Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What's Wrong With LinuxMint ? Date: 19 Aug 2026 03:42:34 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <_46cnQkXs59Hkhj3nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net brl/t9wl4afQiXdX254VNQfACRXEGv7r3nUzStENdirMjivjs/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:HbZA4GeG9LdSA3PxUX5ewpy2g+M= sha256:Cu1HmLJq45CszMQ6/rN9pMww9FZsZ4LjcOf7xA0+E6g= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:90092 On Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:07:20 -0400, c186282 wrote: > It's why I was wondering about StarLink a little while back. Alas > seems you need a pretty clear northeast 'view' from where I am - and > I don't HAVE one ... big trees most everywhere. I'd have to run a > 100' cable out under the yard to get a good clear point. I was concerned about the tree but it's to the west and the receiver is oriented to 5 degrees. You can download the app for free to evaluate the site. You point the phone at the sky and rotate through 360. I was skeptical about the services using geosynchronous sats, the footprint, and how many subscribers would be in the beam. The Leos, and there are a lot of them, solve that problem. I am a bit curious how it works. Back in the day the ham sats were store and forwards and the window was only a few minutes. Of course there was only the one and not over 1000.