After years of trying to be clever about switching automatically to a mobile hotspot when our main network connection was down, I adopted the crudest, least interesting approach instead, and it works fine!

https://toroid.org/uplink-failover

#linux #networking #sysadmin

@dianea Here's a photo of a big pump (ok, maybe medium pump) for you.

At the time, I had thought it was used to pump water out of flooded streets (the street is dry in the photo, but they have a tendency to flood at the slightest bit of rain).

But looking at it now, I'm not sure. Maybe it's being used to clean a sewer or something. (I've only seen that being done with pumps mounted on tankers, but maybe?)