Posts by bhtooefr@snack.social
(DIR) Post #AhrQ7PYK03YLbKN4W8 by bhtooefr@snack.social
2024-05-04T21:16:01.109844Z
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@whitequark TIL about JOIN (although it behaves more like a mountpoint than a persistent junction)although, I hate that your post nerdsniped me and made me look at how it and SUBST actually worked - looks like it manipulated the Current Directory Structure in similar ways to how network redirectors did (and also meant that JOIN, SUBST, and network drives in general were dangerous or impossible to mix)https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/main/v4.0/src/CMD/JOIN/JOIN.Chttps://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/main/v4.0/src/CMD/SUBST/SUBST.Chttps://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/main/v4.0/src/INC/CDS.C …oh, and for the purposes of MS-DOS, CD drives were also network drives (because the work of mounting a non-FAT filesystem was already done for that), which suddenly explains a lot about why I couldn’t SUBST things back in the day straight off of a CD
(DIR) Post #AhrQ7QejtgHT1WNi9w by bhtooefr@snack.social
2024-05-04T21:18:23.029917Z
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@whitequark (the entire reason I was nerdsniped was your “not the standard install of 6.2” comment)(basically, the binary that sets it up isn’t in the standard install (but SUBST, which goes the other direction, is). the structures that get manipulated by it are, of course, there.)
(DIR) Post #AhrfCjGfco4pVW6o2C by bhtooefr@snack.social
2024-05-03T18:43:54.013704Z
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a proposal for solving the problem with kW and kWh being confused:we replace kW with horsepower, and we replace kWh with gasoline gallons equivalent.instead of charging with a (120 volt, 12 amp) 1.44 kW portable EVSE for 8 hours giving you 11.52 kWh of energy, you charge with a 1.93 HP EVSE for 8 hours and get 0.342 gallons of energyor, if you're in the UK, instead of charging with a (230 volt, 13 amp) 2.99 kW portable EVSE for 8 hours giving you 23.92 kWh of energy, you charge with a 4.01 HP EVSE for 8 hours and get 0.591 gallons of energy(also I did a sneaky in those conversions)
(DIR) Post #AhyRi8FMlUfehgIXom by bhtooefr@snack.social
2024-05-02T13:15:41.857448Z
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@NanoRaptor So, the contemporary/comparable ThinkPad with the Wallstreet G3s (that is, large 14.1" flagship) would be the 770 series(most contemporary would be the 770E/770ED and the 770X specifically - basically, 770 is Pentium MMX, 770E/ED, X, and Z are different speeds of Pentium II (and X and Z get a slightly newer graphics chip and a 13.7" 1280x1024 screen option))
(DIR) Post #AhyRi9YtsLtGmYReu8 by bhtooefr@snack.social
2024-05-02T13:29:50.772932Z
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@NanoRaptor also, a note about numbering in numeric-series ThinkPads:200 means a subnotebook (most of these were Japan-only) - was replaced by a couple models in the s Series, arguably some X series models300 means low-end - was replaced by low-end A series, and later the R and G (and now E/L) series500 means a subnotebook that's bigger than a 200 - was replaced by the X series600 means thin and light - was replaced by the T series nominally, but nowadays is really replaced by the X series700 means high-end (and in one case, the 701, a subnotebook) - was replaced by the A series, then later the T series effectively, and later yet the W and P series800 means basically a 700 with a PowerPCiSeries *usually* means Acer trash, but *sometimes* means a low-end config of a 300 or 500/early X seriesalso, there were tablets in the 700 series, and one convertible tablet in the 300 seriesI'll go through the *iconic* options, IMO
(DIR) Post #AhyRiAzWYqmVDPuR2e by bhtooefr@snack.social
2024-05-02T13:34:46.484584Z
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@NanoRaptor a big one is one of the A4-size ones. there's a few generations of this:700/720 - *the* first-gen ThinkPad laptop. MCA, 486SLC, and a DBA hard drive. honestly, I'd avoid unless you're a hardcore PS/2 or ThinkPad fan.350 - low-end 486750/755, 360/355/370/365 (yes, chronologically in *THAT* order for the 300s, no, I don't know what IBM was smoking) - 486 to Pentium MMX. keyboard pops up like a car hood to get at the stuff inside. I ended up getting a 365XD because I specifically wanted something of this generation, and the 365XD was the end of this line.340/345 - low-end EMEA-specific 486s760 - Pentium and Pentium MMX. keyboard also automatically inclines up, and LED indicators are replaced with LCD.X200/201 - Core 2 and first-gen Core i. (and yes, I have an X200 with an X201 motherboard shoehorned in, too, as the last A4 formfactor ThinkPad notebook.) not actually iconic at all unless you're a fan of LibreBoot, but.(also the 350 and 340/345 aren't iconic either. and I left off some stuff that doesn't even have TrackPoints (or any internal pointing device at all) in the 300 series.)
