“We paid for a redundant line but it wasn’t redundant!”

‘Sure it was. They just went to the same router.’

Can you imagine the straight face that tech must have had to keep?

SL;SR

The OSM team had redundant lines to the Tier 1 ISP, but the ISP bridged them into the same hardware (not a normal or expected thing).

We have dual redundant links via separate physical hardware from our side to our Tier 1 ISP. We unexpectedly discovered their equipment is a single point failure.

Our Tier 1 ISP has just confirmed hardware failure of the upstream router (after 16 hours!) and will provision new replacement device once it has been shipped to site.

I wonder why the OSM team isn’t calling the ISP out by name. Not having on-site spares at a Tier 1 is just, insane.

Ahhh OK, I was thinking about the CLI file manager ranger and got excited for a CLI PDF editor.

Debian.

You know apt, it will be familiar, but more raw for you to play with, and no snap.

A fun activity would be to set up dotfiles of your home directory, and then write a set of scripts to do all of the things you would typically do to set things up (software, gsettings preferences, etc).

Then, if you decide to change from Debian to something else based on Debian (sooo many distros) in the future, your scripts will work out of the box getting you set up in minutes.

Edit: You can also try distros at: https://distrosea.com/

PDF Ranger or PDF Arranger?

LibreOffice has a PDF editor that I use regularly, but its got one big flaw: interpreting word wrap.

Seeing this thread, I’m going to try some of these out.