I’m living proof that we can survive a day without internet services. Sitting outside in the fresh October air reading my book, sipping hot tea. All because I wiped out on my bicycle and totally busted my arm and I can’t drive. Or get dressed by myself. Or tie my own shoes. Or put my tangled mess of hair in a pony tail. So I have some time to chill (alone without Netflix) and reflect. And you know what? It’s so peaceful. Not saying I wouldn’t appreciate a basic-white-girl-trip -to- TJ Maxx -and Homegoods. But we can get through this. We (some of us) were born before the internet!!
"It was the digital equivalent of the planet’s mom yanking the Wi-Fi router out of the wall and announcing, “It’s family time!” (a friend told you about this concept, right?)
Was it happening?
"Was this Zee Frightening Scenario of a Comprehensive Cyber Attack we’d been promised? And if so, why were X and Downdetector still working? I checked my own website, my husband’s site, AP News."
And then/therefore, how many hours did you spend clicking the "update" icon to ensure everyone was still alive?
This can't be 'the frying pan name calling the kettle' per chance?
And yes, let's let the government provide us with an AWS equivalent (really?).
If Elon has a kid named "GROK", then why not have the government provide an AWS that we can all name "CROOK".
I can see many may have their favorites, but not so much for me. I've always had a tendency to be a little ambidextrous (more so when I was younger), so my case may be a little different.
To be honest, I'm really partial to having *both* around right now, and I know I would miss either one if it was gone! 😉👍
If you're down to just one arm, with the good one out of service, and you can't drive, nor barely type on the internet keyboard, what pray tell are you going to do with a new purse?
Do you have a Ross Store? They are like Marshall’s and TJMaxx but a little lower price point and you never know what you will find there. Ours have become a little like the United Nations of retail shopping as their pricing seems to draw a lot of ethnic shoppers, not meant to be derogatory at all!, so it must really be good values! Fun times…Hope you heal fast!!!!
I’m in a similar situation, having fallen down the stairs and injured my foot. I haven’t gone anywhere since Urgent Care last Thursday and am enjoying the peace and quiet and together time with my husband.
Jenna, I guess it could be your computer... They used to tell a story in Texas about one of the offsprings of one of the old-time ranchers (who was kind've full of himself already anyway) showing the ropes to a new ranchhand who asked him, "How big IS yore ranch?" and the man said, "I'll put it this way: when I get up in the morning and I start my pickup, I'm on my ranch, and I can drive all day long and when the sun goes down I'm STILL on my ranch. Does that tell you anything?" The man answered, "Si, I had a truck like that one time too!"
Have you tried using your cell phone to access the sites? As I understand it, even if your home internet service was affected, your phone’s cellular access would likely work because the major carriers have their own systems and were unaffected by the outage.
Totally unaware! But on reflection I have a new bank account that just would not let me set up online. Which I just took as normal irritating internet stuff. Which I find oddly reassuring. It means I don’t set much store in the internet working smoothly. Which is good. I think…🤔😝
I haven't noticed anything either! I'm in Canada, on vacation. Internet (here and at home) is Starlink. I ordered from Amazon yesterday! 😶🤔 And, so far, have made it to all sites I've wanted...
I hadn’t heard about it either. I looked at email and saw all of it so I guess it didn’t affect me. I didn’t see any news until this morning. I took a news break for a couple of days.
Now I know why the new curling iron I ordered from Amazon that was supposed to arrive yesterday hasn’t arrived yet. Other than that nothing else affected me and I had no idea. 🤣
Even though a huge part of my living depends on the internet - even though I find community on it (like here!) - I think life would be so much better if the internet were harder to access or even better - if all phones were dumb again, and internet was a home-only thing (remember internet cafes when you were traveling??). Even that one little thing would make the biggest difference in overall QOL, bc people wouldn't be sucked into their phones every minute and would have to talk to each other, and/or be bored and engage with the world. As a parent - I feel horrible for our kids' generations especially. (And spend SO MUCH TIME fighting with my kids over screens.)
