Hello Arelor!
** On Thursday 25.02.21 - 07:14, Arelor wrote to Ogg:
Starlink is probably designed to reach people who would not
otherwise have *any* other access to internet.
[...]
But at $700 for the stupid box, which can blow up and fail, and
$130/mo ongoing, entertainment via internet isn't worth it THAT
much!
I bet, that a vast majority of persons will get on it, excited
about the new possibilties - just to try it - and maybe set it
up to share the feed with close neighbours or something.
Well, people pays thousands of dollar in gamming computer
equipment that they infrautilize, so why would not they pay
for Internet access? :-P
Yes.. there are people who have more $s than they know what to
do with.
Not me.
I have 600MB left available for my monthly LTE data quota for
the next 9 days before I am throttled down, unless I pay $5 for
an extra 200MB. And the way the carrier has set it up is that I
can't buy another 200MB/$5 if that one dries up before the next
billing cycle starts.
I posted a pic in the fido CHAT echo of a recent hydro bill
depicting the results of some self-imposed austerity measures.
New deployments are expensive. I expect Starlink
subscriptions to become affordable with time.
You would think. But I doubt that will be the case for this
particular product. Just a feeling.
Meanwhile, it sounds like the sort of thing I would have
hired 10 years ago when I could not even get 2G at home and
had to drive to town in order to get Internet access, which
was pretty much required for College.
Well.. 10 years ago such a thing did not exist, of course. It's
fun to dream and *wish* that it did. In my university days,
official essays and assignments were expected to be typed
following specific line-spacing and margin requirements. A
private printer located on campus had a thriving business typing
up people's hand-written drafts. I used them too. Meanwhile,
typewriters were a common "sound" heard in some dorm rooms.
That was up to the mid 80's. If we wanted access to computers
that could do some "word processing" we had to scramble to find
free terminals all over campus.
Any.. back to the cost of 2G/3G/LTE data shit. Subscription fees
just seem too high for what it is.
Meanwhile, I am getting much more content in the form of
echomail with very little data-usage, than I am getting visiting
a FB page *before* I start reading anything.
Basically, I'm fed up with having to need a bigger data plan
primarily to support the extra ad/tracking/bloated code shit
that today's websites employ. Adblockers can seem to only do so
much.
--- OpenXP 5.0.49
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