(DIR) Post #AhyRiBV4fY1CnGfdDc by bhtooefr@snack.social
2024-05-02T13:44:55.436498Z
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@NanoRaptor high-end stuff:I mean, basically anything 700 from the previous post, plus the 765 (a 760 with a bigger screen), 770 as mentioned before, IIRC the 390 spent a short time as the flagship for whatever reason?, A20 for a P3 flagship (don't get one with an m at the end, that's low-end trash), and A30 for a P4 flagship. (15" T-series effectively replaced the A series, and then became the W and then P series.)ultraportable flagships, the 701C is iconic as fuck with the butterfly keyboard. if you like hunting down JDM-specific stuff, an s30/s31 is also a good (P3-era) choice. or, hard to go wrong with a 560 (PMMX/P2), 570 (P2/P3), X2x (P3), X3x (P3 or Pentium M), X4x (Pentium M), or X6x (Core/Core 2).also, the original 560/560E is an Apple fan's ThinkPad in another way - OpenSTEP had very good support for it because Steve Jobs used one as his personal laptop at the time. (my 365XD actually piggybacks on that driver support, having almost identical hardware.)thin-and-light... so this is weird. the ThinkPad 600 was *absolutely* the X30x or X1 Carbon of its day, and a lot of people swear by it as the best ThinkPad ever (basically it was "what if we made a *thin* 765 out of carbon fiber, and then kept putting newer CPUs in it all the way into the P3 era?") the T series replaced it, but the standards of what was "thin and light" ended up changing, such that I feel like the 14.1" T-series is really something different. going later, the X300/X301 (Core 2 and I think first-gen Core i era?) was iconic and effectively aimed *directly* at the MacBook Air (it was developed before the MBA was public, though).
(DIR) Post #AhyRiDO3ebaue5P3Ym by bhtooefr@snack.social
2024-05-02T13:51:07.966086Z
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@NanoRaptor oh, right, I forgot about the W700ds/701ds! Wacom tablet in the palmrest, netbook screen that pops out of the side of the main screen. iconic af.and then we get into "last of an era" stuff that people care about.the last 4:3s (AFAIK nobody really cares about the R6x):X61 (12.1")T60 for 15.0", T61 for 14.1"the last that don't have Intel ME and can run Libreboot:X200T400/500W700/700dsthe last that have the 7-row keyboard:X220T420/520/W520ThinkPad 25 (IIRC this is basically a T470 with a 7-row keyboard retrofitted)
(DIR) Post #Ai5ZDY173tHzOIHIMC by bhtooefr@snack.social
2024-05-05T21:01:18.654749Z
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@aphyr one of the first things I did when I got my EcoFlow River 2 was buy an induction cooktop and see if I could boil water in a kettle on it(the answer was no - the power had to be set so low that it couldn’t actually achieve a boil within an hour. and “X-Boost” just means it’ll let the voltage sag to allow a higher-rated resistive load to run, it doesn’t actually mean it runs higher power, so it’s not very useful for an induction cooktop (because they’ll detect the voltage sag and error out).)(basically means I need one of the ones that can do at least 1800 watts (without any boost feature) if I want to run my cooktop at full power (could get away with like 700 W at the lowest non-load switching power IIRC), but, with that, I can see it working fine)
(DIR) Post #AiOUPfPKbLv21Inuds by bhtooefr@snack.social
2024-05-29T20:08:32.930450Z
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@ajroach42 I'll allow it if they make one that takes AAs though
(DIR) Post #AiOUPgh5onik0g7bxw by bhtooefr@snack.social
2024-05-29T20:08:44.589304Z
