boys deserve to have an LTO tape library

Just dragged out my partner's old X.52 HOTAS because I got an itch to play Project Wingman all off a sudden (yes, its the Jacob Geller video, of course it is). This is genuinely some of the most just visceral fun I've had playing a game on my own and I'm barely 30 minutes into the tutorial mission.

Project from a couple years ago. The GameBoy Advance (and SP) can boot via the link cable. This was initially used for multiplayer games to only require 1 cartridge (like Mario Kart DS), and then for the GameCube link cable to upload their specific payloads […] [Original post on furry.engineer]

PSA: Check the thermal paste on your LSI HBAs. Mine just died so I took the heatsink off and the thermal paste was more a thermal solid. Repasted the replacements I got immediately and the paste situation was similarily terrifying. Took a lot of scraping to get it off even.

Anyone know an easy way to get 24V @ 75W out of USB-C with PD? I know even the new 3.1 spec somehow skipped 24V and started with 28V for some reason. I'd rather not rely on PPS support. Is the easiest way to just use 20V@4A and use a boost converter? (Or 28V and buck converter) Or is there […]

And here it is, the dying breath of the card from my system logs if you will. The [...] section is me cutting out all other registers being just F as well. F indeed.

I currently have no access to my tape backups because, out of all things, the LSI HBA I use to talk to them died.... So I ordered two so I have a spare. Didn't realize I needed a spare HBA for my tape drives >.< (I do have a spare for the internal one just in case)

After it became clear, my now (since manufacture) over 10 year old UPS seems to be killing its batteries now (two times did reputable batteries die in a row in under 2 years space between them). Two times not slowly, but the UPS would start spitting out "battery charge cannot support load" […]

Thank you AWS for the impromptu cardio (This is a known issue, currently being fixed)

One thing I've only recently noticed just how much I enjoy about self-hosting my own Git forge: The speed of all the operations. It just feels so satisfyingly responsive and makes me wish for (and at least for myself work toward) a world with more local services again :3

Look, cute flywheels :3

Trying to figure out what’s clickable in modern UI

Good thing Geneva is not a real place in Minecraft I suppose :3

Say hello to my fully automated self-regulating Minecraft electricity (FE) to Create power (su) converter. The computer uses Advanced peripherals energy sensors to actively limit the amount of FE going into the motors to slightly above current demand to not waste energy.

Damn those 50mm drivers in my new headphones sure do bass good :3 Fox likey! (Meze 105 AER, for those curious)

ok this is so cool. this LED manufacturer designed maybe the coolest demo brochure possible for their COB LEDs, its a ringed binder where each of the pages is a PCB that you plug in and can control via touch to toggle which strips are on 🤯 #electronics

I guess I have more than one cutie who likes all my posts. I am very okay with this x3 Leave a compliment on the floor and the right creatures will pick it up I suppose :3

That one cutie who likes all your posts. You know who you are :3

Fomx

Let me show you: The Cisco CPU PnP tool, which is, of course, required to swap CPUs on your Xeon E-2600 based server. I especially highlight a specific excerpt from the beginning of the manual.

The need to bark at people until they give you the pets you know you deserve :3

I managed an e-commerce server for about ten years. It grew from a small local shop into a major national business, even handling international orders. They expanded to the point where they reduced their local brick-and-mortar store hours because the bulk of their revenue was coming from online […]

I think from now on I'll start licensing all my projects as AGPL, no matter what. Unless there is an even more forceful "you better keep this open source" license? Because that's what I want to go for.

My next Minecraft build now that I know Create Aeronautics is working. Well, let me just leave some bullet points here: - I love C&C: Red Alert - I love airships - Minecraft hasn't fixed TNT dupers :3

First Create: Aeronautics thing I've build. A tread (well, technically belt) driven...drivetrain basically. It isn't really a full vehicle x3

Quick question: Is there a floppy drive "emulator" (like the Gotek or such) that works for *slimline* floppy drives. Picture for reference of exactly what type of drive I mean.

Some more nix crimes: https://git.foxden.network/FoxDen/core/src/branch/main/nix/modules/nixos/warnfilter.nix This allows me to filter out evaluation warnings by regex, such as the podman container module which complains I don't have linger for my rootless users enabled. My setup specifically […]

The one positive thing the LLM craze did for me: Boost my confidence that in fact there is no way I'm not as skilled as high level execs with all the obvoius trash I can easily identify now even in unfamiliar subjects And it's their public presentations. Their PR. Their image. That they want to […]

Is there a way with Forgejo to set "runner priority"? My case is this for my homelab: I got two machines for builds: One has a ton of slow cores. It can run a lot of builds in parallel but slow. The second has a few very fast cores. I'd like jobs to schedule on the fast core machine first and […]

I think I might turn my website into a "what rabbit hole dori fell in today" blog. Mainly programming stuff. Show people how much fun you can have without any plan, idea or LLM and just letting my brain take me where it feels like x3 It's how I learnt low level networking after all :3 I'd also […]