swordgeek

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[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I've got a full-height 5 1/4" 1GB hard drive around here. Thing is massive.

I've also got most of the storage devices I've ever used over the decades:

  • 5 1/4" floppy
  • 3 1/2" floppy
  • 4mm DAT tape
  • 8mm DAT tape
  • 1/4" QIC tape
  • Zip disk
  • Cassette tape
  • Punched tape

I'm missing the following:

  • DLT tape
  • 8" floppy
  • IBM 2315 disk pack

Never used 9-track tapes, punch cards, or removable disk multipacks.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm just here to say my god, that article was horribly written!

If this is what humans are cranking out, maybe I should reconsider my opinion of LLMs.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Kind of misleading to say that shaw.ca has been "shut down," because it still is resolvable but now redirects to rogers.com.

Interesting that Rogers is redirecting everything to ".com" rather than ".ca", which they also own.

I worked at Shaw for 11 years. It started out fantastic, and slowly slowly went downhill. It was only after I got out that I saw how shitty of an experience it had become. Then along came Rogers, and my friends still at Shaw universally said it had gotten immeasurably worse. Toxic work environments, incompetent micromanagement driving everything, a sense of fear and dread carefully cultivated by the executive.

Rogers could be the worst company in Canada to work for, if they weren't competing with BCE.

Canadian telecom sucks.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 39 points 3 days ago (2 children)

FUUUUUUUUCK!!!

Stop bending! Stop caving! Stop acquiescing to the fucking deranged dictator baboon running the shit show down south!

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I ask my friends. Well, friend.

Honestly, the recommendations from Spotify are often terrible, but occasionally give me something I like. I believe that free Spotify still has recommendations, does it not?

The other thing is radio. Yes, radio! Find a station you like and stream it, since they're all streaming now as well as broadcasting.

Our local station is awesome.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago

Danielle Smith and her government are:

  • Anti-vaxx
  • Anti-science
  • Transphobic
  • Separatist
  • Corrupt
  • Evil
[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

MAY???!

Of COURSE it will, and that's the intent. Why would anyone suggest othwise?

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Portal I and II.

Psychonauts I and II, with the caveat that there used to be a HUGE skill spike in the penultimate chapter of #1. I gather they've softened it, but don't know how much.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

It's just a typo.

She meant to call it the "Alberta Nazi" panel.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Eh, I figure being a dull man isn't about being a man - or even about being dull. It's about taking satisfaction in the potentially dull things you do in your day.

Motorcycles are awesome and fun and absolutely NOT dull. Changing oil on a vehicle absolutely belongs here.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's a Triumph Tiger 900 GT. Was on my way home through a steep technical alley in our neighbourhood when I ran into about six inches of mud. Went down in slow motion, bending the shifter and breaking the hand guard.

It's pretty trivial stuff to repair, but dammit that sucks to see my baby with an injury.

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Well, kinda.

Have two computers - my main one which has a failing internal drive (doesn't contain crucial stuff) and an old Linux machine which...has a failing internal drive.

Took them both out of their corners and blew the dust out - so much dust! Reseated the cables, moved some things around, and plugged 'em back in.

The main computer has the same problem as before, so I'm recovering as much data as I can before swapping out the dead drive.

The Linux computer won't even power on now. Gonna have to look at that this weekend.

EDIT: The Linux machine is back. Turns out the power plug I used for the internal drive is...questionable. Grabbed a different one and it came up fine. Well, fine to the point of recovery at least.

 

Openly sold in ads posted on LinkedIn, X, Adobe and Indian e-commerce sites, before many taken down

 

The official provider is once again Flobikes - as shitty of a company as ever existed.

Even if they weren't so terrible, they charge $210/year, and that's the minimum subscription window.

So VPNs? Restreaming? Or do we just ignore the greatest bike race on earth again?

 

My mom died last month, and we've been cleaning out her suite. After an initial cleanup and an estate sale, we're packing the rest up for donation. Today four of us moved most of the furniture out and got almost everything packed.

Tomorrow, we'll hopefully get the rest done before my wife and I start the 3 hour drive home.

 

Canada should ‘move on’ from Trump’s 51st state remarks, says Pete Hoekstra

 

Canada should ‘move on’ from Trump’s 51st state remarks, says Pete Hoekstra

 

I'm looking to get some custom-molded ear plugs to block wind noise while riding on the highway.

Two Canadian companies were at the last motorcycle show: "Safe & Sound" out of Sherwood Park, AB; and "HearSmart Solutions" out of Surrey, BC.

Both look good, but I'm wondering if anyone has experience with or recommendations for either company. Or another option, for that matter.

Whatcha got for me, Lemmy?

 

In Canada at least, Melitta coffee filters are manufactured in the US.

Technivorm are made in The Netherlands.

 

So I've got a Ducky One RGB Tenkeyless keyboard, and the doubleshot caps are pretty much worn out. (the homing bars on F and J are undetectable by feel).

I'm looking for a pudding version of the same. Namely:

  • OEM profile
  • 87 key ANSII TKL layout
  • double-shot PBT
  • black-capped pudding
  • Works with Cherry switches (cherry red, FWIW)

As an added bonus, I'd like to replace the Windows key with something fun - maybe Tux the penguin or Lemmy the lemming, a motorcycle, something other than "We are the Microsoft Borg."

Best I can find so far is the enormous (145 key?!) set from Ducky, which is out of stock everywhere.

 

So I currently have an Asus RT-AC86U that is working fine, but bogging down under load, and also is EOL.

We've got three people and about 15 devices, give or take. Our internet service is currently 300Mb cable.

The AX88U Pro is currently on a very good sale - $220CDN. I figure my options are that, the BE86U at $370, or the BE88U at $500.

Five hundred bucks is out of my justifiable price range. Spending less (a lot!) on the AX router would be nice, but the longevity (and support lifespan) of the BE86 has some appeal too.

I'm also not married to Asus, although they've been consistently excellent for me.

What do y'all think? Any educated guesses on when Asus is going to EOL the AX lineup?

 

Anyone an expert in Synology here?

Synology's Hybrid Raid (SHR) is a funky little system, especially since it's built on standard Linux tools.

What I'm wondering though, is how data is distributed when you change the disks in the system.

Imagine I have 2x1TB drives and 2x4TB drives in a system.

  • First it creates a 4x1TB "chunk" which is essentially RAID5. (3TB available)
  • Next it creates a 2x3TB chunk which acts like RAID1 (although internally may be calculated like a RAID5 parity.) (3TB available from this)

Now let's say I replace those two 1TB drives with 4TBs (safely, preserving data, etc.), and tell SHR to expand to use the new drives. I can see a number of scenarios from this point:

  • It mirrors the two new blocks into another 3TB chunk, giving me 9TB total. (3 from RAID5, 3 from first mirror pair, 3 from second mirror pair)
  • It expands the 3TB mirror into a second RAID5 group, giving 12TB total. (3 initial plus 9 in the second group)
  • It does the same thing and also rewrites the data on the (former) 3TB mirror pair to be striped across all four disks
  • It expands the 3TB mirror to RAID5, *and merges it with the original 3TB RAID group, giving a single 12TB RAID5.
  • Again it does the same thing but with rewriting of the data that was formerly just mirrored.

This isn't likely to be a huge deal, but I'd like to know how it works under the covers.

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