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[–] mipadaitu 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Probably not. Musk does none of the engineering and gwynne shotwell actually runs the company (and does it well).

Starlink brings in truckloads of money, and Falcon 9 is dirt cheap to launch compared to every other rocket on the market today.

There's likely not much that musk adds to the company other than baggage at this point.

[–] SirDerpy 4 points 3 months ago

One can see Elon's influence on the product. The router/switch/wap combo box is a trapezoidal prism that plugs in on the bottom because that's the only right angle mounting point. It even has a neat voyager looking emblem that looks like it's supposed to light up and be a constant nuisance, but doesn't. I think the dish would be curved and lower performance if the project had held Elon's attention.

But, from a technical perspective there's little to complain about. The service fires up for the first time in about five minutes. It works anywhere I can get a small patch of sky and doesn't object when I load the connection to sail the open seas.

I've two complaints: It runs on DC but lacks a DC power connection, meaning I eat the loss on AC-to-DC conversion and bypass the benefit of my DC rectifier. And, the mounting pole doesn't fold all the way back, greatly increasing the required storage space. Both complaints are common a large customer segment: vehicle dwellers.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 4 points 3 months ago

Fucker refers to the piping on the outside of SpaceX rockets as "the fiddly bits". Not only does he not do any of the engineering, it appears that it can't even be explained to him.