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I agree with your overall point, but have one quibble:

Also, I mean, sure, satellite internet providers have been around for 30 years and each one had a period where the future looked bright before upkeep costs or technical issues hammered them into oblivion, but… mhhh…

Pre-Starlink satellite internet's future never looked bright because the latency and upload speeds always sucked. Having a swarm of satellites in a low orbit constantly handing off the connections is genuinely a huge improvement compared to having a few satellites all the way out at geostationary. It's just a shame that it's got the deal-breaker of being run by a nazi.

"Just as" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, IMO. Can they be subverted against the people they are supposed to serve? Of course. Is it as likely as a for-profit corporation doing it? Hell no, I'd say.

You monster.

Maybe there's room for compromise, but there is absolutely zero reason to concede such things in advance. The baseline expectation is that every device should be running Free Software and fully respect its owner's property rights, full stop.

If you instead approach the issue with the casual attitude that "oh, proprietary isn't so bad if it doesn't connect to the internet" the compromise after negotiations ends up favoring proprietary tyrants way more than you would've been okay with.

No device should have the third, ever.

Pretty sure he meant something like "not a nonprofit or government entity."

The 2009 movie. Just, like, the whole thing.

(And I'm not even talking about differences between the JJ-verse and the "prime" timeline; I'm talking about shit not making any damn sense in the internal context of the plot. Kirk was a mutinous fuck-up cadet who should've been thrown out the airlock when Spock had the chance, not promoted straight from cadet to captain by the end of the movie!)

At this point, they aren't even trying to tell anybody that. They're openly arguing prejudice is OK.

The concept is good, but the rhyme needs work.

Not if you control the updates.

But to do that you have to have an absolute zero-tolerance policy for proprietary tyrant devices. Only Linux (or other Free Software) PCs. Only Graphene, Lineage, or similar on your phone. No new TVs, no new cars. No "smart" devices unless they've been flashed with ESPHome or Tasmota and only connect to Home Assistant. OpenWRT or OpnSense on your router.

Basically, you need to be a skilled IT person and willing to devote time for it all. But it can be done, with difficulty.

Sure, I'll just grab $368M from my couch cushions.

Honestly, it would be cheaper and possibly easier to raise an army of protestors to physically stop the dismantling via direct action.

I feel like it should be expressed less as being sorted into houses and more of as a radar plot.