Sounds like you got musked
In fairness to Musk (not a phrase I say often) it also sounds like just about every internet provider out there. As soon as you get used to your plan there’s a new fee or restriction out of nowhere.
Hardly. Starlink uses monthly contracts and they change their terms all the time. Go talk to a sailor who has used it for a couple of years.
Not just internet providers; nearly every corporation that exists or has ever existed. The rug pull is a well documented and practiced business strategy, and also the more fundamental driver behind things like enshittification and many of the other corporate-treatment crises we have been facing.
Why does market standard practice “whattaboutism” need to defend the despicable? This is hacker news, is it not? Let’s celebrate the bold and call out the lies. Not pander to the mediocre.
I did not say it in defense of Musk, rather to damn terrestrial internet providers along with him.
It's purely because of his politics. Everyone loved Teslas before he moved to the right.
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So it's not OK to compare things in relative terms, but we should only compare them in an absolute sense? Pretty lofty ideal. (The appeal to emotion is very inspiring though, not gonna lie.)
What does the competition even offer here?
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Sib will certainly switch to the first good alternative when it becomes available, any day now surely
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Musk's ambition enables GGP to post on HN from Western Mongolia, but he is derided because his company used to offer an even better option once.
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We could use a description Musk would not approve of and say the problem here is capitalism.
Except that SpaceX relies on government handouts and regulatory moats. Pretty much the opposite of capitalism, not that there aren’t myriad of problems with that too.
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We could also say that capitalism was a solution problem solved by starlink.