Definitely underestimating how much of our budget those of us in a rural areas (which are much closer to metroplexes than you might think) we are willing to spend to get modern luxury the internet provides. This includes areas where even cell signal doesn't come through. Starlink is a game changer. Also has the potential to vastly increase the spread of wealth to those areas through telework. It's revolutionary.
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Long cables are much much cheaper than satellites. Maybe if people weren't wasting their money on another retarded idea from the grifter who brought us dogecoin, ruined Twitter and is hell-bent on uninventing the automobile, you'd have more broadband internet and less living vicariously as the teenager that got away with not growing up.
Serious question here for someone who lives in a rural area, and wants to set up sovereign computing, solar, and bitcoin mining here on the farm. What is a better alternative than StarLink? If you have minimal upstart capital.
The government bureaucracy for being an internet provider is absurd (as always), this is what explains the lack of internet in rural areas and weird places. I don't know about the Elon satellite stuff.