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@ajroach42 (also it needs to have the Paw)
(DIR) Post #AlYhwAfkQnvZqlYnuC by bhtooefr@snack.social
2024-09-01T10:10:17.059916Z
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@Polychrome you assume the dumb fridge will get 30 years of support 🙃(higher-end modern dumb fridges are not known for their reliability in the US)
(DIR) Post #AlYjI10N9ezCBzBfiS by bhtooefr@snack.social
2024-09-01T12:05:57.372905Z
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@meowski @Polychrome not if they’re enshittified like high-end fridges in the US 🙃shitloads of unreliable proprietary parts and poor support from the manufacturerlow-end fridges, however, yeah, anyone can fix.
(DIR) Post #Aq6F12zkboHhsuiOOm by bhtooefr@snack.social
2025-01-15T07:47:08.758862Z
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@foone I feel like that’s not all external USB devices, just ones that don’t implement boot mode? like, I’d think if it works in the UEFI config, it’d work in bitlocker?I’ve definitely used a USB keyboard to unlock bitlocker on my desktop after all(I hate that cursed thing about how USB keyboards work, with boot mode, though)
(DIR) Post #ArTg0yDEjiCmj44K4u by bhtooefr@snack.social
2025-02-24T12:31:23.580652Z
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reposting because I apparently only let the poll run for 10 minutes: trying to prove a point heredo not do the math, just go with what you think. (not necessarily your first thought, but.)scenario: you own two vehicles which you drive an equal distance per year. one vehicle is a pickup truck that gets 12 miles per US gallon. the other vehicle is a car that gets 40 miles per US gallon.(do not say “get rid of the truck” or “drive the car instead of the truck” - we’re assuming the truck is actually used for work in this scenario. I know it usually isn’t, but work with me here, I’m trying to make a point.)you can replace the pickup truck with one that gets 13 miles per US gallon, or the car with one that gets 50 miles per US gallon, but not both.which choice saves more fuel?
(DIR) Post #AsKE2iA3gu49oTUt5E by bhtooefr@snack.social
2025-03-22T12:40:00.621567Z
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sometimes my dad sends me good cat memes#caturday
(DIR) Post #AubxU7UCcthsJMC5Dc by bhtooefr@snack.social
2025-05-27T12:15:48.087875Z
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@blog So, on this point:As I understand it, Google requires Android devices to have colour screens and, so I’ve read, won’t certify eInk eReaders for newer versions of Android.So manufacturers have to source parts which have drivers for older versions of Android. Or they have to develop their own OSes.Some of the vendors get around that requirement by shipping an AOSP-based Android build, and then installing Google Apps after the fact with what’s essentially an end-user-issued developer key. I’ve got a Boox device that used that approach to run Android 10, and AFAIK all of the newer ones (even the ones with color displays) do that too.
(DIR) Post #AyKiKBitX37psvINwO by bhtooefr@snack.social
2025-09-18T14:17:47.577928Z
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@disarray wait, is Subaru using equal length headers nowadays?
(DIR) Post #AyKrteTtV94UncGSUC by bhtooefr@snack.social
2025-09-18T16:06:04.174114Z
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@disarray *pours one out for the EJ25 burble*
(DIR) Post #AyXWUMLyzufslkljaC by bhtooefr@snack.social
2025-09-24T17:35:26.547569Z
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@disarray smh not using Rotella T6 5W-40 in everything