@ceejbot I think either "Tomorrow Never Knows" or "I'm Only Sleeping" (which of course wasn't on the US version I grew up with).
If you asked kid!me, it probably would have been "Yellow Submarine" or "Good Day Sunshine".
(Not that you were necessarily asking me.)
Note to self: do not plug the 2nd ISP's LAN cable into an unused socket on the switch until you are ready to configure the switch to see it as a WAN connection.
Otherwise, ISP2's router will slowly attempt to take over control of your LAN by becoming the gateway for clients as their DHCP leases expire.... 🧠🕸️
@riley ...but, you know: never go up against an Egyptian when death is on the line.
(They're, like, the original masters. Game, Set, Nut, Thoth, and match.)
Free to read complete essay. https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/stuff-people-dont-get-about-this?utm_source=activity_item
@riley "The problem with ancient kingdomism is eventually you run out of pharaohs."
(Obligatory: They were probably in a state of da Nile.)
@riley Extraordinarily good font-rendering for those old CGA (Cartouche Glyph Assemblage) displays, too!
MTV died. All the cool, unique artists like off “120 minutes” are now fighting the blandest algorithms imaginable.
We wanted a place to watch weird stuff you can’t see on mainstream channels. So….
Fedi MTV goes live in ONE HOUR.
@rnd I remember smartphones had been common for quite awhile before popular media stopped depicting people in situations that would never have happened if they had a smartphone. (At the moment, I can't remember the details -- but I remember it was like the plot couldn't even have existed because the central problem would have been solved immediately.)
Don’t use Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop: http://indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=mastodon
Update: So, we're fine for now on the old (Spectrum) connection. If I try to diagnose the problem further, though, I'll end up disconnecting everyone for minutes at a time (unpredictably), and I don't want to get into that just now.
I'm also suspicious that the router itself isn't working right. For one thing, whenever I try to change the settings it locks up hard and I have to power-cycle it to get it back (and as of now, its web UI isn't responding at all).
...so I've ordered another router via Ebay, this time a completely different brand -- the current gigabit router and the old 100MB one are both TP-Link. (I've never heard of "Luxul", so this will be a learning experience 😅)
Apparently one of our ISP connections is having internal (LAN) issues, and that's why some things were working and some weren't.
(This is why (a) I'm glad I kept the Spectrum cable connection after getting GFiber, but also (b) why having 2 ISP connections makes it difficult to diagnose problems sometimes.)
I'm now trying to figure out where the actual problem is -- GFiber itself is working fine if I connect via its built-in wifi, so it's not that the WAN connection is down.
It's got to be LAN hardware, but exactly which piece? Our (multi-WAN) switch is obviously a possible suspect...
Update: see my replies below
Is the internet being weird for anyone else this morning, or is it just us? Most evidence suggests it's a local problem, since some computers seem to be having no trouble (after I reset a couple of things), but some are still persistently being weird and I'm wondering if maybe there's a larger problem that isn't affecting all machines the same.
The weirdest thing is that I can access sites just fine with wget, but then browsers (on certain machines) give an ERR_CONNECTION_RESET on the exact same site. ping appears unaffected.
@JoshJers Anyone who uses the term "shipping velocity" unironically is kinda telling on themself.
He can only raze, not raise.
...but yeah. (I feel sorry for his kids -- up to the point where they actively start trying to follow in his footsteps... and then we can only hope they will have a Filip Inaros moment.)
"We have yet to understand that if I am starving, you are in danger. If people think that my danger makes them safe, we are in trouble." James Baldwin.
@Asuyuia This may not help for your situation, but so you know you're not the only one 💚:
I realized decades ago that I am No Good at Ritual Gift-Giving, and stopped trying to do xmas (much less birthdays). I give gifts when I have (or can afford to buy) something I want to give, regardless of timing.