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fwaggle

@fwaggle@moodoo.org

I play #videogames and sometimes leave the house.

For work, I do security things for a WordPress host, which means I'm always busy.

Talk to me about #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #arcade games, and recreational #sysadmin.

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simplenomad, to random
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More as my new hybrid heat pump hot water heater failed city inspection. Apparently the plumbers will have to redo the condensate drainage, as the plan of "empty the bucket" isn't going to cut it, it must go into a sewer drain or be piped outside.

fwaggle,
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@fedops @simplenomad Things like this do make sense when you realise that the heat pump could very well outlast you living there.

If you sell the house then the missing stair you don't care about becomes a problem for someone else, so it makes sense if you're replacing the staircase to ensure they're all there.

Honestly to me the annoying part would be the contractor not knowing the local code, and I'd be wondering what else they took a shortcut on.

davidbisset, to random
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RIP to a real web tech.

" will stop working
from June 26".

https://icq.com/desktop/en

I think this it for ICQ. I used to remember my ICQ by heart.

fwaggle,
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@derickr @davidbisset Mine was 2058591, I sure hope there's no cringe bullshit on there still 😅

Prozak, to homelab
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Yesterday i replaced a SSD in one of my home servers. The amount of dust was terrible. A very thin and consistent layer of dust in all the insides. What tips can you share to attenuate dust inside our boxes?

fwaggle,
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@Prozak In my experience, unless you run them in a mostly-dust-free environment (ie no carpet, don't have pets, run them indoors, good filtration and air conditioning) you're basically doomed to have dust sooner or later.

I just run my shit in the garage and make peace with the fact that taking it offline for service is a 2x a year ordeal. 😭

jacqueline, to random
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posting from this

fwaggle,
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@jacqueline Pray, if you put a bad toot in does a good toot come out? 🤔

sysop408, (edited ) to retrocomputing
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Anyone have any idea what kind of cable this is? One end looks like SCSI. It has markings that say Belkin F2N984.

fwaggle,
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@sysop408 SCSI breakout cable for one of the models of Macintosh Powerbook.

It's probably with something to someone as those connectors are probably unobtanium.

decryption, to random
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    @decryption This raises so many questions... Like what's the difference between this and a boobytrap? You miss your shot and bounce the eye out of someone's head, I don't see how you avoid liability for it even if there were trespassing.

    This probably raises more issues for the legality of paintball in Australia anyway.

    And how the fuck does it keep the ammo fresh? If you leave paint in a marker for a week they turn to mush and won't fire properly.

    Who the fuck is this for?

    decryption, to random
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    fwaggle,
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    @decryption We regrettably used these certificates to put gas in a few years back. 🤡😭

    Ours was a choice of dispose of three resistance slab heaters and do gas ducted and it's free (plumbers probably made a tidy profit off it) or do heat pump and probably still be $15~20k out of pocket and we just didn't have it spare at the time. Now I'm bummed to be burning gas in winter (and the supply charge sucks arse in summer).

    fwaggle,
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    @decryption Yeah bit sorry on the cash at the minute but replacing it with AC.

    fwaggle,
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    @decryption Fucken hell that's way cheaper than a few years back

    fwaggle, to Nintendo
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    Saw a handful of toots yesterday re: and the Streisand effect, had a chuckle but didn't think too much of it.

    But it dawned on me this morning that I didn't know Switch emulation was a thing, much less so capable of playing games where piracy was a concern, until they sued an emulator group. I can't imagine I'm the only one. Streisand effect for sure.

    box464, (edited ) to random
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    I love seeing other people's tidy work from home setups. It gives me a sense of serene calm. ☺️

    Then I look down at my chaos vortex of a desk, swipe away the dog fur from my keyboard, locate my mouse under yesterday's mail, and get back to work. 🌪️

    fwaggle,
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    @mmeier @box464 I should have taken photos of mine before I pulled it apart... it starts out with the best intentions, then after a time, everything outside the view of the webcam is the hive of a chaos goblin.

