Dusty 
@ChlorideCull@fuzzy.systems
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27, ace/aro(?), some form of enby, autism and add, I work as a software developer, ancom
on all levels except physical, i'm drgn
plural system copiloted by Dusty and Klor, you can find him at @Klor
random gifts are OK (as long as it's not sexually explicit) and will make me very flustered
admin of fuzzy.systems, chairperson of fuzzy systems
will generally approve all follow requests as long as your account has *anything* in it
backup: @ChlorideCull
Joined Oct 2020
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*shuts down laptop*
I think that's enough internet for today
*picks up phone*
Let's see what the pocket sized internet is doing
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funnily enough I have an SPI flasher now, but I don't think I have any USB 2.0 sticks to use for using the official emergency flashing method, lol
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woo, we've got life!
as in the EC (yeah sorry not super I/O) seems to be working, but unable to bootstrap the BIOS, but it's better than before!
it might be booting into bootblock recovery mode, which is a thing where it recognizes the BIOS is fucked and tries to find an image on a USB drive to flash, apparently - although this is early enough that the EC just straight up doesn't have the ability to show things on the display, so I can't tell, lol
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I want to see two chess grandmasters play connect four
connect four is terrifying to play against people who can think multiple turns ahead
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You know, kinda gonna bet that this severed inductor next to this crystal might be causing some issues
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okay I couldn't help myself, I quickly checked and the PS_ON pin is never asserted, which probably means the Super IO chip isn't working properly... Gonna need to check if the thing is getting a clock to start with
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so, I got the $15 computer, and it's more broken than described - nothing happens when I hit the power button, power rails aren't brought up, but I can see that 5VSB is active. Gonna need to check the signals from the PSU tomorrow, maybe manually trip PS_ON if the circuit is bad, and see if I can't get it to boot.
Worst case I have a dumpster dive PSU i could splice in to replace the proprietary one
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Slips, Trips, & Falls are the number one cause of injury at home, in public, and on the job.
please join me in taking a look around your immediate to check for ground level hazards and think about how to mitigate them.
1 minute of picking up trash and rearranging clutter can make a huge difference!
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"MineCity 2000 is a program that converts SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft (Java Edition) worlds"
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self proclaimed „decentralization advocates“ when they see a Hetzner ad:
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food, allergy
as a dairy allergy haver this is the worst photo i have
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#Huevember day 25 for snowylizard on FA!
every now and then I get someone asking me if I sent them something because i'm opted in to our internal phishing training thing where it can use your name
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BREAKING: Growing radical movement embraces extremist politics, claiming that life is "about more than just paying bills and dying". To learn more about how this might affect your investments, click here.
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I’m not an infosec expert or anything but I don’t think that’s right
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At @aeonofdiscord's suggestion I am going to post this classic Achewood strip about chat rooms because if enough people know it we can start referencing "Onion Offense" as shorthand for extremely nitpicky local community rules
(Going to put the transcript in a separate CW'd reply it's way too long for alt text)
bad idea of the day: usermode utility to image zip disks with the parallel port reader on modern operating systems
fairly certain the overlap between people who own a zip disk reader, own a modern system with a DB25 connector (because USB adapters won't work!), and doesn't own an older computer with a DB25 connector, is very small
as much of a meme as just telling people to cache shit is, even managing to cache dynamic content for a minute will save you a lot of resources when you're getting hit by programs instead of people
or i guess you could swap to caddy so you can write some complex rules to only cache things when mastodon or Google bot or whatever hits you - just as inefficient and low latency for those who care, but doesn't waste money for those who don't
Admin
27, ace/aro(?), some form of enby, autism and add, I work as a software developer, ancom
on all levels except physical, i'm drgn
plural system copiloted by Dusty and Klor, you can find him at @Klor
random gifts are OK (as long as it's not sexually explicit) and will make me very flustered
admin of fuzzy.systems, chairperson of fuzzy systems
will generally approve all follow requests as long as your account has *anything* in it
backup: @ChlorideCull
Joined Oct 2020
