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disastrous babies, or: a mood

 Thu Aug 01 17:44:04 +0000 2019

magnets!

 Fri Aug 02 22:13:20 +0000 2019

some times you write the assembler, but others… you *are* the assembler

Unrelatedly, this better bloody work, since I paid out the arse for the two green 680μF caps, since my preferred shop only had a single one, across both of their locations? in Fig. 12 we trust, I guess

 Sat Aug 03 13:18:52 +0000 2019

[Display|Hide] local ratsnest

 Sat Aug 03 14:32:38 +0000 2019

This curvedly cramped piece of shit wire took the better part of fifteen fucking minutes all on its own, love too assemble hardware

 Sat Aug 03 15:36:32 +0000 2019

And so thar she blows, a design stolen shamelessly from the datasheet, barring 8.1Ω resistors being ungettable and therefore replaced with 10Ω ones, which should still mean it'll work, well, at all, if not just as well

 Sat Aug 03 16:00:08 +0000 2019

And, by golly, what a surprise, it does! It's barely audible at an elbow, and you can reasonably hear it at up to a foot! Thank you, Philips, very cool :)

 Sat Aug 03 16:32:30 +0000 2019

The combined-twenty-minutes of me getting progressively more and more sad with each following test/attempt will be available on Patreon later :) :) :)

 Sat Aug 03 16:34:22 +0000 2019

@greenTetrah

 Sat Aug 03 19:12:16 +0000 2019

intended that as a joke, but you know how it be https://www.patreon.com/posts/combined-20-of-28892307

 Sat Aug 03 20:21:23 +0000 2019

Hmm, the datasheet is quite clear on using a ±12V symmetrical supply and doesn't specify what the conditions are for an asymmetrical one too well so I, with my peanut-sized brain, just slapped a 12V supply across the input and called it a (sad) day, but what if…

 Sun Aug 04 13:54:51 +0000 2019

Well it looks like I'm 'boutta fucking detransition because it seems like I really am Jared, 19.

 Sun Aug 04 14:20:33 +0000 2019

When I finally learn how to read, maybe I'll be able to understand the datasheet on this baby, because my target PSU does 300mA on the -12V line, *if* I could get to it

 Sun Aug 04 15:11:14 +0000 2019

Ł Ę M Ó Ń

 Sun Aug 04 16:08:33 +0000 2019

the furniture is safe, gays only sit on the floor

 Sun Aug 04 21:16:37 +0000 2019

just did a bad thing

 Tue Aug 06 01:30:59 +0000 2019

https://twitter.com/yourcompanionAI/status/1158717586957307904

 Tue Aug 06 14:24:01 +0000 2019

felt gay, might delete later

 Wed Aug 07 17:43:21 +0000 2019

don't talk to me or my micro Henry ever again

 Wed Aug 07 20:18:55 +0000 2019

[insert dick joke here]

 Wed Aug 07 22:25:23 +0000 2019

update: drunk and thinkinmg abou t,, gir;ls

 Wed Aug 07 22:52:58 +0000 2019

I'm actually ridiculously impressed with SolveSpace for how well it handled (1). Sure, it pegged the CPU for a couple seconds per edit when all the models were turned on, but it hasn't crashed once, and took the 50-element rotate group for a total of 200 helices like a damn champ

 Thu Aug 08 19:27:18 +0000 2019

also had to turn up chord tolerance to 50% from my usual 0.005%, but I can't blame anyone but myself and my not-the-freshest computer for that

 Thu Aug 08 19:28:47 +0000 2019

There's a high chance you've seen it already, but if not, @standupmaths has made a video recreating Asteroids on a laser projector https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkHjG759ABY

 Sat Aug 10 00:00:52 +0000 2019

Full-colour VRML (WRL?) exports now in SolveSpace, courtesy of ya bitch

 Sat Aug 10 01:16:08 +0000 2019

Knew I was pushing it with the load, so not really surprised it failed, and it really did hold up surprisingly well for a solder joint

 Sat Aug 10 11:19:35 +0000 2019

let's both (a) go and (b) hope routing the feedback around the input cap means it's far enough to not be interfered with

 Sat Aug 10 16:33:39 +0000 2019

hehehe, torch time

 Sat Aug 10 20:13:46 +0000 2019

aftermath (in the shade)

 Sat Aug 10 20:25:59 +0000 2019

and some acetone to get rid of the parts of the previous coat that didn't burn away

 Sat Aug 10 21:06:35 +0000 2019

and a wire-brush (for the viewers following along at home, this is where you pop in ear protection)

 Sat Aug 10 21:20:05 +0000 2019

followed by a coat of varnish, moving the pot from the balcony to the tub because it started raining, and a second one, before being migrating into the sink to fumigate overnight

 Sat Aug 10 21:58:42 +0000 2019

back in axion, babey

 Sun Aug 11 11:42:41 +0000 2019

my beautiful citron babies! so utterly consumed by being slightly mouldy but also not tasting particularly good despite smelling heavenly! the dark times are truly upon us

 Sun Aug 11 13:48:53 +0000 2019

including proprietary Wire-Flat™ technology

 Sun Aug 11 16:41:58 +0000 2019

the poof of the short-circuit condition's in the smoke, or something

 Sun Aug 11 19:04:38 +0000 2019

powerful

 Sun Aug 11 23:25:54 +0000 2019

yep!

