THB #130: Off-Line

If this were done on my computer, it would be smaller.

Our household internet service - fiber optic - suddenly stopped at 7:07p on Tuesday.

It’s remarkable how much our modern home leans on the internet. Can’t tell Alexa what to do. Lights that are automated and are turned off nightly by voice need to have their inconveniently-places switches made accessible while the service is down. The automated broom/mop machine hasn’t left it’s dock in days. Our doorbell does not Ring. My wife and child have used their cell phones to connect their laptops, but my desktop doesn’t move easily to another space in the house.

And then, there are all the TVs. I thought it would be clever to mirror our YouTubeTV on phones or iPads to the full-sized TVs, but to connect, the device wi-fi needs to be on and if it’s on, the phone wants to connect to outside services with wi-fi and not cellular data.

We are in a hot moment of new content coming to streamers It’s all on lockdown for me without internet servi…