Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 88

I have all these skills and abilities that mostly sit unused. My landlord can't be the only guy around Oslo who owns a few houses and wants to set up Internet connections for the tenants. It must be possible to severely underbid large contractors for work like this, or become a subcontractor for an electrician firm, or such. Hum, maybe I should talk to some people...

Is it just me who feels that most app development projects are horrible quagmires?

I've been inactive on Mastodon lately because my focus has shifted to learning how to configure Mikrotik RB750Gr3 routers for the gig that I just got. The gig covers my rent, but none of my other expenses, so I still have to find more work.

I wish I had more repeat business. I've done work for a few clients over the years, but repeat business is rare. Their needs have mostly been temporary.

The prices that regular people expect for various one-off ITC jobs are hilarious. 400 euros for developing an app? Even an Indian developer would ask for more.

@skypage Ooh, shit, I remember something about that, yes, but on the other hand, they're not the first manufacturer to have that problem.

@skypage Looks like a lot of people are saying it's better than the EdgeRouter: https://www.reddit.com/r/mikrotik/comments/8a9miu/mikrotik_rb_750gr3_vs_edgerouter/
Hardware specs are very similar. Somewhat more expensive, but the Mikrotik hEX is also more hardcore in terms of config. Powerful but not for the faint-hearted.

@konc https://mikrotik.com/product/RB750Gr3

@skypage Close competitor to it.

The thing that blows my mind about mass in quantum physics is that mass isn't a property of particles; it's behaviour! Another way to say it is that particles aren't heavy, they're just harder to move around if there's a dense Higgs field around them. Compare to the electromagnetic force: You wouldn't call a screw heavy if it's hard to move because it's stuck to a magnet.

Through a tip from a friend, I found what seems to be a fantastic little affordable 5-port wired network home router with enterprise features. They even have x86 ISOs and VM images so you can simulate network setups without the physical devices. It's the closest thing I've seen to a completely generic network device.

@ralph Scandinavians talk a lot about their language. We have had similar shows on Norwegian TV.

Question for networking people: If I have a Linux box as a router, and I add a route for, say, 192.168.10.0/24 to it, assuming no firewall rules, *every* network interface on that box will then happily forward packets to 192.168.10.0/24, right?

@ralph My sister once dated a guy from Central Norway and when he casually spoke to me, I always had to ask him to say it again, and he'd slow down, and I'd understand him. These accents are, in many respects, more different from one another than Stockholm Swedish is to Oslo Norwegian. Oh, and I mean dialect, not accent. But, I mean, Scots, people call that an "incomprehensible accent", but that's definitely a dialect (or separate language, some would argue).

@ralph Well, the subtitles are kind of hard to not look at, so what they're saying makes sense when you see them. The guy in the hat spoke his accent 100% and it's weird but mostly the vowels. The bearded guy kind of toned it down a little to a more urban Central Norway accent, until he made the phone call, at which point he became incomprehensible to me, and it was actually easier to understand the guy in the hat.

This guy named Mr. Daemon keeps sending me these dull but creepy emails about my files.

@EdgarAllanFoe Says the guy with an AO-shaped/Freemasonry-type avatar.