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Regardless of the price and the data, I'd never subscribe to this service due to the owner. I'm looking forward for alternatives from a more neutral vendor
by lta 9mo ago
Regardless of the price and the data, I'd never subscribe to this service due to the owner.
I'm looking forward for alternatives from a more neutral vendor
- syntaxing 9mo agoI’m 100% on the same boat. The only competitor I can see is Amazon Leo. Having options is great but they both suck.
- hinkley 9mo agoAs if Bezos is better. Elon has a much higher slope but he’s got a head start to catch up on, before they’re all hunting humans for sport on Ellison’s private island.
- whimsicalism 9mo agohttps://x.com/elonmusk/status/2009171282030653877 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2009171282030653877 I disagree that Bezos & Elon are comparably bad.
- permo-w 9mo agoyou're all over this thread seemingly trying to get someone to argue this point with you, or perhaps just to prove how nuts Elon is, as if people don't already know that, for example, from the time he did a nazi salute in public to a crowd
- quietsegfault 9mo agoYou're all over the thread actually arguing with people over things that don't relate to the article as well. Pot, kettle.
- permo-w 9mo agomy comments were all on different topics making different points in different comment chains. the guy I was replying to here was essentially making the same point over and over in a single comment thread, daring someone to argue with him
- whimsicalism 9mo agoi posted 4 times in this thread (once more than you), half of which were actually defending Elon Musk's contributions/companies. take care
- permo-w 9mo agoall of my comments were on different subjects
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- ActorNightly 9mo agoBezos worst offense is meeting with Trump and donating to his campaign (and if you follow the leftist ideology, being a billionaire). But based on personal experience with some very wealthy people, I truly believe they are just out of touch with the real world to understand what they are doing politically. Imagine if your days could be spent doing all the things you ever could wish, you would most likely not even bother reading stuff like reddit or HN, and certainly won't have time to look into any snippet of news in detail. Musk on the other hand, is mentally ill.
- lta 9mo agoIt's also buying WaPo and altering their editorial make up
- o_1 9mo agosomething something, sounds like a bluesky post.
- dayyan 9mo agoBoycott noted, meanwhile, I’ll be enjoying double the roaming data while you wait for that legendary ‘neutral’ competitor to beam down from the heavens.
- drivingmenuts 9mo agoHey, at least they won't be getting data from and enriching an avowed racist, so they got that going for them. Enjoy your part in creating misery for people who just happen to not be white.
- MosuraGinniren 9mo ago[dead]
- lta 9mo agoI live and work from a van part of the year and am perfectly fine with a 4g router almost anywhere save some mountain climbing spot, so there's really no need for me. I pay about 30€ and get about 250GB when in France and 30GB whenever I enter a new country so I'm not lacking considering my usage, but thank you
- homebrewer 9mo agoI think they will have enough clients from other parts of the world to make it work. Large areas of my country can't really be covered with wired networks, it's too expensive to make it economically feasible without massive government subsidies, for which there's no money. Starlink has already been used to connect very remote rural schools which previously only had dial-up connectivity (enough to send text email, but not much else). And nobody here cares about American politics, we have enough of our own problems.
- izzydata 9mo agoIt's not really American politics when Elon decides to turn off your countries internet for personal gain. Having such critical infrastructure in the hands of someone unstable wouldn't be a choice I ever make for something so important.
- iknowstuff 9mo agoYou are probably referring to ukraine and you should know that this was entirely fake news. It was never disabled. It had never been enabled in Crimea in the first place, in accordance with US gov policy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_in_the_Russian-Ukrainian_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_in_the_Russian-Ukrain... In 2022, Elon Musk denied a Ukrainian request to extend Starlink's coverage up to Russian-occupied Crimea during a counterattack on a Crimean port, from which Russia had been launching attacks against Ukrainian civilians; doing so would have violated US sanctions on Russia.[18] This event was widely reported in 2023, erroneously characterizing it as Musk "turning off" Starlink coverage in Crimea. But you’re right of course that it might be in a sovereign country’s interest to build out their wired infrastructure instead of relying on external actors.
- gbriel 9mo agoThe vast majority of the international community, including the United Nations, the United States, and the European Union, recognizes Crimea as a sovereign part of Ukraine. :)
- whimsicalism 9mo agothank you for not bidding up the price
- gordonhart 9mo agoWould you rather buy from Jeff Bezos or a Chinese state-owned enterprise? Those are your likely options within the next 5-10 years.
- whimsicalism 9mo agoDoes Jeff Bezos believe we need white solidarity to survive because non-white people are a threat to white men?
- briandw 9mo agoCitation needed
- ingenieros 9mo agoHere you go: https://www.columnblog.com/p/the-adl-ignores-yet-another-elon https://www.columnblog.com/p/the-adl-ignores-yet-another-elo...
- YetAnotherNick 9mo agoThis is opinion, not citation. Here's what he said: > White people are a rapidly diminishing minority of global population Which unless you have any extra context, according to me does not entail: > we need white solidarity to survive because non-white people are a threat to white men
- zzrrt 9mo agohttps://x.com/elonmusk/status/2009171282030653877 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2009171282030653877 Elon replied with 100 emoji to a post that said “If White men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while White men hold a collective majority, then they will be 1000x times more hostile and cruel when they are a majority over Whites. White solidarity is the only way to survive.”
- ibejoeb 9mo agoSee also the "Fuck You Elon" exhibit at this past Burning Man, powered by starlink.
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- Salgat 9mo agoI respect your principles, but at the same time, using Starlink for now does encourage other potential competitors to come forth, at which time you could switch.
- dyauspitr 9mo agoThere are two Chinese alternatives being deployed right now. I believe one is called Guowang. As a red blooded American, I would rather go with Guowang over an American Nazi.