The screen thing with our teen is constant. We've limited him to 2 hours on school days and 4 hours on weekend days (which he must split up into two 2-hour stints - oh and he's not allowed to bring his phone to school. We're just evil). You'd think we sentenced him to death. But guess what? It's been almost a year of this, he's still alive, and we've watched a gazillion movies with him at night instead of watching him play mindless games on his computer while WE watch movies.
I live in TX and the state outlawed phones in school this year, and to a person (!) my clients with teenagers, especially girls, LOVE that they aren’t allowed anymore.
Gads, I’m so glad to hear parents are getting a grip on this problem. Schools are finally waking up to the benefits of kids going a whole 6 hours without their faces stuck in a phone. Maybe there’s hope. When the whole thing goes down, I’m really worried about the mental health of 20-40 aged people. It could get ugly.
My son is 16 and his friends all live with their phones in their faces. They're not allowed to have them in school (they get detention if their phone is found outside of their locker - it's a Catholic school) but he says kids have them ALL the time. Teachers turn a blind eye (well, some do). THAT'S not helping the situation!
I agree! Phones for texting and calling, home for all the other stuff. I’ve had 3 people in my neighborhood almost walk into me on the sidewalk because they didn’t notice someone coming the other way til they saw my shoes, they had their face so far into their phone. THREE TIMES!
I remember an article about a teenager walking into an open manhole while on her phone and the parents sueing the city for not setting up a proper barricade.
Oh true, I forgot about that when I wrote my response. My kids are grown-ass men, now, but you have jogged my memory about arguing with them over screen time. On the positive side, they are both very good with computers now and do manage to spend time in the real world, too. They come to visit their old mom and show me a movie they think I would like.
Hahahahaha look up Dr. Groot. It's so good. But seriously, K-beauty is BOMB. They use tons of botanicals and also the latest whatever-it-is (peptides, ceramides, etc.). My daughter lived in Seoul last year and I was SO jealous! (Former beauty editor here.) ;)
Keep in mind "essential services" are still funded (which apparently means 99.9% of the government although in MY opinion only 0.1% actually is desirable (not essential).
Yes, here in Oregon too. Looking south while walking the sky was a beautiful blue dotted with a few jets high up, then I turned around, looked north and the sky was crisscrossed.
Hahaha, we've all done it Jenna, especially at Costco. It's almost impossible to leave Costco with something that you didn't plan on buying. At least you know now!
I would love to take a break from the internet, but my livelihood literally depends on it because I work from home.
This serves as a great reminder to us all on just how delicate our consolidated systems are. This is also true for our utilities, water, and food supply, which is why we need to focus on decentralizing the system in place!
My wife and I got to experience how difficult things can get when systems go down. She had a labcorp appointment to draw some blood and because we didn't print her forms out with the QR code, we had to find a roundabout way to get it to labcorp via email. It took forever but it eventually worked. Can you imagine being turned away from an appointment doctor's appointment or an emergency visit because the systems are down? Don't worry though, the digital IDs will solve all of our problems! 🤪
i went to Costco this weekend to get my favorite Brew Dr. Kombucha. left a couple hours later with over $200.00 of products in my cart. LOL, its downright dangerous.
WHAT, pray tell, is the POINT of going IN to Costco to SAVE MONEY if you CAN'T SPEND THAT SAVINGS on the way OUT?! It's called "breaking even." Sometimes I just take the change in the "hot dog specials."
(Longggg before "youtube 'algorithms'," Costco had figured the likes of ME out...)
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket and then leave that basket at the bus stop where you paid a sketchy-looking fella a nickel to watch it for you.
Seriously, this time it was AWS, but next time it’ll be Microsoft, or Google, or …
There is a truth in IT that the public doesn’t really understand. There is NO CLOUD. No nebulous construct of magical fairy dust that makes websites work better at a distance. All we are doing is moving servers from our company’s IT closet to a random warehouse in another nearby town and asking a big corporation to manage it for us.
So now instead of Sandra’s Olde Tyme Bagels and BDSM Shoppe website being offline, it’s the whole eastern seaboard of US cities.
