• Sineljora@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    If you use starlink, you deserve far worse. 5g is usually sufficient unless you’re out in the ocean or something. Either way it’s ruining the night sky, making launches more dangerous, destroying the ozone layer we tried so hard to repair, and supporting death and fascism.

    • CountVon@sh.itjust.works
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      6 days ago

      destroying the ozone layer

      This made me ask “wait, is that true” and apparently it is. Super, skin cancer for everyone. 🤦

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          5 days ago

          I wonder if wooden satellites would help. I don’t know how capable they are compared to normal ones, but it should reduce the amount of aluminium we launch into space.

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      6 days ago

      5G in rural America is terrible. I can’t make a phone call in my house, let alone get an internet connection. I’m not even in a particularly remote area.

      There are Starlink dishes everwhere you look here because it’s currently the only real option. It will probably be a while until they get some competition from Amazon.

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          5 days ago

          The local ISP has been promising fiber for over a decade. They waited until Starlink took most of their customers before they started putting it in.

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          5 days ago

          there is 100s of miles of fiber spools just sitting for years at a utility maintenance yard here. the provider that was doing the work to expand services just took the rest of the free money and split.