Posts by kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
(DIR) Post #ARcUWhVeIG0qckOzuS by kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-01-14T02:30:32Z
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@art Nice! I just bought a similar one—a Dell Wyse 3040, an eBay special (complete with the wrong AC adapter).If you haven't been there already, the parkytowers.me.uk site has a tremendous amount of info on thin clients. Here's the N03D page: https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/wyse/3030/n03d.shtmlYours is BIOS, so you won't have the EFI jiggery-pokery I had on mine. Might want to consider the F2FS filesystem though, vs. ext3/4. It's supposed to be optimized for Flash storage devices. Seems to work well.#Linux #ThinClient
(DIR) Post #ARcWcK9YFEmVpasKmW by kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-01-14T02:53:58Z
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@art Glad to help. I'm having quite a bit of fun with mine. Really impressive what you can get for well under the price of an #RPi right now.I put stock Debian on mine, as I only have 8GB of fixed eMMC storage. But if you have more, you might want to look at Ubuntu Server Minimal, plus one or more of the usage-specific 'snaps'. Looks neat.I'm thinking of picking up another just to run and experiment with Microk8s (https://microk8s.io/), Canonical's new hotness.#ThinClient #Ubuntu #Debian
(DIR) Post #ARqAull0sEePsVE8SO by kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-01-20T16:56:47Z
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@ParadeGrotesque The last few installs I've done, I've really been wishing that more Linux distros had an installation method like Raspbian.I don't want to create an *installer*, what I want is to config and burn the *actual system* to a storage device, then take that device and physically install it in the target system, turn it on, and have it boot up into the OS, complete with network configuration, WiFi, and an SSH daemon running. Totally headless.Why is that so hard?
(DIR) Post #ASIE1H3OAGO9ysLjWK by kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-02-03T05:20:41Z
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It seems the old #Gateway desktop I was using as a storage server has finally reached the end of the road. Several capacitors on the motherboard have definitely lost their magic smoke.Though it served me well, I'm probably not going to bother re-capping it: running an #Athlon-based desktop 24/7 in 2023 just to serve files isn't exactly a great use of electricity, when an ARM or Intel SoC based system could outperform it at a fraction of the wattage.Can't say it didn't last, though.#Hardware
(DIR) Post #ASJ3gXG1v2Kjlth85o by kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-02-03T15:22:23Z
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@Ricardus I wonder how hard it would be to snag and recover a high-altitude balloon, rather than just shooting it down?Most fixed-wing aircraft at that altitude probably move pretty fast; I guess maybe you'd need another maneuverable balloon/airship or something?If the Chinese are going to keep flying the things into US airspace it seems like the polite thing to do would be to snag them, analyze them, and then return the pieces to their embassy in a box.
(DIR) Post #ASJbfhWVf7tVlKB0iG by kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-02-03T17:46:32Z
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@kentborg Yeah it's unfortunate Pis are so hard to get at a reasonable price. I had my eyes on eBay for another cheap thinclient, which I've had good luck using as cheap Pi alternatives (if you don't need GPIO/hats and are okay w/ x86), but then my SO told me she didn't need her current desktop anymore… so I've just traded up to a somewhat newer repurposed PC.As @publius pointed out, embodied energy is a real thing, and this machine was running already so it's a net win.
(DIR) Post #ASi3KH3aSebOEe9IBM by kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-02-15T16:39:21Z
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@dancinyogi Once the CO2 levels get high enough that indoor air starts having marked negative effects on human cognition, anyone who doesn't want to get a bunch of points shaved off their IQ will need to buy a CO2 scrubber for their house. Those certainly won't be free.It'll be like 'Brave New World', only with market economics to determine who gets to walk around slightly brain-damaged.
(DIR) Post #ASkGkNZAZMOVfncSKu by kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-02-16T18:25:58Z
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@publius I would love to see what other books he pitched and the publisher *didn't* accept.'Do-It-Yourself Dentistry'?'Radium Paint For Beginners'?'An Introductory Guide to Nitroglycerin'?
(DIR) Post #ASwndsOTBSXjdjdmJk by kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-02-22T19:31:04Z
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@Mer__edith If I had to pick a company most likely to accidentally cause the robo-apocalypse through a flawed advertising + consumer analytics campaign, I don't know if Bain would be at the *top* of the list? But they'd definitely be top 5.
