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Last Notes npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell If you believe a chatbot is conscious and self-aware, and you are not agitating for chatbots to have civil rights, you are either not serious or else you believe slavery is just fine, really. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell The beer there is all hand-made by the owner and it's a family business with most of the employees related. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Ah, up in my neck of the woods were you? npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell I agree they have benefited as you describe. But not to the same extent. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell From the content of your reply I suspect you have problems with reading comprehension: Is English not your first language? npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Both Hanlon's and Occam's razor apply here. Stupidity is the simplest explanation. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Everything Trump can do is some refinement or combination of those four possibilities; there are no other moves left. Trump is trapped because he didn't listen to the people Obama listened to. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Which brings us to our current moment and the fact Trump is now caught in a quagmire of his own making. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Trump: npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell What this means to me is: Obama was willing and able to use illegal force to achieve certain ends, but he was not willing to launch strikes on Iran. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell In my opinion Obama committed war crimes with his drone strikes on weddings and funerals to take out terrorist leaders. He also skirted International Law in other dealings and uses of force. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell [Spock voice] Interesting… npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell I created a sign you can use for 'No Kings Day' if you like. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell I really want to boost this, but without a link to back it up I just cannot. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Elizabeth Lopatto has some things to say about Marc Andreessen (and other techbros). npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell I keep telling people Smith's definition of a 'Free Market' didn't mean a market free from rules and regulations. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell When I was touristing in Cairns Australia I rented a car and had to sign a 'coconut waiver' accepting responsibility for any coconut damage – because the insurance at the car rental place had a rider specifically excluding damage from parking under coconut trees. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Why is it people who (rightly) tore #Elon a new asshole for his pie-in-the-sky Mars obsession are now celebrating him for his only slightly less unrealistic Moon plans? npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Cory Doctorow ( @npub1fdr…lvhs ) stated it the clearest I've ever seen: npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell > Iain M Banks. "Sorrow be damned, and all your plans. Fuck the faithful, fuck the committed, the dedicated, the true believers; fuck all the sure and certain people prepared to maim and kill whoever got in their way; fuck every cause that ended in murder and a child screaming." npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell > Frank Herbert, Dune. "Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Prachett based Ankh-Morpork on 18th century London, but he knew his history. Some aspects of Ankh-Morpork were based on Rome (Republic and Empire) and others based on 16th century Italy. Forex, 'The Patrician' is a clear callback to the Medici and Machiavelli. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell You are thinking of Crassus. AKA 'the richest man in Rome'. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Friend: "You live out in the country, why don't you have chickens so you can get fresh eggs?" npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Well, in my case I had some great-great-great ancestors who fought to make this a country in the first place. But, yeah. Being 'born in the USA' is like being 'born rich'. You didn't do anything to earn it, you just got lucky in terms of which womb you popped out of. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell #Seattle might finally be getting more affordable. But not in a good way… npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell As I often point out: I don't use an ad blocker: I use a tracker blocker. I would happily view ads if they were provided in an ethical and non-privacy-invasive way. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Henry A. Wallace, as Vice President of the USA in 1944: npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Really, this three-week plus run of no rain or snow in January has me a bit worried. Last year we didn't get enough precipitation really, but in the end the mountain snowpack still fed the rivers, lakes and aquifers around here until Fall. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell #Weather forecast says it will get into the lower 40sF/5C range today, but don't believe it. It was the same yesterday, but the air temperature never got above freezing. Still, the longer range forecast has things warming up for the rest of the week and then the dry streak finally breaking on Thursday with rain. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell For once I fell asleep before midnight last night. Then woke up early with the house cold and fire nearly out. (This after waking up in the middle of the night to replenish it.) npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell People complaining about how the Greenland fiasco is, "Ruining the USA's reputation!" have never been outside the USA long enough to learn what our reputation *actually is*. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Today we in the #PNW (Pacific Northwest) are more than halfway through one of the oddest streaks of #weather in January I've ever seen in my long experience of living here: Sunny and warm(ish) days and nights nowhere as cold as they should be with no cloud cover. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell It's not clear to me Pahlavi has support INSIDE Iran. It's certainly clear there's lots of people cheering him OUTSIDE the country. But I don't know enough about the protests to know if they are even aware of him, much less begging him to return. