NDizzle

Well, if I can get my cost for the premium Starlink to $200, I would drop the TMO home internet.

Right now I'm paying $99 for Starlink, $23/mo ATT, $50/mo TMO. Hardware costs were $450 for the router and LTE modem (EM160g) and roughly the same for (what I know know to be the gen 1) Starlink.

I had no idea they rolled out a gen 2 Starlink that's even more restricted than the first one. Ah well.

When I was in NORCAL and wired, I was on business internet that was $190/mo, so that's about what I'm accustomed to.

I have no idea what it would cost to wire my house. I'm miles from any infrastructure.

I've had Starlink in Rural AR for 10 months now.

I have it currently set to "failover only" on my Ubiquiti device, as it's snowing sideways and there is a tremendous (read: 30%) amount of packet loss at the moment.

I don't yet know how to do automatic failover due to packet loss on a UBNT device, but that's what I'm looking up this afternoon.

Anyways - I have 3 ISPs, with two of them being LTE. One is the unlimited ATT iPad plan, since I have a router that currently identifies as an iPad (so modern) with the other being TMobile home internet.

Up until this snow storm, I had both of the LTE connections in failover only mode, using Starlink exclusively since about November, when there was an update that stopped the "disconnect all active sessions every ~45 minutes when I lose physical sight of the satellite I was connected to" problem. I guess that was when sat to sat communication came online in my longitude.

I will also note that my IP has been static on Starlink for about 2 weeks now, which is the longest it's ever been. It's still CGNAT, so multiplayer game hosting is mostly out, unless the game handles it. Most don't.

Overall it's a decent thing, but I would recommend at least one backup ISP for those rural or thinking of going rural. LTE Hacks group on Facebook can help you tremendously if you are considering buying a place outside the range of normal wired connections.

It's kind of funny that snow took it down 1 day after I started looking at the premium option, which I'm considering if I can get my workplace to pay $300 per month, with me covering the other $200. Kind of dulls the excitement for that...

That's not correct. I haven't quite got all the way through the article, but yeah - not correct. It has wifi that you use to manage it, but it also has an ethernet port that you can use. I have it as one of 3 internet devices at my home in rural Arkansas. I would turn off the wifi entirely, if they allowed me, for less interference.

The cable is kind of a bummer, but at least it's super high quality. I wasn't too happy about having to use a giant step bit to drill holes, as I wasn't about to cut the ethernet jack off the end of it when I ran the cable in the attic.

Can I rattle off “sticks and stones…” or is that too aggressive in 2022?!

What’s next?

It’s not that I’m superior, not at all. I consider myself normal. Jaw dropping reactions to Peter Pan is not normal. Let’s agree to make that distinction now.

0 to 10mm!? Some study. That’s barely a beard. Loses 40% effectivenes at 10mm.

I still have a daily job running a web scraper I first wrote with Scrapy back in 2017. I think I've had to update it 3 times over the years for changes to the site and web standards.

Good old government sites - rarely change!

These same voters that kept Newsom from being recalled?! Good luck, Californians. I'm sure they'll spend this money wisely!!!!

Who knows what's next. Perhaps this will help the bullet train reach Fresno, Merced, or maybe Modesto. By 2050. Maybe.

Why are these low bars being lowered even further, every single passing year? That should be the next question one asks themselves...

I've never, over 3 laptops, had it restart by itself. Not once. Not a single one of them on Home edition, so perhaps that's the issue.

Then again, the "home edition" is the edition that you should use when you are streaming live on twitch to 10,000 people!

Automatically installed, yet no automatic reboots. Maybe it’s because I’ve never used the Home edition, but I’ve never had Windows force a reboot on me. Sometimes my laptop won’t wake up out of sleep mode and it reboots, but that’s about every 2 months.

The last time I was really angry about Windows was with Window Me. The entire TCP stack took a dive which I couldn’t recover from. Even replaced the NIC. Replaced that with Windows 2000 and haven’t had a serious issue since.

Since when does Windows have mandatory automatic updates?!

Maybe this is new in Windows 11, benefit of the doubt and all, but this isn’t a thing on any other versions of Windows. Forced reboots aren’t a thing. Misclicks, however, are.

Start having kids in your twenties. After the second one, you or your spouse stops working. The person who works, works from home at a project based company, where you do at most a stand up per day for set meetings. Start work early enough to be done at 3:30 or 4 pm. Raise your kids yourself, with your spouse. Coach youth sports.

That’s my recipe for happiness.

Where do I go to watch their videos? Rumble.

Hopefully less inbreeding is one of the positive outcomes of the current "designer mutt" fad. I was thinking about this the other day actually...

What other suggestions do you have for what "we" could do? China won't do anything, neither will India or Russia, by the way. So what are we doing? It'll boil down to effectively taxing companies and people. I skipped ahead a few steps in the discussion. Sorry for spoiling it.

WOODWORKING costs $0?!?!?! What???

How much have you spent on tools? Do you smoke a pipe and whittle on the front porch or something? You don't visit Rockler and buy tons of gear? Where do you get your wood, as that's not free either...

Cars were my freedom. People live different lives, you know?

Did you drive 100+ miles, one way, for epic parties when you were in high school? I did. That's how rural Arkansas works.

My first tech job required me to go 130 miles one way for months before I could afford my own place and move closer. How would I have done that with your rules?!

Will the insanity pass, though? There's talk of putting cameras in all cars starting in 2026 to prevent... drunk driving[1]?! What's next?

I can't be alone in never buying a car that has this feature.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-11-09/congre...

Petty.

Reality = right wing in 2021.

“Starting wage for unskilled labor” is what they changed. Because we’re lazy, the reporter called it minimum wage.

In the small Arkansas town I grew up in, when the Tyson plant changed what we called the “starting wage” it was a big deal. Back in 97-98 it went up to $6.05, which got me to apply there and get a job. That was almost a dollar more than the US minimum wage.

I didn’t last very long. That wasn’t for me. I instead went to a mcse boot camp and got a job offered to me by the place that ran the camp. They had a service side that hired me at $11.25/hr. I was billed out to clients at $125/hr. The rest is history.

When I returned to see some high school friends around 2000, the starting rate at the Tyson plant was up to $7/hr.

Being able to hunt for your meat helps a lot with anxiety and mental health.

I’ll be able to provide for my family when things get crazy here soon. Will you be ready?

The US sure could use groups of people exercising in parks. Think about the reduction in medical costs from the attack on type 2 diabetes.

Does anyone else think that moths in super slow mo look like video games bosses?!

I could imagine fighting one of those things in the next FROM Software game. (Dark Souls studio)

No, and they know it isn't.

I really don't like this pattern that's developing. The pattern that I see is, "Implement an obviously unconstitutional law. Let it affect people in some manner for N months until the courts get around to saying that it's illegal. Repeat indefinitely."

The speed of the courts depends on the political party of the offender, of course. See also: Executive Orders that can be removed and how swiftly they are removed.

Uhh.. what makes you say that? What percentage of people who get covid actually get admitted to the hospital? What percentage actually die? Both answers are probably lower than you think.

You convincing her to get the vaccine probably fucked up her immune system and led her to getting covid. That scenario is equally possible at this point.

I’m really bad at categorizing music. Where do you think Tangerine Dream fits?

Specifically, the Stratosfear and Phaedra albums. I’ve returned to those two albums for concentration music for about 25 years now.

What about Jeb Corliss?