I'm an actual Starlink user at my farm. It's head-and-shoulders better than any competing service.

I previously has used a cellular uplink... and even with a yagi mounted 30' up on a mast, I barely had 1-2Mb/s of bandwidth. It was truly miserable.

Starlink is a game-changer... give 'em the freakin' money. They've done something truly miraculous for rural internet users, who had previously only terrible/expensive options. As a taxpayer, I'm actually glad to see the money I contribute going to something useful.

They will collect telemetry, but they will wait until people aren't paying attention

You deboonked your own analogy in your first sentence.

Its not the platform that sells it is the users. Facebook thinks that the platform has the "whales" and they are willing to buy it up.

Where in Asia?

I suppose the government punishes what is illegal. But corporations punish what isn't sufficiently progressive. We have two rulers.

Nothing could replace the value of butane lighters and plastic silverware in a real collapse.

Obviously a Sega Master System that I can use as a "game machine" cover for when personal computers are outlawed.

I''l spend time on it using CollapseOS

https://collapseos.org/

Agreed. The last 20 years have not been kind to this place.

Hollywood has long been a wretched hive of scum of villainy. Toads like Weinstein should have been burned down long ago.

But throwing Kavanaugh in with Weinstein? C'mon.

Hallelujah, brother... preach it.

I too remember the Old Days (TM). Slashdotting was an actual thing. We fearlessly rode the waves of the ether, and many a site trembled at the sound of our clicks.

I rarely post any more... but the passing of Rob is sobering reminder than none of us are getting any younger... RIP Roblimo :(

Will BBC be acceptable, but not talking about BBC?

I blame the hack on a Youtube video.

So, you're saying they don't need the BadPress(tm)?