@thomasfuchs I’ve been tempted to keep one on the nightstand before

@pseudonym I’m starting to think it’s because post apocalyptic zombie stories are just disaster porn for folks who can’t abide cities and living near lots of people. I’d think my ebike is easier to keep going if shit hit the fan than my car

@danhon in case you ever need this again, i used one of these to map out our unreasonable outdoor coax splitter box for moca adapter setup

Klein Tools VDV512-101 Explorer 2... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076DP1534?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

@randometc @danhon I think the ethernet or fiber is better in the long run and the MoCA adapters can be spendy.

But, if it’s near impossible to replace the coax in an ancient house without damaging plaster walls, MoCA is kinda magic

@danhon @randometc yeah, I haven’t worked out a decent way to get a cable run to my home office and haven’t found a professional to do it, so MoCA is life in a house with faraday cage walls 😅

@ScribblingOn :blobyes:​

@gogobonobo @randometc @danhon

I've also read that fiber is one of the only up-to-code ways to run networking through an existing buried electrical conduit between a house & a detached garage / workshop, since low & high voltage wiring shouldn't mix. (Which is something I aim to do someday - the networking, not the code violation)

@randometc @gogobonobo @danhon

Ah, yup, I did that too. Ran a little DIY fiber to move the centurylink router to the basement after our bunnies took an interest in chewing on the fiber in the living room

@stefan I'm always baffled when folks mention "tweet" with gravitas but then can't seem to deal with "toot". It's the trumpeting sound an elephant makes, sheesh

@george ah i see you are versed in the Old Ways

Next, I just need to gin up a browser extension that automatically clicks "no thanks" on the multiple Substack subscription nags I get while trying to read a post because they regularly forget who I am and that I'm already subscribed.

It's a great user experience, all round

Really, I don't like Substack at all and I wish the two-dozen folks I follow would just go back to blogging

@mako Yup, that's what my JS snippet does. It just does it for all the subs and packages them into an OPML file for a single import

@skippy Yeah, I still like what a lot of the folks are writing. It'll probably pass and I'll eventually have no more substack involvement

Sometimes I feel like all the best stuff on the net lives in the floor cracks and inside the walls of a not-quite-condemned shopping mall, surviving off accidental scraps and forgotten drinking fountains