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okay so i have more background on this wonder of technology: apparently the service didn't actually.. fix anything there was to fix? and we're pretty sure it's just an elaborate scam, so that's always nice

 Thu Jan 02 19:04:43 +0000 2020

as for the damage, it's undergone spillage, and although i didn't see anything in a badly-lit cursory glance, (a) volume muted LED is on at all times, (b) the display doesn't even light up, and (c) whatever controls HDMI is clearly dead (or that's how im reading the TV behaviour)

 Fri Jan 03 14:08:23 +0000 2020

so if anyone's in the market for an HP 255 G5 with a dickered motherboard and a possibly-dickered display, oh who am i kidding lol

 Fri Jan 03 14:23:37 +0000 2020

onboard floppy controller ‽‽‽‽

 Fri Jan 03 18:16:40 +0000 2020

just kissed my grandparents' black 20+ year old cat's stupid baby forehead for, presumably, the last time

 Fri Jan 03 20:29:59 +0000 2020

a bitch can dream of a laptop with onboard floppy in current year i guess, damn 😔

 Fri Jan 03 22:40:14 +0000 2020

the patient has exactly 8 bad sectors according to ddrescue, kinda fucked

badblocks says 13 hours ETA, but after that.. it's the year of linux on the 2007 laptop, babeyyyyyyyyyy

 Sat Jan 04 01:54:47 +0000 2020

h

 Sat Jan 04 04:18:53 +0000 2020

it must've finished at least one round-trip by now and it does look like only the 8 blocks thankfully but also it's so fucking slow over this USB dangle hhhhhh

 Sat Jan 04 12:13:43 +0000 2020

first time partitioning (and fixing the inevitable fuckuppery) a drive with Standard Unix Tools and i wanna say it was fun? or maybe not fun necessarily but it kept me entertained? so i guess it was fun?

i mean, MBR would probably suffice, but "Hah!IdontNeedEFI" tickled me, so…

 Sat Jan 04 19:55:59 +0000 2020

the debian non-graphical netboot menu references 10 graphical/dark/speaker configs, which, of course, don't exist, and i haven't been able to find them anywhere on the ftp lol

 Sun Jan 05 01:08:54 +0000 2020

absolutely FUCKED how i don't have tentacles tbh

 Sun Jan 05 02:38:32 +0000 2020

bread baby

breadby?

hm

 Sun Jan 05 14:36:42 +0000 2020

gutted to be called out like this, but you KNOW I'm right

 Sun Jan 05 23:19:27 +0000 2020

it's never not been nice, dumbass

 Mon Jan 06 12:31:33 +0000 2020

could've been worse i guess

 Mon Jan 06 19:40:29 +0000 2020

"frequency", perhaps?

 Mon Jan 06 20:51:38 +0000 2020

urgh the USB bridge plugged in the server started fucking off on me so bebian installer take my hand ig

 Tue Jan 07 15:32:49 +0000 2020

well I'll be, the 4 gigs (what a killer machine!) of 400MHz DDR2 look good

 Tue Jan 07 18:27:30 +0000 2020

mothers and fuckers, we got'em

 Wed Jan 08 12:59:07 +0000 2020

they're girlfriends 😭🖤

 Wed Jan 08 13:53:56 +0000 2020

RT @nabijaczleweli: @Prince_Flamingo @BigBucketEnergy they're girlfriends 😭🖤

 Wed Jan 08 13:54:00 +0000 2020

thought id maybe swap the wifi card to something that doesn't promote itself with "supports 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N" but i managed to completely miss the form factor shift, oops

 Thu Jan 09 16:31:44 +0000 2020

inventory before i inevitably fuck it: VGA, unpopulated HDMI, combo eSATA/USB A, 2xUSB A, something marked "🕴️S400"(??), 3.5mm micro- and headphone, SD (and other memory card i don't recognise symbols for), physical volume knob(!), physical Wi-Fi toggle (w/ LED), RJ11, RJ45 (1G)

 Thu Jan 09 22:41:39 +0000 2020

apparently the S400 thing is IEEE1394/FireWire, but it's my first (and presumably only) time seeing one

