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  • Funny enough I got 7 ultimate for free by having a Microsoft themed Tupperware party and using their party invite platform. They sent me a box with free copy and ms colored streamers and windows 7 napkins. I still have the napkins new and sealed. Had to take like 4 pictures with my friends around a laptop I think. Not a bad trade for the best version of 7. I don’t think they’d ever get people to do the same for the newer OS’s. 7 was one of the good ones








  • 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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    10 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.