This is how I use them- but I also use them to write initial UI's (usually very primitive). Because I've got an issue where the UI has to be perfect, and if I can blame somebody/something other than me I can ignore it until the UI becomes important enough.
It's intentional- If people can't use the internet they're more likely to watch the "game." For once management might have learned something from employees- take a dive, cry foul.
I expect starlink to eat that industry shortly. Not sure how they'll make the strategic steps though. Mandatory location data for cell phones to talk with star-link? Wait for whatever satellite septentrio uses to EOL and offer a deal to use star-link instead?
Melt the solder and thwack the board on something hard? So the board stops but the molten solder doesn't.
Sometimes though you just have to pile on solder and flux because the via is small enough that surface tension and heat dissipation means its never coming out
It's 2 or four pairs. So at minimum you have two 26awg (spec is 24awg, and the slim-line cables are labeled "data only") wires- which is not as big a deal as you made it out. Spec comes out to about an amp per pair.
