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1d ago
Decided if I'm packaging some old game clients I should just make a whole installer
So now I get to learn how InstallShield Wizard (yes, that program) actually works for building installers
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3d ago
@quinn Oh, you made the mistake of thinking it's gonna be like the third game
Instead we're getting dipshit libertarians who want to build floating cities atop slave labor so they can do sex crimes unrestrained
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4d ago
@thatKomputerKat Yay! Swing by and I'll give a hug and or stickers c:
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6d ago
If Alec opened a "merch store" and put this up as a fucking poster he'd probably be financially set for life within days
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Apr 12, 2026
@domi Augh. This makes me wanna get my Compaq Proliant A5000's going ;-;
Quad Pentium Pro's are rad as hell. But oof ouchie they're EXPENSIVE (especially if you want the proper 1MB cache models)
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Apr 09, 2026
@CaptMikeYates I hate VMware so fucking much you have no idea ;-;
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Apr 09, 2026
@vxo I HAAAAAAATE VMware so much
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Apr 09, 2026
@ehurtley The wonderful Stephen Jones (of SDF Public Access UNIX) has been running them every 6 months since around 2023!
He got handed the reins to take over VCF PNW and move it up here!
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Apr 09, 2026
@ehurtley Always next year!
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Apr 09, 2026
@netopwibby Check https://sdf.org/ !
(Also we'd love to have you next year!!)
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Apr 09, 2026
HEY, #Seattle #retrocomputing lovelies. It's almost that time of year again!
VINTAGE COMPUTER FESTIVAL: PACIFIC NORTH WEST IS BACK!
It's FREE to attend (though donations are appreciated)
Come see a bunch of old computer stuff and meet the cool folks behind them!
(Boosts greatly appreciated so we can get the word out! <3)
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Apr 04, 2026
@t3rminus I wish I could find a schematic for the board so I could find out what it did
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Apr 04, 2026
@t3rminus Weirdly it's near the CPU_FAN connector which
I don't use? I've got the water cooling pump hooked up but that's located elsewhere
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Apr 04, 2026
I don't actually know what that smd cap does
Or well, did
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Apr 04, 2026
>Computer suddenly powers off
>Hhhhhuuuh-
>Won't turn back on
>Unplug and replug a few times
>tiny capacitor on motherboard explodes and sends sparks everywhere
>Machine boots up as normal
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Mar 23, 2026
@mdwyer Honestly offloading the WPA2/3 crypto to the CPU doesn't seem like the *worst* idea
At least you could ship a cheaper "dumb" WNIC
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Mar 23, 2026
@snep Wait. It requires specific hardware support on top? Who the hell is even using it then (and why?)
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Mar 23, 2026
@kkarhan I mean we don't have HR. We have my boss who is the COO.
I deeply enjoy where I've landed, work wise. It's just the intellectual tug-of-war with the "one other tech person" is kinda tiring
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Mar 23, 2026
@pauliehedron Marvell actually sold off all their Wi-Fi stuff to NXP many years ago!
...No idea if it's improved since then!
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Mar 23, 2026
Also on that tangent. Seriously. Never buy Realtek anything. They've been absolute trash since the 1990's
Here's what a FreeBSD driver developer had to say about them back in the day
https://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/RealTek/3.0/if_rl.c
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Mar 23, 2026
Also for those playing at home. No, CNVi is not a problem (usually)
If you're on an 8th gen (2017 vintage) or newer Intel chip? It just works (TM)
If you're on AMD or ARM or something? Yeah then it won't work. It's an Intel chip communicating over an Intel protocol to an Intel CPU only
Why? Because Intel are a bunch of dipshits like that and thought "Centrino" needed to rise like an annoying phoenix
Do yourself a favor and just buy a Qualcomm or a Mediatek chip instead
(not Realtek though)
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Mar 23, 2026
@kkarhan It's a company of a dozen people and she's the Sysadmin. I'm also "the new guy"
Arguably, I build the fucking things. So I better have a decent knowledge of hardware. But it feels like a tedious "nerd fight" every time I opine on hardware at all
(I've already been sat down and told to stop asking about touching or setting up infrastructure. Very "stay in your lane" kind of energy)
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Mar 23, 2026
@kkarhan Both the 200 and 201 come in the same M.2 formfactor. They just speak CNVI instead of PCI-E on the bus
Which means it won't work AT ALL on AMD machines (it won't even *show up* if you lspci it)
But this company has shipped 100% Intel systems for 20~ years now. It is literally *not a problem* for us. But it was such a tedious "nuh uh" pushback moment
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Mar 23, 2026
Computers are an unfathomably BROAD topic. You aren't going to know everything. Not even close to it. Even if you're a "generalist" you're going to have pretty deep knowledge of specific things that are important to you
But that leaves you vulnerable and blind to the things you don't know but "sound correct" in a bubble
Y'know. Like the fucking slop machine is specifically *really good at doing*
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Mar 23, 2026
This shit just fucking *exhausts* me
I'm very much a "hardware guy". I am worthless at writing software. But I can (and do) bore people to tears with hardware minutiae all day. I've tripped over and summarily *forgotten* more hardware quirks than most normal people will ever have to reckon with
But now people who are not "hardware people" can get a plausible sounding answer to punt an email back over the fence about why not to do some trivial thing because they don't understand the ecosystem
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Mar 23, 2026
Discussing buying wi-fi chips at work to ship to customers
I remark we can use an Intel AX200/201
$coworker replies "no. Just the 200"
I explain the (minor) difference between the two
She fucking copy pasted the Google Slop Machine replying about CNVi instead of PCI-E and that it would cause issues
Of course if she'd read the extremely short Wikipedia article on CNVi she'd see it's supported on Intel chips since the 8th gen series in 2017
...We're using Intel CPUs from 2024
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Mar 17, 2026
@kirb Okay but that's rad as fuck tho
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Mar 16, 2026
@jay @flexion @PurpleJillybeans I saw that. But wasn't sure if Flexion had contact with (or was) the owner
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Mar 16, 2026
@flexion @PurpleJillybeans Oh damn there's a lotta useful software on there
Do you know how large the archive is? (and if there's any way I could get an rsync or a single tarball? so I don't strain their webserver)
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Mar 16, 2026
@PurpleJillybeans @flexion Y'all better be IA'ing all that stuff, too
(and CGHMN-ing it)
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Mar 11, 2026
@elly @frameworkcomputer Watching with genuine excitement for my AMD FW 13
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Feb 03, 2026
>Interviewing at a place that builds fucking planetariums and software for them
>Founder: yeah a lot of our customers are volunteers who are...not the best communicators
>COO: Yeah it turns out there's a lot of neurodivergent folks who work in volunteering for planetariums
>[violently grasping desk to avoid yelling out "YEAH THAT TRACKS"]
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