Matthew GarrettFeb 21
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
Show threadMatthew GarrettFeb 21
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
Show threadMatthew GarrettFeb 21
("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)
Show threadRyan Castellucci (they/them) Feb 21
@mjg59 the more computer you are, the more broken your computers are, and the more cursed the causes are
Show threadabadideaFeb 21
@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…”
Show threadwoe2youFeb 21

@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.

Show threadStruanFeb 21
@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!
Show threadBen Rosengart
@Struang People Can’t Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms (but somehow I still remember that)
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