This makes me think that the Starlink system is very poorly designed. I know there are hundreds of satellites, and a large number of base stations.

Even if a large chunk of the satellites were taken out and a few base stations failed, shouldn’t the system keep working, just over a different path?

This sounds very much not like a hardware failure, but more like somebody fucked up.

Their one remaining COBOL developer finally either retired or died.

I feel this same way about people who blast music from their motorcycle. I ride a Harley, too. It’s fun, and I get it, music enhances the experience.

You don’t want to hear my music, so I wear earbuds. I don’t want to hear your shitty butt rock, so please do the same.

The biggest problem I have with what this woman did is that she used bear mace. Should have been a handgun, or even a machete, or perhaps a flamethrower.

I’m one of those people that has the technical knowledge to repair most electronics. I still buy new sometimes.

A while ago, I had to repair a faulty pellet stove. It was obvious that the main control board was bad (there was a single small circuit board connected to a handful of relays and sensors, all of which tested as good). This board contained a small cheap microcontroller, a few MOSFETs, and a handful of discrete components. A replacement was $500. Maybe $10 in parts at the most, and they wanted to charge me half the cost of the entire appliance.

I was able to isolate the problem to a bad MOSFET and order a new one for about 50 cents. Had this been a complex circuit, there’s no way in hell I could have found the problem without a schematic.

So in my opinion, the problem is twofold. Manufacturers want ridiculous prices for replacement parts, and no documentation exists to repair the parts themselves. They obviously have schematics from when they designed the board. They should be forced to release them.

It makes sense for housing assistance to be temporary. First, though, we need rent control and an appropriate minimum wage so that people don’t have to rely on government assistance indefinitely.

I can kind of get the logic behind this if you were an overseas call center. If you’re already based in the US, why lie? I can’t imagine why a call center would think being located in CA instead of OR would make the slightest difference.

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“Start a business” almost certainly means “Buy into an MLM scam.”

Does she still do this when she’s the one paying the bill?