What, backbone?

Have you tried not doing the thing? You paid me to tell you it’s bad, so you should stop.

You need to find someone else and give them the goals you want to achieve.

I personally do not discuss that politically extreme content I see.

I purchase a bunch of machines off government auction, patch then up, and pass them back out for very little. Anything with 4 cores and 8 GB memory should do it. If you can get something with DDR4, that’s a big step. Bonus points of it was made after 2018.

Every time I think I know something.

Like the original PS2?

I was just explaining this to my children Saturday.

I started with docker desktop on Linux thinking it was the easiest way to get started. It initially ran well, but I started having weird stability issues. Moving to the cli resolved this. Relying on the documentation and web searches will help you quickly gain familiarity.

Interesting. I still have a hard time preserving traditions of hate. Maybe one day the names will even die away, and the only thing left is the watered down wine.

I have heard that racism was prevalent in Europe in the 80’s. My mother observed that black US military members were directed to live on a different part of town from the white ones by real estate agents.

Paraphrased, “The festival for [sic] killing Jews where we used to burn effigies of Jewish people and ask how many Jews we killed (drinks we drank) remembering a pogrom of killing Jewish people isn’t anti-semetic.”

Suuuure it isn’t.

$60 seems to be the comparable price. I’d buy now before there is a run on PSUs.

Woof, good theory. There is (or at least used to be) a section of board next to the CPU that controls the voltage, inherently controlling the internal clock speed and the FSB. As the temps increased, resistances and compositions possibly changed, causing that area to perform out of spec, theoretically damaging the board, CPU and memory.

Just to be safe though, I would not trust that PSU either. Another idea is that the PSU was malfunctioning and sent inconsistent voltages, resulting in a multi-component failure.

If you were a business that could afford to gamble on it I’d say risk it. $50 is a low cost for peace of mind. That PSU can go to local market at $10, with a disclaimer.

I revived my second WAP today by soldering on a serial header and reloading the firmware. Sounds badass, but I broke it myself and then did a crap job trying to improvise and revive it the first time. I had to buy the correct tools before I could try again.

On the other hand, my SMB shares were mysteriously down this morning. Easy fix, but weird.

Wow, it’s super weird to have a system catastrophically fail and kill all the memory like that.

Oooooooooh

I have had kosher with no cheese. Not bad.

Anyone on the fence about GITS, I strongly recommend it. I know the movie came out well before the series, but I suggest watching season 1 of SAC, then the 1995 movie, season 2, then GITS movie 2.

Please send me some ideas! Free titles are better since I don’t have a library of older games. I was able to get Minecraft to a playable state, but Hollow Knight couldn’t do more than 4fps. I though Neverwinter might work since it was pretty old, but I only managed what appeared to be 1/4 fps. I’m running tests on a core 2 machine with an ATI Radeon HD4250, Fedora on a SSD, 6 GB of DDR 2.

The purpose is to spread the information to people who might be struggling with win 10 or older computers that can’t upgrade. I’m offering the Linux upgrade for $10 plus the cost of a SSD. I’m only posting to my Facebook crowd because I can’t do much for people who aren’t close.

I will gladly post on Lemmy if I keep going. We have until the test computer is sold. Then I am moving on to the pile of Optiplex 9010 computers I bought for testing.

Who knows what technology will bring us in 5 years. With SSDs, 15 year old machines are still functional for about everything but gaming.

I want to believe.