The fiber line into your house from the ISP is needed. What that fiber line connects to is up to you. The router your ISP provides isn't special. You can get your own equipment.
Apparently not well enough. There's enough videos online of people trying and failing to shoot at drones that it's a sort of well-proven fact that until a drone is VERY close, like 30-40 feet is my guess, it's out of buckshot range. The war in Ukraine has really shown what countermeasures work and what don't.
Rednecks have already proven that is hard bordering on impossible to safely shoot down a drone. Short of using drone-specific countermeasures, you might as well be using a butterfly net.
Their Contributor Quality Score is basically the social media equivalent of a Social Credit Score. Not like karma, it's a whole other system that demands you produce content for them or get shadow banned. It's bonkers.
I say the same thing, where "flying" is transit time between places, even if there's a layover. There's a difference being at home and "on duty" as in on-call and ready to go and being stuck in an airport for 10 hours because you're doing a Chicago-LA-Chicago return and stuck in LA because the shitter's broke on the plane you took there and need to get back to O'Hare.
Seriously, that person is not at home and not able to really have control over their own time because of their job. It's more than being just "on duty" in a sense that they shouldn't be getting paid.
I also love seeing the Vasquez Rocks for the same reason. Had a friend that lived in Antelope Valley and I would drive by them any time I went out to his place.
Same trick is pulled across Africa. If a conference takes place a certain distance from the capital city, you get per diem. So you'll see clusters of hotels with fancy conference centers just outside the radius. It's just a day trip but people will play receipt fraud and make it look like they stayed the night and split the price with whoever is selling receipts.
I hate to get all conspiracy theory, but the guy knew that a Congressional hearing on the Epstein Files was happening. He is a skilled manipulator. So what does he do to suck all the air out of DC? Nothing. He takes a few days off, his social media goons see the "is he dead?" stuff on X - I'm not even sure that they didn't push it - and then anything he did at any point would be the lead news. So he trots out a super-size nothingburger and the media can. not. get. enough.
Did that hearing make the "Breaking!" Fox News chiron? Nope. Totally drown out by this guy.
I've been trying it out, and it's solid. Startpage seems to get me where I need to go a bit quicker, but this is still a good backup and I'm thrilled to have another frontend for Brave search.
These are the same communities where large swathes of the population greedily apply for all the social safety net programs, often saying they need to get the benefits before the fictional welfare queens take them all, then immediately vote for the person saying they're running on a platform to get rid of all those same programs.
The fiber line into your house from the ISP is needed. What that fiber line connects to is up to you. The router your ISP provides isn't special. You can get your own equipment.