Now imagine if they also took critical systems like traffic lights, air traffic control, or robotic surgery and hooked them up to AI for “more efficiency” and farmed them out to a data center. I really don’t want to trust my life to any of these systems.
Companies need to do more of what good IT departments do, and that is to analyze every link of their process and imagine what would happen if it failed. It’s not good enough if your servers at AWS are “mirrored and failover” to another city’s data center if the entirety of AWS is spitting chunks.
We cry about local control of our schools and governments and then our local businesses give away their IT autonomy like the Chamber of Commerce whores that they actually are. It’s all about the buck. And hard times (Thanks FJB, you useless f’n pedo) create financial stresses, so every business is just looking to cut corners anyway they can.
I've driven in hard rain rush hour city traffic with lights out and drivers behaved exceedingly well A certain number of cars would flow one way then stop and allow other direction We are way more cooperative than we are conditioned to believe We don't actually need mafia government to run our lives
I hardly noticed, did see some news about AWS being down. Avoid Amazon since they shutdown that social media site and censored Paul Marik's and Peter McCullough's books and I guess I don't normally use any companies that depend upon AWS.
We have over 300 dvd's in our house. We watch movies and old tv series on dvd. If anything major happened in the world, it would be hours before we knew about it.
I still wonder how I was able to drive to Toronto from the mid-south in 1999 with no GPS. What was I thinking? How did that even work? Yes let's go back to those days of analog, fully in-the-moment, in-person experiences :-) The best memories!
I know! I miss the odd side trips that a wrong turn would get you on. (Also carry a big ole spiral Rand McNally laminated USA road map in the car. Just in case.😉)
I miss paper maps, reading them wrong, ending up in God Knows Where territory with tumbleweeds rolling around having the best adventures ever with my kids. SO MANY STORIES! With GPS, the destination is assured, detours engage to avoid traffic jams and adventure. It’s more efficient, more predictable, but not nearly as much fun,
Except right after that huge eclipse a few years ago. Hubs took our son camping a couple of states over to watch. Apparently the minute it was over 18 million people exited stage left and it overloaded GPS so much that they did indeed get pretty lost. It was ok by me. I had stayed home with slight tummy troubles I didn’t want to have in a tent— so I read for an extra several
hours while they drove around in circles. So 48+ hours of bliss for me.
When we travel, I’m the navigator. I use the GPS map service, but I have a paper map or atlas on my lap. I have to see the big picture and visual distance. Plus I have to direct us to area Dairy Queens, for the driver’s pleasure. Or when camping in the west, the Cabellas or Walmart parking lot for our first night on the road.
We were heading down to Southern California for our winter getaway, dragging the trailer behind, and I needed a real map, I also have to see the big picture.
Yep, really need to see where we ‘fit in’ especially since we are pulling a trailer.
Definitely visual learners.
It’s funny, I was kinda bragging that I wasn’t affected yesterday but, as I was typing my last comment our internet went down and I had to switch to cellular!
Yeah. Hubby should listen to me. He got our Ram over a boulder in Wyoming, but the 20 foot camper hooked to it was not going to follow without major damage. I had told him I needed to get out and look first but………The sun was going down and there we were. His engineer mind did get us out of that predicament. We camped in the Laramie Walmart that night. Lol. Camping stories we laugh about now. He loves narrow logging roads high up. I have gotten out and walked a couple of times. But hey, life is an adventure. 😉👍🏻
They still make paper maps, why don't you get one and live your life the way you say you want to live it? Not a criticism, just an observation. People talk this way all the time but act like there are no choices to live your life the way you want to. Yes, it gets harder all the time, but it always has.
In our present world, the biggest problem with the internet going down, whether it's your home, your area, or the greater at-large, is that we've been setup to RELY on it for EVERYTHING. And one day, it's gonna be a huge issue. I often long for the times before we even had internet.
I missed the entire thing, I didn't even realize it was down. Not until I read about it in Epoch Times. The good news, now we know how to defeat Digital ID.
