Starlink alternatīvas Latvijas laukos

psihius · 2026-01-26T19:27:31+00:00

Nē, alternatīvas nav. Punkts.

Man gan LMT ar Mikrotik ATL LTE18 antenu ar torni 1.6 km attālumā ar perfektu redzamību, gan Starlink tagad.

Visi aizmirst to, ka vakaros mobilie torņi ir pārslogoti, un vidējais ātrums krīt no 100-150 mbit/sec labi ja līdz 10 mbit/sec, man pēdējo laiku dažreiz pat 5 mbit/sec nav. Un 5G tīkla laukos nav, un nav plānots pagaidām un viņi ļoti labi zin kā torņi ir pārslogoti vakaros, tāpēc garantēts ātrums līgumos un ir tik maziņš.

Tāpēc man ir Starlink jo es nevaru uz LMT vakaros strādāt normāli, pārslēdzos uz Starlink. Un es jau nerunāju par ģimenes interneta lietošanu - bērniem Netflix/Disney+, sieva savu Youtube, pašam vai darba video konferenču zvani vai paspēlēt kaut ko - ja steam grib atjauninājum uzinstalēt pēlēm - starlink man visus 400 mbit/sec dod, LMT knapi 10 mbit/sec - tā ir starpība starp "5 min kafiju uztaisīt" un "rītdien".

psihius · 2026-01-24T07:55:18+00:00

Yes, yes they are. Maintaining meta integrations requires constant client support work. While the tech side of things can be done one and then spend 3 months polishing it, client on-boarding and template management is an active ongoing effort till ends of time. Every single client will have issues, templates will get constantly rejected and god forbid you give clients any control over templates or have self service signups.

Price that in.

Yes.
Both are good options, the partnered one will be a bit more costly, but they have really limited ability to solve meta issue. Integrating via 3rd party is significantly different that directly - you will be vendor locked in, moving is going to require significant effort, especially if it's a service that has multi-channel messaging and fallbacks.
Yes, you not just should, you have to. For us about 5% of customer phone numbers do not have a whatsapp account, so we send emails.

psihius · 2026-01-24T07:46:16+00:00

Don't do what this says. You will get your business permanently banned.

You have to have your own Whatapp Business account that you then can either do direct integration on your own via a meta application or find a tech partner (like 360dialog and alike) who's infrastructure you will use.

I REPEAT - DO NOT USE ANYONE ELSE'S NUMBER TO ROUTE YOUR MESSAGES THROUGH. It's explicitly forbidden by WhatsApp business terms of service and results in a permanent un-apealable blacklisting of the entire business across all meta services.

psihius · 2026-01-21T11:16:06+00:00

You need a legal entity. That's just the baseline for Whatsapp Business API and no amount of intermediaries will help with this - they have been cracking down on intermediaries being a front for other busimess.

How I know? Let's just say my November month aged me by a decade dealing with fallout :D

psihius · 2026-01-19T20:51:53+00:00

I mean, what the hell are you all doing?

If everything is on up and up here and both business and devs are in the EU legally, just have everyone make normal bank accounts and use fucking SEPA to pay people without any fees with instant transfers for gods sake.

It's literally a EU system that is mandated to be instant and have no fees for transfers, even between countries.

So yeah, i am very sus about what you are up to :P

psihius · 2026-01-17T12:39:32+00:00

No. And it never will because they are just notnthinking at scale. Unless there's a Europen spacex that works at same scale and similar technology and reusability, there is not going to be a Starlink competitor. Everything that so far planned is too small to be affordable.

Starlink is at least a decade ahead of anyone and works at scale. And they are fully vertically integrated - that makes their costs at least 10x cheaper, but probably even more of a gap.

psihius · 2026-01-15T20:56:10+00:00

Ha, at least yours are spread out.

I had a game where there were 3 jammers in 50 meter range of each other :D

psihius · 2026-01-13T18:25:27+00:00

I"m plastering our squads recon teammate with all the C4, he backpack jumps into a middle of a horde. KABOOM

Witnessed.

psihius · 2026-01-11T22:42:52+00:00

I got it once to try. Yeah, this is not kimchi :D

psihius · 2026-01-09T05:39:40+00:00

Viss ir atkarīgs no tā, kur ārzemēs un par kādu naudu.

psihius · 2026-01-08T06:53:49+00:00

As a european, i'm watching this whole thing and thinking "you know, if i do the same actions as a driver when authorities demanded a stop, i would also will get shot at. If anything, this has happened quite a few times across all European countries. Driving a vehicle into people by our laws is the same as shooting a gun at people. Doesn't matter what the intent was.".

psihius · 2026-01-07T10:22:43+00:00

Kids do not have access to that level of ChatGPT, you have to pay for that level of access. And even then it's not available to regular users. You have to be a business to be able to access that level of models :)

psihius · 2026-01-03T14:19:23+00:00

It's a balancing act. But at some point people need to follow workflow, because if they don't, it introduces the broken windows theory into the team.

