Another possibility is to setup a rate limiter per IP address. Figure out what would be reasonable for a normal human surfing the site would be and add some padding... 50 queries a minute? (Accounting for all of the CSS, JS, HTML, fonts, etc)

That the justice department sues the ISPs over this and tacks on an extra fee for wasting their time.

Can you cancel and get a refund on one, if you book like a month in advance?

Where is this "freedom" you speak of? Is it in the room with us?

If you're "stuck" on TMobile because of price, just switch to Mint Mobile. They just resell TMobile, and are cheaper than TMobile.

Meanwhile, i moved to Europe 2 months ago and have 2.5Gbit/500MBit for 30 euro a month fiber. Yet another reason I'm glad I got out of the dumpster fire.

In contacting Google about this, they blame my phone manufacturer for blocking the app, which I know isn't true.

In Android 15 you can no longer side load apps from another region. In my case, I'm from the US so my play store region is the US. While in Europe, I normally side load the VodaFone app for the country I'm in since it's not available in the US play store. Since Android 15, I side load and install it fine, but when I try to run it, it gives a generic error that it can't be run "due to security". I have another phone with me on Android 14 that the process still works fine.

Agreed. The entire moderation system on this platform is screwed.

You mean like brave?

How in the world hasn't viasat been ripped completely out of the government yet? Starlink can do everything viasat does better and would cost pennies on the dollar compared to their contracts. I'm not a huge fan of Elon these days, but viasat is just complete garbage.

Dumb people should be using dumb phones. I know I'm going to get down voted to hell on this, but if you "have no clue what half of your phone does, or what you could possible use 1tb of storage or 64GB of RAM on a phone" then you REALLY don't need it. If you don't use a "smart device" to make you smarter, what are you doing period, besides rotting your brain anyways?

a rear crash test on this thing...... Almost as bad as a pinto?

And then I installed windows 10.

And only fucking with the older versions of windows that they're trying to force people off of.