Because they used middlemen in Iraq and the other middle eastern countries to get the terminals. It’s incredibly likely that this has been in the works for a little while now. You don’t wanna accidentally cut off access to Ukraine while clearing out the bootleg clients from Russia.

“There is no formal accusation that SpaceX is doing business with Russia directly - only that it might be failing to properly police redirection of its equipment to sanctioned entities like the Russian government.”

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/08/is_russia_using_starlink_in/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rKu-1u2Le8

Valve’s better than Epic Games, but they still have every incentive to keep users in their ecosystem with DRM.

Very true.

Thats why Proton on the Steam Deck only works with Steam running in the background.

Lmao what? You have proof for this? It’s just as likely that it was easier to do it the way they did.

It really is always crazy to see the different perspectives. I’ve actually unsubscribed from a channel for the bad quality youtube put on all their 1080p videos. I’m also still eagerly awaiting the slomo guys bluray release of their greatest hits.

Well, that, and vhs is one of those things that is fun to play with. It’s never going to be perfect, and that’s enough to keep people like me coming back to see what new improvements I can make to my vhs setup this time.

New blurays are 30-50 each. New DVDs are 5 or less, each. Libraries usually have bigger dvd collections than bluray collections. People use what they can afford, not what is best.

Their service was genuinely good for the short time I used it. You’ll note in my post that I would still recommend it to anyone who doesn’t plan on doing more than average browsing and light torrenting.

They just wanted an excuse to cut me off since I made more use of it than the average person likely does, and their ‘unlimited’ advertising means you can’t actually know what their real limits are.

For what it’s worth, I’ve been enjoying the heck out of AirVPN since then, with absolutely no issues.

The strong other half of my reasoning was port forwarding being locked to GUI. I use a lot of scripts to keep my server restart process simple.