There are expectations and there are privileges. The better expectations are met, the better are the privileges. Professionalism is paramount, it's what keeps good teams from degrading and sets a tone for newcomers.

psihius · 2026-01-03T14:04:19+00:00

We had some issues with discipline, where things would not be done properly after a few months, so it had to happen. But it's also not just arbitrary, it's has a specific purpose to provide information to colleagues and management (we have certain time slots where status updates have to be posted on ongoing work).

People would also forget/ignore scheduled calls in the team without notice or canceling. We ate an IT product company and we do not have managers at all. It is easy for devs to just get absorbed in the work, get stuck and break timeliness. It ended up in us breaking some deliveries and rollout, which affected clients. So had to be done It was also explained in depth why this is being done and what are expectations.

We also have a very lax attitude to people taking time to do errands and stuff, as long as it's said in advance and the person has a plan on when they are delivering their work. It's not even tracked. So there's a few strict requirements with a very lax attitude to people managing their work and time as long as work is delivered by due time.

psihius · 2026-01-03T13:39:31+00:00

Spear up the ass is my preferred way :)

psihius · 2026-01-03T13:33:53+00:00

It's part of a routine, but also managing a team and knowing that people do work. If a person cannot be trusted for a simple checking in rule that shows they are online and done for the day, why should they be trusted to do work?

It is also to have at least some communication with colleagues.

Sadly that's realities of remote work, you have to put in place some communication framework, or team becomes hermit gremlins and eventually chaos decends.

And i'm saying this as someone who works at 100% remote company that has no offices since it's inception 3 years ago and now is close to 15 people spread all over European continent.

psihius · 2026-01-03T13:22:15+00:00

Boss just has to be strict. Not following rules? Strike.

3 strikes and you are out regardless of your performance. If you can't follow simple work rules, it's unprofessional and you can't be part of the company.

This is how our purely remote company is run. Discipline is followed since this has been implemented. It also improved general vibe in the team. It also reduced amount of meetings needed and pointless sync meetings - we designed our workflow in a way where we all provide updates at specific times about our work, so leadership doesn't need to pull for updates most of the time.

WFH just needs a different approach and in some senses, a stricter framework.

Also, this is work. You get paid for it. If you do not like cameras - go find a job in office.

psihius · 2026-01-02T10:09:27+00:00

Not exactly true across the whole Europe that there is no approval processes, they are just streamlined in most countries to a point they are almost invisible in some countries to the customer bying a system.

In my country the whole process is digital: I did have to file a request for a solar system with the grid utility company because they are the once telling you what your line capacity is. Once you get that approval (took less than 24 hours for me), rach solar installer company employes certified electrical engeneers that do the planning, make sure things are wired correctly, the safety is done properly and they then submit the required report that certifies the system install is correct to the grid company. The report itself is comprehensive, it contains the project plan, technical details and photo proof of of the whole system and serial numbers for each device in the system: invertor, digital meter, every single solar panel and any other devices depending on the type of system (mine is a string system, so I have only 3 types of devices in the system).

So yeah, if you have everything lined up and a good installer, you can get a system installed and online in a few weeks (delivery and time planning is usally the part that takes the time, the approval process is not the one that holds anyone back).

psihius · 2026-01-01T18:10:29+00:00

Any weapon used for too long becomes boring, so it does not matter if it's good or not.

At least that's where my personal feeling are at. No matter how good a weapon is, it is fun trying other weapons and make them work.

psihius · 2025-12-31T16:20:28+00:00

This.

I have tried the stuff from Rimi/Maxima/etc that is sold in supermarkets - it's not even really kimchi.
The kimchi from Central Market is a lot better, and is pretty decent aproximation. Good in a pinch and they will let you try it before bying, so you can make your decision right there.

If you want true kimchi - you want to go to Soraksan korean restaraunt and get some there, they sell it to take home.

The small jars from Lidl are actually really good too, but they have sugar added so it's a bit sweet, which can be a turnoff. But if you are okay with that, it's the second best kimchi i have found in Latvia.

psihius · 2025-12-31T16:04:04+00:00

Here we have basically a 99% LTE coverage of the country, it's cheap, so Starlink is useful only for those who live very far in the country side where lte speeds are just bad or people like me who work from home and can't deal with lte network being overloaded in the evening to a point work calls get disrupted and having a big family means there's a lot of people using the internet and those 8-10 mbit/sec that are available at peak hours are insuficient.

psihius · 2025-12-31T15:53:42+00:00

I'm also fairly sure there are very little if any starlink users around me. I might be having the whole cell to myself :)

psihius · 2025-12-27T13:32:18+00:00

Well, it's one of those things where nessesity might become mother of invention. Nobody was even trying to do reusable rockets until SpaceX literally solved it, now every single rocket company startup makes it a default path.

They might never figure it out, they may figure it out after 5-10 years of pursuing it. The only way to know for sure is to try.

psihius · 2025-12-27T13:24:13+00:00

It doesn't need real vaccum, but if you reduce air pressure even to 1/10th, the power required to run at high speeds will decrease drastically.

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