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> This is .1% problems Cruises are a stereotypically mass-market vacation. In most cases they’re cheaper than a hotel.
But still, Google says there's about 30 million cruise passengers per year, or less than 0.4% of the world. Close.
By the same math owning a pet tortoise is something of a 0.1% game.
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Went on a cruise last summer, the internet on board was starlink. It was advertised at $30/day.
It's interesting to contrast Starlink on airlines vs Starlink on cruises. AFAICT, all the airlines rolling out Starlink have made it free on their flights. Which implies cooperation from Starlink -- either Starlink has made "free" a condition of their service, or they've just priced it cheap enough to make free a reasonable option for airlines. There's no good reason why Starlink for cruise ships should be priced sig…
later checked the captive portal domain. it was hosted by a third-party vendor. not the hotel. same pattern as cruises. backend didn’t care who i was, just tracked mac and time.
this blog just confirmed what i suspected: enforcement is surface-level. they want friction low enough to upsell, but not tight enough to annoy casual users. the systems are optimised for conversion, not for plugging leaks. most abuse is silent and tolerated. these aren't security flaws. they're tradeoffs
One of the fringe benefits of going on a cruise is that you can disconnect from the Internet for a week. Hit up the bar, make love to your wife, gamble a bit. All without your phone constantly buzzing in your pocket. If you go on a cruise to immediately open your laptop it seems like a waste of time and money.
Unless you LOVE your work and just want a change of scene while doing what you love.
Also depends on who you're traveling with / anyone.
I've been on trips with the "I have to work" folks, it's a pain, they're not really "there" you end up trying to schedule around them. Then they just show up unaware / uninvolved in whatever is going on.
One of the fringe benefits of going on a cruise is that you can disconnect from the Internet for a week. Hit up the bar, make love to your wife, gamble a bit. All without your phone constantly buzzing in your pocket. If you go on a cruise to immediately open your laptop it seems like a waste of time and money.
But yeah, it's nice to be disconnected on vacation.
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Went on a cruise last summer, the internet on board was starlink. It was advertised at $30/day.
It's interesting to contrast Starlink on airlines vs Starlink on cruises. AFAICT, all the airlines rolling out Starlink have made it free on their flights. Which implies cooperation from Starlink -- either Starlink has made "free" a condition of their service, or they've just priced it cheap enough to make free a reasonable option for airlines. There's no good reason why Starlink for cruise ships should be priced sig…
One of the fringe benefits of going on a cruise is that you can disconnect from the Internet for a week. Hit up the bar, make love to your wife, gamble a bit. All without your phone constantly buzzing in your pocket. If you go on a cruise to immediately open your laptop it seems like a waste of time and money.
What if you're a teenager, traveling with your family, and the internet is your lifeblood ? You can't gamble or go to the bar and you have no wife, so this sort of activity is respectable.
One of the fringe benefits of going on a cruise is that you can disconnect from the Internet for a week. Hit up the bar, make love to your wife, gamble a bit. All without your phone constantly buzzing in your pocket. If you go on a cruise to immediately open your laptop it seems like a waste of time and money.
What if you're a teenager, traveling with your family, and the internet is your lifeblood ? You can't gamble or go to the bar and you have no wife, so this sort of activity is respectable.
Vacations are a great time for that.