(DIR) Post #AT0kLKhyAG1iiv4Et6 by kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-02-24T17:10:54Z
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@Eggfreckles They managed to get an "E" from the ESRB, huh? Someone was asleep at the switch. 😂
(DIR) Post #AUY2ajaR3cVPCILOSW by kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-04-11T16:34:59Z
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@signalapp If you guys don't mind getting Euros (or GBP, or whatever) in the mail, you should let people know that this is a fine way to deal with those extra bills that end up in your wallet after a trip abroad. 😀
(DIR) Post #AVx6DA8xStyIwfF4hk by kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-05-23T15:57:07Z
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It's entirely possible that Apple's threat to produce their own 5G silicon was mostly aimed at getting a better deal from Broadcom.Not that Apple *couldn't* do it if they wanted—they have deep enough pockets so that it's probably not entirely a bluff—but it doesn't seem in keeping with their core business.But it probably made Broadcom a lot more tractable at the negotiating table, since if Apple goes DIY, they lose the business and potentially get a new competitor.#Apple #Broadcom #5G
(DIR) Post #AW1N7UaP1SicSjni4G by kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-05-25T18:03:45Z
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@ParadeGrotesque Very true.In my preferred reality, they would have decided to use and contribute back to one of the open source 5G implementations, but in reality it probably would have been easier to just buy the IP, or a whole company that owns the necessary IP, outright…
(DIR) Post #AWFE17aKyUtUtw0YRk by kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-05-31T02:07:07Z
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Just noticed that Microsoft's SSO system bounces you to a login page served from the domain "account.activedirectory.windowsazure.us" which looks like the sort of place that will give your computer cybergonorrhea.But because it's Microsoft, I don't know if that's a phishing attack, or #JustMicrosoftThings — probably because some dingus decided it was easier to buy a new domain (in the .us TLD? Really?) than get a proper subdomain under microsoft.com. 🤦♂️#security #phishing #microsoft
(DIR) Post #AWitAVkpNZRF2QLm1A by kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-06-15T17:47:27Z
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@breadandcircuses @rosemarymosco I've sometimes wondered if I only remember the winter snowfall from when I was a kid as bigger than it was, because I was small.But a few weeks ago I found some family photos from the early 90s, and the snowbank at the end of our old house's driveway was taller than my dad. He was 6'2".I mentioned this to a teenager, and he very clearly thought I was putting him on. Like there was just *no possible way* that could be true.And for him? It probably isn't.
(DIR) Post #AXPDbgDhDCajsc1VZo by kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-07-06T04:02:19Z
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@art I've thought similar things (in the context of some sort of minimal odd-grid house or cabin) but I keep coming back to how much I like hot running water. Short of moving to Iceland or the Yellowstone caldera, I haven't worked out an elegant way to do that yet…
(DIR) Post #AXXj6qdWmrRaIgT0bI by kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-07-10T06:33:00Z
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@art It feels a bit like buying a PC in the 1990s: you *could* buy one today, but you know that if you wait another 6 months, there's going to be another iteration out that will do even more for the same price…
(DIR) Post #AYmcCPWDnB9UB0P3wG by kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-08-16T04:16:44Z
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Naturally it's only after burning 3 workdays and a full weekend on my increasingly Ahabian quest to get #Mailman3 working on my $30/year VPS, that a friend suggested "why don't you just use the thing FreeBSD uses for their lists?"And, well… shit:http://mlmmj.org/
(DIR) Post #AZCEL7BLzSv97gDakq by kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-08-28T17:23:14Z
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@tante The issue you'll likely run into is that there aren't a lot of goals that the FLOSS dev community has in common *besides* "software freedom".There are developers from across the political spectrum, from Libertarians to no-shit tankie Communists. You've got Anarchist cypherpunks, diehard Free Speech advocates, Secular Humanist progressives, religious fundamentalists, Zionists, nationalists, anticolonialists, intelligence agencies…It's a very big tent.#software #politics #freedom
(DIR) Post #AdRRNbhrJrHbvMurGC by kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-01-02T16:56:43Z
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@simon I have a blog on SDF.org that I am hopeful will outlast me. IIRC, SDF dates back to 1987, so it's already outlasted the dot-coms and most of Web 2.0.Hosting there, plus ensuring I get crawled by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, and not using any complex HTML or JS that's likely to be deprecated in future browser versions, is my current strategy. Plus just keeping the whole thing small.Sadly there's just no way to square the usual "buy your own domain!" advice with longevity.#SDF