Yeah, that appears to be the issue. My compatriot turns the WiFi for Airdrop.
There’s a suggestion that knocking the access to the internet via sans wires and just using for Airdrop would work.
We need the wires connection for Audio (Dante) and Video (NDI).
The plan for today was to get back on track with the software release.
There’s something wrong with the VPN so none of the team that are working remotely today can do any work.
VLAN or VPN?
VPN, d’oh 
I finally managed to get in through a combination of reboots and repeated connection-disconnection.
Nothing so far from IT about whether this is a wider issue though.
Edit: They’ve sent an email now about the outage, with the advice that if you’re struggling to connect that you try to disconnect and connect a few times. Of course you won’t be able to read your emails if you’re having VPN issues.
Spent all morning figuring out that I couldn’t use the “Search” of our software because we had a software upgrade that changed a port and that port is firewalled.
Our emails are readable without vpn at least on the web? But I am always thinking that the place where I currently work has a really weird IT setup so that is probably not representative.
Among current problems:
Radeon Pro WX 5100 drives multiple monitors. Not so since the Debian 12 upgrade. amdgpu kernel module isn’t loadable, so I’m effectively using the card in software rendering mode.
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'amdgpu': No such device
Yes, I know about non-free-firmware, Yes. firmware-amd-graphics is installed and at the correct version. Nothing in dmesg when I try to load the module. Tried purging and reinstalling both the xserver nd the firmware package. Suggestions very welcome.
Time to crack open the source and start comparing PCI IDs with the module?
Actually, I thought this was rather common by now. Even when we still had an on-prem Exchange server, the autodiscover allowed it to work without VPN. Or maybe we were just lax in our security? And, of course, a lot have gone to cloud based so it’s available from wherever.
I work in aerospace/defence so I suspect we have slightly more stringent security requirements than most.
We just made it impossible to read mail and otherwise use office 363 except from a company managed device (auth chain now includes a user ssl certificate), but vpn is not required. There’s an active effort to reduce the number of services only accessible via vpn, because there are only a handful of endpoints. (Also, it’s Cisco so it’s expensive and it sucks. )So, I in the middle of the USA can choose an East or west coast endpoint, and all my traffic has to go through there. But we have network pops everywhere, so if I want to talk to server in Iowa, packets could enter our network somewhere nearer to me, and only travel 1000 miles round trip, instead of 7000. (Technical detail: mutual authed IPsec tunnels, created on demand, via magic. )
IPoverMagic is really starting to catch on.
The plan for today was to kick off the CI builds for our software release.
Something’s thrashing the disk of the build PC which has increased build times by 50-100%.
Edit: One of six builds has actually completed after several hours of trying. It normally takes 20 mins but today took an hour longer. Another build hit the 2 hour time limit and the rest are failing to start or failing during running for odd reasons.
I can’t wait for quantum computing to hit the mainstream. Then we’ll be able to have builds that both pass and fail until somebody checks the status.
“Aw, boss, I said never come in without knocking first…”
Oh joy, my router is indicating issues connecting to the internet. Several power cycles haven’t fixed it and as far as I can tell my provider isn’t having issues. Sure would be nice if I could check twitter to see if other people had flagged it.
Edit: Looks like Down Detector has started ticking up.
Is TalkTalk involved? Because:
https://aastatus.net/42546
I’m with Now/Sky.
Edit: The Down Detector page for Sky broadband is showing a bit more of a spike.
Edit: It was all working again the following morning fortunately. Support couldn’t tell me what happened.
I’ve had my current phone for 5 years and it’s been in a plastic bumper case for as long as I’ve had it. The case however has been slowly falling apart over the last year and it got to a point this weekend where I had to ditch it.
My phone feels so light and slippery now.
I’d contemplate getting another case if I wasn’t going to replace the phone later this year. Hopefully my current phone survives that long 
My current phone case is mostly gaffer tape, but that actually works quite well.