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treefrogie84 I'm aware that the meltdown of twitter could never come at a good time, but i'm currently dealing with multiple [screaming] things at once, and twitter is not helping.
Roommate Shit (mostly stuck behind a cut due to excessive use of f-bombs):
so, the internet at my house has always sucked. that's what it does when you live outside the city limits, you have exactly one fucking option that isn't hotspotting everything off your phone, and centurylink deserves every bit of hatred ever thrown at them. The neighborhood is 30+ years old, i doubt the wires have ever been replaced, so yeah. It's slow and drops a lot.
this is an infrastructure problem.
roommate apparently could not play video games on monday, because heaven forbid he be forced to do something useful, like clean his own damn bathroom or contribute a godsdamned thing to this motherfucking household, so he: callsCenturyLink sorry, they're Brightspeed now, sets up a new account for installation of a new modem on Wednesday and tells me about it after everything is done.
those of you who actually pay the bills of your household might notice some problems with this: 1) we now have TWO internet accounts for 1 house with one DSL line; B) I'm supposed to just... accept whatever bullshit this is; III) which leads to the oh so *very* pleasant experience of fucking calling CenturyLink and cancelling the account that I've had since 2012-- which i'm sure is going to do amazing things for my credit score, but who the fuck cares about that, i'm clearly going to be in this house until i die-- and explaining to the (actual facts) very nice lady that no, we don't need to change the name on my account because i just need to close the fucking thing because ruining her metrics is easier than telling my fucking roommate to go to fucking hell.
she was very nice about it. legit. Paula, i hope your week is going better than mine.
Adult readers-- who should be all of you-- will also notice that Wednesday is also known as *the middle of the godsdamned work week* and maybe, just maybe, losing internet for ???? hours when you work from home is a fucking problem. Given enough notice, I could move to the office for the day, even though that's a giant pain in the ass, but that does require notice. and telling my bosses etc. So i had to call in fucking sick (of centurylink's bullshit) Wednesday.
That part wasn't terrible, actually. I spent most of the day at the park and library working on my nano project. Could have used more forethought into food sitch, but whatever.
Only to get home to a completely new wifi network because 'the new modem is also a router! we don't need both!' Because i trust the network security of fucking *centurylink* plus, i don't want them having even the opportunity to peek at whatever our VPNs are shielding. So at some point this weekend, i'm going to have to plug the router in, set everything *back* up, fuck around with the MAC addresses assigned to various IP addresses and all this fucking work that I shouldn't have to fucking do, but A CAN'T PLAY HIS FUCKING VIDEO GAMES AND THAT'S THE END OF THE ENTIRE GODSDAMNED FUCKING WORLD.
and no, i can't make him set everything back up, he doesn't understand the need for network security beyond a network password that isn't password.
i'm also waiting for him to claim that he doesn't need to pay as much in rent because he's taking over the internet bill. his 'rent' which iddn't even cover the cost of the utilities, let alone contribute anything to actually keeping us housed.
Roommate Shit (mostly stuck behind a cut due to excessive use of f-bombs):
so, the internet at my house has always sucked. that's what it does when you live outside the city limits, you have exactly one fucking option that isn't hotspotting everything off your phone, and centurylink deserves every bit of hatred ever thrown at them. The neighborhood is 30+ years old, i doubt the wires have ever been replaced, so yeah. It's slow and drops a lot.
this is an infrastructure problem.
roommate apparently could not play video games on monday, because heaven forbid he be forced to do something useful, like clean his own damn bathroom or contribute a godsdamned thing to this motherfucking household, so he: calls
those of you who actually pay the bills of your household might notice some problems with this: 1) we now have TWO internet accounts for 1 house with one DSL line; B) I'm supposed to just... accept whatever bullshit this is; III) which leads to the oh so *very* pleasant experience of fucking calling CenturyLink and cancelling the account that I've had since 2012-- which i'm sure is going to do amazing things for my credit score, but who the fuck cares about that, i'm clearly going to be in this house until i die-- and explaining to the (actual facts) very nice lady that no, we don't need to change the name on my account because i just need to close the fucking thing because ruining her metrics is easier than telling my fucking roommate to go to fucking hell.
she was very nice about it. legit. Paula, i hope your week is going better than mine.
Adult readers-- who should be all of you-- will also notice that Wednesday is also known as *the middle of the godsdamned work week* and maybe, just maybe, losing internet for ???? hours when you work from home is a fucking problem. Given enough notice, I could move to the office for the day, even though that's a giant pain in the ass, but that does require notice. and telling my bosses etc. So i had to call in fucking sick (of centurylink's bullshit) Wednesday.
That part wasn't terrible, actually. I spent most of the day at the park and library working on my nano project. Could have used more forethought into food sitch, but whatever.
Only to get home to a completely new wifi network because 'the new modem is also a router! we don't need both!' Because i trust the network security of fucking *centurylink* plus, i don't want them having even the opportunity to peek at whatever our VPNs are shielding. So at some point this weekend, i'm going to have to plug the router in, set everything *back* up, fuck around with the MAC addresses assigned to various IP addresses and all this fucking work that I shouldn't have to fucking do, but A CAN'T PLAY HIS FUCKING VIDEO GAMES AND THAT'S THE END OF THE ENTIRE GODSDAMNED FUCKING WORLD.
and no, i can't make him set everything back up, he doesn't understand the need for network security beyond a network password that isn't password.
i'm also waiting for him to claim that he doesn't need to pay as much in rent because he's taking over the internet bill. his 'rent' which iddn't even cover the cost of the utilities, let alone contribute anything to actually keeping us housed.
[deep breath]
I rearranged the living room a bit this morning and need to move it around more-- the current layout of the misc bullshit corner isn't gonna work AND cuts off the airflow from one of the floor vents so... yeah. That's going to rapidly become a thing because I think the furnace is getting turned on this evening (the low is 23F/-1C (that... doesn't seem right, but i'm using 2 different apps so whatever, COLD) tonight).
Social Media Transition
sign up for mastodon, i guess, using fandom.ink- find friends
- book/author twitter
- things i care about (mdzs, spn, good omens, artists... fucking hell, how do i even figure out what care about enough to find?)
- what to do about worksona?
update group DMs with mastodon name, they should already have DW/Tumblr/PF- is this when I should suck it up and start transitioning off chrome?
- blow dust off tumblr, the other blue hellsite
- check following list on tumblr, clean it out
- check budget, room to support because fuckit? DW too
- did i create a sideblog for gishteam? do it, if not.
- DW theme? Tumblr Theme? everythign is falling apart everywhere, why bother to give a shit?
- cry. probably more than that.
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Date: 2022-11-11 08:19 pm (UTC)mostly, hedge your bets, grab your name anywhere that doesn't give you the willies, and we'll figure it out as a crew.