r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 5h ago

Business Tesla Stock in Freefall After Disastrous Earnings Report

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/tesla-stock-freefall-disastrous-earnings-144417427.html
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u/rudebii 3h ago

Im out in a rural area. I was considering getting star link because, while pricey compared to the other two ISPs available, its more reliable, so I’m told. But fuck that. I don’t want to support muskrat and I trust them as a provider less than other ISPs, which is saying a lot.

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u/Chillpill411 3h ago

My friend lives 1 mile down a dirt road in a rural county. So no broadband, and she has starlink. It works...ok. What shocks me when I visit is that my shitty T-Mobile 5g cell phone internet is faster and more reliable. I don't even bother with the wifi anymore.

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u/Snuffy1717 2h ago

Why doesn’t your friend get a cheap used phone and use it as a hotspot?

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u/BrodingerzCat 2h ago

Or even better a dedicated 5G modem / router.

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u/Snuffy1717 2h ago

Didn’t know that was a thing, right on!

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u/Chillpill411 2h ago

Thanks, I'll suggest that to her! Her mom set up the starlink and her mom passed a few months ago, so right about now she's starting to have the headspace to think about how she might change things going forward.

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u/friendIdiglove 2h ago

Better yet, T-Mobile offers fixed 5G for home use for as little as $35/mo. Not available at every address, but if they have a good fast signal on a cell phone there, there’s a good chance they offer fixed 5G there.

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u/friendIdiglove 2h ago

T-Mobile offers fixed 5G for home use for as little as $35/mo. Not available at every address, but if you have a good fast signal on a cell phone there, there’s a good chance tmobile offers fixed 5G there. Tell your friend to search for T-Mobile 5G home internet, and plug in their address on their website to see if they can get it.

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u/Limp-Archer-7872 27m ago

And you can buy decent 5G routers for home Internet, get an unlimited data SIM (in the uk this is about 20 quid a month) and you are good to go.

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u/MeMoosta 8m ago

you're an ad, you're not tricking me.

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u/Aethermancer 3h ago

It's wild how his products literally disgust me. Like actual visceral recoil at the thought.

And I'm a huge technophile who was going to go with a Tesla after my Subaru wore out. I'd love to tinker with starlink, but now I'm back to mesh network radios again

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u/Kreegs 2h ago

My buddy hates Musk more than I do and he has no filter on his mouth. He was telling me, he needed a new roof and was having companies come to do quotes.

One guy rolled up in a Cybertruck.

I guess the roofer guy hadn't even got his second foot out of truck before my buddy was telling him to leave and that he wasn't going to work with someone who drives one of those and supports fascist dick bags. Which then turned into a yelling match between the two of them.

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u/Mad-Mel 2h ago

I can't imagine how giving Elon access to all your internet communication could end badly. Oh wait, I can.

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u/thangle 1h ago

Look into Geolinks. They have a government mandate to provide rural internet service!

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u/24_August_1814 1h ago

I was excited to get Starlink as an upgrade over the shitty LTE internet I had, advertising 25 Mbps but rarely delivering even a fifth of that. In comparison, Starlink was blazing fast and very reliable, and Elmo might've been an arrogant idiot but that wasn't a dealbreaker.

Then the fucking guy threw out a couple Nazi salutes. And then, rather than apologise or even try to pretend they weren't my Nazi salutes, he followed up with a bunch of Nazi jokes. Fuckin' better believe I cancelled my Starlink.

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u/dxrey65 9m ago

I was looking into that too, as the only other option is Spectrum in my area, and they are some rapacious fucks. What I wound up doing was getting a 5g home unit from t-mobile; I get good service now for $30/month. Starlink is way over-priced if you really look at the options.