SavantStrike wrote:You mean that beautiful piece of retro computing is no more? Oh that's sad 🙁
Yeah, unfortunately so. I broke down and boxed up that PC late last year. It was suffering from too many issues (almost *ALL* related to bad connections; I'm sure due to the topic at hand), and I was running out of elbow room in this shack out in the woods <grin>.
SavantStrike wrote:As for broadband in the sticks, all of a sudden the only down side is a longer commute to work...
I do PC repair from home. The only downside is, well, the locale itself... not to many goat-farmers out here have 'em 🤣!
I moved up here back in March of 2005, moved from Miami Florida to here... talk about "culture shock" <grin>. Mind you, I've always loved the woods, and especially the swamps in the Everglades down in South Florida... so living out in the woods is a "natural" for me.
Hehe, even though I'm "used" to the woods, it was definitely a shock going from the hustle and bustle of Dade County (Miami) life, to the almost dead-silence of the area <grin>.
Advantages?
Hehe, I can play DOOM, jump online and surf the Internet (or play another online multiplayer game; been playing Call of Duty on Steam recently)............
........and then hop outside for a nice campfire 😀 Or, grab my real-world (non-DOOM <grin>) scattergun, and go rabbit hunting right out in front of my trailer ("OH! Those waassscally wabbits!" 🤣)...
...and then come back inside, hop on the Internet, and bitch about the current "state of the union" and politics in general 🤣! 😀
It don't get no better than that! 😀