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WiFi in the forest ------------------ It's taken me longer than I planned to make my own post for ROOPHLOC 2019[1], but here we are at last. Perhaps a little predictably, I rode my bike the 10km to the forest where I did my S24O[2]. I've brought with me my little eeePC[3], still running OpenBSD 6.4. I have to admit, I've fallen a little bit into the trap of thinking of this place as "my" forest. This probably happened because when I came here quite a few times during the past winter[4], I was really surprised by the fact that I never, ever saw another person here the whole time. But today, and when I was last here a few weeks back, I've encountered people collecting mushrooms. Which is not surprising given the time of year, but it has shattered the illusion a little bit that this is "my place". But that's okay, is big enough for more than one person. It seems that I'll be moving to Sweden in December or January (or, perhaps, during a slow process spread across both months). I realise it sounds silly to start that sentence with "it seems", like it's some kind of weird natural phenomena which is happening to me under external influence, something that I have no control over. Of course it's something that I've played an active role in causing to be true, but it kind of *feels* like the former scenario. The job offer was sudden and unexpected. I knew almost immediately that it was something it made sense, in the long term, to accept. But deciding to actually do it was a slow, difficult process that feels in some sense like it "just happened", without any kind of decisive moment of resolution. I sound very gloomy about the whole thing above, but I am actually excited about the change. But I've enjoyed living in Finland more than anywhere else I've called home before, and I don't feel ready to move on yet. It's hard to say what I'll miss the most, but this very forest that I'm in right now is surely a top contender. I feel very strongly that I'd like to come back to visit it from time to time. It's not exactly far. I had planned to do something a little more technologically interesting, when it came to actually uploading this post, but I've not had the time so far this month to practice it. Maybe I can still pull it off next weekend, but for now I'm about to turn on my smartphone's wireless hotspot and scp this up to the Zaibatsu. Microwaves amongst the mushrooms. [1] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/announcing-roophloch-2019.txt [2] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/my-first-s24o.txt [3] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/openbsd-on-an-eeepc-1005ha.txt [4] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/visiting-my-s24o-site-in-the-snow.txt