Wondering 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)
@mjg59 the more computer you are, the more broken your computers are, and the more cursed the causes are
@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…”

@0xabad1dea @ryanc @mjg59

In Arabic, the saying is

باب النجار مخلوع

Which means "the carpenter's door is crooked"

In Italy we say "il ciabattino va in giro con le scarpe rotte", which means "The shoemaker walks around with broken shoes"
@Pacy And in France we say "Les cordonniers sont toujours les plus mal chaussés", which is almost the same idiom: "The shoe makers always have the worst shoes".
@Pacy Good for them! In Poland they walk without shoes whatsoever. (pol. Szewc bez butów chodzi)
@Pacy in Finland we say "suutarin lapsilla ei ole kenkiä", which means "the shoemaker's kids don't have shoes"