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2023-06-05T09:18:09Z (last updated 2023-06-08T06:40:08Z)
(side note: I do not have real experience with pets.)
Currently, I'm offline, reading some posts with my Gemini client Lagrange after loading them while I was online.
I have a background terminal that's checking for ping, and if it can't ping, it just shuts off the Wi-Fi and turn it back on to try to reconnect. If it can ping, it does nothing.
while true; do ping -c 10 -o 1.1.1.1; [ "$?" -eq 2 ] && { echo "reset"; ifconfig en0 down; ifconfig en0 up; }; echo sleep; sleep 15; done
Why? Because the Wi-Fi network I'm trying to connect to does not work for like half of the time.
I don't know why connecting to it only works like half of the time. But that can be solved by... constantly attempting to reconnect to the Wi-Fi network.
I also use a Wireguard VPN.
Main reason is to be able to access my servers and censorship circumvention. (Fun fact: The Wi-Fi network I am trying to connect to blocks things like youtube and yewtu.be. And if that's not bad enough, it is throttled to 500 kilobytes per second, which is quite slow (4 megabits per second))
For some reason, it is currently trying to... deactivate. That definitely does not take more than 2 seconds at reasonable conditions. Basically, the Wireguard app from the Apple App Store is either horribly unreliable, or something on the server side is preventing it from being useful.
Want to do something even slightly productive? Nope, you're offline and you literally depend on being online.
If your life depends on being online (like, actually), well, you're screwed.
Just a moment ago (as of writing this very paragraph), I started a ping to 1.1.1.1 at an interval of 0.1 seconds per ping.
A lot of it were either request timeout or you know, a reply.
It has been extremely frustrating to deal with this Wi-Fi connection, and I pretty much have to do this constantly whenever I'm... here.
It's so frustrating in fact that I might be too close to doing more physical destruction. That's the level of frustration I'm having and I have no better way to express it other than what bad I might do.
With the new macOS system settings (before then: system preferences), the animations are... blocking! And there's a queue of the animations!!
So if I click the Wi-Fi toggle way too fast AKA 10 clicks per second, the toggle will turn on at a speed of less than probably 5 times per second. And it keeps doing it until it has done animating all the toggle events.
Basically: what have you done macOS
(Also: new system settings reorganizing everything makes no sense. Why does appearances have a functionality setting? (see: Click scroll bar to scroll a page or to place))
Well that was fun, Wireguard reported that it was sending data at a rate of 33 megabytes per update (probably 1 second).
Anyways, I hope you (didn't) enjoy my suffering. (I'm should get out of this hell hole as soon as possible)