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Oracle is now in the keep customers locked in business rather than the get new customers business.

It's a challenging time for OpenSource at the moment.

I wasn't implying that at all, more I was shocked at how a country like America doesn't have high speed broadband ubiquitously available. So it was more rhetorical than anything.

Surely you have options though? In Rural NZ we have a choice between 4g which runs at about 50mbps and latency of about 15ms and starlink which runs at around 100mbps and has a latency of about 25ms.

Both should be good enough for remote work.

That's not a loss, that's an investment in an asset. It's a loss because the assets have devalued.

I mean, they look better than your standard Mitsubishi or Panasonic heatpump, but other than cosmetics, what difference does this have from the normal sort of heatpumps that most homes have?

You might have to take a paycut even working remotely. A lot of companies now pay what you'd expect locally rather than in a tech hub. So, if you worked remotely from San Francisco you'd earn more than if you worked remotely from somewhere rural.

No, New Zealand with UFB which is fibre to the door for about 90% of the population with rural broadband initiatives for the remaining 10%.

Wow, we have fibre to about 90% of the population and ripped out copper a few years ago. In rural areas there is government subsidised 4g internet and in the most rural it's government subsidised satellite.

I was in Korea for work and it seemed the same there, I was even in eastern Europe visiting family and it was a pretty similar story. So I figured it was pretty universal. Although I know that Australia isn't in a good space with broadband simply because of politics and companies not wanting to work together, I'd assumed they were an outlier

I've used Fedora for years as my desktop linux distro on my laptops and CentOS or RHEL for servers.

Fedora is the desktop focussed project which is upstream from the commercial RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS is the community distribution of RedHat Enterprise Linux.

This is a great, stable, and feature rich ecosystem that contributes a lot of innovation to opensource projects and upstream back to Linux, it has a strong community and has a long track record stretching back more than 20 years.

I've used Fedora for years as my desktop linux distro on my laptops and CentOS or RHEL for servers.

Fedora is the desktop focussed project which is upstream from the commercial RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS is the community distribution of RedHat Enterprise Linux.

This is a great, stable, and feature rich ecosystem that contributes a lot to opensource and upstream back to Linux and has a long track record stretching back more than 20 years.

Maybe in the developing world but I'd imagine most of the developed world got rid of wired internet and replaced it with fibre years ago.

You have to pay extra for 5g in the US?

We've even lost our post offices, I couldn't tell you where a post office is in the city I live in, they've been slowly disappearing for the last ten years or so. But small businesses like service stations and convenience stores often are post agents.

That's a good idea, one of the tough things about banks closing - espeacially in small towns where there isn't any around for miles, is the elderly struggle with technology.