Posts by ieure@retro.social
(DIR) Post #AlTZ0lbtAXD4Bu4XjM by ieure@retro.social
2024-08-29T23:23:31Z
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@foone Often! I repair old arcade game PCBs and the 2114 RAMs are a common failure point. The hoard of new old stock ones I've got needs to have their leads formed to fit in the board.
(DIR) Post #Ala0oU82InAeAAngQq by ieure@retro.social
2024-09-02T03:04:35Z
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@foone wow you need a pvm to run that game
(DIR) Post #AmD9LTPwLOeOJNqwm8 by ieure@retro.social
2024-09-21T00:01:20Z
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Scored a KitchenAid mixer with bowl, cover, two attachments, and manuals for $10 at a garage sale. Works fine, needs a bit more cleaning.Made in December 1998.
(DIR) Post #An2tVkrrmFrafTypvM by ieure@retro.social
2024-10-15T23:26:42Z
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@foone The first six are the Issuer Identification Number (IIN) and are shared between thousands of customers.They still shouldn't be logged, but, they're the least sensitive part of the number.
(DIR) Post #An6mSf92g0Z50FQr9U by ieure@retro.social
2024-10-17T20:26:35Z
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@foone @iykury I have a hyphenated first name, which regularly wreaks havoc on low-quality software. Like when my paper birth certificate got digitized in the 90s and and my first name ended up (not my actual name) Joebob instead of Joe-Bob. Then when I moved to California, they'd only issue my ID with the exact name on my birth certificate, so then that was wrong, too. The ID is fixed now, though the birth cert is still wrong. I had to bring my (not actually legally binding) longform certificate and plead with the guy at the DMV, who reluctantly put the "wrong" name into their system.Or when I buy plane tickets, and the system tells me both "enter your name *exactly* as it appears on your photo ID" and also "name contains invalid characters" when I put in the hyphen.And hyphenated first name is *easy mode* when it comes to name stuff.
(DIR) Post #AnAhu1VztFmT3zEhs0 by ieure@retro.social
2024-10-18T20:19:09Z
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CRT: the world's most advanced solid-state display technology.
(DIR) Post #AnAhu2u8iygdN9XV8i by ieure@retro.social
2024-10-18T20:20:22Z
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e-ink displays are mechanical, because the microcapsules physically move around inside the display.LCDs are also mechanical, since the liquid crystal molecules have variable twist depending on the current through them -- which is why response times drop when they get cold.CRTs have zero moving parts, thus are solid-state.
(DIR) Post #AoDbWrvms00pGjm8WG by ieure@retro.social
2024-11-19T22:21:22Z
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Normalize getting a DRM-free ePub download when you buy a physical copy of a book.
(DIR) Post #Aohypr4vhoJncXcwXw by ieure@retro.social
2024-12-04T15:50:50Z
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Somehow, I've never seen the original Walkman logo until today. Incredible.
(DIR) Post #ApwrVjiuAEh7lkITWS by ieure@retro.social
2025-01-10T16:51:08Z
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It's fun to violate the D-M-C-A
(DIR) Post #Aq7qO23OAKcX5VCRpA by ieure@retro.social
2025-01-16T02:12:33Z
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Okay #HomeLab #SelfHosting crew, riddle me this.I have a mid tower computer with two PCIe x16 slots and one x1 slot. I wish to connect between four and eight internal 3.5" SATA disks to said machine. What would you recommend?Despite being large, said computer has only two internal 3.5" bays.My current setup is an 8-bay USB 3 enclosure, with six disks inside. I want a non-USB solution.I bought a 4-bay eSATA enclosure and eSATA PCIe x1 card which supports FIS, which is the thing you need to connect multiple devices over one eSATA cable. It doesn't work. Linux sees the PCIe card, the enclosure *seems* to connect to it, but no disks ever appear.There's some stuff online about "oh just run some scsi_rescan.sh script to make it work," but I need something which works without dicking around with shell scripts.Recommendations for $500 or less whole-ass computers with 6+ disk bays also accepted.Boosts appreciated.
(DIR) Post #AqHukBOKTHbVogPZVQ by ieure@retro.social
2025-01-20T22:46:02Z
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Sentences I never thought I'd have to write: A communist transphobic appliance repair Jesus car is parked on my street.
(DIR) Post #Aqt7ArhFP3NBTZeAoi by ieure@retro.social
2025-02-07T21:37:20Z
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Hey #Portland #RetroComputing folks: The place I store much of my stuff was burglarized, trashed, and many items were stolen. The most valuable was a NeXTstation Turbo Color.If you see one floating around, please let me know.I don't have the serial number or anything identifying, other than the HDD is failed :(
(DIR) Post #ArCM2Qcr7XpmHZLM7E by ieure@retro.social
2025-02-17T04:14:27Z
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Wrote some C and it worked the first time.
(DIR) Post #ArCM2WJZy7ynvWN2u0 by ieure@retro.social
2025-02-17T04:22:12Z
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Hacking a C program to add a feature I want: piece of cakeFiguring out how to contribute it to the project, which is hosted on sr.ht: impossible
(DIR) Post #AsRxsy2pjnPsB283pQ by ieure@retro.social
2025-03-25T04:20:21Z
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I know I'm one of those weird computer touchers that runs weirdware in the weirdest way, but I honestly think shit like apps for fast food restaurants is 10x more perverse than anything I've ever done with a computer.
(DIR) Post #AszfZKzUuPwxAtt5JQ by ieure@retro.social
2025-04-11T00:07:07Z
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Executive Order: Likes Are Now Florps
(DIR) Post #AszhDm6VceDAnn0rTs by ieure@retro.social
2025-04-11T20:25:06Z
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The whole internet loves Milkshake Duck, a lovely duck that drinks milkshakes! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the duck bundles AI
(DIR) Post #At70Gzdt0B9etXan6u by ieure@retro.social
2025-04-14T23:53:45Z
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Was messing about in Debian land over the weekend, and it's made me really appreciate some #Guix stuff:- Guix packages get rebuilt when their dependencies change. Was trying to use the arm64 Guix .deb, and it doesn't work, spewing errors about incompatible bytecode. That wouldn't happen on Guix, because it'd get rebuilt if Guile changed.- Building any package in Guix is as simple as `guix build package`. Trying to rebuild the .deb to fix the first problem required a ton of screwing around and manually installing stuff on the system including installing devscripts to run a program to make a fake package with build-deps, which you then install (or in my case, install, find that didn't work, uninstall, then reinstall a different way) to get the environment to build the thing.Guix ain't perfect, but these problems simply don't exist there.
(DIR) Post #AtYNh5e48GW68E0xZw by ieure@retro.social
2025-04-28T15:02:02Z
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I would simpley master my album perfectly the first time