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- mosh (“mobile shell”) is a remote shell for intermittent connections
- go for file-sync over uploading
The command line might need some upgrading
function wget_non_california () { until wget -c --timeout=10 $*; do sleep 10; done }
Backed by a major player: mars, the network stack of Wechat.
Flaky finder
I don’t know why this happens, but this is one of the many nasty side-effects of unreliable network connections is Finder flaking out. If your nasty ISP drops enough packets there are a whole bunch of ways that your Mac computer will DOS itself into the ground, because it is a state alien to Apple engineers.
Here are some potential workarounds:
Look for misbehaving processes and corrupt wassamajiggies.
Or tell Finder to stop obsessing about fancy network drives that won’t work anyway:
sudo vi /etc/auto_master
In this file comment out /net. Now,
sudo automount -vc