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Those prices are pretty low compared to my area (just outside Northern VA proper). Amazon recently bought a 42 acre parcel in my county for just shy of $40 million; prices are now in the $2MM/acre range with pricing one county over around $4MM. Farmers in my county are both villainized for...

I live miles from the White House and don't have access to wired broadband. Even after my Virginia county blows through their BEAD and VATI money there is still a non zero chance that I won't have FTTH because the criteria for "everyone" turns up to be "up to 90% of unserved". The company...

I'm in for 1 on launch, but like others it would be sweet to reuse my existing iMac as a display instead of just trashing it.

This is what killed my pre order. I run a small farm and trailering is something I do often. Getting reviews of the mileage people were getting hauling (like sub 100 miles) caused me to get my reservation fee back. If I have to haul something it will likely be further than 50 miles each way...

I pay for too many streamers, but I purposefully never tally them all together so I don't find out that I am likely paying more than when I had DirecTV (I live in the sticks so satellite is my only option).

Our county uses a neat app (Here Comes the Bus) so I can stalk track my kids' bus arriving in the mornings and afternoons. I sure hope that this change in funding means that access will also come to an end.

Do the future Starship near facsimiles look like Starship because that design seems to be working(ish) and already has someone else's money spent to get to that point? Or do they look like Starship because that's truly the best design?

My Filipina grandma used to chew betel nut when I was little (like 50 years ago), but she quit around the time she moved in with us and my dad was stationed elsewhere. Her teeth were definitely stained, but mostly I was fascinated by the whole process of the leaf and "the white stuff", so it is...

All Points is supposed to be hooking up FTTH to my VA county. Was supposed to be completed by end of 2024. Then end of 2025. Now end of 2026. They've managed to spend almost half of the money granted so far, installed single digit miles of fiber and hooked up zero customers. Pretty good...

My first HDD was a 10MB in my Packard Bell 8088 my freshman year. Absolutely certain that Tetris got the most work on that box, but, hey, my monitor could switch green or amber. I remember when my dad bought his first 1GB drive. Yep, it was for porn (a porn BBS).

I honestly can't think of any way that civil service survives the damage done in these short 5 months. If you thought federal government moved slowly before, wait until it is half the size, anyone with any institutional knowledge has retired/left/laid off, and those remaining are replaced every...

You'd think not only is that an insane mark to hold, but "The mark consists of standard characters without claim to any particular font style, size, or color" for "Retail store services, mail order catalog services and on-line retail store services featuring clothing, [ personal care products, ]...

I am also in VA, but a different county. Our county's contractor (All Points Broadband) is actually using pole leasing "difficulties" as the primary reason they haven't made any progress. I believe our $303MM is for ~47K users and their implementation of "everyone" is acknowledged to still...

I am late to pimp my beloved 3000GT VR4's AWS, but I guess I can add that this is a system often deleted (and often broken, even for this car) by some owners.

LOL, were it that easy. I am 52.1 miles from the White House in the 23rd highest median income county in the US (next door to #1) and my only viable broadband option is Starlink. We have a a BEAD project (VATI) to give FTTH to "everyone" but they have managed to spend $64,698,479 of...

My wife got a C&D after making a vinyl t shirt with the phrase "Country Girl" on it.

I live in the 23rd highest median income county ($129,495), next door to the highest county in the US, 50 miles from the White House, no fiber. It's embarrassing.

Sweet, so my annual (was semi annual) tracking of my non-cancerous meningioma might give me actual cancer.

I got an HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP3301 for free but replacement OEM toner is ~$100 each color while you can get 4 color non-OEM for $160. I didn't do any firmware updates, but still have to remove the OEM chips to insert in the non-OEMs to get them to print. They print fine, but no longer...

BEAD/VATI says that they are making progress, but in actual rural areas that don't even have DSL they are 1-2 years away from FTTH for "everyone". And that "everyone" has a big fat asterisk with it that in my county and all the surrounding ones (all proposed to be serviced by All Points...