Even better - they're in university campus housing.... And posted to the city-wide subreddit.

What's the first thing you do when your internet goes out?

I know mine isn't "get on my cell phone and post to Reddit 'hey, anyone else's internet go out?'"

/facepalm

The new lazy boy is here!

And a new theater love seat.

My wife is working from home - call center job for a cell phone carrier. Her desk in next to the kitchen. I went in the kitchen to get coffee and overhear...

"Thank you for calling <company>, how can I help you?"
…
"Okay, I can help you with a bad signal - I see on your account that there is a second line, is that phone near you?"
…
"And does it have the same issue?"
…
"Okay, we'll start with that second phone, please power it off then back on."
…
…
"Thank you for calling <company>…"
🤣

Made two purchases for "Black Friday / Cyber Monday" sales week.

One is the most money I've ever spent on a piece of furniture (heck, it's probably more than every other piece of furniture combined.) - a La-Z-Boy "theater chairs" love seat.

The other is the most I've ever spent on a TV (again, probably combined.)

Some good birbs at the zoo yesterday.

JFC, Musk apologists are obnoxious.

That'll do. (Faster upload would be nice - I have to upload multi-gigabyte files for work a few times a week.)

8 AM meeting done, next meeting..... 8 PM.

What the hell, people?! Suddenly in the span of 30 seconds, I had five different people text me in three different apps. All unrelated to each other.

Massively oversimplified home network diagram. (It's missing an entire branch.)

$600 in new networking gear later, and I have >1 Gbit from the internet to my computer.

If you schedule a 10-person 8 AM internal conference call including a VP and C-level, nobody *REALLY* knowing what the meeting is about, you better damn well not be late to your own freaking meeting. :grumble:

(Oh, yeah and this salesguy is responsible for me having 8 PM meetings both last night and tonight, too.)

Woo! The git pull finished without ever running *TOO* low on RAM!

Now the decryption step - still hovering ~120 MB free…

And that finished *whew*, back up to 1 GB free. The rest of this process shouldn't get it close to running out.

(It seems that the git pull's network traffic, combined with running out of RAM, was causing the VM's network stack to crash, making the OS uncontactable.)

32 GB VM, currently hovering between 120 and 140 MB free RAM.