JustARegularNerd

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[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I like that it doesn’t detract from the original mood. I also appreciate the remaster of the washing machine model, it really needed it.

That all being said, it’s also amazing that those 20 year old graphics still don’t look half bad.

The digital sign the local university has is powered by a Raspberry Pi - I caught it rebooting while driving past

For me, my default browser is LibreWolf with several privacy hardening extensions, but if I do come across a website that fails, my usual route goes LibreWolf > Firefox > Ungoogled Chromium

If it doesn't work beyond that then I just won't use the website.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

God I can only imagine spoonkid reading this sponsor out and it wouldn't even sound off

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

While I'm far from being a sysadmin I'm in the same boat. Main study laptop is Linux but I just end up using Windows on my gaming PC for the same reasons.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I think this is a bad take, and one that assumes one is superior for using Linux over proprietary alternatives

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago

If there's a package conflict that requires the user's choice, it shall be called an emergency meeting

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

I mean that's a fair assumption of what their ticker might've been

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago

Looking up the specs of a D270, looks like the memory is upgradable.

It also looks like the Intel Atom N2600 it has (from my reading) is actually a 64-bit processor

I'd probably say you shouldn't have much trouble finding a bigger DDR3 memory stick for it for dirt cheap or free from an e-wasted notebook

Ultimately it depends if the performance loss you're finding is memory limited or CPU limited right now, but I would think that giving it 2 or 4GB + giving it 64-bit would go a long way

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This all happened two weeks before I started, so I don't know the exact details. If it was set up the way I think it was, I'd say yes, the DC was in it's own VM and then a separate VM would've been used as a NAS. Of course being hardware RAID the whole host server went down when that card failed.

They probably didn't have a second DC set up due to the DEFCON 5 levels of "We can't work!"

They were ultimately planning on going to the cloud anyway from what I heard and that catastrophe just accelerated that plan ahead

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I got a server from ewaste because the RAID card did fail and having SAS drives they couldn't even pull data from it with anything else. It was the domain controller and NAS so as you can imagine, very disruptive to the business. As they should they had an offsite backup of the system and so we just restored onto a gaming PC as a temporary solution until we moved them to M365 instead.

I just use software RAID on it now and so far so good for about 180 days.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 15 points 1 month ago

I have email addresses under Outlook (old personal account), Gmail (study provided email), Exchange (work) and Proton (main personal account). I also actively use the calendar feature in my client, which is sync'd up to my Nextcloud instance.

Just having it all under Thunderbird is so convenient and it feels more private. It's also an entirely consistent UI between accounts

 

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A portion of a prime number checker written in the Rust programming language, where the first few lines are written correctly including the first if statement in the program. However, the following if statements are written using Python syntax instead of Rust, as the author slipped back into his native tongue.

 

I actually intended to post this to Reddit but I thought I would contribute content to here instead to get the ball rolling here and do my part.

Anyway, this is a Windows XP-era machine I have at work for testing, and I had just this monitor plugged into it and saw the CPU fan trying to spin. I spun it a bit myself and it just kept going. I disconnected the HDMI cable and it stopped.

The monitor is actually DisplayPort, with a passive adapter to HDMI which then goes to the HDMI cable connected to this PC. The GPU is just PCI-E. The computer has some old ~2007 AMD CPU in it. The GPU actually doesn't seem to work anyway, the PC posts normally but there's no image from either the GPU or onboard, but when putting either another GPU or no GPU, there's an image from the appropriate output.

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