Starlink isn’t our infrastructure.

No idea, have you monitored the package / container for network activity?

Perhaps this refers to other clients not running the model locally.

Yeah I was one of the 3G / NextG subcontractors between Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Broken Hill.

Amps gear was tossed outside the huts and would be collected at an undetermined date.

The original 3G cabinets were not up to spec, so our crew after installing at many locations needed to revisit sites and install amplifiers. What a waste of resources.

Was bad enough having to visit some sites due to their location, but twice was a nightmare. Not to mention every time we made changes on the towers we needed to get in each antennas zone, call 000, confirm molly & scrambling codes. To imagine how many of these “Telstra test calls” they would have been receiving during the rollout, poor bastards.

Both my split systems are “dumb” where their only controllable out the box via an IR remote. A couple of ESP32-C3 later and their WiFi enabled without the calling home jargon that comes with the oem add-on wifi modules.

My dryer is a heat pump - it takes longer than the old unit, but the energy consumption is far far less than the unit we had installed from the 80s. No need to make modifications to the house for a vent, or have the machine vent humid air into the house during a cycle either. Safety is another big plus on the dryer, old units are horribly dangerous by comparison.