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+title = "Bezos's fortune is too big to care about you"
+author = ["Michał Sapka"]
+date = 2024-10-26T21:17:00+02:00
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
+weight = 2001
+image_dir = "blog/images"
+image_max_width = 600
+Abstract = "Washington Post was a small purchase"
+Listening = "Moonspell - Irreligious"
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+
+Tech billionaire is being evil again.
+This time [Jeff Bezos kills Washington Post's endorsement for one of the US presidential candidates.](https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/25/24279602/jeff-bezos-washington-post-kamala-harris-endorsement)
+It doesn't matter which one, but people are canceling their subscriptions.
+But, let's face it.
+He is too rich to care.
+
+Bezoss bought Washington Post [a decade ago](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/washington-post-to-be-sold-to-jeff-bezos/2013/08/05/ca537c9e-fe0c-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html) for 250000000 USD (25 million).
+This seems a lot but almost the entire human race, but not for him.
+
+At the moment of buying the gazette, his net worth was 25000000   (25,2 billion).
+It was less than 1% of his net worth.
+
+If you bought the entire Austen Powers collection on Amazon, it would cost you 13,7USD (I lie here, as this is today price).
+For you to care as much as Bezos about buying Washington Post, you would need to have just shy of 1370USD.
+In 2013.
+
+But in 2024, his net worth grew to 211000000000 (211 billion).
+Are you 10x richer than 10 years ago?
+But then, if you bought that BluRay 10 years ago for that 13,7USD, you would now 13700SD.
+Would you even care about that BluRay?
+I'm guessing you have already given it _for free_ to someone.
+
+So, he would not notice if Washington Post died today, he would not notice.
+But what are some other things he owns some stake in, that you can stop using?
+
+{{< image forced_width="250" class="pull-right" alt="Headshot of a bold, white man with a scar. This is a character Dr Evil from Austen Powers series of movies" file="dr-evil.jpg" >}}
+Jeff Bezos, circa 2025
+{{< /image >}}
+
+-   Amazon
+-   Whole Foods
+-   Zappos
+-   Twitch
+-   MGM
+-   Audible
+-   IMDB
+-   Ring
+-   Eero
+-   Goodreads
+-   ComiXology
+-   Cloud9 IDE
+-   Antropic
+-   Blue Origin
+-   Book Depisitory
+-   Airbnb
+-   Workday
diff --git a/content/bsd/switching-wifi-eth.md b/content/bsd/switching-wifi-eth.md
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+title = "Switching between WiFi and Ethernet on FreeBSD"
+author = ["Michał Sapka"]
+date = 2024-10-26T20:11:00+02:00
+categories = ["bsd"]
+draft = false
+weight = 4001
+primary_menu = "bsd"
+image_dir = "bsd"
+image_max_width = 600
+abstract = "How to handle multiple network interfaces?"
+[menu]
+  [menu.bsd]
+    weight = 4001
+    identifier = "switching-between-wifi-and-ethernet-on-freebsd"
+    parent = "freebsd-personal"
+    name = "Switching between WiFI and Ethernet"
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+
+**The problem**:
+I have a laptop with built-in WiFi.
+Say what you will about WiFi, it's always better to use the good, old cable connection.
+I have bought myself a cheap, USB Ethernet adapter (Reltek) which is perfectly detected by FreeBSD, as per `ifconfig(8)`:
+
+```shell
+ue0: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 1500
+      options=68009b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
+      ether c8:4d:44:20:6a:1b
+      inet 10.0.7.197 netmask 0xfffff800 broadcast 10.0.7.255
+      media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
+      status: active
+      nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
+```
+
+However, I don't want to remove the WiFi card, but FreeBSD insists on using it for all outgoing connections.
+
+
+## Pre-requisites {#pre-requisites}
+
+What we need to know:
+
+-   names of devices (from `ifconfig(8)`). In my case, WiFi is `wlan0` while the Eth dongle is `ue0`
+-   default route (from `netstat(1)`):
+    ```shell
+    netstat -rn | grep default
+    ```
+
+Write down the IP shown, in my case it's `10.0.1.1`.
+
+
+## Netif {#netif}
+
+Netif is FreeBSD's way to manage network devices. We will can disable WiFi:
+
+```shell
+service netif stop wlan0
+```
+
+And ensure the dongle (ue0) is enabled:
+
+```shell
+service netif restart ue0
+```
+
+At this point your WiFi is no longer enabled, and all traffic should go through Ethernet.
+If everything works fine - you're done.
+
+
+## Default route {#default-route}
+
+Disabling a network interface removes its routes.
+If you can't reach any location (try `ping(8)`) it may be that you are lacking default route.
+We can check it via:
+
+```shell
+netstat -rn | grep default
+```
+
+If nothing is returned, your computer does't know to reach other machines.
+Luckily, we can re-add it. Remember the address from earlier?
+
+```shell
+route add default 10.0.1.1
+```
+
+Now everything should work fine!
+
+
+## Alternatives {#alternatives}
+
+As per FreeBSD Guide, you can also try [link aggregation](https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/advanced-networking/#network-aggregation).