I couldn't infer anything at all from this article; there is an infuriating intrusive ad that auto-plays video like "Chat live with the hottest local models in the comfort of your own casa! Only ETH 0.0069/tok! Click here!"
I was there, at the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind... (some called it the dot-com bubble)
I was a mere hobbit with my hobbit-computer pets, but I was holding the reins of something transcendent, untamed, and more colossal than I could imagine. My acquaintances discussing Free Software and stock trading and McMansion Purchases when their diploma ink was barely dry. Hiking through security doors and past Cray, Intel, DEC supercomputers and core routers -- quite the "wiring closet". The robots were safely imprisoned behind Plexiglas, and so were the console operators!
I gained enough skill and exhibited talent so as to fall into Silicon Valley, and Glenda deigned to ferry me back and forth, north and south, a one-man tornado wreaking havoc on the Information Superhighway. In the currents off Moffatt Field, and the shadow of Apple Computer's buildings I tried to rewrite network stacks but succumbed to Impostor Syndrome and its complications.
When California was done with me, Big Silicon and Oregon had use of my fingers + neural wetworks for awhile, and then I sprang at an opportunity to support astrobiology exploration and try to figure out an FC-AL SAN under a boss who didn't do Windows.
I had a third comeback. I graduated college. I had a good job and employer over 4 years. But sprinkled in all the family tumult and mental illness torments left me doubtful of what/whom I've been chasing. It was self-discovery, God-discovery, though: I also came to terms with adoption and meeting the strangers of my birth family: the inner life of an adoptee is itself unfathomable to outsiders. Just ask Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker, or Paddington Bear.
I'm scrounging for words now, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dreaming comes to mind, analogous to "Tears in the Rain" or Life Is But a Dream or, in the words of the indefatigable programmable roadside sign in L.A. Story:
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy!
I don't know what a "Chromebook 14" is. Perhaps you mean HP's so-named 14-inch model.
In the year 2000, I lost all my possessions, especially the computers and storage media. Subsequently, I enjoyed NPR and Coast-to-Coast on a radio, including the Hurricane Katrina coverage. I had no idea what New Orleans looked like in 2005.
By that time, I was living across the street from a large thrift store. Eventually in 2006, I was weak-willed enough to begin building a home network again, and the thrift store provided two essential products: keyboards and WiFi routers.
The WiFi router was probably obsolete and EOL when I purchased it, but it definitely worked 100%, especially because I took care at the thrift store, to select a compatible AC adapter brick for it. It was a basic Netgear model, with 4 Ethernet ports, original firmware, probably 802.11n; even though an acquaintance said he would hack into it, he was inebriated most of the time, and I would never know if the router or network was hacked. You wouldn't know either, in 2026. Most consumers don't know, and could never find out, if their edge equipment is compromised. But anyway, even while running Ubuntu 6.04, I accepted the router's default firmware, and that Netgear thing lasted at least 5 years while I had an ADSL connection, and one and a half computers.
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In the mid-1980s when I hung out at Radio Shack after church, I snapped up a lot of basic X10 kit. I collected the Dimmer Modules, the Appliance Modules, and later there was an RF remote unit available! The crown jewel for 12-year-old me was a central control unit that looked like a clock radio.
The control unit had cyan fluorescent display, simply the current time and alarm settings. And there were a bunch of control buttons where you could select an addressable Module, dim the lights, on/off, set timers, etc. And it was kind of amazing that everything plugged into mains outlets, and no other installation necessary!
My parents were constantly annoyed when I would sneak one of the modules onto a living-room floor lamp, or my favorite trick was cueing up a record on the turntable and then activating the Appliance Module to wake me up for school with Siouxsie and the Banshees or something. I was not allowed to persistently wire the entire house. I did not get into the journeyman electrician's job of replacing wall switches with X10 modules (those were slick). So, not even my shared bedroom was totally automated, but it was fun to experiment. It hopefully did not affect any neighbors. The pulse signals were said to stop at junction boxes, but there was still a House Code to set, in case all your flat neighbors wanted independent X10 networks.
I also never purchased the PC Interface that came with software. I believe I didn't yet have a compatible PC, anyway, and it seemed not in the spirit of a robust, predictable home automation. So yeah, my smart home devices worked without the Internet. How smart do you wanna get? My television set didn't spy on me, but everyone else does!
Hypothetically, a long DHCP lease should let you ride out a short Internet/router outage. After that, hypothetically of course, APIPA addresses would be assigned, and I suppose that mDNS should be working even after APIPA addresses take over. I was unable to make this happen. I also tried IPv6-only LAN, which my brand-new printer didn't like very much.
And don't forget to backup your router and switch configurations!
Ireland was the last country in the OECD to create a postcode system. In July 2015 all 2.2 million residential and business addresses in Ireland received a letter notifying them of the new Eircode for their address.[4] Unlike other countries, where postcodes define clusters or groups of addresses, an Eircode identifies an individual address and shows exactly where it is located. The system was criticised...[5]
...for using an unsequenced code limited to postal addresses...[67][68]
Anyone got a UBO snippet for this case?
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