Korean shampoo-conditioner sets? It might be the most impressive product I’ve read about in years. Must know more. Should I get rid of the 40 some shampoo-conditioner sets I already own?
I’ve been getting all those stupid ads on YouTube touting how skinny Korean women are (I think they are Korean). They must be AI as these women could slip through a keyhole. Ugh. So I don’t buy the salt weight loss shit. We’ve gone from ice, to pink salt, to jelly, blah blah. I always exit but it’s highly annoying. Especially when Ophras mug turns up.
YouTube and every other streaming platform is so annoying. I was watching Andrea Bocelli sing on a YouTube video when it was interrupted by one of their mandatory commercials.
I’m living proof that we can survive a day without internet services. Sitting outside in the fresh October air reading my book, sipping hot tea. All because I wiped out on my bicycle and totally busted my arm and I can’t drive. Or get dressed by myself. Or tie my own shoes. Or put my tangled mess of hair in a pony tail. So I have some time to chill (alone without Netflix) and reflect. And you know what? It’s so peaceful. Not saying I wouldn’t appreciate a basic-white-girl-trip -to- TJ Maxx -and Homegoods. But we can get through this. We (some of us) were born before the internet!!
OH NO! I'm so sorry to hear that--but I'm impressed by your response! Enjoy your downtime. TJMaxx will still be there... :)
And we’re about to get our first-ever TJMax!
Never heard of TJMax lol. Not curious either!
I might be wrong about this, but I think they buy out stuff from other stores after it can't be sold any longer?
Surprised you didn't ask her if she was reading one of your books.
"It was the digital equivalent of the planet’s mom yanking the Wi-Fi router out of the wall and announcing, “It’s family time!” (a friend told you about this concept, right?)
Was it happening?
"Was this Zee Frightening Scenario of a Comprehensive Cyber Attack we’d been promised? And if so, why were X and Downdetector still working? I checked my own website, my husband’s site, AP News."
And then/therefore, how many hours did you spend clicking the "update" icon to ensure everyone was still alive?
This can't be 'the frying pan name calling the kettle' per chance?
And yes, let's let the government provide us with an AWS equivalent (really?).
If Elon has a kid named "GROK", then why not have the government provide an AWS that we can all name "CROOK".
So sorry you broke your arm. That is horrible! I hope it was not your favorite arm.
Reading is a terrific idea.
😂 ~ "Favorite arm" gave me a laugh.
well, don't you have a favorite?? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
My left upper appendage is not my fav. 😂😂
I can see many may have their favorites, but not so much for me. I've always had a tendency to be a little ambidextrous (more so when I was younger), so my case may be a little different.
To be honest, I'm really partial to having *both* around right now, and I know I would miss either one if it was gone! 😉👍
You really put a great “fall” spin on an otherwise unfortunate tale. Sorry to read about your arm. I hope it heals quickly. 💪🚴♀️
Where are you? I’ll come by and take you to TJ max and HomeGoods.
Coastal Virginia. Thanks girl! 😁
Dang. Too far from Texas but I’m taking you in spirit. You definitely need a lil retail wander. Hope you feel better soon.
Thanks. I need a new purse
If you're down to just one arm, with the good one out of service, and you can't drive, nor barely type on the internet keyboard, what pray tell are you going to do with a new purse?
Use it as a sling until you're all better?
Just asking.
The audacity of this question! Sometimes a girl just needs a new purse. 😂😂
I’m going to wear it on my good arm like a trophy earned 😊
excellent idea
Nordstrom rack online has nice ones sometimes! And you can return to a local store if need be, ask me how I know, lol.
My sister!
Do you have a Ross Store? They are like Marshall’s and TJMaxx but a little lower price point and you never know what you will find there. Ours have become a little like the United Nations of retail shopping as their pricing seems to draw a lot of ethnic shoppers, not meant to be derogatory at all!, so it must really be good values! Fun times…Hope you heal fast!!!!
Yep. Got a couple near me
Tell Jenna to send you her book.
I'm an annual subscriber, but not a book reader, so ask her for my copy/gift.
