Ontopic Random Computer-Electronics Thread

[Valve1138]

You know it's gonna bother you.

For all the time and money spent, it should.

 

[Valve1138]

I get this on my phone. @Domon got problems.

 

[Jehannum]

I get this on my phone. @Domon got problems.

So, what wireless gear do you use?

My house is basically a Faraday cage with the stucco on the outside, so whatever I get, it probably needs to be a mesh setup, but I've got ethernet to almost every room.

 

[Valve1138]

So, what wireless gear do you use?

My house is basically a Faraday cage with the stucco on the outside, so whatever I get, it probably needs to be a mesh setup, but I've got ethernet to almost every room.

3 Ubiquiti AP-AC Lite's. Mesh wasn't a thing yet when I put it in. Now I would do a mesh setup.

 

[Valve1138]

Looks like my MacBook has not survived this mornings yolk incident.

What’s a good, cheap, couch laptop? I’m not buying a fucking MacBook touchbar thing for $1500

 

[Jehannum]

Looks like my MacBook has not survived this mornings yolk incident.

What’s a good, cheap, couch laptop? I’m not buying a fucking MacBook touchbar thing for $1500

There's macbooks and macbook pros without touchbars for sale still, dumbfuck.

 

[Valve1138]

There's macbooks and macbook pros without touchbars for sale still, dumbfuck.

Not worth the money. Apple hasn’t updated hardware in ages. All they seem to care about is iOS and iPhones.

 

[Valve1138]

It’s alive again. Resetting the smc and PRAM 18 times perked it up.

Wonder how long it will last.

 

[fly]

As long as you're not doing any really heavy lifting, my Chromebook is fucking awesome.

 

[Domon]

It’s alive again. Resetting the smc and PRAM 18 times perked it up.

Wonder how long it will last.

wait, did that tiny little bit of gunk on the keyboard really kill a mac?

 

[Jehannum]

wait, did that tiny little bit of gunk on the keyboard really kill a mac?

No, he's being dramatic.

 

[Valve1138]

wait, did that tiny little bit of gunk on the keyboard really kill a mac?

Lol MACS

 

[Valve1138]

No, he's being dramatic.

LLAMA

 

[Valve1138]

Got my Wifi/BT card from Gina for my Hackintosh. Shows up natively in OS X.

 

[gee]

Work is throwing out an HP RX2600 server. It was running some old sales/accounting bullshit that we moved away from years ago, server was sitting in a corner for a while and I guess they decided they weren't gonna ever use it again.

1GHz Itanium processor, 1GB of registered DDR. SCSI drives were pulled and destroyed. Wonder if it's worth anything, other than scrap metal.

 

[Duke]

Work is throwing out an HP RX2600 server. It was running some old sales/accounting bullshit that we moved away from years ago, server was sitting in a corner for a while and I guess they decided they weren't gonna ever use it again.

1GHz Itanium processor, 1GB of registered DDR. SCSI drives were pulled and destroyed. Wonder if it's worth anything, other than scrap metal.

There is actually a decently robust parts market for older HP servers

 

[Jehannum]

ooh, Itanium. The architecture that was supposed to free us all from the dead-end that x86 was supposed to become.

 

[gee]

Those were dark times for Intel. Pentium 4, Itanium, pushing hard to make RDRAM the new memory standard...

 

[Domon]

Those were dark times for Intel. Pentium 4, Itanium, pushing hard to make RDRAM the new memory standard...

theyre approaching similar levels of ineptitude these days.

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

Anyone running one of these? Or something similar?
https://pi-hole.net/

Designed to block ads and trackers on a home network.