Re: What's Wrong With LinuxMint ?

At Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:15:58 -0000 (UTC), Rich <[email protected]> wrote:

> rbowman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. 
> 
> Yep, indeed.  And likely three different additional permits, five 
> seperate inspections, and an environmental impact statement regarding 
> impacts on the water in the ditch from Ditch Witching under the 
> irrigation ditch to wire up the homes.

FFS, the way to do this is aerial fiber on power poles.

(Power poles go everywhere.)

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