CursedSilicon

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by CursedSilicon 2y ago
I'm an IT generalist with a penchant for Linux Systems Administration. Some folks call me an old school "SysOp" since I prefer on-prem to cloud based stuff. I've done a little bit of everything from Sysadmin to Support E
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by CursedSilicon 2y ago
Worse still, Wi-Fi * 7* devices are already out. Qualcomm's QCN9274's running on the "ath12k" chipset [1] have been a tempting DIY option. Though that module requires an external 3 amps at 5 Volt (15 watts!) to be solde
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by CursedSilicon 2y ago
I tried for years to do similar when I lived in Australia. Though with a PCI/PCI-E card ZyXEL if I remember correctly did make an ADSL2+ at the time PCI-E card. Literally just a DSL modem wired to a Realtek 8139 NIC. You could slap i
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by CursedSilicon 2y ago
I haven't played with the "Pro" model (I think that's mostly for 4K upscale?) But I use the 'regular' OSSC to work with DOS and some PPC era Xserves and it absolutely handles them without a hitch
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by CursedSilicon 2y ago
I'm surprised they dismissed the OSSC [1] so easily. It's not "just" for game consoles and arcade equipment. It has a VGA port on it for a reason! Admittedly I haven't used it for anything nearly as "esoteric&q
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by CursedSilicon 2y ago
Are you hiring? (only somewhat sarcastic) I did a 15~ month stint at AWS. Originally I was signed on to be a support engineer for their Linux teams, which sounded great! Absolutely within my skillset and a great way to get to play with new
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by CursedSilicon 2y ago
I am an absolute niche but I'd love to see better x86 (well, x64) support OpenWRT absolutely blows PFsense/OPNsense out the water in my experience. I don't need a bajillion different configuration options, I just want a t
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by CursedSilicon 2y ago
The Broadco- "ServerWorks" K2 chipsets that power G5 Macs SATA controllers are horrible . I have a half dozen G5 Quads and a Dual G5 Xserve. Getting compatible SSD's for them, or even HDD's back in the day has been an
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by CursedSilicon 2y ago
Why would AWS let you run something they don't even sell licenses for? your attempt at an equivalence makes no sense
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by CursedSilicon 2y ago
"AWS experts cost way more than old-school sysadmins" Where even is still hiring "old-school sysadmins" ? I've got bucketloads of experience in that. I grew up setting up servers and systems for friends in a &quot
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by CursedSilicon 2y ago
I used to joke that retro computing was my answer to being stuck as a support engineer at AWS working on Kubernetes all day (I was bait-and-switched on what was originally billed as a Linux support job and dropped into the "Container