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I know comparing a Sun workstation to a fairly…
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I suppose one could chalk it up to different philosophies. But things like not having sbin or any opt stuff in my path is just strange. Come to think of it, a lot of environment variables needed more thought than needed. Not even make or GCC were in paths or where one would expect them to be. And this could be a Solaris thing, but the useradd command just wouldn't work. It would make a user, but I couldn't log into it; would throw some obscure error I couldn't resolve. Sure, I later found out that I'm "supposed" to use the Solaris Management Console or whatever, but you get my point. EDIT: I know these seem like pedantic things but it is a huge pain in the ass and I shouldn't HAVE to think about these things. -
I know comparing a Sun workstation to a fairly normal modern Linux distro is pretty apples to oranges but good lord do I see why unix did not catch on in the early days. Even for someone like myself, who I'd consider to be fairly proficient in unix shit, it is just a pain to use.
But boy is it fun.
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8 hours ago, LloydLynx said:
It all comes down to what level of abstraction you want. On one end you have modifying bits manually, on the other end you have giving commands through thought.
I suppose one could chalk it up to different philosophies. But things like not having sbin or any opt stuff in my path is just strange. Come to think of it, a lot of environment variables needed more thought than needed. Not even make or GCC were in paths or where one would expect them to be. And this could be a Solaris thing, but the useradd command just wouldn't work. It would make a user, but I couldn't log into it; would throw some obscure error I couldn't resolve. Sure, I later found out that I'm "supposed" to use the Solaris Management Console or whatever, but you get my point.
EDIT: I know these seem like pedantic things but it is a huge pain in the ass and I shouldn't HAVE to think about these things.
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Lmao board works perfect. I prooooooobably shou…
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Lmao board works perfect. I prooooooobably should've checked BIOS to make sure all RAM was detected and whatnot but it booted immediately without issues.
Think it's safe to say it works perfectly?
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Ewaste came through today. Complete, seemingly…
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Interesting, though I couldn't care less about LMG at this point. Even if their content interested me in the last few years, the community and their (somewhat) recent behaviour has pushed me away. I'll test the board and flip it either way. I have no use for it. -
Ewaste came through today. Complete, seemingly…
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Oh, the overvolting thing? I think this is too old for that. Not sure tho. -
Ewaste came through today. Complete, seemingly…
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Enlighten me. I've been out of the PC space for years. -
Ewaste came through today. Complete, seemingly brand new. Will see if I can bring it to Canada Computers tomorrow to test (not about to rip my rig apart in case it blows up CPUs or something).
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6 minutes ago, Techstorm970 said:
Oh, the overvolting thing? I think this is too old for that. Not sure tho.
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Just now, kelvinhall05 said:Oh, the overvolting thing? I think this is too old for that. Not sure tho.
LMG has actually stopped working with Asus as well late last year in response to horrible Customer Service
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1 hour ago, Skiiwee29 said:
LMG has actually stopped working with Asus as well late last year in response to horrible Customer Service
Interesting, though I couldn't care less about LMG at this point. Even if their content interested me in the last few years, the community and their (somewhat) recent behaviour has pushed me away.
I'll test the board and flip it either way. I have no use for it.
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People who claim a Core 2 Duo is still useful i…
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After years of wanting one, I finally got a reMarkable.
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And yep, you're reading that right. $24.99. Boxed, basically brand new, everything but the micro USB cable included. Even has every single original stylus tip.
Firmware was from late 2018. My guess is someone got it as a gift or from work and then never used it. Win for me. I'm absolutely stoked. It works perfectly.
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My thrift store laptop battery luck continues;…
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I absolutely misread this btw. I thought you said "I can see how you manipulate that value" referring to how I'm supposedly making it sound like a better deal than it is. I don't think it's manipulated though. I don't doubt it's possible to do but it seems legit to me. -
My thrift store laptop battery luck continues;…
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Hey come on now. It's a fun machine to fuck around with. You want value? I also bought this framed image of a three-legged dear pissing for $6. THAT'S value. -
My thrift store laptop battery luck continues; got a T430s (i5/8gb/160(?)gb ssd/1600:900) for $30 and the battery is at 96% designed capacity. $30 with a charger. Not too shabby.
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I can show you how to manipulate that value lol.
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3 hours ago, Levent said:
I can show you how to manipulate that value lol.
Hey come on now. It's a fun machine to fuck around with.
You want value? I also bought this framed image of a three-legged dear pissing for $6. THAT'S value.
