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What do you do online these days? Where do you spend the most time? (lemmy.world)

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reddit is shit and makes me annoyed, twitter is shit and makes me annoyed, tiktok is shit and makes me annoyed, pure news sites are boring, cracked is dead, google doesn't work anymore, lemmy is only memes and news and fairly slow

i feel like i used to be able to sink into an activity on this machine, but now i just spend 5 minutes somewhere, the algorithm runs out of content, i get annoyed and go somewhere else, same process happens. i feel like i have amnesia, i used to enjoy this but i have no idea how.

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[-] KrokanteBamischijf@feddit.nl 1 points 8 months ago

Satellite forums sounds like a very specific hobby, but I can't quite tell which one:

forums where all the remote sensing / OSINT / geospatial nerds gather.
forums for satellite broadcast enthousiasts.
forums for discussion on space exploration and satellites carrying scientific equipment or actual satellite astronomical bodies.
forums that are called satellite forums as some form of jargon I am about to learn about for the first time.

What are people into these days?

[-] RoseRose56@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

TV satellite of course! Watching tv over the internet(IPTV, OTT) sounds good, but satellite tv is far better IMO(so far, wont last long). Anything related to new satellites, transponders, epg, FTA(free to air) channels and scrambled channels(when they are open), also there are linux boxes like octagon and vu +, where the users create images and addons. I don't know for USA, but in EU with a big dish you can get lots of things.

This week at 13.0E, they added some Bulgarian channels, but the signal was low?, people started wondering why they added them, since it already in another sat. Probably tests.

[-] KrokanteBamischijf@feddit.nl 2 points 8 months ago

Ah second category it is. Well met!

As a category one nerd with a susceptibility to new kinds of gadget-related hobbies I'm not sure SAT TV is something I should be getting into. Sounds like an absolute blast to tinker with all kinds of setups though.

Do you just buy a dish and a receiver en get going? Or is there more to it?

[-] roserose56@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You just don't buy any dish, you have think what you want to watch/receive, then pick the right size dish, and then you have to pick a receiver. Not me, but many users have more than two boxes for many reasons.

Once you have these, then you have to choose if you gonna have a motorized dish or stable with more than 1 LNB's. Motorized dish is good because you only need 2-3 cables, but there is a delay when you switch satellite, seconds or minute until it turns to the right position. While stable has more job and cables to have, while switching satellites/channel is instant. wave frontier is considered the best dish, as it can see/get lots of sats with its size the way it is(needs a lot of lnbs and cable!).

Some people switch receivers every time a new one is out(not many the last years).
FTA is good, but people still trying to crack scrambled channels.

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