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Meanwhile SpaceX spends billions launching thousands of satellites into space and wreck the environment just so people can doomscroll their slop. When all we need are governments building some basic infrastructure like fiber internet for a fraction of the money.
Australia almost did this right with the National Broadband Network.
Unfortunately, it was then sabotaged by the government after an election changed the majority party.
It seems to be back on track after wasting an extraordinary amount of time and money by installing copper lines, just to completely replace them with the fiber lines that were in the original plan.
Jesus copper is more expensive & time consuming, why!?
Oz exports/produces copper? So maybe just a backwards mining subsidy?
Maybe but like from a networking perspectice it is harder to getndistance on, requires largwrs ducts, shorted cable drumming. There is no economy in which it makes sense, even the actual product would need heavy… yeah maybe a government would do tat if they were backwards.
Seriously Man, more junk in orbit
I agree fiber is better but starlink isn’t bad for the environment, it’s bad for astronomy though sadly.
Those satellites are designed for a 5 year lifespan before they deorbit and burn up all those metals in our atmosphere… it’s not great
Ugh.
The service has been quite good for ten years.
Guess it was good while it lasted.
Fuck my life. I’ve had Fiber for 11 years and it’s been leaps and bounds better than the alternatives, AT&T and Spectrum/Time Warner. Am I going to have to start calling customer service to threaten to leave in order to keep my same price again?
They just finished laying Google Fiber in my neighborhood and I was looking at switching. Guess I’m holding on that.
Every ISP is pretty shit to be fair. Doubt whoever they sell to is worse than the other options.
(fuck spectrum)
Yeah, the good ones get bought out. (RIP Armstrong, Adelphia)
It will take at least a year for full on enshitifcation to ramp up, so you could always just switch once it goes to shit.
I haven’t used RCN/Astound since COVID, but they were pretty decent before then. Far better than Comcast.
Great. Can’t wait for price increases or data caps or both.
When do no evil finally turns to do evil always. I think this leaves the Woz as the only remnant of when tech was the good guy.
Good point. Though even when Woz was involved, he was overruled by one of the model tech narcissists, Jobs. But at least he was in the room.
I think we’ve just created an unregulated system that almost perfectly incentivizes and reinforces evil, so eventually evil is what we get.
Free market capitalism can only serve good with a tight collar and very short leash held by healthy democracy. Maybe it was a bad idea spending 40 years removing and making all leashes and collars for capitalism illegal, and handing the collar and leash to capitalism to put on democracy. But what do I know.
This will enshittivize profit over quality of service.
And here I am still waiting for google fiber to reach my part of the neighborhood. I guess another one bites the dust.
There’s an obvious reason as to why. Municipal bureaucracy makes it unfeasible.
If only companies were allowed to just do what they wanted without rules and regulations… What a beautiful distopian nightmare we would live! Also the line would go vertical! One can only dream
We’ll all be hyperlooping around Mars here soon! 🤞
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What are you talking about man! Wow
@cantankerous_cashew add to the list of heinous stuff the #epsteinclass is using this window of opportunity to get away with. Imagine pretending to be a force for modernization and good, get grants from cities to build infra, then sell said infra to the same scumbag ISPs who already got grants from city/state/local & federal to create monopolies in the first place…truly, fuck you #google. Fuck you.
There are essentially only three major cable providers in the United States. They have blocked Google Fiber at nearly every turn. I have been unable to get Google Fiber at any address I’ve lived at since it launched.
It is oddly entertaining to watch monopolies that the federal government failed to break up, largely due to their own lobbying, fight each other in an attempt to prevent the others from becoming even more monopolized.
I’ll never understand the fanboys who glaze google.
Edit: You guys sound like cultists wishing for an older mystical time. “Nah bro you just had to be there” Yeah I was there, and you guys are just as crazy today glazing these evil fucks.
google fiber was a special case where they were introducing much needed competition to the nearly monopolized ISP market.
Google started bringing fiber to neighboring towns and all of a sudden the cable company started offering speeds 3x faster for less money and AT&T built out a fiber network including in our town, which didn’t get Google for another ten years, and then only a franchise that was paying for the Google name.
For those of us who are old enough to remember peak Google, it is understandable.
They revolutionized and opened up so many things that were grossly monopolized before they got involved. Android broke the telecoms insane grip on cell phone designs and features. Several people have already mentioned how Google fiber changed things in local connectivity, but Google dramatically changed global connectivity way before Google fiber. There used to be only a few international (under sea) connections, and not only was it slow and congested, but entire continents could just drop off the internet for weeks or even months at a time. They broke MS Office’s death grip on basic productivity tools. There was a time where private individuals, even grade school students were required to buy an entire professional productivity (Office) in order to deliver basic school work like writing essays. I can think of almost a dozen ways right off the top of my head that they revolutionized the world and really did take the “Do no evil” slogan to heart.
But, as with every company that “goes public”, they slowly changed from "Do no evil’ to “Do know evil” and now they are exactly the soul and life destroying parasites that they used to free us from.I use to when I was 14 - 19 but realized how shit they are in many ways as I grew and learned more about the world.
Webpass used to be great. The instant it became Google Fiber, it seemed to be totally abandoned; no rollout to new buildings/neighborhoods, no speed improvements (most locations still top out at 1Gbps and local favorite Sonic has rolled out 10Gbps fiber throughout the Bay Area), and prices are stubbornly high ($70/mo for 1Gbps versus $40 from competitors). Oh, and there’s still no IPv6.
I’m sure Astound will be even worse but Google has been an awful steward of this service.
Yeah fuck everything Google.
I always thought the 1Gbps was awesome and perhaps a good incentive for other companies to upgrade (probably more the reason since they’re Google and their ad bucks). Recently saw a reason to switch for 2.5, did it then was told by the installer they don’t even have cable that does it. Mean. I did it myself and my stream downloads are quite fast, but it’d have been nice if my provider mentioned that in the first place so I knew who had to run the wires. It was only through some holes, behind the sink / dishwasher so not awful but you td have been nice to understand 2.5 was higher than their techs supported.Also needed a switch / router upgrade. Which was actually quite fun to do and minimal cost now can get a mesh wifi going.
Still if your techs can’t provide what is needed in cables for your upper end least tell the customer first.
lol
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