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>>belter+(OP)
In short, it was remote bricked, by giving it commands to rotate a bit. After successfully executing those commands - no further commands could be received, as now the antennas are not facing earth anymore.

But luckily it automatically readjust itself to earth automatically every half year exactly for these events. So on 15.10 we will know, if it is really lost. In either case, the end of its mission is near anyway, because the nuclear batteries are near its end.

edit: Nasa has a blog post on this https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/2023/07/28/mission-update-voy...

>>hutzli+79
reminds me of the time I forgot i was on a remote connection, and could not figure out why the thing quit responding when i typed eth0 down

>>dylan6+2H1
or when I was futzing with display configs on a linux install, accidentally disabled my screen, and had to restore it blind

>>hueheh+e52
That’s such an absolute hacker feeling, I was honestly surprised I got it to work, back then. Thanks for reminding me of that!

>>kaba0+Wo2
I got my first laptop (win95 at the time) at a garage sale super cheap because the owner throught it was broken.

He'd set the resolution to 1024x768 on the 800x600 panel, once I fixed that I was good to go!