Matthew GarrettWondering why a bunch of my network infrastructure was weirdly slow and finally discovered that the cable to one of my switches had come loose on my router and the eero plugged into that switch had lapsed back into wireless backhaul and was happily routing everything else plugged into that switch via wireless instead but my wireless backhaul is absolute dogshit so everything sucked
My network topology does not seem especially complicated but it's already complicated enough that things can break in ways that cause abject confusion so clearly I should just get into BGP because how could that possibly be worse
("Why do you post like this, Matthew" I hear none of you say, but I respond anyway. Because growing up I never saw people who knew things about computers talk about how everything was broken most of the time and so I assumed that I was doing something wrong, and now I am here to tell you that despite being *extremely* computer my stuff is randomly broken all the time and it takes me far too long to figure it out, so it's not you we just build things that humans are bad at handling)
Ryan Castellucci (they/them) 
@mjg59 the more computer you are, the more broken your computers are, and the more cursed the causes are
@ryanc Ok but printers are broken for *everyone*
@mjg59 My printer works fine, but I do keep a baseball bat next to it in case it makes a noise I don't recognize.
@ryanc I recently introduced a printer I found on the sidewalk and I am astonished it has not tried to murder me in my sleep
@mjg59 How do you know it hasn't tried to murder you, though? Maybe it's trying really hard, but as a printer, the logistics of murder are very difficult.
jbaggs