kieron115

joined 1 year ago
[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 4 days ago

Thank goodness, now I can defend my home against tyranny and people who look different than me with a pseudo-machine gun, just the way the Founding Fathers intended! (/s just in case)

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I would probably still brew decaf coffee to go with them for the taste and smell.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 6 days ago

Also don't hack me plz

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We're having a pretty nasty thunderstorm right now and it barely misses a beat. I swear I'm not a musk shill lol, I just remember 3G hotspots and how much worse this would have been.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Unfortunately, for me the spot where the signal is strong is ~250 feet up on top of a mountain. We had a cell booster that worked great on 3G but I'm not real keen on spending another $150 on a new repeater that may or may not pick up a signal from our roof. Another fun aspect of being out in the country is that I'm living in a converted pole barn which has a metal "skin" with double layer mylar foil/foam insulation that makes it quite difficult for signals to get inside. There's no mesh so it's not a full Faraday cage but it creates a lot of attenuation.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago

aesthetics, i would guess. everyone has different tastes.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Unfortunately we only get AT&T and maybe a whiff of T-Mobile once in a blue moon. Gotta go a few miles into town to get reliable service, especially if you want 5G. Thanks though.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago

I'm super jealous. I'm out here in Western Maryland and I'd be happy to see us get plain old telephone service.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm wondering if it's something with the mobile plan? I only have the fixed address plan and I've never seen a data cap. Hell, I run my homelab off of it with Plex and shit. They seem to be pretty chill but I'm do make sure to throttle my upload to be polite.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 12 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I'm one of those people for who Starlink very much is the only option. I moved from Northern Virginia to Western Maryland. This land used to be state park and all it has is electricity and mail delivery. No water, no sewage, no telephone, no internet other than cell hotspot or Starlink. It sucks but I have to try and separate my distaste for Musk with the engineers and people who actually run Starlink day to day, because at the end of the day the service is pretty damn good. The only issue I have (besides the price) is with VoIP traffic; but SIP acts fucky even with Cat5/6 sometimes so idk. I looked up the current policy and at least in the US they do not have a soft data cap. They did when the service initially launched AFAIK but that's been replaced with a more general "network management" policy (throttling, etc) as far as I can tell. https://www.starlink.com/legal/documents/DOC-1470-99699-90?regionCode=US

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago

Caveat: I am not a programmer, just an enthusiast. Windows programs typically package all of the dependency libraries up with each individual program in the form of DLLs (dynamic link library). If two programs both require the same dependency they just both have a local copy in their directory.

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