my graphics drivers and/or monitor have colluded to produce incomplete edid information and i am in fact stunned that i have a display at all
i would take a screenshot but it would kind of miss the point
somehow a static network config that did not cause issues before rose from the dead.
- my desktop could reach my router
- my router could reach my desktop
- other machines could ping and even ssh to my desktop
- my desktop could not reach any of them?????
so i got to watch on both ends as my desktop would see incoming icmp packets from another computer that my desktop's icmp packets were not arriving at. very neat. i don't entirely know why it's fixed now