More basement:

I completely forgot that DVD-RAM was a thing once. Found my old disks and they still work. 🤯 The data on them is from 2008, so they’re not that old. Still impressive.

The disks are two-sided. On the photo, that particular side of the disk on the left appears to be completely unused. 🤔

And then I read on Wikipedia that DVD-RAMs aren’t produced anymore at all today. Huh.

(I refuse to tag this as “retrocomputing”. Read/write DVDs that you can use just like a harddisk, thanks to UDF, are still “new and fancy” in my book. 😂)


#dzyx34a

(#twchcua) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The sad thing here is that I’ve now banned and blocked Youtube at the network over here. I need a way to solve for “when someone links me to a Youtube clip” or “how do I fix X” Youtube tutorial videos. Those are the only two use-cases I can’t easily find a good solution for. The addition however is gone, since now I just sync the family’s (Kids, Wife, me) favourite Youtubers (channels) to my local Plex archive.

Fuck the algorithms 🤣 Fuck ads! 😅


#oujapxq

We participated with the scouts in the county cleanup day and even found a whole rubbish dump at the edge of the woods. Somebody must have dumped a whole truck load down the hill and burried half of it. We filled up a complete trailer with that. I reckon you can get much more out of this place.

Just in time for the start of the event, it began pouring down on us. It was very muddy, but still good fun. One cub scout said: “Oh, this is so cool! Walking around earlier on the paths and picking up trash wasn’t bad, but this here is really awesome. I really do enjoy it a lot. Look how much trash there is. Crazy!”

It took me half an hour to hose down all the clay from my rain jacket, -trousers and boots. What a mess.


#76gnc2a

I’m this close to making an Android app for managing a shopping list.

I just accidentally deleted the wrong list in the app that I’m currently using, and now there’s no way to get it back. Recreating it is a major pain, because typing on a phone sucks ass. Fuck.

Maybe I should just go back to using pen and paper …


#qfge7za

(#lpcaiaa) @prologic@twtxt.net I looked up BurmillaOS and this is definitely one for my thread about unique Linux distributions. Very interesting.

Everything in BurmillaOS is a Docker container. We accomplish this by launching two instances of Docker. One is what we call System Docker and is the first process on the system. All other system services, like ntpd, syslog, and console, are running in Docker containers. System Docker replaces traditional init systems like systemd and is used to launch additional system services.


#pgd7xjq

(#uor3zya) @mckinley@twtxt.net for me:

  • a wall mount 6U rack which has:
    • 1U patch panel
    • 1U switch
    • 2U UPS
    • 1U server, intel atom 4G ram, debian (used to be main. now just has prometheus)
  • a mini ryzon 16 core 64G ram, fedora (new main)
    • multiple docker services hosted.
  • synology nas with 4 2TB drives
  • turris omnia WRT router -> fiber uplink

network is a mix of wireguard, zerotier.

  • wireguard to my external vms hosted in various global regions.
    • this allows me ingress since my ISP has me behind CG-NAT
  • zerotier is more for devices for transparent vpn into my network

i use ssh and remote desktop to get in and about. typically via zerotier vpn. I have one of my VMs with ssh on a backup port for break glass to get back into the network if needed.

everything has ipv6 though my ISP does not provide it. I have to tunnel it in from my VMs.


#4ww7hzq

(#ptplydq) @eapl.me@eapl.me You’re right, it was powerful! I mean, hey, this was a Dual Core machine, which was still a new and crazy thing at the time. 😃

the keyboard was amazing

Was it? It’s quite a bit “mushy” in my opinion. 😅

It’s funny how tiny the touchpad is by today’s standards.


#mf5juna

(#zm5qtpq) @mckinley@twtxt.net That certainly doesn’t help, yeah. 🥴

(In the case of the Rust installer, I still wonder why they go through the trouble of having a shell script (POSIX, portable, even runs on Windows apparently), when all it does is download a binary and run that. Is that super useful to people, yeah? I’m sure there’s some reason, I just don’t see it.)


#5mcjypq