• It’s quiet without the kids but I miss them (and Nanda) a lot. I’m looking forward to everyone being back in a couple of weeks.

  • The Move is underway. On Tuesday a gigantic truck and 4 moving men showed up. Over the following couple of days they put everything in our house into boxes and then into the truck. On Thursday they took it all away and on Monday (i.e. tomorrow) it’ll start its journey to Zürich. We have a lot of stuff, despite my efforts not to buy or have anything we don’t actually use. I guess we use a lot of stuff.

    I have a lot of plugs to replace with Swiss ones. Unrelated: it’s neat how Switzerland’s 3-phase sockets can accept both 3- and single-phase plugs.

    On Thursday I cleaned the house and did some last minute maintenance (filling holes, fixing a leaky gutter), and at 4pm on Friday we finally exchanged contracts after some last minute legal shenanigans. Hooray! Next week it’ll all complete and the house will finally be dealt with.

    I’m now staying with family before taking the train to Der Schweiz this week.

  • I went to the pub twice and had a curry, which brings the number of pub visits and curries since moving to the UK a year ago to 2 and 1 respectively. Not a good showing.

  • I have given away a bunch of stuff over the last few weeks using a local Facebook group. One curious thing about giving things away free, either in a group or on Marketplace, is that people are often really flakey — either they say they want something and don’t respond to followups, or say they’ll get it and don’t show up (someone twice told me they’d get a lamp but silently bailed). But this doesn’t seem to happen when you sell things, even for a small sum, so I assume that having a small barrier to entry helps deter those who’re just not that keen. In short: better to charge a fiver than try to give things away.

  • Ahead of needing to reconfigure my router to work with our future ISP I added a Unique Local Address IPv6 range to our home network, with the idea being to allocate static IPv6 addresses from this rather than the prefix delegated from our ISP. The advantage of this is that the ULA range won’t change but the prefix delegated from the ISP certainly will change when we switch and, presumably, might change at some future moment. Assigning static IPs from a range that changes is a pain. (I have a handful of static IPs for things like Grafana and Home Assistant.)

    I did all the fiddling needed to change things over and to my surprise it worked: I could access things on their statically-assigned ULA addresses. Then I noticed that I was now logging into my dual-stacked NUC over IPv4, not IPv6, and then I found RFC 6724, which basically ruins it all by making IPv6 ULA lower precedence than IPv4. IPv6! It’s the future!

    I’m just going to leave it as-is until the day I get sick of all of it and just use IPv4 static addresses like it’s the year 2000 again.