I’m in a similar situation, having fallen down the stairs and injured my foot. I haven’t gone anywhere since Urgent Care last Thursday and am enjoying the peace and quiet and together time with my husband.
Get well soon. I see this as a lesson for me to slow down and enjoy the small things. Currently snuggling my dog and binging a tv series.
Watch Poldark on Netflix if you get the chance. Gives you a strong distaste for “bad” government. Beautifully filmed and written.
This is the first I'm hearing about no internet day yesterday... I somehow missed it completely!
Literally 70% of the sites I've tried today are still down...
How lovely First step in addiction is to acknowledge there's a problem …
Well said, nancylee.
😂👍
I didn’t know either except my husband came in from his office and said Amazon music wasn’t working.
Cable worked, paid bills through my credit union, it was all fine with me. I didn’t have a clue.
Jenna, I guess it could be your computer... They used to tell a story in Texas about one of the offsprings of one of the old-time ranchers (who was kind've full of himself already anyway) showing the ropes to a new ranchhand who asked him, "How big IS yore ranch?" and the man said, "I'll put it this way: when I get up in the morning and I start my pickup, I'm on my ranch, and I can drive all day long and when the sun goes down I'm STILL on my ranch. Does that tell you anything?" The man answered, "Si, I had a truck like that one time too!"
Have you tried using your cell phone to access the sites? As I understand it, even if your home internet service was affected, your phone’s cellular access would likely work because the major carriers have their own systems and were unaffected by the outage.
The "midnight internet" cat must really be pissed.
See! This is exactly why I read Jenna! If Jenna hadn't informed me, then I wouldn't have even noticed!
I had no idea either. This is the first I’ve heard. I feel very informed now.
Lol!
I only noticed Amazon was down.
Shopping! We can't live without shopping!
It must have occurred in the morning when I was driving (six hours from MN to SD) as all seemed fine yesterday afternoon.
Of course it was ok. You were in the real world all day!
Totally unaware! But on reflection I have a new bank account that just would not let me set up online. Which I just took as normal irritating internet stuff. Which I find oddly reassuring. It means I don’t set much store in the internet working smoothly. Which is good. I think…🤔😝
Me too! I was doing other stuff.
Thank goodness for having other stuff to do!!!
Didn’t notice lol, was gardening, exercising and enjoying the beautiful day :)
Me too. Everything's working for me.
I haven't noticed anything either! I'm in Canada, on vacation. Internet (here and at home) is Starlink. I ordered from Amazon yesterday! 😶🤔 And, so far, have made it to all sites I've wanted...
I hadn’t heard about it either. I looked at email and saw all of it so I guess it didn’t affect me. I didn’t see any news until this morning. I took a news break for a couple of days.
Now I know why the new curling iron I ordered from Amazon that was supposed to arrive yesterday hasn’t arrived yet. Other than that nothing else affected me and I had no idea. 🤣
My internet was on. I shopped on Amazon, played a Steam game, read some news. I was totally unaware of any internet issues.
I was thinking the exact same thing🤣🤣🤣
same!
Me too, I must've actually been living my life. I wonder if rumble was down because I listen to a lot of videos on rumble.
Me too. My e-books were delivered to my devices (Kindle, etc) without any hiccups.
Same here!
Me too! 😅
Even though a huge part of my living depends on the internet - even though I find community on it (like here!) - I think life would be so much better if the internet were harder to access or even better - if all phones were dumb again, and internet was a home-only thing (remember internet cafes when you were traveling??). Even that one little thing would make the biggest difference in overall QOL, bc people wouldn't be sucked into their phones every minute and would have to talk to each other, and/or be bored and engage with the world. As a parent - I feel horrible for our kids' generations especially. (And spend SO MUCH TIME fighting with my kids over screens.)
The screen thing with our teen is constant. We've limited him to 2 hours on school days and 4 hours on weekend days (which he must split up into two 2-hour stints - oh and he's not allowed to bring his phone to school. We're just evil). You'd think we sentenced him to death. But guess what? It's been almost a year of this, he's still alive, and we've watched a gazillion movies with him at night instead of watching him play mindless games on his computer while WE watch movies.
