kieron115

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[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I really miss t-mob from living in northern virginia. I'm up in the Appalachian mountains tucked between two peaks. There was a plan at one time to utilize the old 800mhz band for some sort of municipal internet (since 800mhz can either punch through the rock or "ride" along the earth, been too long since RF school to remember). But as far as I know nothing ever came of it.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The AT&T hotspot is actually data capped, higher ping, and quite slow since we only have HSPA+ (4G) way out here. We used a hotspot while we were on the wait list for Starlink and just knowing there was a data cap made it pretty unpleasant to use. I should have specified that in the original post.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago

aesthetics, i would guess. everyone has different tastes.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago (6 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 7 points 2 months 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 3 points 2 months 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 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 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) . https://www.starlink.com/legal/documents/DOC-1470-99699-90?regionCode=US

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 3 months 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.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 17 points 3 months ago

oh shit you may be right lol

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

An 1/8th to a quarter of weed, a cake, AND a new shirt? lucky man

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

I can (anecdotally) confirm the overclocking sensitivity. Although it seems to be more that this game just REALLY pushes hardware if you let it which is naturally gonna draw out overclocking instabilities.

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