I thought this was going to be one of those Alphastructural Imgur posts!
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Baku@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Todayâs adventure:
Crawled under the house and ran some Ethernet cables. Super janky hard wiring setup, the profs and assorted nerds that know what theyâre doing will probably yell at me for how I did it. I just ran 2 Ethernet cables from the router out the wall, under the house, and into a hole in the wall in both my bedrooms. Then joined them into shielded ethernet couplers, and thatâs my new receptacle. Also did a cable between my two rooms, in case I ever do a NAS (thatâll live in my spare room)
This is a crude and simplified doodle of what I did:
Mostly tested, both the router main cables work, the LAN cable between the two rooms wonât be tested until tonight or tomorrow.
I am absolutely fucking filthy though, completely head to toe in mud. Literally. Thereâs mud in my hair, and my shoes. I need a good shower
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Baku@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Who?
Still bummed Imgur embeds donât work here anymore since they put in that stupid image proxy thing
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
[This guy] is Imgur famous for doing structural integrity inspections of houses, requiring him and his team to go under the floor of houses and film the dodgy and interesting stuff found there. I think theyâre in the California area, so they get called to inspect after the seismic activity they have there, and often find buildings that werenât built to code in the first place. Your photo was like the classic beginning of a âThings seen this week during structural assessmentsâ post.
StudChud@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Huh, I didnât realise that state housing allows that lol the more you know
Baku@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
I donât actually know if the house is owned by the state or not. Itâs managed by the organisation contracted to try really hard to make sure I donât die, and they have at least partial maintenance abilities, but generally maintenance and works are carried out by specific contractors child protection really like, who I believe also have to hold a WWCC.
I brought it up a few months ago, and offered to run the cabling myself. I got a vague yes. Iâm not entirely sure she understood what I meant, and it wasnât a firm yes, but I definitely construed it as being a yes. Sheâs been on âindefinite unplanned leaveâ and I canât clarify the matter, so I decided to do it. Being a child in their care gives me partial immunity too. Worst case theyâll tell me off, tell me never to do it again, and then send a sparky out to undo everything I just did. But itâs fairly likely I wouldnât have to pay for any of it.
(Their general stance on things is that as long as it can be removed easily, and any damage repaired by me before I move out, itâs all good. Iâm going to remove the cables and patch up the holes when I leave so itâs probably fine. I most certainly would not just do this on a vague agreement made months ago if I lived pretty much anywhere else)