Re: What's Wrong With LinuxMint ?

On Sun, 23 Aug 2026 21:52:35 +0000, vallor wrote:

> 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.)

That would seem feasible but they certainly do a lot of digging to lay 
fiber, at least the thick orange trunk lines.