If you’re referring to the dish purchase, they’re free these days. But even so, when your competitor is $200-500 upfront for a latent multi hop WISP topping out at 30 or 50mbps for $100 per month, a solid 300mbps for $130 and $1000 for a dish is cheap

We’re still using dot-com fibre. There’s a long ROI.

Starlink is extremely competitive for rural customers, due in no small part to the USA’s extreme reluctance to make telecoms with monopolies actually reach people.

I don’t think that’s really the issue, it’s the streaming that really does them in.

On one hand you have Netflix trying to cram 4k through and the neighbour is trying to have a phone call.

Prior to and including IPO they have been on quite a marketing kick. Referral schemes, equipment rentals, discount plans for low usage etc. Seems like they’re trying hard to make the business make sense. I maintain that LEO (and WISP) ISPs should be limited to more extreme applications yet I see them all over the place in residential areas. Their technical achievements are impressive but if phone systems to remote areas were possible, then so should fibre optics.

Also this should be built by international organisations, not billionaires. A plague on Musk and a plague on Bezos.

My experience with driver aids and safety systems is limited to 2023 models but the implementation of everything from skid control to lane centering depends so much on the manufacturer’s implementation. My observation from a limited number of cars is that stability control quality scales with vehicle price, but reviews indicate that the ADAS does not.

I’ve driven two vehicles from the same company with the same features and different shape (ie bumper and windshield height) and one consistently “lost” view of a flatbed truck, which isn’t confidence inspiring.

Like reversing cameras, the products range from potatovision 480i to 4k UHD.

Content farm “articles” are difficult to distinguish from AI.

It’s a good idea, if the dam faces a good direction (North probably isn’t worth it) even without the additional benefits of altitude.

In the early days, Netflix was the only player in streaming. Then others entered, and they couldn’t compete if everyone had the same catalogue, and they couldn’t be satisfied with making fistfuls of cash, so they enshittified.

There was a time not too long ago I was pretty certain I’d get Netflix just as soon as I had the cash for it. Not anymore!