[levinb]

Yes.

I bought the last two units left at any HD for a few hundred miles; drove them up there Monday.

Apparently my friend had to drive in and out of his (utterly destroyed) neighborhood in Swannanoa because it required the app and cell service to set up. And when they returned home it wouldn't work. Took multiple trips back and forth to get it usable in the area where it was actually needed.

Then of course the Helene intro deal requires an extensive form to fill out, so he just paid for it.

And, incrementally, we all give our money to another publicly funded, government protected, privately held monopoly. And yet... it's charity.

Anyway, the entire neighborhood is using it to coordinate resources to dig out their holler. So hey, she'll do for now.

[ivewonyoung]

> publicly funded, government protected,

How is it publicly funded and government protected?

> privately held monopoly

That's a weird complaint, would it be somehow better if it were a publicly held monopoly like Google, Amazon or Microsoft.

And what can SpaceX do to ensure Starlink is not a monopoly? Stop providing service and shut it down?

They have been even launching competitors satellites for them.

[electriclove]

Some people suffer from Elon Derangement Syndrome and cannot think logically