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> He says he wanted to try "XeTeX" (which supports Unicode) but "...I was going to download it as an experiment and they wanted 5 gigabytes and 5 gigabytes at t
by ChrisRR 4y ago
> He says he wanted to try "XeTeX" (which supports Unicode) but "...I was going to download it as an experiment and they wanted 5 gigabytes and 5 gigabytes at the particular boonies place I'm living would...mmm..not be finished yet!"
I'm struggling to understand this sentence. Who are they? What's a boonie? What's not finished?
- detaro 4y ago"in the boonies" = "in the wilderness/far away from everything/...". I.e. they probably have only crappy mobile internet and don't want to download large packages.