    When I put it back together it's gonna be so pretty... for a time...

    gsuberland, to random
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    time for some valheim

    fwaggle,
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    @gsuberland I gotta play this game again. Unfortunately I spend most of my time looking for the perfect island to build a seaside port town with just a tiny patch of desert for farming (but not enough for fulings to spawn).

    mcc, to random
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    Hey so I know US passports contain RFID chips… at some point I heard a claim that the passport covers are faraday cages so the RFID can't be sniffed unless the passport is open. But I can't find anything about that (the faraday cover thing) on Google. Is that true or did I get urban legended

    fwaggle,
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    @mcc I was sceptical but I just tested it and I'll be fucked it seems like it works?

    My Australian passport, with an RFID scanner app on my phone, scans with it closed or open. US one, will not scan on the cover but scans immediately when open?

    foone, to random
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    The good news is that I avoided installing windows 95 today.

    the bad news? I'm installing Visual Basic 6 instead.

    fwaggle,
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    @foone I made so many bad life choices with VB6, like the time I started writing a set of IRC services bots in it.

    decryption, to random
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    @decryption Do they mean two and a half tons of co2 dumped into the atmosphere for a quick shopping trip? 🤔

    gsuberland, to random
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    valheim is so pretty

    fwaggle,
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    @gsuberland Games like Valheim, Team Fortress 2, and yes... Fortnite... are going to age so well (TF2 already has, I guess). There's really something to be said about stylized graphics and lighting instead of aiming for realism.

    If you do it just right it looks great, and still looks great in twenty years.

    BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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    What's the most unhinged children's television show that you grew up watching?

    fwaggle,
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    @BlackAzizAnansi I was a bit old for this, but for a certain cohort of millennial Australia this face was entirely normal: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulligrubs

    decryption, to random
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    @dawnstar @decryption Ours is fantastic, given that the weather here can literally turn to shit in the time it takes the washing machine to do it's thing.

    No more guessing if it'll be a good day, and any days where it was definitely going to be a good day, it's free (emissions+ cost) anyway thanks to solar.

    Only regret is not doing it sooner and putting up with clothes horses everywhere, and the fact it dropped a bearing and had to go in for warranty repair for a couple weeks. 😬

    maddad, to random
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    Aren't we lucky that has never figured out Mastodon...
    We never have to endure his pointless drivel all the time.💩

    The bonus is that It would drive him mad trying to keep up with us.
    😂 😂 😂

    fwaggle,
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    @maddad @qurlyjoe This already happened, his dogshit site uses Mastodon but everyone blocks it.

    fwaggle,
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    @maddad @qurlyjoe Trump's may have federation turned off completely on their side too.

    But either way, if your instance is any good it'll be on guard against these instances, there are definitely others with some dodgy users.

    AwattoAnalog, to Ottawa
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    An analog relic of a bygone era spotted in Ottawa.

    fwaggle,
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    @ottaross @Dianora @AwattoAnalog For a model of this, Australia has phased out payphones but our primary network operator is still required to keep some number of them for universal access.

    They're free for standard calls (eg home VOIP, mobiles, and any residual landlines) within Australia, you only pay for international and toll calls. They also apparently do a free Wi-Fi service if you're near one, but I don't know how that works.

    decryption, to random
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    @decryption https://groups.google.com/g/aus.mac ?

    jacqueline, to random
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    i don't want to start a feud with my neighbours, but also every time i spelunk the rockbox codebase to see how they did something, i feel really really glad that we've been writing our own thing

    fwaggle,
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    @jacqueline @jhwgh1968 What I think is bananas is in about 1998 I think it was, I wrote a VB DLL to read CDDB data into mIRC so I could have one of those annoying song announcement scripts like everyone else had...

    ... because my Cyrix 6x86 couldn't play MP3 without chopping, so I had to play direct from CD. Then I see the sorcery you're doing and I wonder if I just sucked. 😂

    decryption, to random
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    fwaggle,
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    @decryption @az What are they asking for it?

    gsuberland, to random
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    what I want to be doing is playing Hades or maybe DJing a bit. what I'm stuck doing is fucking about with the NAS because everything is pain.

    fwaggle,
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    @gsuberland It's not that shit where it's refusing to start until one of the SATA/SAS pins is taped over?

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