Brandon T. Nguyen :v_bi:

> "I mean there is no justice. The rich win; the poor are powerless. We become tired of hearing people lie. And after a time we become dead, a little dead. We think of ourselves as victims -- and we become victims. We become weak; we doubt ourselves; we doubt our beliefs; we doubt our […]

Second #server rack installed in the #homelab. Most important takeway is that there is pretty RGB in it. For the nerds, I've decommissioned a lot of old 11th and 12th gen Dell Servers. Currently running a SuperMicro H11 Epyc Server in a CSE-826 chassis, a […]

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honestly it’s kinda whack that meta isn’t pulling a bluesky and going "we’re a safe space for lgbtq individuals" and pulling out labels so that bigotry can run rampant and generate ad revenue while they virtue signal about protecting marginalized communities

Lenovo ThinkPad T480

Got a #ThinkPad T480 since you can #libreboot and #coreboot them now. I kinda already forgot about this machine it has no swag compared to my **20 machines and older. Might use this and play with #QubesOS, "a reasonably secure operating system" as they say (RIP CPU).

Hearing that new #BluRays are no longer being produced is quite disappointing, primarily because it's one of the few remaining ways to truly own the media you've purchased. Everything else is essentially just permission to access media that can be taken away at a publisher's or distributor's […]

Thank god I own a custom domain address so getting #nVidia's free 90-day evaluation trial to obtain the driver for #vGPU was relatively painless. I dream of the day we can have subscription-free #VDI and #GPU acceleration in VMs

#homelab #linux

Got #Proxmox installed on the #Supermicro SuperServer 4028GR-TRT2 and added to the cluster. I'm being mad janky with my #corosync tho because cause I don't want the #GPU node to be a 24/7 machine so I gave my main three high availability nodes two #quorum […]

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10gbase-T RJ45 XCVR on to of a keyboard

Anyone who works with #networking equipment knows how awful these 10gbase-T RJ45 XCVRs are... The countless times I've burnt my fingers on these. Luckily I my uses of these XCVRs are quite temporary. #10gbps #homelab

Buy now: 2080ti22g.comToday, I'm going to modify a 2080 Ti graphics card. It's a blower-style 2080 Ti. I want to upgrade it to 22GB and also replace the stoc... How to upgrade GPU memory. Upgrade 2080ti to 22G. 2080ti22g.com

@FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange Thank you for the benchmarks. In regards to the RAM upgrade, here is a video on how to do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHYhkx8RiQ

I opted to just buy the GPUs pre-modded

Captcha meme: “Select all squares containing DRONES” *Stock photo of multiple passenger jets*

Four 2080TI 22GiB GPUs in a Supermicro SuperServer 4028GR-TRT2

Four #nVidia RTX 2080TI GPUs modded with 22GiB of VRAM each installed into the #Supermicro SuperServer 4028GR-TRT2. Hopefully getting these GPUs were the right choice instead of two RTX 3090 cards for the same price. #homelab #LLM #llama #proxmox

[for those attempting to get bluesky users onto fedi/mastodon]

if you want users coming from other platforms (especially bluesky since they seem to be doing a Massive Fuck Up right now) to get onto/back into mastodon/the fediverse, at least give them features that stand out and won't just seem […]

screenshot of a tweet by Crowsa Luxemburg `when computers started saying "oopsie woopsie something went wrong" instead of "EXCEPTION IN BLOCK 000XXF956" that's where we lost our way as a society`

as a sysadmin this so much. It’s one thing to say "oopsie something went wrong" and provide a button for the professionals to see where it went wrong and it’s another to just not provide any diagnostic information so I get to debug a black box.

#shitpost

anime girl playing Nintendo switch looking at the viewer's direction "I'M GOING TO TELL MY PLUSHIES ABOUT YOU"

yeah. they’re going to hear about what you did

#shitpost

two girls holding hands captioned "you're so chronically offline alice.. go inside and touch some keyboard"

me after having to explain 2 pages of internet lore and history so my friend Alice can laugh at a meme.

#shitpost

will smith revealing a bicycle

them: "i want a vehicle that doesn't have any telemetry, doesn't sell my data, and is simple enough that a regular person can repair and maintain it"

me:

Current projects:
* X201T screen replacement
* T420 Coreboot & CPU replacement
* Mac Pro 5,1 Opencore legacy update for my music workstation
* Macbook OS replacement for my homeless neighbor
* Supermicro SuperServer 4028GR-TRT2 build
#linux #macos #thinkpad

My incomplete #computer projects are leaking into the kitchen. Also it appears I have the incorrect #ThinkPad #X201T screen...

I think I just lost my girlfriend to #PathofExile2. She's too busy playing to give me attention now. #gamergirl #videogames

Got my first encounter with a #romancescam on #mastodon, this platform must be pretty popular.

Update on this: a battery blew up.

I don't really care if he has some absolutely insane beliefs. That isn't uncommon. He still chose to take his anger and resentment and target the source of the problem: The upper class who exploits us all for their profit. We've seen plenty more people in this country lash out towards the most […]

RTX 3090 in a Lenovo P620

I am the biggest hater on how big #GPUs have gotten. My #nVidia RTX 3090 in my #Lenovo P620. #linux #hardware

Dog shaking from no cuddles for one minute

Me while gf is out of town with her gf #openrelationship #poly

Oh yea, this also took me 2 hours cause a yellowjacket somehow made it into the datacenter and I got scared.

I forgot how much it sucked to apply a vinyl decal to a mesh door. But this technically counts as more progress on the #homelab, I guess. #linux #proxmox

Got the second rack moved into the #homelab and got some shelving added. Still waiting to get 240V ran and some lights added and I still need to do some major organizing.

I feeling like this is the tipping point where I should figure out how to get a Halon fire suppression system