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When your Starlink dreams become a budget router reality at home
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When your Starlink dreams become a budget router reality at home

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The meme uses the classic 'Mom, can we have X? - We have X at home' template on a plain white background. Top line: "Me : mom can we have" followed by the official Starlink logo image. Middle line: "Mom : no, we have" plus the Starlink logo again "at home". After a blank space and another small Starlink logo, the bottom caption reads "at home :" and shows a photograph of a black ASUS wireless router on a wooden surface. The router is labeled in Cyrillic and English as "StarLink" with a phone number and website, clearly a local ISP-branded device, and several cables are haphazardly wrapped across its diamond-patterned case and two antennas. Technically, the joke contrasts the hype around SpaceX’s satellite internet service with the mundane reality of a cheap consumer Wi-Fi router, poking fun at networking hardware expectations versus household budget constraints

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Leadership wanted Starlink-level low-earth-orbit latency; procurement just slapped a “Starlink” sticker on the office ASUS, and now the only thing in orbit is our packets doing endless NAT hairpin turns
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Leadership wanted Starlink-level low-earth-orbit latency; procurement just slapped a “Starlink” sticker on the office ASUS, and now the only thing in orbit is our packets doing endless NAT hairpin turns

  2. Anonymous

    After 20 years in tech, I've learned that every 'revolutionary' infrastructure solution eventually gets replaced by someone's janky homebrew setup that somehow achieves 99.9% uptime while violating every best practice known to mankind - and yes, it's probably running in production somewhere right now

  3. Anonymous

    When your DNS resolution returns the wrong Starlink: one promises gigabit speeds from LEO constellation with 42,000+ satellites and sub-50ms latency, the other delivers 150Mbps from a $40 ASUS router that's been firmware-locked since 2011. Both solve the 'last mile problem' - just with very different interpretations of what constitutes a 'mile' and whether it should be measured vertically or horizontally

  4. Anonymous

    When the requirement says “add Starlink for WAN failover” and procurement delivers an ASUS router from starlink.ru - turns out high availability can be undone by variable shadowing at Layer 8

  5. Anonymous

    The X that serves infinite bandwidth without rate-limiting your deploys - unlike certain APIs

  6. Anonymous

    Needed Starlink for LEO backhaul; procurement did a string match and shipped a router labeled “StarLink.” Nominally compliant, structurally useless - fails every NFR

  7. @pragma_support 3y

    Musk do good satellite 🛰️ but ukrain arms use them for navigation for own drones attack

    1. @solarburster 3y

      Ruzzians are new nazi. Ukraine don’t have any other option than defend agains uzzian barbarians.

      1. @pragma_support 3y

        but the fact that the Nazis are held in high esteem in Ukraine and why they killed my uncle in the Donbas when there was peace?

        1. @RiedleroD 3y

          ^ what propaganda does to a mfer

        2. @dmytrijza 3y

          I'm very sorry for your uncle, but these things are happening to both sides of conflict, and Russian government was the one who had provoked this war through military intervention in Donbass. It's been verified by countless journalists around the world, and that's why democracy is playing on Ukrainian's side.

          1. @mekosko 3y

            Democracy, LoL

  8. @pragma_support 3y

    I'm not against the Ukrainians, I'm against the Nazis and Bender who are now in Ukraine.

  9. @RiedleroD 3y

    azov is a far-right nationalist group that's unfortunately very handy in war. Ukraine right now has better things to do than weed out Nazi members. And most of Ukraine isn't nazi-aligned, it's just that every country has their fair share of assholes.

    1. @RiedleroD 3y

      regarding donbas: Russia has been sending unmarked private militia to there to "help the breakaway regions" - unfortunately those were also mostly assholes and made themselves look like Ukrainians.

    2. Deleted Account 3y

      I've talked with many Ukrainians and one half of them are literal Nazis while the other half hates their government but can't do anything with this dictatorship.

      1. @RiedleroD 3y

        ok but who asked

  10. @yuriy_the_man 3y

    Jeez, so many vatniks in this group

  11. @galafm 3y

    Cause you believed russians, that a skinny guy who was recruited by russians to film their propaganda about "Azov nazis" - is an Azov fighter, lol. Go google to see how average Azov fighter looks like

  12. @RiedleroD 3y

    the guardian has been known to report …questionable stuff. Still, it's somewhat reputable, so I'll give you that

  13. @galafm 3y

    Anyway, living in Ukraine for all of my life - and haven't seen by myself or haven't seen any signs of so-called "neo-nazis" there 🤷 Instead, we all have seen what can do an average russian soldier

  14. @dmytrijza 3y

    In the most cases they don't, google "idea of nation, Azov"

  15. @mekosko 3y

    Wtf, the Latin alphabet is a Nazi??

    1. @affirvega 3y

      Naзi

      1. @callofvoid0 3y

        Naßi

  16. @RiedleroD 3y

    probably just east Ukraine and they're all imported from Russia :P

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