• null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    I suddenly like a lot of things about France.

    I have a vps with OVH which is French, and pretty great.

    I’ll 100% sign up with eutel (?) satellite internet if it’s ever available here.

    I’ve also been using mistral l, a French LLM, to draft some documents lately.

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      3 days ago

      I’ll 100% sign up with eutel (?) satellite internet if it’s ever available here.

      I’m just wondering, why? Do you not have any decent broadband options available?

      Fiber’s still going to be better than satellite, but obviously if you can’t get fiber, satellite is probably better than aging copper.

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        2 days ago

        Yeah, at home we do have fiber.

        I’d like it for my camper trailer. Something like an RV.

        Here in Western Australia we have reasonably good 5G mobile coverage in cities and towns, but it’s patchy outside of those areas.

        Having satellite internet really opens up a whole lot of cool places you can set up to camp.

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          24 hours ago

          Oh yeah, you Aussies have a huge outback, I can see it being great for usage in a camper. Boats are another great use case I think.

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            20 hours ago

            I don’t mean to be critical, it’s great that you know the term outback, but that’s not quite the right usage.

            It tends to refer to very remote very arid places. As in outback explorers used camels and often perished due to dehydration.

            We do have very lush forests with rivers and so on along the coast, which is more popular with campers than in the outback.

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              17 hours ago

              Oh, tbh I thought Outback referred to the Australian wilderness as a whole, though I guess I’ve mostly heard it used in the context of desert overlanding.

              Then I think there’s also “the bush”. What parts of Australia does that refer to?

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                16 hours ago

                Yeah so bush in that context is pretty much “forest”, but Australia’s has a pretty unique vibe. In the same way jungle isn’t really “forest”.

                We call areas with fairly homogeneous species a forest like karri forest or jarrah forest, but in the absence of something more specific it’s just bushland / bush.

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                  13 hours ago

                  That’s pretty cool

                  In Estonia we have specific words for forests of most common trees. Spruce is kuusk, spruce forest is kuusik. Pine is mänd, pine forest is männik. Etc. Otherwise it’s just “forest”.

                  Still, none of our forests, even ancient untouched ones, look as beautiful as the Australian rainforest. Which I’ve admittedly only seen in movies and Forza Horizon 3.

                  Would love to visit one day, but I’m not sure if I’m planning on ever visiting Australia. It’s so far and there’s not all that much I want to do in Australia in particular - though the car nut in me wants to drive the Mount Panorama circuit and it IS very close to Blue Mountains and a few other national parks, so if I find a few other things I’m interested in, Australia will start looking pretty attractive. I mean there’s the great barrier reef too, but I think the reef tourism is actually very damaging for the reef, so it’s best not to go see that?

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                    9 hours ago

                    I don’t think that’s necessarily true about the reef.

                    I think tour operators would be extraordinarily careful.

                    The only problem I’ve ever heard of is people with private boats destroying coral with careless anchor placement.

                    The main threat to the reef is bleaching, due to climate change.