I went from VB6 to C#, and lived through the drama surrounding the end of VB6. Everyone one had something to say, but here are some words from Bruce McKinney https://classicvb.net/hardweb/mckinney.htm
Airline WiFi providers usually throttle video streaming (which fast.com shows up as) to limit bandwidth usage.
Satellite connectivity in general has very restrictive usage policies and throttling.
Ground 2 Air services like GoGo can be much better, but not when they have a super narrow chunk of cellular spectrum. Gigabit to the plane is possible cheaply if the ground to air spectrum was available and you can put in a few towers to cover the flight path. GoGo doesn't have more than a few hundred towers for continental US coverage... Much cheaper than a satellite!
> Satellite connectivity in general has very restrictive usage policies and throttling.
That's no longer true, in my experience. Both Viasat and Gogo 2Ku are much faster than ATG in the US, and I've been able to stream VOD quite reliably a couple of times.
The latency is an order of magnitude higher, but given that using voice services is not allowed anyway, the only advantage of ATG to me is slightly faster interactivity on SSH sessions.
That said, Gogo's ATG seems to be pretty outdated. I've had better experiences with the European EAN, which is a hybrid ATG and satellite network.
> GoGo doesn't have more than a few hundred towers for continental US coverage... Much cheaper than a satellite!
I don't think a few hundred towers are enough to cover the entire US, at least not with acceptable bandwidth. EAN, for example, has more than 300 base stations and still only covers part of Europe, and Europe is much smaller than the US.
I think I'll copy some of the style from yours. I really like the smaller font size for the notes, the different font color, and in particular the link back to where the note was used! Double linked list, I love it!
Browser based game where you try to pick two matches cards. When the pandemic started, I played this a lot with my kids (they were better every time). Got tired of shuffling cards and laying it out and I wanted to learn Javascript, so.
My daughter had to learn spelling of a few words every week in Grade 2. To help her test it, I wrote a Windows desktop app that would say the word and she had to spell it.
I had too many tags that it became useless so I had to retag all my links in Pinboard, the website doesn't let you do it in bulk so I made a Windows desktop app (also wanted to try out XAML).
It really comes down to what you want to achieve. Based on my experience, they're good enough as proxies, but I wouldn't install a database on there.
Keep in mind, you get what you paid for. Many low cost VPS vendors are also using low cost IDCs to host their hardware. Some of those IDCs might be heavily sanctioned by other online services (say, Google will always want to verify if you're a human if the IP of the VPS lands on the sanctioned range).
Other than that, they're fine. My VPS with Virmach has been up since 464 days ago, I consider it stable enough (again) for my application.
If you're interested in low spec VPS, I would point you to Low End Talk (https://lowendtalk.com/), which is a forum for low cost VPS vendor and consumers.
The TLDR is right at the end when I have already read the whole thing! :)
By the way, I recently migrated a weblog from Wordpress to Hugo on Netlifly. It was easy! Just add a post in GitHub and it automatically triggers a build in Netlifly and the post is live in seconds! You can also have your own custom domain for free.
Don’t have recent experience with Jekyll but can’t imagine it being that painful with the build/customization.
