Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Notes on an overheard conversation while at lunch with friends
“Could I please have a menu?”
“Wait! What? A menu?”
“Yes.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
“Oooookay … here you go.”
“Thank you.”
“Did Hell freeze over or something?”
“I just feel like having something different today.”
“…”
“I'll have the pork sandwich, with cornbread.”
“I … I … I don't know how to act. Okay, pork … cornbread … ”
“Thank you.”
“A. just said you were ordering something different? Is that true?”
“Yes, I ordered something different today.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
“…”
“I just felt like having something different.”
“I … I don't know how to act.”
“That seems to be happening a lot here today.”
More issues with the Monopolistic Phone Company's “wireless service unit”
Day three of the “wireless service unit” and it's becoming clear why so many people are returning it. Bunny's laptop seems to drop consistently from the network, and I can't figure out why it's happening. She needs to turn off Wi-Fi, then turn it back on again, and she can use the Internet for some random period of time.
There was a spontaneous reboot of the “wireless service unit” last night. The thing takes an unusually long time to boot up. We're talking a solid five minutes or so.
The signal strength of the internet connection fluctuates wildly throughout the day.
And the only positive aspect I found,
the IPv6 assignment,
isn't what I thought it was.
It,
too,
is reassigned at random like the IPv4 address.
There is no need for that to happen!
The IPv6 address space is large enough to almost assign every grain of sand on Earth its own IPv6 /64 network address space!
There is no reason to reassign IPv6 addresses at all!
Sheesh.
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