I had a 4G modem with a web interface many years ago. It was flaky and would often hang. I just had a raspberry pi on my network pinging some known address, if it failed for long enough it’d replay the commands to restart the web interface.

If I’d have the same problem today I’d probably have home assistant power cycle the router with a smart plug.

13 years. Married for 6.

First two years were mostly long-distance.

I set it up during the outage last week.

Easy enough to just pull in the synapse docker container and run it on my home server. I wireguard it to my VPS that acts as a reverse proxy.

Both federation and push notifications work.

Ahh. 2000.

When Alpha and Transmeta was the future. No more of this Intel and AMD crap.

OP didn’t say anything about their financial situation, so we can only speculate.

Maybe they’re a landlord. Maybe they have a hedge fund. Maybe they’ve made good financial decisions in the past and have a big buffer saved up. Maybe they just sold their yacht and have a lot of cash burning in their pocket.

OP never said anything about being light on money.

It’s actually easier when you don’t have to plan your travel around your work schedule.

Only if you want a visit from the thought police.

Even I can sell $350B worth of energy if I increase the price enough.

The first week at any job is always exhausting. There’s a lot to take in, and a lot of active decision-making to do. It gets better fast when a lot of small things start going on autopilot.

Long commutes add to the suck.

I speak Swedish from Finland. Similar variation as Sweden’s Eurovision entry.

Finland had to accept responsibility for being invaded by Russia. Also, they had to give away land mass that Russia failed to grab. Also, they had to give up some sovereignty. Also, they had to pay ginormous reparations and sign deals to buy army stuff from Russia.

Nice army stuff, though. I’ve been in a 1995 KRAZ with a wood frame for the driver. Also they don’t have a tap for draining motor oil, because who would expect them yo return from the frontlines?

I’ve visited the US a couple of times for work.

I’ve been very careful with my wording when they’ve asked if I’m there to work.

Yes, I’m there for work. I’m employed in the EU, and I’m just there representing my employer at a fair or technical meeting. I’ll be gone in a few days.

My colleague didn’t have the same way with his words, but back then they’d just put you on the next plane back.

I have a storagebox at hetzner. My script does:

• Mount the storagebox over sshfs with public key file
• Mount a gocryptfs folder, with supplied key on local file
• Rsync my stuff to the encrypted folder
• Unmounts in reverse order

I can access the storagebox by password, too. So this is my disaster recovery in case my house burns down with all my devices. I’ll just buy another laptop the next day, and me and the Mrs can admire all my code and our wedding videos within a few hours.

I always say that thinking before speaking is a bit like wiping before going number two.

Maybe that’s why I don’t have any friends.

So they need more boots on the ground? I have boots.

My day-to-day stuff stays in sync via syncthing on my two laptops, my desktop and my home server. They all run btrfs, so I won’t be syncing any flipped bits around.

Home server rsyncs from my VPS once a week. When that’s fine, it rsyncs itself over to a hetzner storage over sshfs+gocryptfs.

Four copies at home, one in the cloud.

Me, too. I’ve got some extra buoyancy on account of being fat.

While servicing my sailing yacht I dropped a part of the furler in the water while docked. A new piece was stupidly expensive and would take two weeks to get, while I was cruising on a schedule.

So I dropped the anchor and climbed down the chain to look for it. At the end my wife found it. We probably spent a good three hours diving and feeling around in the soft mud for it.

Taistelupari, we call it.

A large group of Russian soldiers in the border area in 1939 are moving down a road when they hear a voice call from behind a small hill: “One Finnish soldier is better than ten Russian”.

The Russian commander quickly orders 10 of his best men over the hill where Upon a gun-battle breaks out and continues for a few minutes, then silence. The voice once again calls out: “One Finn is better than one hundred Russian.”

Furious, the Russian commander sends his next best 100 troops over the hill and instantly a huge gun fight commences. After 10 minutes of battle, again Silence. The calm Finnish voice calls out again: “One Finn is better than one thousand Russians!”

The enraged Russian commander musters 1000 fighters and sends them to the other side of the hill. Rifle fire, machine guns, grenades, rockets and cannon fire ring out as a terrible battle is fought…

Then silence.

Eventually one badly wounded Russian fighter crawls back over the hill and with his dying words tells his commander, “Don’t send any more men…it’s a trap. There’s two of them.”