/spacex
ideally after Trump's cabinet loses their neck privileges
Taxpayers paid for both.
I actually built a LoRa network with a mate, if we stretch our antenas we can cover almost 300km with little to no energy but the latency is absolutely trash, though communication wise it works alright.
We should have less and less trust handling our data like we currently do.
I'm in the process of starting with some LoRa stuff myself, and just waiting on hardware to arrive. Can you provide any details on what you're using hardware-wise? I'm assuming that 300km is pretty much obstacle-free?
Both of us use different antennas (literally scrap), we use meshstatic with raspberries.
This will be of much help if you're looking to get started: https://meshtastic.org/docs/hardware/
Also 300km is indeed almost obstacle free, there's lots of villages and forests in between but one of the antenna is located on 12th floor of a building in a city. Coverage is not really the issue, even inside the city with all interference, we did manage to establish a proper connection within 3km, one antenna on 4th floor and the other one on the first floor with lots of tall buildings in between. (Worked much better than expected)
Mad fun project to get started with, highly recommended. Is it of much use? Not yet, not really. But we are planning on pumping up the power a little bit, add a few more nodes and hopefully we will be able to deploy a Lemmy or something and step by step we will create our own shitty "undernet".
Nice. At the moment I'm looking at using ESP based LilyGo devices since they're fairly cheap and power efficient. The plan is to set them up in places where they can run off solar power during the day and if I get enough people onboard we can relay off each other.
The tech itself seems cheap and effective enough that it might be good for situations like i.e. the protests in MS where having a phone or other device with too much personal info - or subject to tracking -might be less desirable. It could also be good in situations like we've seen in other countries wherein the government cuts off Internet access