Macropiper

Thought I should finally set my profile image, I usually use my praying mantis image, but its been over a decade, time for a change. This is Merlin, he is a Senegal parrot, and he is a good boy

An Apple PCIe from an old MacBook Pro in an adaptor to use it in a PCIe slot

Reusing an old Apple SSD, 512 GB over two lanes of PCIe gen 2

A screenshot of a video game called Total Annihilation

Playing a very old game on the train, Total Annihilation seems to run quite well

For the people standing up
Dip pen + sumi ink

Bought a 512GB Samsung OEM SSD from AliExpress, installed it in a Broadwell Xeon system, fwupdmgr notified me that I have a Dell firmware upgrade for the SSD available from LVFS. Installed it, works perfectly still.

PCI Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi card, from AliExpress

lspci output of the card in a linux system

Bought a thing I probably don't need for reasons that are still unclear to me, but it does appear to work

09. when things got heavy, she sought control, by buying antiques ‐ it lightened her soul.

#inktober #inktober2025 #inktober2025day9 #inktober2025heavy

It is hard, and I am not good at this kind of game, yet

Hollow knight Silksong playing on a laptop, there is a PS4 controller on the laptop

Might be trying playing Silksong on my laptop on the train, I am new to this genre of games and I hear it is brutally hard, should be interesting

I dislike that I know exactly what that means

I hope so, my grandfather turned to alcohol, my father turned to conspiracy theories, I wonder what new shit is going to be around at that point to get me.

Am only 10 years out from that point, and I wonder if I will end up a worthless shithead like my father, and his father before him.

Something I think I see a lot in what I assume is AI generated twatwaffle is constructions like "it's not (just) _____, it's ______". Not sure if it's actually meaningful or if I am seeing a pattern that doesn't exist because I am already biased against the AI generated crap.

A 120mm CPU cooler fan attached to a Mikrotik 10Gbe network switch

Had to rig up a fan for my network switch

Frost on a fence

Frost!

YouTube video by CountlessThousands Casual Fascists (Official Music Video) - Countless Thousands

This is a good track www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz6N...

Not quite, the manufacturer would need to contribute a fully open source driver that is written well enough to be accepted into the Linux kernel, and allow redistribution of any firmware the hardware needs.

Proprietary drivers on Linux are a miserable experience and are seldom worth the effort

Rebooting (sometimes several times) to apply updates is fucking obnoxious. I want to actually use my computer, not watch it update itself.

His head does look a bit hard boiled

Made myself a WiFi to Ethernet bridge using OpenWrt and EoIP talking to a RouterOS device, seems to function at the very least.

Looking through the other drinking games now, was expecting to find Scrumpy hands. Now finding that its apparently a NZ only thing.

She is the one who was caught reading fanfiction erotica about schoolchildren on a train, isn't she?

Top half for things like discord, or work email and teams, bottom half for a music player something I can listen to from youtube.

Image from a forked version of Minecraft Overviewer, showing Pale Oak and Cherry trees.

Have generated a new minecraft world using Terralith and Tectonic.

Was going to use one of my home servers to render a 40000 by 40000 block Minecraft map using Minecraft Overviewer, was going to take 36 hours, and made the server use 280 watts with a processor temp of 78 deg C. Think I won't be letting that complete.

In Tutukaka

YouTube video by Innuendo Studios The Alt-Right Playbook: The South Bank of the Rubicon

what are the steps you would only take if push came to shove?

and what constitutes a "shove"?

and how many shoves have you already gone through without noticing?

the final Alt-Right Playbook is now live.

it's called The South Bank of the Rubicon.

youtu.be/0YFdwfNh5vs

Had a SFP+ module fail the other day, opened it up to have a look

YouTube video by Innuendo Studios The Alt-Right Playbook x PhilosophyTube: Doublewrong

new Alt-Right Playbook is live! DOUBLEWRONG - a collaboration with @theabigailthorn.bsky.social, wherein we talk about how people can be rhetorically STRONGER by being wrong on two fronts instead of one, through the lens of trans healthcare.

youtu.be/IqeFeqInoXc

DnD time