As someone who’s family is from Alabama, I hard agree with your grandma. Where was she from? And can I steal her line?

Cool, I stopped being lazy and looked up the DVB standards. TIL: a bit about digital broadcast transport methods.

Thanks, I know very little about how DVB works but that makes sense. What is the limitations for DVB-S/C ?

Can you use something like a rtl-sdr for its original intended purpose of decoding digital tv?

What are tha advantages of this over set -o vi?

Let me offer a different direction. FreeBSD has been around since the mid 90’s. Is damn featureful. Has a wonderful package management system. Full disclosure, I use Linux on my personal machines but FreeBSD is my server install of choice.