I graciously accept the position of Chief Energy Officer! Thank you!

I’m honoured to have my idea contributed to this project!

Now plug the phone into a UPS so if the power goes out you’re good for awhile.

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Oh did they stop that entirely? I remember areas being unavailable in the past.

The time between seasons is sometimes way too long, people move on eventually.

Their new UI made it godawful to find anything. It’s got to be one of the worst UI updates I’ve ever seen in a modern service.

You can only see 4 things at once on my large screen TV. Then if you have the audacity to scroll down to see more, you’re almost always greeted with one of the same ones in that group of 4. Then they throw games in there to just fuck up your attempt to find anything, and then because you watched one thing 10 years ago, it decides to still show you this category of show you don’t like “because you watched xyz show”.

I hate it so much.

Neither of those options would support everyone living in a high density urban area, bandwidth would drop to nothing and no one would want to buy it, and people generally hate inconsistent bandwidth, or random peak hour usage charges on their bill.

Edit: Their overall bandwidth per cell is just too low to be able to support everyone in high density areas like that.

Since the article doesnt make it clear

This is for new or re-activating customers in a congested area.

This isnt a random usage fee, this is for areas they claim are too busy, so you gotta pay if you want to gain access.

Its like when you call a contractor and they quote you a stupid high number. Its often because they’re too busy, but if you’ll pay the stupid high number theyll do it.

There was no world where SpaceX could support unlimited customers in a cell region.

Those satellites are all earning profit everywhere else around the world they can service. That line to a 100 person community taking decades to be profitable is money the ISPs dont want to spend because it’ll take decades.

Rural, cellular dead zones (eg desert, mountain passes), air, ocean/seas/large lakes.

To cover rural reliably though you end up having to be over dense areas as well, but they cant really compete in the dense areas as they’ll be cheaper options, but you can make some money there since you already cover it. The area they could best compete there would be critical backup service.

Theyre still improving bandwidth with each launch as the newer hardware goes up, they haven’t approached the flat line of 1 dish comes down for 1 dish going up which would be at the 5 year mark of no improved hardware or launch capabilities.

Once starship is operational, its 20x the bandwidth per launch, and cadence will increase so there’s still tons of room to scale, and its not like those dishes wont improve either.

They dont have any competition at the scale of what falcon 9 can do yet. Blue Origin is getting close, but they’re not quite there yet.

People are transferring contracts to falcon 9 because it works and is available.

If Starship succeeds, they’ll be leap frogging everything being built now thats meant to compete with Falcon 9.

I’m in the same boat. For years I’d been excited to potentially own some SpaceX shares if they went public. No interest at all now due to xAI merger. I did gamble a bit of money on day 1 just because the odds of a pop were real, but i just got in and out and I was done.

someone had to push it and start recycling new wire to keep the pizzas flowing

ffs, someone always has to ruin a good thing.

That seems like the perfect department slush fund. Free cookies every friday! Bigger christmas party!

The amount of waste out there like this is tragic. I could understand destroying hard drives, but the rest of the hardware?

People have the memory of a gold fish when it comes to anything long term, so they just vote against their best interest again because they’re incapable of connecting the dots.

They understand money to some extent though, but even at that scale, not as much.

There were people estimating 40w in earlier threads on lemmy which was ridiculous.

This seems more realistic.