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@jerry@infosec.exchange
My single user cloud instance has nearly doubled in price in the last year.
I can only imagine having to pay for one of the big ones with tens of thousands of users.
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Tristan
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mastodon 4.5.11Hello, I like breaking computers.
I post about computers and game consoles (mostly vintage), running, fountain pens, cats, History, the accordion, books, mychology and on occasion cars and recreational shooting.
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@lothcat
There was an NPR story in 2019ish that happiness increases with income up until about 75,000 USD, which is the point where the curve falls off and further increase is marginal. People with just enough not to worry about money we're happiest while rich people were never satisfied.
They had some asshole economist they were interviewing about it and he got so mad when they brought up the study and just insisted "nuh uh nuh uh NUH UH!!""
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@stux@mstdn.social you would not believe how nuclear tier pissed people get when any pedestrian or bike infrastructure at all is proposed.
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social
Seeing all those innocent computers in a field stone basement stresses me out.
Those 2x4s and plywood are doing a lot of heavy lifting (literally too).
I've pretty much decided to get a 'new' (to me) accordion that's fully in tune. Liberty has a Chinese Parrot model that looks fairly new and is cheap. They also have a couple vintage Italian models around the same price, but I'm so tired of dealing with antique wax and leather when I just want to practice. They seem to have a good warranty policy but I really want to avoid shipping accordions around if I can.
Ive always wanted a midi accordion so I can practice with headphones, but the only ones I ever could find were warsaw pact sketchy house burning machines.
I should make one.
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@SuperSelena64@vmst.io
I just ordered a similar scope to heal a laserdisc player... and an apple iigs... and an AT pc, mac, c128, several modern laptops-
Yea probably put off that purchase too long.
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@TechTangents@dialup.space
As soon as you said "this product was developed using ai" with a negative tone I knew I would not be reading the comments.
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@bulldoggirl300@brain.worm.pink
That's a post error, it could have a number of causes. I'd start with removing the battery, unplugging the power from the wall, then holding the power button down for a full 15 seconds.
Then put the battery back, plug it in and turn it on.
Can't run this weekend due to overtime, so figured I'd burn all the fuel in the tank lol
A little stray black kitty I've never seen before greeted me in the alley, but when I reached to pet it, it jumped two feet in the air and fled at the speed of light.
That kitty was half the size of the others near my house, I hope it doesnt get attacked.
I see the other small cat it's size ripping woodchucks apart in the road all the time, the little ones can be spicy.
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It's the FTB neo tech modpack. I've never played a Minecraft version newer than like the initial full release. my VMhost is SUFFERING. I gave it 2 cores (5900x, so very nice per core performance) and just my testing spikes to 80%+ usage. I haven't even built any unhinged contraptions yet...
It has 128gb ddr5 so if Its getting close to time to build a new one i can reuse the ram and it won't be that expensive.
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@rootwyrm
I should have specified, I can find them for 5,000ish, but can't afford that lol.
That 2,000 dollar Master Digital is mighty tempting though.
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@tshirtman@mas.to @frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org
They have the system boards for preorder, but you have to buy compatible ram.
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Wow I forgot how slow downloading over serial is. I havn't put up with that since I was making c64 disks the cursed way like 12 years ago.
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I put the 74hct04 on the rom board in backwards at first and it got really hot, so thats getting replaced. Thankfully I was ordering a tube of those in my next digikey order anyways.
Unfortunately it always takes me like a week to actually place a digikey order because I keep adding things.
Hopefully that cooked chip can hang on a couple weeks lol.
Seeing max7219 chips are like 20 bucks a piece now, I thought I'd try one of the 50 cent Chinese clones. There's tons of crappy dot matrix stuff being driven by them, so they must mostly work, I thought.
This description does not inspire confidence.
Staked out until 10pm last night to try stopping a roving hoard of racoons from destroying a family friends garden, but they decided not to show.
It was nice out, so I still enjoyed the evening.
There are allegedly at least 8 of them in the group.
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Apparently the "9 lives" brand was advertised as "leakproof" and gotta say, 50ish years without leaking is pretty good.
Final month of this job, I've started slipping naval terms into work communication.
"The aft server rack, it's between the clew and foot of the rack."
I'm going to get murdered.
I can now say I would not recommend getting acetone in a fresh open blister wound, its very unpleasant.
Bad weekend news: got very sunburnt. Good weekend news: got very large cent.
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I have absolutely been loving neotech, specifically Modern Industrialization. The tedious multi step recipes for everything forces me to automate a lot more than I normally would and there's a lot more variation to the assembly processes than just chaining a bunch of auto crafting tables together.
I do wish the machines had sound though. I miss the grinding and humming of my usual industrial craft 2 factories.
Cronjob stopping randomly on one of my personal servers.
>nohup sleep X ...
fixed :)
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@rootwyrm I've never done any surface mount stuff other than occasional passives. 110c for 24 hours seems insane to me, but that's what I'm seeing everywhere lol.
On the bright side, the Google thing reminds us death grip monopolies can be broken up quite easily. Just wait until they inevitably get taken over by nepobabies that surround themselves with yesmen and have no understanding of why their product is successful and POOF!
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Looked closer at the can, somehow I ended up with a "tung oil finish" thats MOSTLY tung oil and mineral spirits with a bit of something varnish-like.
I wiped it down with mineral spirits and 0000 steel wool but now I need to decide whether to put pure tung oil on, or just put a couple more coats of the "finish".
The AC is broken in the office, which would be fine, but for some reason the boiler vents it's heat into my office and the two next to it.
The other two offices belong to executives so they just went "welp" and left, lol.
petty whining
There's cupronickle in oldschool runescape now? How long before an automation skill with factory building and electronics?
A full week of back and forth between the pharmacy and doctor office trying to get my prescription filled.
Now the doctor's office said they sent it in on the 1st, which would be a week before they can legally refill it... I think they're just lying now.
Oh well. The brain will just be in fun mode for another week.
THATS IT.
The intrusive thoughts win.
Im playing' The Cleveland Show' theme on accordion.
Ewaste room is LITTERALLY full of old TFT monitors and my boss was strongly hinting I should steal the old monitors I'm retrieving as I replace them.
Sir, you aren't going to Tom Sawyer me into taking your ewaste.
I think I mostly fixed my La Tosca Fiesta accordion, at least to the point it's usable.
Some of the notes barely play or require way more bellows than they should but they don't sound like someone farting underwater anymore.
Excited to get back into it. If it causes me too many problems I'll invest in one that isn't from the 50s and wasn't repaired by a dipshit with a soldering iron.
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They tried some tests and kept him overnight, but he didn't make it through the night.
I really wish they would have just put him to sleep while I held him, but I'm glad it's finally over.
Booted windows for the first time in a while and had to dismiss four full screen nagware prompts to "PLSSS SET UP MORE SPYWARE PLSSSSSS"
No wonder non-linux users just use their phone for everything now.
Discovering Hy-Vee still does fresh blueberry bagels has probably lowered my nutritional intake to that of the average medieval peasant.
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This is coming at a time when law enforcement is much more brazen about prosecuting people for their political opinions, but I suspect the worst is yet to come, when it's eventually coordinated in mass at the federal level.
https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/facebook-meme-quoting-trump-costs-tn-man-his-freedom/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/29/texas-leftwing-antifa-activist-trial
Rebuilding some of my servers to be less experimental unhinged difficult to manage abominations, and I can't help but want to also make the new ones unhinged experimental difficult to manage abominations.
At least my network will stay docker free.
I have never seen a food product brag about their bad past FDA rating before.
I mean it got me to buy it so it works.
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