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
abadidea@ryanc @mjg59 my husband is a lawyer, I am not the first beep booper he’s been involved with, and he asked me with a very frustrated tone why every beep booper he knows is always like “hang on, the computer I’m using can’t display in color atm, but my good monitor is hooked up to one with a broken ethernet port, just give me a few minutes to code up a way to transmit jpegs over speaker and mic and I’m sure the meme you sent will be very funny…”
woe2you@0xabad1dea @ryanc @mjg59 Beep boopers keep things that other people would just throw away because the beep booper knows how to fix it and will get around to it one of these days, honest. In the meantime: Heath Robinson workaround because the borkedness constraint makes it a Fun Puzzle.
Edit: if you faved this toot you have to take one (1) thing out of the pile and fix it this weekend as penance for encouraging me.
Struan@woe2you @0xabad1dea @ryanc @mjg59 can I still get tokenring Ethernet bridges? So I can at least claim there's a use for my PCMCIA Tokenring card!
Ben Rosengart@Struang People Can’t Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms (but somehow I still remember that)
IAintShootinMis@woe2you @0xabad1dea @ryanc @mjg59 I fixed my janked up LilyGo TBeam this morning. That counts retroactively right?
@iaintshootinmis I'll accept it if you haven't added anything to the pile today.
@woe2you nope, travel day for a conference, nothing added!
PsyMar aka Sam@woe2you @0xabad1dea
I think there's also a factor of us fucking around with settings that normal users wouldn't -- and that the QA testers didn't consider.
For instance: I had a win98SE computer that bluescreened like every 10 minutes. After a few weeks/months my dad finally figured out that, when he had installed win95 on it, he'd installed CABS. and when he installed win98 on it, he didn't install CABS. and then I fucked around with adding/removing system components without the CD in the drive, which added the components back from CABS -- the win95 CABS on the win98 system.
And apparently Microsoft hadn't thought to *stop* anyone from doing this with, y'know, version-checking on the CABS.
MayaMayaMaya@woe2you @0xabad1dea @ryanc @mjg59 I lost most of The Pile in a series of moves so I'm Like This and I don't even get to fix old stuff.