From a US perspective I imagine people read Walden and want to have a life in the woods.

There is another option that doesn't involve "scary" nuclear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot

We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.

National Initiative is an existing proposal for doing just that which was proposed by Mike Gravel. Tom Steyer included it in his 2020 platform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_initiative

There is invidious which is an alternative front end for YouTube. It doesn't use the YouTube API or require a Google account. You can host your own instance or use one of the public ones[0]. It seems like the download button is broken but I was able to right click save a video.

[0] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/wiki/Invidious-Instances

If it can offer anything near the speeds advertised without the BS of incumbents, I could see a massive amount of demand.

I figure 5% of consumers « served » by both cable and xDSL can’t get good service, and then they have virtually every rural customer that’s anything more than a low-data user. And I’d expect them to capture that one day with a « light » plan. It’s a massive market.

>The announced pricing for the current "beta" is $99/month plus $500 upfront for the hardware.

Yes, that's the price they charge. What are the costs of providing the service?

When you said undercut their competitors I assumed you meant undercutting the price consumers pay so I told you the price they are currently offering. I do not know that their costs are and since SpaceX is a private company I don't think we know how much it is costing them to provide it.

They should work for rural areas breadband but theoretically they can't replace cities fiber/LTE due to its massive capacity.