Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

My most popular post is now a stupid throwaway computing pun using a random stock photo.

The only redeeming characteristic of that post is that I gave the photo a description so good you can see it in your mind even if the photo completely fails to load.

One of the apps on my #Windows 10 workstation was last updated 738,953 days ago. Should I be worried?

@cadey One of my customers told me yesterday their speed test said eighty millibytes per second.

While not perfect, growing your own tiny server farm can be rewarding.

If the answer you get to a software or coding problem is any variation of "just throw more computing power at it," including using "the cloud" (someone else's computers) instead of your own tiny server farm, the odds are pretty good you're either asking the wrong question or listening to a techbro.

@caz That sucks. The last time I had to play Dell's "don't fry the motherboard" game was 15 years ago, for a customer's Dimension 8100.

Even if a ready-made adapter doesn't exist, it shouldn't be too terribly hard to get Dell's pinouts for your specific model and make your own adapter or have a custom cable shop make one for you. I found these diagrams, but I can't vet them: https://pinoutguide.com/Power/#Dell

@caz Even though they use proprietary pinouts, the connectors themselves are still industry standard. Computer parts stores may have adapters if you search for something like "dell <series> <modelnumber> to atx psu adapter".

Alternatively, stores may have NOS or even new compatible PSUs if you search for the exact model name/number. (Make sure they don't send you a standard-ATX instead if you go this route.)

@Lyude If you ask one of these lauded AIs to give you a code patch, it's going to give you a medical patch for seasonal illness instead.