I agree. As much as Starlink is a technological miracle, the fact that I should finance the dealings of this man is too much.

SpaceX IPO is the next in the long grift chain.

Starlink amazing solution to a problem that should have been solved by governments years ago, the USA has power to most homes and USPS will deliver anywhere so why do we not have the same for internet? God knows

The US kept Iridium alive for the military and intelligence services. If Starlink falters they will fund it the same.

Correct, the government should have ran fiber lines to every home in the united states

The government should have torn up your copper monopolies a few decades earlier, but the one thing the US has done right is sort of letting local power companies and ISPs work it out for themselves where it comes to fibre. Enforcing a single standard everywhere is bad actually.

Nah, they should have done what the UK government did with Project Gigabit

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/project-gigabit-uk-gigabit-progr...

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/02/milestone-as-g...

If you were a savvy businessman, you could make a lot of money just connecting customers with FTTH rather than the prior situation. There was an explosion of "altnets" build off the backs of this legislation

https://web.archive.org/web/20151015205446/http://www.alphr....

Funnily enough BT got a bucketload of money from the government and did absolutely cock all with it.

Even funnier the formerly big 5 isps are rated some of the lowest on customer satisfaction despite being actual cash cows for years https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/03/new-which-surv...

Yeah vouchers are slightly better than subsidies alone tbh

Musk is a piece of shit but I need to pick my battles.

The only alternative available to me personally is Inmarsat BGAN, and for that I was paying $6 per MB (yes, six dollars per megabyte).

It excites me, since I am finally going to replace my 2019 Intel MacBook Pro!

So now all the open source projects that use this walled off closed platform (even though scores of people complained and warned about it) can go back to hopefully using something open and searchable.

Im using Bitbucket for years with no issues.

The great advantage of Bitbucket is that it's so painfully slow you can't tell if it's down or not.

I agree about the proliferance of curl | bash, but homebrew is not the answer.

They cut support for old platforms way to fast and just in essence try to dictate far too much.

Some are, some arent.

The Bavarian state for example just signed a huge deal with MS.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Cloud-Row-in-Bavaria-over-billi...

Sure but I still think it's unfair to characterise Germany as an outlier or a "trouble maker." Weren't they also the ones who took the privacy fight to Google with regards to things like Street View? That kind of behaviour is making trouble for US companies.

Since WW2, German national pride is something that is not very well received, added to that the old east/west divide, and the generally strong identification with ones own state/region. It is a complex affair.

Whats the best Euro S3 alternative?

Hetzner S3 i would say

Why is opening the taskbar right click menu slower on Win11 than on Win95?

Why is there a gap between the menu and the taskbar?

I used to have muscle memory to quickly close windows rightclick taskbar -> leftclick “close” but this stopped working. Why??

How are Airtags or Airpods simple?

Cramming lots of tech into a small footprint is an extremely complex affair.

Simple user experience.