 Mon Aug 12 15:16:44 +0000 2019

Two layers of leather gloves, a lighter, and a soldering iron later, and the heatsink is recovered from its previous very globbled state

 Mon Aug 12 15:27:43 +0000 2019

And some drill crimes, which doesn't assuage the big problem that is the left leg of the heatsink going pretty much directly into the output blob while being connected to the ground tab, and the vertical spacing on the standoffs, hmm

 Mon Aug 12 16:05:31 +0000 2019

Wasn't the hottest on doing so, but decided for bending the problematic leg flat, which should be reversible (albeit probably not too many more times), and mostly fixes the clearance problems, with the overall stability being good enough to not require soldering in the other leg

 Mon Aug 12 16:44:09 +0000 2019

and so with a gob of premium one-dollar aliexpress thermgoo, a knife and some filing, it's ready to assault all in the vicinity with the inevitable whine of inadequate filtering

 Mon Aug 12 17:29:21 +0000 2019

well dress me in a crab costume and throw me to the transbians

 Mon Aug 12 17:59:07 +0000 2019

The amp did get piping hot almost instantaneously under full load, so I asked the box of heatsinks and pumps and it provided something that, after center-punching with a screwdriver, and committing more drill crimes to get it mostly centered, should work

 Tue Aug 13 15:35:44 +0000 2019

Some more of The Good Goo™, and an abomination of a stolen mounting stack, and we're goo to go, hopefully

 Tue Aug 13 16:08:25 +0000 2019

still not sure about the efficacy of this type of connector but the 2.4A fans use it so who am I to doubt server gear engineers

 Tue Aug 13 17:14:05 +0000 2019

ah yes, the fabled lack of noise of front panel audio

 Tue Aug 13 17:32:17 +0000 2019

oh, and there's a distinct click sound with each frame from the GPU, very cool

But the amp stayed at a comfortable 40-45 degrees when playing comfortable-through-earplugs-levels, and piped up to like 60 on full blast, so I'm free from heatsink artistry on this blessed day

 Tue Aug 13 17:36:39 +0000 2019

The heatsink on the PSU is severe overkill, too, it's not left ambient when running off 12V, and barely crept up to 30-35 under full load and with 5V at the input

 Tue Aug 13 17:39:15 +0000 2019

The back audio output gets rid of the high whine, but is still irredeemably noisy, maybe I need to stick a sound card in and see if that helps, but where the hell am I gonna get a sound card in Current Year?

 Tue Aug 13 18:40:20 +0000 2019

I'd low-key go straight for Morocco tb h

 Tue Aug 13 18:50:13 +0000 2019

over half a cubic meter of computer nongarbage including multiple PS/2 mice, two AGP-equipped motherboards, a TV tuner card? or two? but not a single damned audio card in this fucking house, sounds like it's time to participate in capitalism, but I'm not happy about it

 Wed Aug 14 16:55:49 +0000 2019

what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck

 Wed Aug 14 17:41:10 +0000 2019

pretty sure I'd've died on the spot if it were, but it's the Polish coat of arms, which, still

 Wed Aug 14 18:55:48 +0000 2019

http version 1.5.1, released today, fixes long-standing problems related to being forced to use old openssl versions, so if installing https://crates.io/crates/https failed for you on a linux or you had problems with using generated keys on an OSX, now's the time to update/try again!

 Thu Aug 15 15:50:41 +0000 2019

yee (and I can not stress this enough) haw

 Fri Aug 16 12:18:25 +0000 2019

Dear Lesbirals,
if computers are so great,
which lap top would you rather use?

 Fri Aug 16 16:54:47 +0000 2019

I'm sorry

 Sat Aug 17 16:24:59 +0000 2019

And so, after a month and 9+7kLOC, pir-8-emu, a @thecoshman's pir-8 ISA implementation, {dis,}assembler, and emulator, v0.1.0 is now out on https://crates.io/crates/pir-8-emu! Take a gander at the docs https://raw.githack.com/LoungeCPP/pir-8-emu/doc/pir_8_emu/index.html and the manpages, and hesitate not to yell at me if it's broken!

