• Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    9 hours ago

    How the fuck does one of the biggest governments in the world with access to a top tier it department think the upgrade is starlink and not another fibre cable or more access points. Whatever the problem starlink for a city building is not the solution.

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      7 hours ago

      Do you really think the White House does not currently have a fiber connection?

      The most likely scenario: this is all just a show.

      They’ll install a bunch of antennas and of course pay Dear Leader’s favorite little drug addict indecent amounts of money, but in the background nothing will change and they’ll use the existing, sane infrastructure.

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        Musk is in financial trouble so another government contract would help him a lot. Krasnov is feeds his loyal lackeys. Witness the outrageous White House Tesla car sales stunt.

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        I don’t believe nothing will change. I do believe Musk will capture communications and use it to monitor people he believes are his biggest enemies, then use it to best-case blackmail them, worst-case have them arrested in trumped-up (no pun intended) charges.

        Random unknown people are being kidnapped, tortured, and sold internationally as slaves by the government. These are the cases we know about because they are getting to the media. How many are not getting through the Right-supporting media? Do we really think actual opponents aren’t just waiting targets?

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    Oh yes, please do “improve”… With the Starlink priority plans you’ll have amazing speeds such as 40-220 Mbps down/8-25 Mbps up 😂😂

    They’re gonna shit their pants with excitement when they experience these speeds^^

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        I mean it’s a great product. For anyone living in a place where Fiber, 5G, or even a classic ADSL connection isn’t available. If you use it in a well developed area that would offer you any of the above, you’re a moron

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      Don’t forget the latency and QoS that’ll probably be done haphazardly limiting everyone to just a sliver of the total available bandwidth.

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        I don’t thing latecy is a problem when you only use it to watch child porn

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      They’ll be able to drive home and shit in the comfort of their own homes with those speeds. They’ll have dumped their load before the page loads.

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    Because unlike fiber, which you can install and reasonably expect to work with minimal maintenance or other costs for years, Starlink has a guaranteed revenue stream by way of planned obsolescence. We will be constantly launching satellites to keep up replacement of the ones that are deorbitted, and that cost will naturally be passed on to the taxpayer.

    Not that fiber installs aren’t also a grift. After all, how many times has the American taxpayer paid for rural broadband?

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      Eh, it’s decently low latency. Around 40ms or so. That doesn’t make it useful for them though. There’s absolutely no -legitimate- reason for it in the white house. As for illegitimate reasons, why could Musk possibly want a connection inside the white house that has no oversight other than his own…?

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        60+Ms at a minimum is not low latency. What are you on about? I have 10ms from coast to coast on residential fiber.

        Government installs which were previously on fiber are being switched to this bullshit. Fiber international interconnect to Australia right now is 13ms from DC to Sydney. Big fucking difference.

  • Helvetica@sh.itjust.works
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    Because trump wants to reward leon for his servitude and contributions with a huge ass government contract.

    Starlink is free the first month, but after that it’s 19,999,999.00 a month. Data theft is a free bonus.