 Thu Jan 09 22:48:38 +0000 2020

night and day so far compared to that HP, there's brass inserts, the screws are fucking labelled, the case doesn't both crack because you have to stab the clips way too hard and come apart when you open the screen because they're loose

 Thu Jan 09 23:07:18 +0000 2020

also the HDD, RAM, and WiFi card are serviceable without having to open the whole damn thing

which is a requirement because it's built like a fucking safe, plus it's not that dense so you kinda have to take it all apart

make that night and dusk, then

 Thu Jan 09 23:11:37 +0000 2020

had to break out a disassembly guide for this because the keyboard screws were under the bezel that didn't look like it's supposed to come off (nor did it want to) but otherwise still a reasonably good experience

also cute detent in the ODD bay!

 Thu Jan 09 23:43:05 +0000 2020

the paste on the CPU had, as expected, texture of moist cement, but the pad on the chipset seems okay (not that i would know, it's kinda pliable, i assume that's a good thing)

extremely surprised at that the fan+heatsink were clean, sans a thin layer of dust on the blades, tho

 Thu Jan 09 23:54:38 +0000 2020

also shots of CPU and chipset because hhhh
and yes im fucking kicking myself i didn't take another one after cleaning the paste off

 Fri Jan 10 00:02:43 +0000 2020

the cover/stuffer from before, the only thing left in the spec is ExpressCard so I'm assuming that's for that but who knows

 Fri Jan 10 00:08:52 +0000 2020

back together, none of the 30 screws left over, and i didn't even have to take it back apart to plug the fan in >_<

 Fri Jan 10 00:29:52 +0000 2020

big fan of this cute HDD packer/mount, too!

 Fri Jan 10 00:37:02 +0000 2020

moment of truth i guess

 Fri Jan 10 00:39:37 +0000 2020

in just under 4 hours (and broken wifi switch) i now have a laptop that doesn't spin to 100% in the BIOS, so id say this was a success?

 Fri Jan 10 00:57:53 +0000 2020

call-out post: this Yukon PXE impl for negotiating a 10M link on this 1G NIC, which means i could made this tweet before it finished downloading the initrd+firmware

 Fri Jan 10 01:35:35 +0000 2020

also add to the casualty list one post on the left hinge that cracked off, which is fine, because there are three, the difference is unnoticeable when it's fully together

 Fri Jan 10 01:40:09 +0000 2020

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Fri Jan 10 02:15:27 +0000 2020

i completely shut off yesterday (well, today morning) but:
(a) what the fuck
(b) what the fuck
(c) "FULL 6.92%" (and the 11m prognosis when unplugged, as well as that time it shut off in the installer after a few minutes) confirms that the battery's completely dead-beat dickered

 Fri Jan 10 12:11:38 +0000 2020

now, i have the battery from the HP but that's a 4-cell im not sure how good of an idea it is to add another two new cells but assuming it's 3s2p which'd match the voltage I'm erring on the side of "wasted capacity" to "thermonuclear", depending on the controller?

 Fri Jan 10 12:14:17 +0000 2020

forgot that the battery is likely ultrasonically welded so even if i do get at it it's most likely not gonna come back together in a… reasonable way, so as much as i want to play with boomy batteries i just ordered a modern replacement part (is also 6600mAh rather than 4400, so)

 Fri Jan 10 12:51:08 +0000 2020

a nice bit of visual design here is every element intended to be moved is either inherently green (CPU shroud, drive hinge) or has a green sticker on it (2nd HDD flap(1), PSU tab(2) (where it's welcome because it's real thick, i wouldn't have thought to push that hard otherwise))

 Fri Jan 10 17:00:05 +0000 2020

and they say poetry is dead

 Sun Jan 12 15:35:34 +0000 2020

hmm I'm looking at the i3status thing again and.. i do not have 2^64 bytes of RAM total, free, and available with 450M used? the values in /proc/meminfo also look correct, so???????

