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Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I’m not sure why SpaceX is doing this One word: marketing.
A few more words: they’re struggling to find a niche where their ungodly expensive product makes more sense than the readily available alternatives. In this case, fair play it’s objectively better.
$39/month for 100Mbps in the middle of nowhere is spectacularly cheap.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
A few more words: they’re struggling to find a niche where their ungodly expensive product makes more sense than the readily available alternatives. In this case, fair play it’s objectively better.
>A few more words: they’re struggling to find a niche where their ungodly expensive product makes more sense than the readily available alternatives pretty obvious you never worked for an ISP and forgot about all the `middle of nowhere` customers who have no high speed internet. even for me, in houston texas, we cant get fiber to the home and were stuck with AT&T DSL which was like $60 per month and ungodly slow. Als…
To be fair: this is an america regulatory capture problem.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
This misses the point. What’s nice is not that it’s just me, but that it’s everyone.
Host a “phones off” party, go to a sauna, go for a hike with friends with self control etc., but please don’t hold me hostage (connectivity wise) in a cramped metal tube for your sense of nostalgia. Planes are just about the least pleasant space to experience involuntary offline-ness. (That said, people scrolling reels with the speaker on (or the display at brightness levels making me consider sunscreen) should immed…
Nobody is holding you hostage. Sounds like you need the timeout more than anyone.
And the assumption that this view was drawn from nostalgia is completely invalid.
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#96One nice thing about Starlink is that they force the airlines to offer it for free. I’m not sure why SpaceX is doing this, but it was surprising enough to me that my international WiFi was not only fast, but completely free that I researched it.
And show ads for it on the inflight entertainment
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Joining United MileagePlus is completely free, you just sign up. About the same work as filling out a hotel wifi login.
Completely free as in you don't have to give them money. But you need to give personal information which also has value.
> But you need to give personal information which also has value.
You also give up your personal information when you step outside, take a bus, train, or drive a car.
Hell, even if you stay at home, you are giving up information for free that you are NOT outside.
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#98Does anyone else appreciate the final space where we can be disconnected. I do, for one
Consider paying a visit to one of these if you want to immerse yourself in the world of ideas and disengage from screens:
My ~4 weeks were some of the most memorable of my life
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#100Big fan. One feature idea/request - a map showing coverage with 0-100% by route (red/yellow/green lines). I’m just curious to see where I should think to look for / expect starlink options. Probing into a few upcoming trips showed basically no coverage.
Oh that's a cool idea! We wanted to do a variant of this, will add it to the list. The tricky part for us is getting a canonical list of all flights + body types on it.
I’d imagine you could seed it more easily by focusing on top 50 routes by passenger count in domestic USA. Then go from flight schedules for top airlines into tail numbers into body types etc.