Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies

• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s also a bunch who have never left the city, and have no comprehension of just how remote some communities are.

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  • Patches@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bro I’m 15 miles away from a major city of 150,000 people and they don’t run anything out “this far”. I can use Starlink, 4G internet, or pound sand.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wow! Been there, done that, in BOTH scenarios. Starlink came along well after my ISP days, no idea what it’s like, but it’s gotta beat hell out of 56K and old-school satellite.

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      • Patches@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Anything beats out old-school satellites. I don’t understand how they have not evolved even a little bit.

        50GB Data Cap and that’s it. You might as well not have any Internet after that because it will be so slow.

        That’s not even enough for me to work from home for 30 days. No streaming, no Netflix, no gaming.

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    • anlumo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      4G Internet implies that there’s a fiber connection to that tower, and that tower can’t be far away. This is more like an intentional decision by the providers.

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      • Patches@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The tower is less than half a mile away. I can see the FAA light at night from my front porch.

        That’s great to hear 😭

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    who have never left the city

    Weird seeing this as a country-fried liberal. City people seem to have no comprehension of the issues facing us. And when confronting them about it, “Fuck all you conservative rednecks! You get what you deserve!”

    And yet they have no idea why the countryside hates them and votes Trump. Self-defeating to say the least. Which is what they say of us! Rinse and repeat.

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    • Patches@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep. You’ll see it here on Lemmy all the time. I’ve been told I should sell my truck and bike to work 15miles down a road that has no sidewalk, no shoulder, and a speed limit of 60mph.

      Fuck FuckCars

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      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean, fuckcars aren’t representative of the average liberal by any means, so I don’t think that’s entirely fair.

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      • lemann@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This only really happens when fuckcars posts show up on /all IMO, where some of the more extreme opinion holders are more vocal.

        Fuck cars means fuck car dependency, i.e. places designed specifically for cars: no sidewalks, no bus, no train, no safe bicycle or light motorized assistive vehicle infrastructure available - you need a car for everything, or stay trapped at home.

        It doesn’t mean fuck cars literally.

        It’s pretty well known that rural areas, by design, require cars and motorbikes to travel out of them - a train is ideal, but good luck convincing anyone to finance that kind of project. A bicycle could work well for moving around town though depending on how safe it is, saving some wear and tear from your vehicle

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      • asret@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        About 87% of the population in my country live in an urban environment, many of them will just have no idea how it is even just a few miles out of a city. There’s just no alternative to personal transportation, and bikes don’t cut it.

        I’m still pretty much on board with the fuck cars crowd though - it’s bizarre to me that despite so many people living in our cities that our transit seems even worse than what the US has. It’s just so much nicer being in places with fewer cars around.

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      • anlumo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You have no God-given obligation to live in bumfuck nowhere. Don’t be surprised if you’re inconvenienced by your choice of location.

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    • lemann@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In the rural areas near where I am, gigabit fiber in underfunded areas is being installed, but sadly a vocal minority of residents keep burning up and sawing down the new fiber internet poles.

      Of course we don’t hear about the good news from areas where it’s installed drama free, but the bad news where something goes terribly wrong is the one that sticks, and affects the general public’s impressions of a particular area or stereotype 😒

      Admittedly the pole installation method for this is quite odd though, maybe a cost saving measure as usually it’s done underground

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hillary was a classic example of that effect actually, no attempt to empathise, understand, or try to gain the support of half the country.

      Nope, better to just insult them.

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