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by myself248 5mo ago
I have a number of passively-cooled silent machines, from metal-chassis rugged subnotebooks popular with the military and field-service techs, to plastic cheapies intended for the student market. They're all fairly low-spec in absolute
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by myself248 5mo ago
The best thing when someone sent me a sub7 or BO dropper, was to immediately rename the extension (so I wouldn't accidentally execute it), then open it up in a file viewer and skip to the end. Both programs just appended their configur
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by myself248 5mo ago
That's what I did on my last vacation, and it was lovely. Except that I was in a cabin, on an island, in a foreign country. And the reason I was absolutely undistracted from my book, is that I'd turned my phone off before crossing
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by myself248 5mo ago
I remember the MiniPCI variants, it makes sense that a full-size PCI one would've existed. Post a photo if you find it!
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by myself248 5mo ago
To step back a bit, the device still has a filesystem on it, and the structures described here are files within the filesystem? Just you're able to write directly into them, bypassing the filesystem layer, because you've constrain
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by myself248 5mo ago
And 802.11ah, in 900MHz which has some hope of penetrating such walls, is still very scarce and the hardware fairly expensive. Otherwise you just have to run a wire through the wall and put an AP in the room. Your clients can still be wirel
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by myself248 5mo ago
My favorite 555 use was as a one-shot to power off a NIC after using its wake-on-LAN signal to reset a hung motherboard: https://www.i3detroit.org/reset-on-lan-an-ethernet-aware-rem...
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by myself248 5mo ago
This is surreal. I've never pre-purchased a movie ticket in my life. I show up, buy a ticket and a box of Milk Duds, wander down the dark hall, find a seat, turn off my phone, and the lights go dark. Exactly the same as it's alway
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by myself248 5mo ago
I wonder if they track how many people are sickened by the difficult-to-clean valve, because I bet it's a lot more than 3. Luckily I got one of the valveless models, and you bet your ass I'm keeping it. Maybe I'll stick an &q
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by myself248 5mo ago
Metricom Ricochet used dual-band radios, operating in 900MHz and 2.4GHz, to form a routable mesh that delivered internet access and other services, in 1999.
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by myself248 5mo ago
Every day, we get closer to reinventing Ricochet, 27 years later...
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by myself248 5mo ago
I modded a laptop to charge over PoE in 2007. Before realizing that the places that had PoE, and the places I wanted to charge my laptop, had nearly zero overlap. It was virtually useless in practice, but I still love the idea. I have not y
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by myself248 5mo ago
The ix.industrial ethernet connector is a thing. I hate it, but it's a thing.
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by myself248 5mo ago
Exactly. Any software toggle can un-toggle itself.
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by myself248 6mo ago
They used to be part of your ISP. You got a usenet server, and a mail server and a web server with a certain amount of space, just as part of signing up. This meant that everyone had one, you didn't have to go sign up somewhere else. Y
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by myself248 6mo ago
Ooo hey, I recognize some of my favorite Tindie sellers right on the Lectronz front page too. Excellent, thank you.
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by myself248 6mo ago
I swear there's a new one of these every year. Not a single one sticks around.
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by myself248 6mo ago
This is part of the power of a makerspace, to me. To show up and work on my own thing, whether or not someone asks about it, whether or not someone offers to help. Those latter things are where I usually focus, but the first is important to
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by myself248 6mo ago
And we were just getting a breath of fresh-air after being restricted to local phone calls (or paying ghastly long-distance phone bills). Finally we could communicate anywhere for one price! Without that context, it all falls flat, I agree.
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by myself248 6mo ago
And if the sysop had upgraded to 28.8 while you were still on 2400, you were probably persona non grata for tying up the line for so long! Some of the most popular boards had minimum connect speeds; if you couldn't connect at at least
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by myself248 6mo ago
I just opened multiple copies of the browser; I'd have 5 or 10 running most of the time on my 98se box. It's where I got my habit which I still use today, of opening outlinks as I read the page, so they can load in the background,
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by myself248 6mo ago
I've been to several retro LAN parties recently. They're wonderful, and they cost nothing to run. 10/100 switches are free, and cat5 nearly so, and the people attending can probably bring plenty of both. Today is Friday. Send
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by myself248 6mo ago
I found myself doing a particularly intense stint of work the other day, finally had all the source documents and the destination program all lined up, happily finding and comparing and synthesizing and entering, and I realized it was going
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by myself248 6mo ago
Haptic schmaptic, I just want my Framework's enormous trackpad to respect deadzones and stop detecting my palms. I had to entirely disable tap-to-click, because nothing else would work. I might have to try their preinstalled Ubuntu ima
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by myself248 6mo ago
I'm sure Atlassian's shareholders appreciate your sacrifice.
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by myself248 6mo ago
Another victim of the preparedness paradox.
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by myself248 6mo ago
That sounds like what Privacy.com does, but the virtual cards can still charge right through after you shut them down. NYTimes did that to me, after my trial sub expired, and Privacy did nothing to block it.
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by myself248 6mo ago
No part of Michigan is in the arctic, but sure, outside of mosquito season, that would work.
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by myself248 6mo ago
I've installed one of those and it doesn't seem to help in the ecommerce case.
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by myself248 6mo ago
And many of them don't even have a real click action, that I can find. I can't even right-click and manually pick "open in new tab", because the browser doesn't recognize what I'm clicking on as a link. I agree

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