I've had starlink for probably a year and a half now. It has steadily improved, gotten more reliable, and is more able to avoid trees (I alas am not in an open

I've had starlink for probably a year and a half now. It has steadily improved, gotten more reliable, and is more able to avoid trees (I alas am not in an open plain). I used to have 10 seconds of blockage every 5 minutes. Now I get some blockage every... 5 hours? I also have a 5G modem appliance that I used to use for stuff like Zoom. It actually is LESS reliable than the Starlink now. Do I do massive bandwidth downloads or serve websites? No. I am the typical consumer usage. Is the expense worth giving the finger to the cable company? Oh yes. If I got around to getting rooftop solar and storage or a backup generator, then I'd be protected from a grid failure. That appeals to me, but then again going off-grid is an obsession of the typical aging male techie in America. I think it's the new "going republican when you were liberal young": instead you go pseudo-libertarian.