nearhat

Check with your local city council or municipality. The laws preventing municipally owned Internet are being fought and overturned with Internet As A Utility.

Even in Texas, the City of Mont Belvieu was getting the shaft by local incumbents that wouldn’t invest in the network. The city took them to court and sidestepped the law, setting precedent. Fiber to the home is now a reality there.

I’m working on getting the same thing done in other towns and cities in this state. Might be a great challenge if you’re up for that sort of thing.

My daily driver is Linux Mint running Cinnamon. It doesn’t get in the way. Servers run Debian stable.

Engage!

There is no presumption of privacy, especially when you’re the product.

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Pay-for-karma is going to explode the number of ads masquerading as posts.