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Arguably that's the fault of the teacher and/or the teaching method. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell He came back three days later and apologized. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell He would modify that huge mass of code minimally for each new program. The thing is? He didn't remove the dead code and it had zero comments. He knew where everything was; he knew what parts of it he was using. We didn't. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Got time for a story? This comes from the mid 1980's when I was toiling in the COBOL mines. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Conga-rats! npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell The fundamental difference here is the fact AI services are currently being subsidized – the price of those services is less than the cost of delivering them. This is not the same as the case of more transistors on a chip. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Maybe it's just me, but if I need to create an account on your online newspaper to read a 'free gift article', I firmly believe said 'free gift article' isn't actually 'free'. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Here's a, very apropos for the moment, question for the lawyerly types here on the Fedi: Is a non-disclosure agreement legal and binding if the thing you agree not to disclose is a crime? npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Assuming this is both scalable and at least as efficient as current technology, this is a really big deal. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Ganked here because the OP I found it on doesn't believe in spending two minutes to add alt-text so I would boost it. But I think you guys deserve to see it anyway. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Try having a Siberian Husky. Everything I own is coated with white fur and, unless I clean constantly, there are drifts of it around every edge in the house. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell We never found the father's body. Some theorized it had washed all the way out to the Columbia, but there was no trace then or since. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell When the professional crew got there they decided I and my partner needed to retrieve the body, being as we were the ones who found him. (Really because they didn't want to go into that cold water.) So we put on harnesses roped to trees on the bank and waded out. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell There was no sign of the father or the family friend riding with them. Thus I and the other second-tier volunteers got phone calls and ended up working the river banks on both sides downstream of the accident. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Turns out the middle, the part over the island, had washed out. The county knew about it and they put down some cones to dissuade people from crossing. But the father of that family knew better. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Turns out a local family, people I knew – father, mother, daughter and a neighbor – had decided to drive to town that day. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell And, about that 'driving over flooded roads'… npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell As the rain returns and the rivers begin to rise again (or rise further, given some have gone down little if at all) one concern is road closures due to mudslides, washouts, and water over roads. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell > "I've heard before about Cory's book…" npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Dude! I don't think ANYONE on the Fedi has missed anything Cory has done in the last few years. He's like everywhere here now. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell RE flooding on the Sauk: I haven't gone to check, although I can hear it roaring in the distance when I go outside – so I know it's definitely up a bit. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Rockport State Park has two trails which are good for people who don't hike a lot. One is a bit more strenuous than the other, but just a bit. And the other is wheelchair accessible. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Well, when you live within a ten or twenty minute drive of more than fifty trailheads you gotta try them all! It's like a rule. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell I live in the Sauk valley. (Not next to the river and safe from floods.) That picture looks to me like the upper Sauk south of Darrington. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Oh, crap. The last time that record was broke was a legitimate disaster. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell A very sneaky way to color the news is to not ask questions you don't want answers to. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Reading political opinion columns today feels like watching people awakening, in real time, to the truth the rich and powerful are mostly a cohort of rather dull and incompetent sociopaths winging everything and not the strategic supermen those opinion writers had supposed them to be. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell I liked this explanation of the Paradox of Tolerance so much I saved it to trot out at times like this: npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell This headline should start with the word, 'Some': npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Pretty much, except (in my experience) most of them are *racist* 12 year old boys. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Politics in the USA is historically shifted one to the right from *everyone* else. What you call Center Right we call Liberal. What you call Liberal we call Socialist. What you call Socialist we call Communist. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Not all people have kids because they want them, you know. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Probably not, but I've been in European art museums which allowed photography, but had rules against using a flash or a tripod. Not sure why, unless they knew you could never take a really good picture hand-held in that low light and that was their goal? npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell 2. Consumer spending: Consumer debt is at an all-time high and price increases from tariffs are finally happening as importers and US manufacturers dependent on imported materials can no longer absorb the extra costs; the spending boom *might* last through Christmas, but it is unsustainable npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell The USA #economy has so far avoided a recession, despite earlier warnings. Reasons why include continued robust consumer spending and the #AI #bubble. