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  • I had tried a few distros prior to gentoo but the process of installing and using just felt like windows but off brand for a long time, 5 years later I am learning about this tinkerers distro that you compile everything yourself, that weekend I started with a stage 2 setup disk and brought everything online got comfortable with the emerge lifecycle and have never left since, though I am considering if I want to leave on my next reinstall, if that ever comes, I have heard horror stories about upgrading major versions of Ubuntu that I just don’t experience on gentoo, it’s just the Linux I have used for like 20 years and it has pretty much never let me down, only times it has shat itself on me was my own fault for not reading the newsletters about some major GCC upgrade or some breaking update




  • TheRagingGeek@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldHughes.net?
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    9 months ago

    As someone who had to support resold Hughes net networking I can tell you that satellite internet is great at downloading large bulks of information, otherwise you run into a problem of physics, adding 88,000 miles of round trip to your internet connectivity(1 hop to space then back to Hughes network gateway on earth, then back to space and then to you) are going to be super latency, gaming is not recommended nor is streaming, it can also be hella spotty as any weather events at your location or at hughes(which I think is in North Carolina?) will impede the line of sight needed between the dishes. I’ve never heard a good experience with satellite.


  • I am thanks to a combination of my learning how credit should actually be used and careful budgeting as well as an excellent choice to get into information technology. I can actually support my adult son as well as take care of his brother and my disabled wife and living what would’ve largely been considered middle class by their standard. At this point they were getting mortgage calls for juggling payments and spending wrecklessly while living in a double wide mobile home in the rural appalachias.