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RickiTarr, 2 days ago to random

Sometimes when you learn how something works, you think, Thanks knowledge, that really helped, everything makes more sense, and other times you look up how wrists turn, and it's like WTF?!

gsuberland, 2 days ago to random

of course my car decides to start throwing Engine Malfunction messages and randomly going into limp mode on the Sunday immediately before the bank holiday Monday when I'm meant to be driving to EMF, meaning I can't get it to a mechanic for diagnostics let alone a repair in time.

OBD-II scanner shows nothing at all, inbuilt test mode shows two generic DTC codes that provide no useful information other than it's maybe a sensor doing something wrong.

ffs.

MLE_online, 4 days ago to random

Cute Olivetti adding machine at the thrift store

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vga256, 2 days ago to retrocomputing

as promised, i'm archiving this 42 year old D&D campaign building software on cassette

warning: loud/annoying modulation sounds 😆

#tandy #trs80 #cassette #retroComputing

A cassette titled "Fantasy Gamer" by Prickly-Pear Software is inserted into a Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer Cassette Recorder. The owner hits play, and it begins playing back modulation sounds recorded on the tape.

vxo, 6 months ago to random

IES really, really, really sucks. They suck harder than the suction inlet on a 15 horsepower centrifugal chiller. They suck so hard the cold dark vacuum of space keeps getting jealous. They suck bosons out of the fabric of the universe.

They specified a York condenser for the server room at work that does not have the low temperature operation option so when it got to 32 degrees outside, it shut down and started letting everything roast.

Pulling the outside air temp probe makes it run again.

vxo, 1 month ago to random

Today I spent some severely side-eyeing a truck mounted vsat rig trying to get it to find the bird

(Instead the system just kinda kept flipping me the bird, going through a coarse search over and over and giving up without seeing a signal at all, I think the ODU went kaputski)

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foone, 2 days ago to random

Bad idea: you know how sometimes people have a "me but a bot" account? Where they've trained a gpt3 bot on their original posts, and have it regularly generate a fake post by them?

Why stop there? Train another bot on the first bot account's output. And another.

See how many bot accounts it takes until foonebot7 is just posting "floppy floppy floppy floppy floppy floppy" 24/7

vxo, 3 months ago to random

Ummm my cat just fixed a transmitter

It had been refusing to come out of RF mute and fully power up until..... she sniffed it.

It responded with a soft click, the power supply lights turned green, and off it went.

vxo, 23 days ago to random

just randomly buy another old hp/agilent power supply

you'll never regret another old hp/agilent power supply

vxo, 2 months ago to random

no one:
absolutely no one:

my mind:

it's so easy
happy go oh lucky
we are the wad of dough
we didn't eat q q q q s s s s ... i

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBSL2IaHP2k

vxo, 2 months ago to random

After having a really rough day at work and coming out of there exhausted, the thrift gods placed treasure on the trail for me. (The red Jeep, while neat looking, is unrelated)

vxo, 9 days ago to random

What happens if a Pokemon kicks back the ball at a trainer? Can they wind up stuck in one of their own pokeballs?

vxo, 1 month ago to random

I'll code a gui interface in Visual Basic and see if we can find an IP address

vxo, 8 days ago to random

Wow, modems got TURBO JANKY for a while, didn't they... Supposedly this is just a PCTel reference design, with pretty much everything not absolutely needed stripped off.

generic FCC disclaimer and HSP56 MicroModem label text

vxo, 27 days ago to random

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nqa6e6WV2o

I love that some time ago I basically infected my coworkers' minds with this and the message worked: when they're about to do something dangerous they step back and think of "shake hands with danger" and that guitar riff. then they burst out laughing.

vxo, 8 months ago to random

Did I do this migration right? I've got followers but I'm not following anyone. Weird.

Yes, this is absolutely me, here's some tri-color foaming wax as proof thereof.

vxo, 29 days ago to random

okay but what if i just

https://demoniacult.com/products/kera-08r?variant=39481505775729

vxo, 2 months ago to random

I'm very upset that I have to rehome the three kitties who keep us company at work. They've really helped me stay somewhat motivated and happy through all the great loads of BS the company has thrown my way over the years. It absolutely will not feel right to me there not being greeted by this little man every morning.

vxo, 1 month ago to random

bnuny

vxo, 1 month ago to random

Panaplex II display in a Burroughs C5258 calculator, and the ICs.

Circuit board and lit display
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Back side of the Panaplex display with label and exhaust tube

vxo, 3 months ago to random

good morning and I'd like to remind you all that unless you live somewhere that you would naturally have a perfect green turf lawn without yourself or anyone else ever having to touch or water it, you should not have a perfect green turf lawn.

Research your local native flora and plant it to create low maintenance landscaping that requires minimal to no water or fertilizer.

And if you have an HOA or local government that forbids this, research the construction of guillotines

vxo, 6 months ago to random

I am excited to state that it is time for me to become even nerdier and more visibly queer than ever whether you like it or not. You're welcome. Picture related.

vxo, 2 months ago to random

cursed connectors? oh you've gotta try them fried!

#cursedconnectors #fnord

Oddball d-shell connector on a backplane board with two of its large sockets darkened and pitted from heat and arcing
Connector with two of the large metal pins pitted

vxo, 13 hours ago to random

Kinda having a bad time with anxiety today. May I please have some recommendations for fantastic Youtube Poop to help get the right brain chemicals on deck?