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Ever notice how titles asking a question, especially one putting a person or organization in a bad light, are *never* followed by articles answering that question in the affirmative? npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell > I don't recall seeing a single attempt at being An Influencer here. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell The pressure worked. Sinclair blinked. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell The greatest trick the Republican Party ever pulled is convincing nearly everyone, including many Democratic Party members, that the Democratic Party is left-liberal and aligned with Marxism. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell FWIW? The ACA was modeled after a Republican proposal and was a giveaway to the medical insurance companies, not a true socialized medicine program. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Are you decrying your bad luck? Consider … If the many universes interpretation of quantum physics is true, then we are all on the 'lucky path' where we survived – as opposed to the innumerable 'unlucky paths' where some misstep killed us (or the even greater infinity of universes where we never existed at all). npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell I think you misunderstand how this works. The link preview is NOT SENT with the message body. Each Mastodon server lazy loads the link preview locally instead, when the message is viewed by someone. (I think it's cached after that, but I do not know that for certain.) npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell A couple of weeks ago I was bitching because the metal tubing frame of my fifteen year old composter was rusting through. Replies suggested I make a new frame, which I was already thinking about. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell I often do not know if a link is paywalled, especially since it might be a 'gift link'. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Exactly. IMHO this is how you do it! npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell > "… putin supports fascists too. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Genuinely curious: Are the UK Greens a real party, with all that entails, and with a genuine intent to gain seats and push policy? npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell This 'living in interesting times' thing sucks big time. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Some relevant Machiavelli quotes: npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Now, I could be completely off base – I HAVE NOT READ THE BOOK and I acknowledge that. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_science_fiction npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell > "… sf has never been the go-to genre for deep, introspective character portraits or meditations on the human condition." npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell I have expectations when it comes to hard SF. I especially have expectations when the author talks in interviews about how much they want to promote science and how much they like science and how much science informs their work. (All of which Weir has said publicly.) npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Ah… I'm not the only one irritated by scientific fallacies in the book… npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell I just read the Wikipedia summary of the novel and really? I thought Weir stuck to actual science, not making things up for which there is no known physics allowing it. (I'm speaking of the 'astrophage' ability to suck energy out of a star by somehow concentrating it into something like a laser beam but without using any collimater at the source.) npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Even though the #PNW Heat Advisory ended last night and even though #Seattle temps are forecast in the mid 70s (F) – here in the North Cascades it hit 80f/27C by noon and it's going to get hotter even if the promised thunderstorms roll in late afternoon. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell I've oft proposed we replace the 'Great Man' theory of history with the 'Unintended Side Effect' theory of history. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell I prefer the Japanese 'Chūnibyō', which translates as 'Middle School Syndrome'. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell But… But… How many paragraphs? npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell I tried growing corn in my garden this year. The growth rate was astounding! I only have like eight corn plants, but each of them has two or more ears already. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Update: @npub1fdr…lvhs has a take on rural broadband today. It's unsurprisingly political… npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell I have no idea how long it will be before I can get a connection to that currently dark fiber in my house. But I can tell you right now I'm going to be on that like a chicken on a junebug. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell As a result today Starlink is expensive and somewhat slow at certain times of the day. And, as the constellation continues to grow, Professor Lawler's entirely justified complaints grow as well. But it's still–by far–the best option if you live somewhere without land-based high-speed Internet. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Not surprising really, Starlink was incredibly successful. They even raised their monthly price and, in places with high usage rates like where I live, they added a very large premium to the signup cost to discourage new accounts. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell In many ways Starlink was pretty damn good. At first there weren't enough satellites and I would have issues because of that, but eventually the constellation became dense enough those went away. npub1m2aasn8nezcn703wmfyw7jaj8kar648tz378wjs87yvev3mt6dysjfd6j7 Jack William Bell Hughes did try to retain me as a customer, even lowering their prices to match Starlink's introductory pricing and offering me free bandwidth credits. (Did I mention the fact Hughes limited your bandwidth drastically and shut you down if you exceeded your monthly usage unless you paid through the nose for 'bandwidth credits'?)