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7 hours ago, Levent said:
I can show you how to manipulate that value lol.
I absolutely misread this btw. I thought you said "I can see how you manipulate that value" referring to how I'm supposedly making it sound like a better deal than it is.
I don't think it's manipulated though. I don't doubt it's possible to do but it seems legit to me.
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Nah they're full on payphones. I'm not sure why they're still around lol
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There are payphones all over my campus and downtown near where I live. Cool find.
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TTP done. Incredible game. Buy it right now. It…
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TTP done. Incredible game. Buy it right now. It's so good. Spoiler comments:
SpoilerI did the tower ending first, then the "eternal life" ending (just from a restored savepoint tho). Haven't done the star endings and probably not gonna bother, at least for now. I did kinda see the tower ending coming from pretty early on; I'm mildly disappointed by that, but I still enjoyed the crap out of it. Fantastic pacing, good puzzles, sound and music are excellent, "feel" is literally perfect, it's exactly what I want in a game....I can't say enough good things. Absolutely blown away. Easily going into my favourite games of all time.
Definitely gonna get the second one at some point. If someone has suggestions for other games with a similar feel/story, I'm all ears.
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SpoilerI think it could've been cool if they played the "what does it mean to be human" or whatever aspects out a bit more. I understand why they were included the way they were, but honestly, I kinda loved the existential crisis I got about halfway through during my chats with the MLA. It's been a while since any piece of media has made me feel that way, and probably the first time for a video game.
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The Talos Principle is fucking incredible but w…
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It's been on my wishlist for a while. I'll give it a shot at some point. -
The Talos Principle is fucking incredible but wow is it giving me an existential crisis. Not even close to being done either.
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Oh yeah so I got that SSD for the Dell installed along with a 4GB stick of DDR3 I had lying around (bringing it to a cursed 5GB total) and it honestly runs fantastic. It did take me 90 fucking minutes to replace thermal paste, requiring a complete (yes, COMPLETE) disassembly (everything from the god damn display, wifi card, separate Bluetooth antenna, both halves of the lower chassis...jesus fucking christ Dell), but it's great now. Obviously I threw Arch/KDE on it, and it's been fun just messing around with it a bit. Not sure what else to do with it. Somehow it has 91% battery health which is astonishing.
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happy kringle, rip steam servers
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Check out this cute thing I got today: [spoiler…
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I believe so but I don't remember. I've avoided turning it on much since 1. I can't do much without storage and 2. I'm saving the battery since I don't have a charger here. -
Check out this cute thing I got today: [spoiler…
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Adapter + SSD would cost significantly more than just an old SSD. And it seems like a fairly decent drive. https://www.ebay.com/itm/386101263046 And let's be real. It's a C2D. It doesn't need a blazing fast SSD. -
Check out this cute thing I got today:
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Latitude E4200 for just $8.49 plus tax lol. No charger but it was 87% charged on the shelf and powered right on.
Unfortunately, there is one fairly big problem. I guessed it would take a standard 2.5" SSD, but apparently not.
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Welp. I'll have to return that tomorrow. Super fun as it's only a train and two busses totalling an hour assuming no delays and no wait time to get to the MemEx I bought it from.
Thankfully, a friend of mine found me fitting drives on eBay for just a couple bucks more, and they have an extra 80GB of capacity. I'll probably toss in another 2GB of RAM, too. This'll be fun to fuck around with.
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2 hours ago, da na said:
Heya, I've got one of those. Absolutely love it. I'd recommend a 1.8" to mSATA SSD adapter though, the authentic 1.8" SSDs of the era are... not fast.
Adapter + SSD would cost significantly more than just an old SSD. And it seems like a fairly decent drive. https://www.ebay.com/itm/386101263046
And let's be real. It's a C2D. It doesn't need a blazing fast SSD.
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13 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:Adapter + SSD would cost significantly more than just an old SSD. And it seems like a fairly decent drive. https://www.ebay.com/itm/386101263046
And let's be real. It's a C2D. It doesn't need a blazing fast SSD.
OK, the SanDisk might be fine; the Intel one in mine is barely faster than a 2.5" HDD.
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8 minutes ago, da na said:
OK, the SanDisk might be fine; the Intel one in mine is barely faster than a 2.5" HDD.
Does yours have the SU9600 chip?I believe so but I don't remember. I've avoided turning it on much since 1. I can't do much without storage and 2. I'm saving the battery since I don't have a charger here.
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