Subj : Re: Graphics driver quest To : Barry Martin From : Ky Moffet Date : Wed Oct 08 2025 12:38:00 BARRY MARTIN wrote: > Hi Ky! > > > > Let's see, your old DSL was 0.5 Mb/s... So Starlink = 50 Mb/s. > > KM> More like 3.0 and 300, but same principle. Most websites and > > KM> FTPs throttle at around 100, so anything more is gravy. > > That last one now has something make sense: my fiber-optic service is > > 200 Mbps (verified by random testing to random speed test sites) and > > sometimes a transfer seems slower than it should. > KM> Yeah. Some throttle a lot slower than that. > > I suppose it makes sense in the big scheme: if it's just me connecting I > hardly 'get noticed' by their system as far as loading is concerned. > Several thousand -- poential to overload. Yeah, can't let the fast connections monopolize the entire service. > > > KM> It's a port that's Cleverly Designed to be both waterproof, and > > KM> where (because you can't get your fingers in there) to be able to > > KM> just jerk the cable loose. The entire router is designed to be > > KM> outdoors too, tho they no longer tell you to set it up that way! > > Y'mean they found a build-up of rust inside the case wasn't good? > KM> Or a lake and shorted parts! > > Aw, just dip the whole thing in epoxy! That's pretty much what Starlink did with its router -- it doesn't even have any vents! I'm wondering about using it as a cup warmer. > > KM> Nope, not unless you're troubleshooting. And apparently if you're > > KM> not gaming, you can just plug in your router and not do the > > KM> bypass thing. If you can turn off NAT in your router, that > > KM> problem is solved too. > > Those little tips might save you some money on a replacement router! > KM> I already have the spare router. > > But if you use it it won't be spare! (The Starlink one would become the > spare, but that sort of ruins the joke.) As they say, an heir and a spare! > KM> When the wind fairy doesn't get to 'em first, I let 'em dry a bit > KM> then mulch 'em with the mower, either way they disappear. Next > KM> door neighbor has a forest in his front yard, so I get more > KM> leaves than my share, but the lawn can use the mulch. > > Pretty much the same here, just on a smaller scale. The three trees on > the property died ages ago (at different times). Neighbours have trees > and some do end up in our yard. If a shallow layer usually can mulch > and not bag. If a ton of leaves fall at once still mulch but bag as too > much of a mulch layer. One year left the thicker mulch layer and almost > killed that section of grass. Yeah, the leaves really have to be dry enough to turn to dust when they're smacked around, so they don't form suffocating layers. > > Here the leaves are starting to fall, appears mostly the stressd ones > > because we have been having a drought. Good news is they're predicting > > rain for tomorrow some time -- and then another streak of dry weather. > KM> I haven't seen that drought has anything to do with it. We're way > KM> more dry here and the American elm (which came back from a stump > KM> that apparently survived the Dutch Elm plague) sometimes doesn't > KM> shed its leaves until the next spring. > > The backyard tree was like that: held on to its dead leaves until > Spring. Not all of the dead leaves remain attached -- definitely had > shed most -- but enough remained. I look around the neighborhood and conclude that trees are weird. > > KM> The black walnut usually drops them all the first time we get a > KM> cool night, tho last year it kept them til we got snow, WTF. > KM> It's always last to leaf out in the spring, a good month after > KM> everything else, and first to go bald in the fall. > > "It's getting cool" . "It's getting hot" 'dressed'>. That's about it... it's green for about four months, and greens up so late that the first year here, I thought it was dead. Everything else fully leafed out and it wasn't even running sap yet. > > KM> There must be some complex interaction between temperature and > KM> sunlight, as I've been kinda keeping track and it's more chaotic > KM> than not. Siberian elms down by the highway are already yellowed > KM> up, but the ones along my side yard look like June (they > KM> sometimes don't shed their leaves either, so we get frozen green > KM> leaves in December!) > > Around here it seems like length of sunlight, temperature, and colour > depends on rainfall. The also depends on the individual tree, probably > just like people. Yeah, how much sun they get is likely a big factor. At one time freezing temps were supposed to be it, but that doesn't explain the ones that drop leaves with no frost one year, and can't be arsed til midwinter (or if at all) the next. > > .. 9 out of 10 people couldn't start conversation if weather didn't change. > KM> Ah, this explains why people in Montana talk ALL the time! > > And why so quiet out here: for a while this late summer the weather was > so constant from day to day even the 'yakky' meterologist was having a > hard time coming up with something different to comment on. 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