On one hand, Musk.
On the other hand... Telecos.
You can either give billions more to the world's richest asshole, or you can give billions to companies that already received that money last time and did absolutely fuckall with it.
Lose-lose
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I mean there is a third option: municipal fiber
But then the gub’ment is your ISP but at least it’s not making billionaires money.
I’d suggest the best case scenario to me would be a fourth option like a community run co-op of fiber to the premises and have it be grant funded. But who am I kidding, that’s almost to socialist for rural America like where I live.
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That will work out as well as the death tunnel (formerly hyperlink)
Business owned by greedy manbaby says to give money to business also owned by greedy manbaby. Hmmm....
Don’t forget Nazi
SpaceX can fuck right off with that plan.
Musk = POS Nazi.
I have a better idea: don’t do that.
Low orbit satellites will never replace fiber because physics of latency, bandwidth and error correction.
As far as things go today well never need less fiber. Even if we cover the sky with satellites eventually we'd need to upgrade to fiber because its literally impossible to beat. Except for scifi tech like quantum entanglement networks which might not even be possible or practical and wouldn't need the satelites anyway.
As an infrastructure bet it makes absolutely zero sense except for covering rare niches like war zones or oceans.
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I would burn the money before giving it to the nazi
I’m so glad other countries are coming up with their own satellites just for the expressed interest to boycott musk.
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I say that Emma Stone should divorce her husband and marry me instead.
I sure am sick of super fast, stable internet connections. Let’s all get something that fucks up when it’s cloudy.
What's dumb about this statement is all Elon would have to do is market to all the places where broadband companies refuse to go and be affordable. tRump already killed the rural broadband initiatives. There's literally no competition and word-of-mouth could probably pull in more who are unhappy with their broadband provider.
However, capitalism and greed are cancers that know no limit...
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That's a dumb ass idea, and I'm literally on Starlink right now
We should also dump passenger trains for...electric car tunnels?
Goat says garden needs more carrots.
Here's a better idea: nationalize SpaceX and tell Musk to go fuck himself first. Not going to happen? Then no grant money.
I wish there was a way for the average person to shoot down starlink satellites.
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You cannot actually serve hundreds of millions in the US even if you invested the 75B it would cost to give every household a satellite it just can't support the bandwidth.
SpaceX can suck my ass