 Sat Aug 17 23:33:54 +0000 2019

As usual, remember to peep the Patreon if you want to support further development of these crates, and other software and/or hardware I generate! https://patreon.com/nabijaczleweli

 Sat Aug 17 23:37:45 +0000 2019

First of all, I don't develop this "for you" (not least because you've yet to pay me), but to appease the hopeless romantic within me that yearns for the days where softłer might be good.

Secondly: https://crates.io/crates/https

 Sat Aug 17 23:46:46 +0000 2019

it's most likely gonna be okay, fam

 Tue Aug 20 02:05:01 +0000 2019

that's capitalism, babey

 Tue Aug 20 19:46:43 +0000 2019

I generally try not to thirst but.. jesus christ ,, this is absolutely fuckin killer

 Wed Aug 21 01:43:51 +0000 2019

tackup 0.3.0 out, with optional tabset deduplication and time-based and manual deletion! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tackup/

 Thu Aug 22 18:14:17 +0000 2019

the ultimate proof that capitalism doesn't optimally allocate resources and as such need be abolished is that I'm not currently holding anyone's hand

 Sat Aug 24 02:09:23 +0000 2019

!!

 Sat Aug 24 13:00:31 +0000 2019

embed-resource 1.3.0 now out with support for Windows cross-compilation on non-Windows platforms! https://crates.io/crates/embed-resource

 Sat Aug 24 13:28:55 +0000 2019

stripey friends?

 Tue Aug 27 02:58:50 +0000 2019

Opened alright after working up the courage to work the absolutely crackin' cracks around the hinges, though that's to be expected, having gotten the thing for the very reason of "screen's dead".

 Wed Aug 28 17:54:22 +0000 2019

2 PCMCIAe, 3 USB As, LPT, phone *and* ethernet lines, VGA out, which is how you know it's high-end, speakers/line in/mic in/headphones out, a big hole with a connector I don't recognise, and a DVD-ROM, [insert guffaw about modern laptops here]

 Thu Aug 29 11:31:30 +0000 2019

who'd've thought the reason I finally use a normal full-ass debugger would be writing a Total Commander plugin in Rust, of all things

 Thu Aug 29 14:00:28 +0000 2019

Ah yeah, that is the more common name for an LPT port, isn't it? The one I meant was the one on the left in (3), down the hole

 Thu Aug 29 14:11:49 +0000 2019

Both the battery and the drive slide out after pulling back a single latch, and the drive bay has both an ATAPI and a battery connector, so you could double your battery life with this one simple trick (manufacturers hate her)!!

 Thu Aug 29 16:16:10 +0000 2019

In awe at the 2.5kg of this lad, absolute SYSTEMUNIT, and it's got WiFi?! (And a WinXP Pro license, elided to protect the guilty.)

At 60W that's right under an hour, assuming no losses and a new battery, so I'm giving it like two minutes, tops, maybe?

 Thu Aug 29 19:32:38 +0000 2019

Slight detour into the delightfully shielded crotch flap, housing two whole SODIMM slots, one populated with eight K4S561632Cs, which the datasheet says are 256Mbit SDRAMs, so a whole 256MB? Not bad!

Also the first believable datecode of 01.03.2002, 15 months younger than me!

 Fri Aug 30 15:00:03 +0000 2019

And a look down the mystery hole, measured it to 11x70.5x98 (bottom)/105 (top), and it's a different connector from the PCMCIAe?

Thought maybe the good ole Satellite 1405's PSU would work, but that's 15V, which is… not great, since I have no way to power this now :ж

 Fri Aug 30 15:28:24 +0000 2019

okay that's a lie apparently, turns out every other toshiba in the house is 19V and the same jack and polarity as this, and the 1405 is an outlier!! unexpected, but very good news!

 Fri Aug 30 15:35:15 +0000 2019

the virgin DJ "different rules for men" Khaled vs the chad Tech "When they ask me how I rap so quick, I say »poon-lickin'«" N9ne

 Fri Aug 30 17:10:39 +0000 2019

We've got an answer! From the deep innards of 2002, the Mystery Hole turns out to be for a "20.0GB hard disk drive; ATA-5 Interface; 9.5mm height, 0.2lbs, 13ms access time, 3ms track to track seek time, 4200rpm drive rotation", which means no storage for the time being

 Fri Aug 30 17:18:40 +0000 2019

a semi-related fun thing is to grab the neutral AC wire and feel the various appliances kicking in/out as tiny shocks, along the small baseline switching fuzz

 Sat Aug 31 02:20:21 +0000 2019

😍dream👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩setup😍

 Sat Aug 31 14:15:50 +0000 2019