I live in TX and the state outlawed phones in school this year, and to a person (!) my clients with teenagers, especially girls, LOVE that they aren’t allowed anymore.
Gads, I’m so glad to hear parents are getting a grip on this problem. Schools are finally waking up to the benefits of kids going a whole 6 hours without their faces stuck in a phone. Maybe there’s hope. When the whole thing goes down, I’m really worried about the mental health of 20-40 aged people. It could get ugly.
My son is 16 and his friends all live with their phones in their faces. They're not allowed to have them in school (they get detention if their phone is found outside of their locker - it's a Catholic school) but he says kids have them ALL the time. Teachers turn a blind eye (well, some do). THAT'S not helping the situation!
Yes! We are trying this. SO ANNOYING. And so disheartening. I am SO happy this wasn't my childhood.
I agree! Phones for texting and calling, home for all the other stuff. I’ve had 3 people in my neighborhood almost walk into me on the sidewalk because they didn’t notice someone coming the other way til they saw my shoes, they had their face so far into their phone. THREE TIMES!
The saddest is to see people out to eat with their children and EVERYONE at the table is glued to their phone😟.
Agreed! It makes me so sad.
I used to do that with books, haha. Years ago, I walked smack into a pole walking and reading. But that feels different somehow :)
I have never read a book while walking, bold move. I probably would have ended up on the news for falling in a hole and making a scene, lol.
It was only bc I was reading on the subway and was completely engrossed and couldn't stop! Not a normal course of action :D
I remember an article about a teenager walking into an open manhole while on her phone and the parents sueing the city for not setting up a proper barricade.
Yep. Just found it again.
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/weird/teen-drops-into-sewer-while-walking-texting/1836792/
omg!
I know right?
Walked into a lamppost in Greenwich village decades ago … but only cos I was looking around in amazement at the vibrant scene
😆 That's kind of awesome!
Oh true, I forgot about that when I wrote my response. My kids are grown-ass men, now, but you have jogged my memory about arguing with them over screen time. On the positive side, they are both very good with computers now and do manage to spend time in the real world, too. They come to visit their old mom and show me a movie they think I would like.
Who cares about the Internet being down?! We want to know what’s the amazing Korean hair crap you bought.
Hahahahaha look up Dr. Groot. It's so good. But seriously, K-beauty is BOMB. They use tons of botanicals and also the latest whatever-it-is (peptides, ceramides, etc.). My daughter lived in Seoul last year and I was SO jealous! (Former beauty editor here.) ;)
Yes, tell me about the Korean hair products.
LOL! Gotta admit I'm also curious.
I didn’t notice either. I did notice that the Chemtrails were back (central MD).
Cousin noticed the same in Tennessee. Wonder what they’re up to now…😡
Who is funding the Chemtrail Flights, since the Government shut down?
Gates…Clinton’s…could be any number of the “good oligarchs “.
Keep in mind "essential services" are still funded (which apparently means 99.9% of the government although in MY opinion only 0.1% actually is desirable (not essential).
WNC has been overrun with chemtrails. So weary of it.
We were wondering the same thing. Turns out there are way too many loopholes between the state and federal governments. (Quell surprise! ) NOT!
Thought TN outlawed them?
Yup - south central PA too. We went a little over a week without any.
Yes, here in Oregon too. Looking south while walking the sky was a beautiful blue dotted with a few jets high up, then I turned around, looked north and the sky was crisscrossed.
Hahaha, we've all done it Jenna, especially at Costco. It's almost impossible to leave Costco with something that you didn't plan on buying. At least you know now!
I would love to take a break from the internet, but my livelihood literally depends on it because I work from home.
This serves as a great reminder to us all on just how delicate our consolidated systems are. This is also true for our utilities, water, and food supply, which is why we need to focus on decentralizing the system in place!
