It is nice that they thought of "oil rig bros" though. I can't imagine the publically funded research ships I've worked on will even legally/politically be allowed to use Starlink even when within good coverage areas of it, at least not for a long time due to institutional pressures, and there's a risk that people see Starlink as "the" new shiny satellite provider and assume that's the worst-case latency/bandwidth target!
Like - our 2mbps internet connection shared between ~50 people does _actually work_, the Internet is _fine_, but so much of the WWW is frustratingly broken - not just because of large page sizes (we have caching proxies onboard, large downloads are fine), but predominantly because of so much parallel loading, servers being impatient with connect/read timeouts, DNS servers treating us like a DDoS attack, a lack of progressive enhancement (page blank = hanging waiting on a font to load from jsdelivr...). Seeing people still focusing on the nitty gritty like optimising for page loads given TCP slow-start is nice to see from a "LITERALLY accessible all over the world" standpoint :-)
Like - our 2mbps internet connection shared between ~50 people does _actually work_, the Internet is _fine_, but so much of the WWW is frustratingly broken - not just because of large page sizes (we have caching proxies onboard, large downloads are fine), but predominantly because of so much parallel loading, servers being impatient with connect/read timeouts, DNS servers treating us like a DDoS attack, a lack of progressive enhancement (page blank = hanging waiting on a font to load from jsdelivr...). Seeing people still focusing on the nitty gritty like optimising for page loads given TCP slow-start is nice to see from a "LITERALLY accessible all over the world" standpoint :-)