Danny's Space

I pulled the trigger on Converge Max plan 400Mbps with Sky channels. I went to their sales office and asked for the upgrade. No charge at all and they didn't ask me to return the old modem. It looks like they will pull it when they install the new modem.e     It came with a black box for the TV. The configuration is easy but it took me 3 days to figure out the Wired connection. It should be fine except I have to jiggle it in the config (GUI). Turn 802.1x  on and off to finally connect.  Here's the speed for the Wired connection:

From a photograph by Manuel Arias Rodriguez. He was executed for the crime of rebellion. 

This move was prompted last month when service went down for an exteded time - almost 3 weeks. Yes no Internet service for more than half a month. The repair crew finally found my address and that was the morning I had my big accident with my ankles. Anyways, they were able to bring up my connectivity that day. But I did visit their offices to either cut the service or change to a new plan. But they were able to solve the problem - good. A month later and their marketing people are calling if I want to get the new wifi 6 modem and the entertainment box with it. I filled up the application for the new plan that can save me 10,000 pesos yearly and get me my new wifi 6 modem.  And my mother's Samsung TV a bunch of channels she doesn't need.  Did I mention that this plan brings my promised speed from 800 Mbps to 400 Mbps?  Never mind.

The only hard part here is identifying the device name. I prefer to use the model name/device short hand name and not the path/name. These often come in the form ata-ST4000NE001-2MA101_WS24TQ9W. I used the hwinfo command to get the information.  Type :     #hwinfo --disk To replace the old disk with the new disk, type:   #zpool replace [pool name] [old device name] [new device name] ZFS will resilver the disk automatically. You can continue to use the filesystem. No problem.  You can check the status with:      #zpool [pool name] status I bought this new 4TB disk around August 2024 and put it online[ZFS] but did not use it in a pool. So it's kind of a replacement disk. I replaced ata-ST2000DM001-1CH164_W1E8B1ZS because it is the oldest at 8 years and I'm logging errors. 

I just can't bring myself to make a post about it. I tripped going down the stairs and fractured my ankles. It happened the 8th of July.   The doctor called it a bimalleolar fracture of the right and lateral malleolus fracture of the left. Both feet were affected, the one in the picture is the right one and looked worse than the left one. It is still stiff after 40 days. I am putting my body weight on it but slowly.  Here's how it looked: I stayed for six days in the hospital. This picture is post surgery when my doctor and also the orthopedic surgeon placed steel implants to realign my bones with plates and screws. I asked my doctor about the implants and yes, they stay for life.  The stitches came off after two weeks. I took antibiotics for 10 days and pain meds were aplenty especially during the 3 to 4 days after the surgery. The pain meds are needed for the swelling too. 

It was a major issue during the midterm elections 2025 - the trial of Sara Duterte our Vice President who was impeached just before the elections. Some of her political allies won seats in the Senate which will convene itself into a court to try her case. Her father the former President, Rodrigo Duterte, is himself accused in the International Criminal Court ICC of crimes against humanity of murder, torture and rape committed between 2011 and 2019. So both father and dauther are facing trials in the coming months.