 Tue Jan 14 03:54:40 +0000 2020

it.....'s using the hugepage stats isn't it

 Tue Jan 14 04:04:32 +0000 2020

it isn't and i'm stupid for thinking so

instead it's an overflow on i386, because obviously, fixed upstream: https://github.com/i3/i3status/issues/365

 Tue Jan 14 04:38:40 +0000 2020

a little bit of fighting with Switch to autotools (#316) from 23 Jan 2019 (?!) and we're off to the races, folks

 Tue Jan 14 05:19:49 +0000 2020

love too breathe "air" :)

 Tue Jan 14 16:14:59 +0000 2020

happy to announce that the header string in grub/i386-pc/normal.mod is, in fact, displayed as UTF-8 and doesn't crash without the %s for version, despite originally being ASCII only

 Tue Jan 14 18:10:44 +0000 2020

presenting: a mobile workstation solution for the modern businessntity

fit in with your work "mates", look "professional" at meetings, and astound your friends with "productivity" on the go!

 Wed Jan 15 14:31:08 +0000 2020

sadly i only measured 27kB/s, but that may just be because this is a shitty USB drive?

 Wed Jan 15 19:02:21 +0000 2020

I mean the performance will probably not be stunning but qemu-user-static?

 Thu Jan 16 00:28:56 +0000 2020

building LLVM and the CPU hasn't throttled so far so I'd say that's pretty good?

 Thu Jan 16 20:51:49 +0000 2020

it got roughly 3000/4000 files in before it started trying to link stuff, then OOMed after stuffing all 5.5G of swap; though, granted, that was mostly to be expected because that link step took 11.2G of RAM on my server, so

OTOH, never went much above 77 degrees!

 Fri Jan 17 16:26:07 +0000 2020

babby's first udev rule, they grow up so fast..

 Sat Jan 18 12:53:55 +0000 2020

prefer machine oil out of the two, cooperates much better IME (plus, you really can't beat the smell)

 Sun Jan 19 21:38:32 +0000 2020

sliding into the DMs;
(1) no: (2) yes:

 Wed Jan 22 21:21:04 +0000 2020

YE OF LITTLE FAITH, he has awoken, and approved my PR, after four months

let's hope the next two won't take as long i guess

 Thu Jan 23 23:06:42 +0000 2020

having a normal one

 Fri Jan 24 00:22:05 +0000 2020

don't you fucking /dare/ jinx this, this is a high-stakes situation

 Fri Jan 24 00:43:07 +0000 2020

high-entropy

 Fri Jan 24 19:16:04 +0000 2020

It's been exactly 144 days since the first WebDAV-related commit and 119 since it was ready for release, but who's counting the four months?

Anyway, get your fresh hot http 1.8.0 on Crates: https://crates.io/crates/https or the GitHub releases page, available now, mounts everywhere(?)

 Fri Jan 24 20:09:55 +0000 2020

pray for my kindle please

 Mon Jan 27 16:42:17 +0000 2020

forum post says 30 seconds unplugged, amazon says 40 seconds plugged in, and one of them worked, but only after letting it sit on charge long enough to light up again?

 Mon Jan 27 20:25:25 +0000 2020

finished booting into library after ejecting, immediately started rebooting but didn't come up

it definitely was 40 seconds plugged in
but a fsck (all good!) and moving the 700 files/900M out of documents/ and it seems to be, mostly, alive and functional!

 Mon Jan 27 22:15:55 +0000 2020

..for about 30 seconds, the battery seems quite dead; to be expected, really, it sat untouched, most likely empty, for 2? 3? years, but a sad sight nonetheless

 Mon Jan 27 23:12:21 +0000 2020

it.. doesn't seem to be stable at all for some reason?

 Tue Jan 28 03:05:08 +0000 2020

seems to process input for an.. indeterminate amount of time before it hangs and reboots, fun!

might be a dickered firmware upgrade, i've had Update_kindle_3.4_3.4.2_B006.bin dated 7.3.2016 in my downloads folder glaring at me for years now, and the kindle does say it's 3.4, so?

 Tue Jan 28 03:30:01 +0000 2020

committee

 Tue Jan 28 15:16:52 +0000 2020

top 3 bottoms?

 Fri Jan 31 21:31:05 +0000 2020