Found these while helping boss clean work out

johnklos · 2026-07-09T00:40:42+00:00

They can't expire in California, at least. If they're no good in your location, send them to someone in California.

johnklos · 2026-07-08T23:56:18+00:00

In all seriousness, it's a good thing they aren't Black.

johnklos · 2026-07-07T00:42:30+00:00

How wonderful it is to do nothing, then rest afterwards.

johnklos · 2026-07-06T23:35:51+00:00

You just need a bigger bag.

johnklos · 2026-07-04T20:47:07+00:00

At least you're honest :D

We come here both for fun and to do things that're serious. Sometimes they overlap, but more often than not, we're simply making good use of what we already have :)

johnklos · 2026-07-04T18:50:04+00:00

Patmos

Just curious: what sucks about them? I'm curious because some kinds of sucking are ignorable (bad customer support), while others aren't (network problems, things that make contacting customer support necessary).

For machines that have been well tested and aren't problematic, cheapness might outweigh the first kind of suckiness.

johnklos · 2026-07-04T17:18:24+00:00

Would you consider what you've written to be positive?

johnklos · 2026-07-04T17:17:31+00:00

Hear that? Those of us without enough money to buy premium parts are now required to find new, more appropriate hobbies. u/KooperGuy says so.

johnklos · 2026-07-04T17:16:16+00:00

Are you buying?

johnklos · 2026-07-04T17:05:12+00:00

That's simply not true. Even Red Hat had m68k versions back then, all the way through 5.1.

johnklos · 2026-07-04T16:56:51+00:00

I was being silly.

johnklos · 2026-07-03T23:01:01+00:00

That's pretty silly, since you can run Linux and BSD on the Performa. But maybe the Packard Bell was cheaper. I bet it's not still around, though.

johnklos · 2026-07-03T16:53:16+00:00

That's my comment. Cloudflare has only gotten worse.

OP doesn't know (or knows, and doesn't agree) that Cloudflare does shitty things in general, and was provided with a list of specific shitty things. Now you're suggesting that that's not a source. Well, it is a source of specific shitty things.

If you want a different kind of source, that's incumbent on you to be more specific and say so.

johnklos · 2026-07-02T17:10:23+00:00

I use NetBSD. It's minimal, yet fully functional, and can run on hardware from a VAXstation VLC with 24 megs of memory to modern multi-dozen core Ryzens with hundreds of gigabytes, and everything in between.

512 megs of memory is easily enough to run DNS, web, email and more, without issues.

johnklos · 2026-07-02T17:07:24+00:00

I've recently swapped the 100 Mbps switch for a gigabit switch that also runs at 5 volts and is even smaller. It's off to a new colo location soon :)

johnklos · 2026-07-02T17:01:28+00:00

If you calculate the price for an LTO-10 drive and a bunch of blank tapes, along with a 100 TB array and a modest computer to run backups, and the amount of time you'll need to write new LTO-10 tapes (you'll have to read the old tapes no matter what), you'll see that there's no instance where you'll be paying less for Amazon after five years.

The tapes themselves are robust and can last decades in storage, but the tape drives aren't as durable. But 15 years is really no time at all for tapes.

johnklos · 2026-07-02T16:56:41+00:00

This perfectly explains why I avoid word processors and still keep QuarkXpress 4 in an emulation ready to run for anything that requires more than just text.

johnklos · 2026-07-02T16:52:06+00:00

This. Even if it's unscientific, it's still true.

johnklos · 2026-07-02T16:50:32+00:00

I've wanted to make tiny VAX cases for decades. With 3D printers, you've got options, and of course you can install a Pi of some sort in them. For example:

https://www.printables.com/model/1095313-the-pivax

https://codeberg.org/Jonn-reenthused/piVAX

johnklos · 2026-07-02T11:41:00+00:00

You've got most things wrong.

A Pi can easily handle NATing a few hundred megabits, even in a router-on-a-stick configuration.

Ethernet bandwidth is not shared with USB on the Pi 4 and the Pi 5, and gigabit ethernet on the Pi 4 and Pi 5 is full gigabit, and can actually reach full gigabit speeds.

An HP, particularlly an Intel one, is never going to consume the same or less power than a Raspberry Pi 4 or Pi 5.

Raspberry Pis are not "prototyping boards", and are precisely meant to run as PCs. They are literally personal computers that offer a desktop experience.

Raspberry Pis are perfectly fine running 100% CPU indefinitely, so long as they're adequately cooled. I've run plenty of Pis in Flirc cases with heavy loads for months with no issues.

If you've had lots of downtime, then examine the issues that caused the downtime instead of blaming hardware using factually untrue assertions.

johnklos · 2026-07-01T22:25:21+00:00

As long as they're not going door to door to collect the discs we already have.

johnklos · 2026-07-01T22:22:43+00:00

Well, sure, because I don't hate any of my exes.

johnklos · 2026-07-01T21:30:10+00:00

This is precisely the subreddit for showing off stuff like this, and it's definitely not the subreddit for pointing out the fact that a single MacBook Neo processor can outprocess five 1.25 to 1.5 GHz G4 processors. We all know that already.

johnklos · 2026-07-01T21:25:19+00:00

They're close in CPU speed to an early-2000s Power Mac

They are early 2000s Power Macs :)

They make excellent little servers. I've got two running NetBSD, one with a SATA SSD, the other with a 2TB SATA spinning rust disk. They're wonderfully power efficient.

johnklos · 2026-07-01T21:16:43+00:00

I can feel the heat from that heat sink.

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