I moved to a new Internet Supplier earlier this month and woe and behold, my line got seriously throttled today, about by 75%. Our 2MB line with average throughput of 1.4MB suddenly became a 300kB line (if I am lucky). Our family has not changed our internet habits, but we are suddenly exceeding the average normal usage on the package. Trying to find out if there are leakage on my line or if the kids are watching Youtube 24/7.
I came across this post from Bryan Ward this morning: Every day you are beaten : Beaten by the leaky sink you keep avoiding. Beaten by the applesauce on the wall you keep not scrubbing off. Beaten by the dent in the drywall you keep putting off fixing. You long to conquer mountains, yet every day you are beaten by molehills. All these little problems… they should be so easily solved. Yet they go on defeating you, day after day, until at last you conclude that you are not a capable man: If you are this easily defeated, “surely” you do not have what it takes to win the bigger fights: to become your fittest self, to create a business empire, to create works of art that will outlast you. Hell, you can’t even fix a leaky sink: might as well f*** off and go watch TV. But you’ve misdiagnosed the problem entirely. … One summer day when I went into the workshop, I saw that the plastic gas cans by the tractor were bulging like balloons. I had left the vents closed, and the hea...
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