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   Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 03:53:09 JST Chris Siebenmann

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   It turns out Bell Canada broke phone service for some amount of my entire neighborhood and they will be 'repairing' it with a forced transition to fibre, which may or may not happen tomorrow but definitely won't happen today. Missing the TBN picnic ride was entirely pointless since the service technician only showed up to tell me this.

   I have feelings. You can probably guess what they are.

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     Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 03:53:10 JST Chris Siebenmann

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     One of the things I am thankful for is that my phone has no-nonsense hotspot/tethering and Linux (Fedora) supports it (over USB, in this case, because that's a lot easier than figuring out Bluetooth on this desktop).

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     Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 03:53:10 JST Chris Siebenmann

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     I will be missing TBN's annual Picnic ride tomorrow because Bell Canada cannot keep appointments and my DSL Internet is a vital service for me that I'm not willing to take chances with. I am extremely unhappy with Bell Canada at the moment, as you might imagine.

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     Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 03:53:11 JST Chris Siebenmann

     My phone landline abruptly stopped doing anything today at 16:18, for no apparent reason unless there was a Bell Canada tech in the area at the time (I was at the office). This may be extremely fun because I have third-party DSL and Bell keeps threatening to switch everyone to their "fibre to the home" system, which may not support that. If they force switch me to 'fix' the phone line that they themselves broke, well, I will be unhappy.