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Now I just need an ad-free save the doggo from the bees site. =)
Yeah, that was OPM...twice.
Re:What to Do with an Old iPad on Saturday September 06, 2025 @07:32PM (#45153865)
I'm still using an OG Gen1 64GB iPad for movies/etc when traveling. The battery does just fine and easily survives watching a full movie or two.
Re:I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad on Thursday April 03, 2025 @09:05AM (#43569033)
You should be able to do a 2gig + 4gig stick combo. That's what I have in my 2008 Macbook pro, it runs 6GB just fine.
Re:I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad on Thursday April 03, 2025 @09:02AM (#43568993)
While the battery is glued down with adhesive, you can just soak it in some 91-99% isopropyl and that adhesive dissolves quite rapidly and the battery can be pulled right out. I had no issues doing this on my 2016.
Re:I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad on Thursday April 03, 2025 @08:58AM (#43568945)
I just finished completely rebuilding a 2008 and 2010 macbook pro. The older ones are quite serviceable. This round, the speaker surrounds had cracked causing buzzing audio or no audio. I managed to ebay brand new speaker replacements and got them installed. I cleaned everything and re-pasted the CPU/GPU while I was in there as well. They are on El Capitan and High Sierra, but can be patched to be upgraded to Mojave if I wish. Currently running a LTS version of Firefox as my browser.
Re:The long (after)life of some of our old fileserver hardware on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @11:08PM (#42448045)
I just finally decomm'd some supermicro X9 boards that required me to keep a copy of firefox portable and either use Java 7, or configure out some security settings on java 8, but they weren't that hard to maintain/admin.

Your stuff seems like it's at least a gen newer, and probably really isn't that difficult to admin at the BMC level.

Re:TSAC: Low Bitrate Audio Compression on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @10:34AM (#39979888)
The design is very human.
>Living inside some of these small wasps was another even tinier, rarer parasite, a “hyperparasitoid” wasp known as Mesochorus cf. stigmaticus. It kills the parasitic wasp around the same time as the wasp kills the caterpillar, and emerges 10 days later from the caterpillar’s carcass.

That's so metal...

Re:Facebook and Instagram authentication services down on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @10:37AM (#39604753)
That hasn't even been updated since Mar 1... Edit, oh, now it has today's date, but still doesn't reflect reality.
Re:Facebook and Instagram authentication services down on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @10:34AM (#39604697)
Yup, got logged out of everything about 25min ago.
I wonder if this would work at all for my garlic intolerance.
You can definitely buy the battery only, at least for the S21 Ultra, as I just went through that. https://www.ifixit.com/products/galaxy-s21-ultra-replacement...
Re:Can You Live Code a Church Organ? [video] on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @12:21AM (#39099918)
Now you just have to write a playbook/role that sings to you as it executes through tasks... Audible feedback during execution would be cool for some things.
Re:Linux hits nearly 4% desktop user share on Statcounter on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @10:04AM (#38854867)
They have been putting features back into it each update though. We finally have the ability to ungroup open task bar entries again/etc.
That certainly shouldn't be able to happen. The top of panel breaker should pop with a large enough load, and the mains on the street can handle quite a number of homes with supply. There's no way a single in-home unit should/could pop anything at a substation. The component at the substation likely just failed at that time.
Re:Linux Kernel Documentation: NAND Error-Correction Code on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @11:50AM (#38381647)
Well, by definition, naked flash wouldn't be NVMe... so no.
Re:OpenSSH 9.5 released with keystroke timing obfuscation on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @10:41AM (#37765878)
It's 2023, you shouldn't be using the old rsa keys anyway.
Re:Is this duplo train track under too much tension? on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @11:00AM (#37406167)
Since we are discussing Lego strength here, this seems new and relevant to post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l10hJxV4SGo
Re:How the Recession Doomers Got the U.S. Economy So Wrong on Thursday August 03, 2023 @04:40PM (#36991505)
If you swipe a card in their store, they know everything about you...
Re:“The Famous F40” Vector Illustration on Saturday July 15, 2023 @06:51PM (#36741641)
Man, Avara was so much fun back in the day for how simple it was...
Re:Flame-Throwing Tractors Kill Weeds on Monday May 01, 2023 @05:07PM (#35779183)
I do this to my garden yearly before planting. Works very well.
IOPS are not throughput at all... throughput can't even be calculated until you factor in the size of the I/O request.

You can have 1M IOPS at 5MB/sec if your blocks of data are small enough, like 8k... vs 100k IOPS/sec at 1GB/sec throughput with 1MB request sizes...

In this case 100k IOPS are getting you more throughput than your 1M IOPS.

Well, it's ubuntu in a Hyper-V VM. It's a very real linux, and it runs /in/ windows vs on top of it...
Re:Redfin Cuts 13% of Staff, Shuts Down Home-Flipping Business on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @11:28AM (#33533932)
> SF...good deal..

There are no good deals in SF, those are probably the worst deals you can find in the country at any point in time.

Re:Efficient IO in Linux with io_uring [pdf] on Sunday October 16, 2022 @01:19AM (#33221231)
Jens Axboe has been working on this for a long time. I'll stand behind anything he works on =)
Re:Poll: Contractors, what is your hourly rate on Friday August 26, 2022 @01:12PM (#32610184)
I do federal contracting for a parent company and I get billed out around $320-350/hr as far as I can tell. I, of course, only see a fraction of that though =P
Re:Oxygen Candles: Providing Emergency Air on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @02:45PM (#31330913)
That really depends on the density/surface area of the item. I mean, a standard light blub filament burns at like 3000F, but you don't really feel that.
Re:What are your most used self-hosted applications? on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @01:29PM (#31263419)
rsync to external USB HDD in my case. I cycle two 8TB externals between my home and safe deposit box for offsite storage. I swap them and then do a fresh rsync of all my jails/etc.
That's still too many formatting bits for me.

My weekly todos look something like this:

It uses a simialr format:

YYYYMMDD

- Task to be done

  - Subtask

  * Note about task
/ Task started/half done

x Task completed

ie:

20220328

- finish baselining instances for ami creation

  x server 1

  / server 2

  - server 3

   * Make sure RH image is being used vs AWS provided AMI
/ verify routes exist for all subnets

x snapshot instance X before users are added

-- Dave

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