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Not sure how this is would be so different from how we treat forms of speech such as pergury, libel, and treason.

In the CDMA days your non-carrier locked phone had trouble handling travel across the US, and forget about service in another country.

Carriers (Verizon and Sprint?) tried to improve it, but never really worked and the expense was high.

Starlink's sats are 30-60x closer to earth than other satellite providers (500-1000km vs 35,000km), so their coverage area is lower as well. In that sense they are competing more with mobile telecom (Verizon, T-Mobile, etc).

As Starlink's speed lowers they stop being as competitive with mobile data service, which can have fairly low latency (5G is in the 20ms realm, Starlink in 40-100ms?).

But it always depends on where you are to pick the most performant service.

They were correct. They're saying your phone service identity (I am X number on Y network plan). Not your personal identity (pictures of your kids and passwords).

Today if your phone fails, you can pop a sim in another phone and regain your phone service identity within minutes. No SIM, it could take days or even weeks.

If you're shopping for a Macbook Pro, gaming is the extremely narrow use-case, no?

Edit: various benchmarks seem to show the M1 Max games at about the FPS of a RTX 3060L (though with lower power). It's around the same price as a similarly spec'd 3060L gaming laptop.

Am I forgetting anything from the Sonos saga?

2019: Growth problems. Sonos states 92% of their sold products are still in active use. Creates “Recycle Mode” which bricks the device if you upgrade through them, and asks you recycle your now useless speaker. If you don’t upgrade, they discontinue software support anyway.

2020: Backlash problems. Sonos discontinues Recycle Mode device bricking, CEO apologizes.

2021: Global supply problems. Sonos sees canceled orders due to stock shortages, announces they will make future Sonos devices more repairable.

I’ve purchased (and sold off in 2020) a half dozen Sonoses (Soni?) but can’t get another as they’ve proven to be so user-hostile by policy and the poorly designed, buggy apps. Good sound, though.

OP needs to cite sources, can't find anything corroborating their hazy claims. Only know one arrest, plus two suspects mentioned in the posted article:

- 36 y/o (possibly homeless) Kathleen Panek arrested for 2 church burnings

- Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church, Kehewin, AB. "An under-aged individual was arrested and charged with arson following the incident."

- Central Heights Church, Abbotsford, BC. "A suspect described as 30-40 years old, male, dark-skinned and wearing a bright yellow rain jacket with a grey baseball hat is being sought by authorities."

Canadian churches were already being burned at a higher rate in recent years relating to sex abuse scandals, so there may be concurrent overlapping motives.