Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Redundancy/Survival Date: 29 May 2026 01:21:34 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <10v55mv$2co0n$1@dont-email.me> <10v6qg9$2ot19$2@dont-email.me> <10v8tsh$3ajmv$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net hNyS31QhWaO9b/qJ51awjAik9eTYXCXNSB2oAN6Aa8uCpBXbMN Cancel-Lock: sha1:3K4Qjqto/2by182ZPbPO4O+RU8c= sha256:b+ZlFqtGjoZ12Y3/Sm06PU4iNb91gdphgi0dqs8XiEE= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:87248 On Thu, 28 May 2026 20:34:37 -0400, c186282 wrote: > On 5/28/26 04:20, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> On 28/05/2026 08:52, c186282 wrote: >>> On 5/27/26 09:10, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>>> On 27/05/2026 03:39, c186282 wrote: >>>>> Soon the fiber/repeaters will degrade and they'll >>>>>    have fired all the humans who knew how to deal with it. >>>> >>>> Hardly. Fibre does not degrade. Not like copper >>> >>>    The fiber doesn't ... but fiber requires splitters/repeaters. >>>    THOSE will degrade. >>>    HUMANS will be required to replace that stuff. Humans are a pain >>>    in the ass and expensive. >>> >> Again,. no, not really. You don send humans under the oceans to fix >> cables And fibre junctions are where human access is by definition >> possible And fixing fibre connections is not rocket science > > > Fixing copper is even easier - and it's already there. We're in the middle of a thunderstorm which reminds me of a telco tech crouched under his little tent trying to hook a a multitude of wires while his little workspace fill with water...