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Ph.D. EE, gcc developer, cache protocol hacker (IBM power), space geek, alldogmn.org dog foster, LeechLakeLegacy.org board member, photographer, he/him (@sawdey over at the other place)

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fasterthanlime , an Random Englisch
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Oh my god.

All my life I‘ve been paranoid about accidentally putting the wrong fuel in my cars and it turns out THAT’S NOT EVEN POSSIBLE ANYMORE because they made the diesel nozzles bigger, so they won’t fit

Why do anxieties inherited from my dad not update themselves 🙃🙃🙃

acsawdey ,
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@fasterthanlime @thejpster When you’re done here the liquid fuel nozzles will look like the EV charging plugs with wild shapes sprouting half a dozen pipes and electrical contacts 🤣

My recollection of the history is when cars requiring unleaded fuel came out, the fuel filler neck was made smaller, and unleaded pumps used a smaller nozzle. You could use unleaded in older cars and it was mostly ok, but not the other way round. The diesel nozzle is the same larger size as the old leaded gas one.

foone , an Random Englisch
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I'm gonna see if I can get my raspi to boot from a spinning rust drive. Why not?

acsawdey ,
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@foone @fozztexx How about a CDC 3764:

SMD interface
150 mb
14” platters
Belt drive
Building lights dim when it spins up

foone , an Random Englisch
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You know, in the 80s people often said things like "in 40 years, everything will have computers in them", and while they weren't wrong, they severely underestimated the situation.
Our computers have computers in them. Those smaller computers often have even smaller computers inside them.

We didn't get a "everything is a computer" future, we got a future with fractal computers. The fuckers have metastasized

acsawdey ,
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@foone Have you looked at a server chip lately? Those suckers have a whole damn network in there!

foone , an Random Englisch
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when I finally build my Workbench Keyboard, one of the weirder options I'm going to add is a way to paste pre-loaded text files from the onboard storage.

like you could have texts\serials\windows\win10.txt and you navigate to the that file and hit paste and it just types out the FCKGW- nonsense for you

acsawdey ,
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@foone USB keyboard that also shows up as a data storage device so you can put a config file with that sort of thing in it, then a 1-line display on the keyboard so you can navigate and dump?

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