"I guess I'm asking for a "Convince me to try it" style review of juice"
Notice this is about juicessh becoming unusable and no longer having any support. That should satisfy you.
When I got to auto[ssid, etc in main.c it became clear the sophistication/excursion from the typical Esp32 code centerline is at many levels. Thanks for sharing!
Gordon was one of the founders of Encore Computer and my first encounter was in Mass at the point Hydra, Resolution, Foundation and the other component company acquisitions were melding together. I remember being gob smacked by Gordon having a little Vax as his PC and only later came the "well of course he does" realization. He was keen for us to get on to Arpanet and that happened before the end of 1984.
There is a solution for chronic cases like this: a manually operated valve that stands in for the sphincter. Some of the guys in my prostate cancer support group have described this as "life changing".
These satellites are in geosynchronous orbits. The minimum latency of an interactive exchange with something on the internet is a major fraction of a second. One might think of something like ssh being almost perfectly unusable, and it is, but consider how much back and forth there is with web pages being rendered these days.
Having lived with synchronous satellites for a couple years I'm here to tell you they absolutely stink for much beyond watching streamed content and downloading files.
Something like Pi Hole to avoid wasting time with junk would be valuable in this setting and doubly so if Pi Hole's name server caches effectively.
The basic principle involved with these services is statistical multiplexing with a constrained composite link speed. Translated, that means the more subscribers there are the less bandwidth during busy times. So although Hughes touts up to 100mbs down you won't see that unless you use the system when most are asleep.
Finally, if this system is truly advanced it will support alternate ground stations. Without that you get the astonishing experience of blackouts when thunderstorms visit the ground station.
Because the term "central processing unit" has many connotations. This thing with the label is missing too many essential parts. It's like calling a box that slides down hill with enough incline a soap box derby car.
Eimac, founded before WW2 but now some division of some corp, is the gold standard for amateur radio amplifier tubes and is still used by governments. They developed technical advantages while making a lot of radar tubes during the war and amateurs scooped up the surplus and later became regular customers and then commercial suppliers like Collins designed them in. They were part of Varian for a while and make modern very high power klystrons among other things.