stop buying tesla, stop supporting spacex, and stop buying starlink
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I would have no other alternative for internet access unfortunately
If you're on a boat... fair enough.
Otherwise, look into WISPs... Wireless Internet Service Providers. Great for rural areas, the infrastructure is point-to-point radios, so it's super easy to go large distances without the cost of fiber or copper cables.
Best part is, if you have any neighbors that are interested, they'll often give you a discount if you let them put a sector antenna on your barn/silo. Or they can also erect a short tower if you let them too.
If there aren't any in your immediate area, reach out to ones nearby. They're always looking to expand.
Thanks I'll look into that, never heard of it. I'm on an island
If it were that simple, and they were comparable/better than starlink, they'd be a lot more prominent than they are, no? You're leaving out information.
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SpaceX will be the only game in town once the new administration eviscerates nasa
And stop using Xitter.
^^ this. In America the only vote that really matters is the one you do with your wallet.
But what launch provider should I use then?
Boeing? No, I don't think so.
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Greed twists all minds.
When Twitter (and Reddit) pulled this off, I was just mildly pissed. Can't do interesting things with my data, oh no.
...Image that, except it's an expensive luxury car you're no longer allowed to do interesting things with.
Something to note: Tesla has two vehicle APIs, the Fleet API for commercial accounts and the Owner API for individuals. This change currently only impacts the Fleet API.
If you are an individual owner who accesses your vehicle data from the Owner API (usually via a self hosted tool like TeslaMate), this does not affect you. Yet.
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Fuck Elon. Fuck Tesla.
I was their target demographic and Elon made sure that I never even consider their trash. I went BMW instead.
This is why Elonia is asking trump to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico. Other car manufacturers started biting into Tesla market share this year.
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I thought BMW wanted a subscription for heated seats. You know, the seats already in your car but software locked with a paywall.
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API pricing is such a shitty obnoxious dogshit practice that is now of course becoming standard because of course it is. internet barely costs money come the fuck on make a quality product
It used to be a respected standard for developers and hosts to be somewhat open and friendly to 3rd party devs, because ultimately they're customers and they're helping recruit and retain customers, they should be treated with respect. just because it's innovative and disruptive to invent the machine gun doesn't mean it's good
The internet (ie bandwidth) is cheap, but running servers, providing documentation and tech support all costs a decent amount of money.
However, treating an API as a profit center is a joke. These are literally companies developing software that makes the experience of owning a Tesla better. Making things unaffordable for those companies is putting short term profits over long term success of your product
But 90k is nothing to Tesla, it's just a paywall to keep the third party devs put while being able to claim to be open
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just because it’s innovative and disruptive to invent the machine gun doesn’t mean it’s good
That's a great Maxim.
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Another reminder to developers to not bother with public APIs, just screen-scrape or reverse-engineer the official app private API.
Really the lesson is, don't run a business that 100% depends on another company.
This. It's a recipe for disaster. I think enough (tech-related) companies have shown now, that they first want to lock you in, and then if they got you, want to bleed you out...
Virgin API user vs chad scrapper.
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Similar vibes than Reddit api pricing
Reddit got the idea from Elon's twitter API fees. This is Elon being consistent(ly terrible).
Its Tesla; y'all should be dumping that shit anyway.
So musk pulled a Reddit spez?
Not surprising as musk is a scammer who got incredibly lucky, always has been.
Fuck spez and fuck musk
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There's no laws against profiteering?
Tesla is an American company, in Texas, at that.
It wouldn't matter if there were.
I'm surprised devs didn't see the writing on the wall after Twitter all but murdered its API
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