It is bonkers how good #curl is on a bad connection. I can’t load Gmail, reddit, or duckduckgo, and it takes me 2-3 tries to upload mastodon posts, but I managed to (eventually) download a 200 megabyte binary with curl. It took 20 minutes but it succeeded first try. Firefox times out or gives HTTPS errors trying to load a basic static documentation site, but it takes less than a second to just curl down the html pages and open them locally. (without CSS unfortunately but I’ll take what I can get)
This week has really taught me how fragile most software has become in the face of network problems.
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