**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 16, 2024, 18:36

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 16, 2024, 18:36

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

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Oct 16, 2024, 18:36

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@mavica_again It wasn't the DOS version running in DosBox or something?

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 16, 2024, 16:23

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 16, 2024, 16:23

Oct 16, 2024, 16:23

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Connection -

Not much worse than getting home to find out my home ISP's out. The only thing I can think of that is, greeted me Friday night.

I wish the ISP I work for could serve my home. Instead, my only options are a 4G on the edge of a shadow, a 5G that wants me to pay a $60/mo surcharge for a phone I don't need, fiber that wants me to pay a $60/mo surcharge for a phone I don't need, a satellite ISP so draconian you can't update Windows, & a techbro satellite angering the world's astronomers.

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Oct 15, 2024, 00:21

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**Foone🏳️‍⚧️** @foone@digipres.club · Oct 15, 2024, 00:21

Oct 15, 2024, 00:21

Foone🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club

Just imagine this but it is full of floppies

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Oct 14, 2024, 12:52

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**Silicon Underground (Dave F)** @siliconundergro@ioc.exchange · Oct 14, 2024, 12:52

Oct 14, 2024, 12:52

Silicon Underground (Dave F) @siliconundergro@ioc.exchange

Darl McBride was the most hated man in tech thanks to his plan to sue Linux users to generate revenue. 15 years ago today, his company, SCO, fired him. And a little over a month ago, he died in relative obscurity at age 64. https://dfarq.homeip.net/when-sco-fired-darl-mcbride/

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 14, 2024, 04:21

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 14, 2024, 04:21

Oct 14, 2024, 04:21

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

* Searches "Seagate ST1000DM003 MTBF"

* Every seagate dotcom datasheet says or implies don't use it more than 2,400 hours per year. That's 6 hours/day, or 8-9/day if you skip weekends.

Yeah, this drive came free with cereal^W this PC, & I should've replaced it with a WD as soon as I got it. Oops.

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 14, 2024, 01:30

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 14, 2024, 01:30

Oct 14, 2024, 01:30

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Please make backup copies of your PC, folks, if you aren't already. Don't forget to test your backups. Don't forget to write down your PC recovery & backup restoring procedure. And don't forget to save that procedure somewhere you can get to if all your data gets wiped out.

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Oct 14, 2024, 01:00

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**Hourly Kitten** @hourlykitten@botsin.space · Oct 14, 2024, 01:00

Oct 14, 2024, 01:00

Hourly Kitten @hourlykitten@botsin.space

Source: https://flic.kr/p/XmagVj
Credit: skybo_x

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 14, 2024, 00:59

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 14, 2024, 00:59

Oct 14, 2024, 00:59

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Losses:
* An HDD apparently failing at 0.5 MTBF.
* This weekend.
* All data between final backup & failure: more or less 2 hours, the most consequential of which was mail.

Gains:
* Bigger HDD.
* XP in installing anything in FreeBSD's USB images.
* XP in restoring ZFS snapshots.
* Learning my backup procedure needs slight tweaking, but fundamentally everything was right.

Net:

I have now experienced ZFS disaster preparation, disaster, & disaster recovery!

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Oct 13, 2024, 22:00

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**mavica ebooks** @squirrel_ebooks@computerfairi.es · Oct 13, 2024, 22:00

Oct 13, 2024, 22:00

mavica ebooks @squirrel_ebooks@computerfairi.es

font-size: 0 !important;

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Aug 24, 2024, 17:08

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**Nova Storm** @NovaSquirrel@chitter.xyz · Aug 24, 2024, 17:08

Aug 24, 2024, 17:08

Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@chitter.xyz

I got another toy picture of Nova, meant to be in sort of a princessy pose. As always I love how this artist draws really shiny and reflective textures.

Art by https://funnyhat12.carrd.co/

#pooltoy #furryart

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 13, 2024, 05:50

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 13, 2024, 05:50

Oct 13, 2024, 05:50

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I lost my home PC's ZFS pool to a kernel panic-inducing bit of corruption. The lone disk in the pool has spent nearly 21,000 hours (2.4 years) of its 3-year life spinning rust, & SMART tests passed.

The kernel panic on `zpool import` means I basically lost everything on the disk.

But my USB backup disk is fine (I tested) & current enough. I should be able to install a new disk, install FreeBSD on it, & zfs send/recv my snapshots, I think.

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Oct 12, 2024, 16:20

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**GIFS GALORE** @gifsbot@botsin.space · Oct 12, 2024, 16:20

Oct 12, 2024, 16:20

GIFS GALORE @gifsbot@botsin.space

CARTOON/FOUL.GIF

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**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 12, 2024, 16:23

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 12, 2024, 16:23

Oct 12, 2024, 16:23

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Current status: The half of "backup and restore" nobody likes to think about.

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** · Oct 08, 2024, 22:49

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**maple "mavica" syrup [6502]** @mavica_again@computerfairi.es · Oct 08, 2024, 22:49

Oct 08, 2024, 22:49

maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

can anyone tell me what i can use that's the size of a GoPro and can live stream to OBS or similarly work as a wireless webcam and costs less than a hundred pounds or doesn't need a monthly subscription to do so

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 08, 2024, 22:23

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 08, 2024, 22:23

Oct 08, 2024, 22:23

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@mavica_again that's
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good to know. :/

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 04, 2024, 01:18

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 04, 2024, 01:18

Oct 04, 2024, 01:18

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@lion Thanks.

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 03, 2024, 02:32

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 03, 2024, 02:32

Oct 03, 2024, 02:32

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Uptime is good for Linux, but it turns out uptime isn't so good for Ruby on Rails.

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 03, 2024, 02:31

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Oct 03, 2024, 02:31

Oct 03, 2024, 02:31

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@Foxhack @lion Something was indeed up. I think images will start working again in a bit.

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Sep 29, 2024, 20:39

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · Sep 29, 2024, 20:39

Sep 29, 2024, 20:39

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@nixCraft Great! In addition to inventing yet another layer of complexity that makes websites inaccessible to a large number of Web users, they invented a tool that helps mail spammers get past anti-spam tools better than current page-to-image spam generator tools as a nice bonus! Good job, techbros!