My wife and I got to experience how difficult things can get when systems go down. She had a labcorp appointment to draw some blood and because we didn't print her forms out with the QR code, we had to find a roundabout way to get it to labcorp via email. It took forever but it eventually worked. Can you imagine being turned away from an appointment doctor's appointment or an emergency visit because the systems are down? Don't worry though, the digital IDs will solve all of our problems! 🤪
i went to Costco this weekend to get my favorite Brew Dr. Kombucha. left a couple hours later with over $200.00 of products in my cart. LOL, its downright dangerous.
WHAT, pray tell, is the POINT of going IN to Costco to SAVE MONEY if you CAN'T SPEND THAT SAVINGS on the way OUT?! It's called "breaking even." Sometimes I just take the change in the "hot dog specials."
(Longggg before "youtube 'algorithms'," Costco had figured the likes of ME out...)
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket and then leave that basket at the bus stop where you paid a sketchy-looking fella a nickel to watch it for you.
Seriously, this time it was AWS, but next time it’ll be Microsoft, or Google, or …
There is a truth in IT that the public doesn’t really understand. There is NO CLOUD. No nebulous construct of magical fairy dust that makes websites work better at a distance. All we are doing is moving servers from our company’s IT closet to a random warehouse in another nearby town and asking a big corporation to manage it for us.
So now instead of Sandra’s Olde Tyme Bagels and BDSM Shoppe website being offline, it’s the whole eastern seaboard of US cities.
Now imagine if they also took critical systems like traffic lights, air traffic control, or robotic surgery and hooked them up to AI for “more efficiency” and farmed them out to a data center. I really don’t want to trust my life to any of these systems.
Companies need to do more of what good IT departments do, and that is to analyze every link of their process and imagine what would happen if it failed. It’s not good enough if your servers at AWS are “mirrored and failover” to another city’s data center if the entirety of AWS is spitting chunks.
We cry about local control of our schools and governments and then our local businesses give away their IT autonomy like the Chamber of Commerce whores that they actually are. It’s all about the buck. And hard times (Thanks FJB, you useless f’n pedo) create financial stresses, so every business is just looking to cut corners anyway they can.
This is what we get for it.
I've driven in hard rain rush hour city traffic with lights out and drivers behaved exceedingly well A certain number of cars would flow one way then stop and allow other direction We are way more cooperative than we are conditioned to believe We don't actually need mafia government to run our lives
That is literally how all of Britain's (and France's) road networks run.
So, how are those bagels? (asking for a friend)
She gives nightly tours where you can watch them beat the eggs, plus they make whipped cream cheese on a whole ‘nutha level.
I hardly noticed, did see some news about AWS being down. Avoid Amazon since they shutdown that social media site and censored Paul Marik's and Peter McCullough's books and I guess I don't normally use any companies that depend upon AWS.
As long as substack and email work, I'm good!
I rage quit Prime because of censorship during covid. And Facebook.
Falling somewhere between enjoying the break and hoping it lasts forever ✨✨
So happy I still have those 8 tracks and vhs 📼 tapes!
We have over 300 dvd's in our house. We watch movies and old tv series on dvd. If anything major happened in the world, it would be hours before we knew about it.
Patti, you must have one of those old-timey windup DVD players... :^)
It doesn't even have a clock on it!
Sundial surely? (Light the candle on top and check.)
Vinyl too! Love the LPs and 45s :-)
Did not even notice……
I still wonder how I was able to drive to Toronto from the mid-south in 1999 with no GPS. What was I thinking? How did that even work? Yes let's go back to those days of analog, fully in-the-moment, in-person experiences :-) The best memories!
I know! I miss the odd side trips that a wrong turn would get you on. (Also carry a big ole spiral Rand McNally laminated USA road map in the car. Just in case.😉)
I think we typed at the same time!
