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: 22 Aug 2026 06:48:31 GMT Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <1161423$1kgeu$3@dont-email.me> <_46cnQgXs593jBj3nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@giganews.com> <11649mk$2le0s$5@dont-email.me> <1164eaq$2le0s$20@dont-email.me> <116b70k$qb29$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 6re/QrXJaKPWcJFwRrRlkgNPprndYE4Un2v2v++ceL5XQN+I8/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:58ixTThZSibOVq3sz1M9Gqu4kuY= sha256:PzlZhUfMIQBf2v0a4NinGsOLpN2nd0A5xzTDBi/ImCc= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:90327 On Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:02:28 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote: > The problem there is often the need for "friendly neighbours". With > private property rights what they are in the USA, "fibreing up your own > area" can become a morass of needing multitudes of legal easements in > order to run the "Ditch Witch" around fibreing up the area. That, or > the "Ditch Witch" is restricted to burying only alongside the > state/county roads, which can still leave the terminus of that fibre a > good distance from the homes that are on the other ends of all the > private roads that turn off the few state or county roads. As an added bonus an irrigation ditch runs along the county road with many homes on the far side. It passes under the driveways in a culvert. That would add more expense.