I miss paper maps, reading them wrong, ending up in God Knows Where territory with tumbleweeds rolling around having the best adventures ever with my kids. SO MANY STORIES! With GPS, the destination is assured, detours engage to avoid traffic jams and adventure. It’s more efficient, more predictable, but not nearly as much fun,
Except right after that huge eclipse a few years ago. Hubs took our son camping a couple of states over to watch. Apparently the minute it was over 18 million people exited stage left and it overloaded GPS so much that they did indeed get pretty lost. It was ok by me. I had stayed home with slight tummy troubles I didn’t want to have in a tent— so I read for an extra several
hours while they drove around in circles. So 48+ hours of bliss for me.
When we travel, I’m the navigator. I use the GPS map service, but I have a paper map or atlas on my lap. I have to see the big picture and visual distance. Plus I have to direct us to area Dairy Queens, for the driver’s pleasure. Or when camping in the west, the Cabellas or Walmart parking lot for our first night on the road.
We were heading down to Southern California for our winter getaway, dragging the trailer behind, and I needed a real map, I also have to see the big picture.
We had forgotten ours at home.
Exactly!!! I need to see where we fit in, so to speak. I like analog clocks better as well. Visual learner I guess. 🤔
Yep, really need to see where we ‘fit in’ especially since we are pulling a trailer.
Definitely visual learners.
It’s funny, I was kinda bragging that I wasn’t affected yesterday but, as I was typing my last comment our internet went down and I had to switch to cellular!
Yeah. Hubby should listen to me. He got our Ram over a boulder in Wyoming, but the 20 foot camper hooked to it was not going to follow without major damage. I had told him I needed to get out and look first but………The sun was going down and there we were. His engineer mind did get us out of that predicament. We camped in the Laramie Walmart that night. Lol. Camping stories we laugh about now. He loves narrow logging roads high up. I have gotten out and walked a couple of times. But hey, life is an adventure. 😉👍🏻
Karen, see Desi and Lucy in "The Long, Long Trailer."
The rocks! 🤣
I took a printed map from Streetmap to London a couple of months ago. Worked fine. Confused a would be phone-napper.
I have to find the Inn-n-Out burgers!
They still make paper maps, why don't you get one and live your life the way you say you want to live it? Not a criticism, just an observation. People talk this way all the time but act like there are no choices to live your life the way you want to. Yes, it gets harder all the time, but it always has.
I guess you have to go out of your way to find them. They’re not in the convenience stores anymore…
Ha! Or gas stations!
Amazon is your friend. Bezos isn’t, but Amazon is.😜😝
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Sometimes I turn on GPS even on familiar long drives cuz Siri will tell me where the speed traps are. 😉
I have a new, and utterly useless SatNav and have the answer for you. With difficulty, but you triumph.
"Influencers were forced to wear ‘fits and eat meals nobody would ever see."
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Lol
In our present world, the biggest problem with the internet going down, whether it's your home, your area, or the greater at-large, is that we've been setup to RELY on it for EVERYTHING. And one day, it's gonna be a huge issue. I often long for the times before we even had internet.
I missed the entire thing, I didn't even realize it was down. Not until I read about it in Epoch Times. The good news, now we know how to defeat Digital ID.
Me either.
Korean shampoo-conditioner sets? It might be the most impressive product I’ve read about in years. Must know more. Should I get rid of the 40 some shampoo-conditioner sets I already own?
I want to know too! My hair is limp and needs body! Jenna should link to and get commission on selling this amazing product.
I can’t believe I never heard of Korean hair products before!
I’ve been getting all those stupid ads on YouTube touting how skinny Korean women are (I think they are Korean). They must be AI as these women could slip through a keyhole. Ugh. So I don’t buy the salt weight loss shit. We’ve gone from ice, to pink salt, to jelly, blah blah. I always exit but it’s highly annoying. Especially when Ophras mug turns up.
YouTube and every other streaming platform is so annoying. I was watching Andrea Bocelli sing on a YouTube video when it was interrupted by one of their mandatory commercials.
Mary Ann, should you get rid of the 40 some shampoo-conditioner sets?
Definitely the ones from bald countries.
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Very wise idea! It’s good to have smart friends!
Btw, not exaggerating about my level of shampoo-conditioner sets.
Paraphrasing what a friend once said to me: "You are a sad little woman."
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Yes, I am.