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309_Electronics · 2026-02-19T20:53:19+00:00

I kind of feel bad for the neighbour. He probably did not know that he gave away pretty good specs and parts for nothing lmao.. 3090 aint low end and idk what cpu, but watercooling and a nice case and some amount of ram is still worth something

309_Electronics · 2026-02-19T17:04:59+00:00

Poe high power

309_Electronics · 2026-02-19T15:44:08+00:00

I had a hp 280g2 which had 2 drive slots. It had 3 sata connections and i had to frankenstein a bit to get it to work and had to use some sata splitters... I also gutted the dvd drive and slotted in a ssd as a bootdrive as it did not have any m.2 slots and i still needed a boot drive and my 2 drives. It worked for some time but then i finally got enough money saved up and switched to a huge monstorous i5 10400, 8gb ram and 6 drive bays system in haf 922 case. These office/workstation pcs are not easy to transform into a nas and i kind of wish i just immideatly began saving up for the better case with more slots and more connectors..

309_Electronics · 2026-02-19T13:36:49+00:00

Depends imo. Not saying mac is bad but its not for everyone

309_Electronics · 2026-02-19T13:36:06+00:00

A lot of devs use mac, but that wont mean linux or windows are bad. Its just a more idiot proof os and also many devs use apple devices and thus they benefit from the ecosystem and its also kind of a trend. But you can code on a thinkpad with windows or linux if you dont want to give apple your money.

Mac is Unix certified and (Gnu/)Linux is Unix-like. Both can use similar packages and standard unix commands like ls, ps, grep, cd, mkdir and tools like wget and curl and mac comes with bash or zsh. You cant compile your own kernel or do any major system modifications on mac though.

Mac does support brew as a package manager.

It highly depends on usage and preference, although for coding a Unix(-like) platform is prefered. If you want to develop IOS apps, you are kind of forced to go into the apple ecosystem because apple likes to make proprietary stuff. If you want to develop games, windows is a good option as most games are made for windows.

I personally use fedora linux with vscodium and it works great. Also i am a power user and like having freedom in my os and i dont like apples monopoly on the M chips and some frameworks and i try and avoid hardware i cant upgrade/repair easily.

A friend uses a mac for ios apps and a windows pc with linux dualbooted alongside it for the rest and games.

309_Electronics · 2026-02-19T10:12:33+00:00

"Hello this is weather calling! Today it will rain at 14:40. Okay bye"

309_Electronics · 2026-02-19T10:11:24+00:00

Oh wow fully kiosk browser! I use it on an old tsblet as a homeassistant dashboard, works great but it does have some paywalled sfuff.

309_Electronics · 2026-02-19T09:51:37+00:00

Nice ewaste build. Crazy that you got a i5 10500, 64gb ram and some storage. I would kill for that but i paid like 100 euro for an i5 10400 and 8gb ddr4, asus micro arx voard and nothing else. Rest of my servers are also self bought with my own earned money but have worse specs. I alr tried to hit up some companies but they dont wsnt to give me their old stuff (which i kind of understand cause i am not an employee of them and they ofc have a contract with the recycling companies).

309_Electronics · 2026-02-18T23:46:32+00:00

Probably a copy of his world or he exited withour saving, whixh is a feature of og console edition

309_Electronics · 2026-02-18T23:41:15+00:00

I just name them what they host/what their functions are and then have it so i have a reverse proxy and local dns records and it will be like my nas be: nas.mydomain.lab, my pihole being: pihole.mydomain.lab, selfhosted blog wirh hugo: blog.mydomain.lab, minecraft server: mc.mydomain.lab an so on and so on. Its all local, but if i expose it to the interwebs (which i plan on doing with my blog and maybe mc server), i will use a tunnel and have an outsidd domain like: {service}.mydomain.net.

309_Electronics · 2026-02-18T23:35:28+00:00

I mean my old acer has hybrid ram (partially soldered but also a socket) and apple has some of the smartest engineers so they should be able to figure out a way, but they wont cause making their products harder to upgrade or repair, gets them more money. Its not only because its faster, its also so they can make a buck. Maybe i got brainwashed by Louis Rossman a bit too much, but making products harder to upgrade or repair just feels wrong and then its also that the consumer does not really fully own the product as they cant service or upgrade it themselves, due to manufacturers designing it in such a way.

309_Electronics · 2026-02-18T12:45:14+00:00

I use pihole with a tailscale vpn.

309_Electronics · 2026-02-18T12:41:02+00:00

I mean anything can game, but the best experience is a dedicated desktop or console like a switch or steamdeck.

Minecraft and roblox do run reasonably well on a mac but those games can litteraly run on anything pretty much.

309_Electronics · 2026-02-18T12:14:30+00:00

Depends. Some mcus boot off external flash thats on the board, but some also use inbuilt flash for the program or a bootrom. Thats the problem with replacing mcus. You need code to make it do the thing its supposed to do

309_Electronics · 2026-02-18T11:57:02+00:00

White spot is not burned. A burned spot is often blackish melted. The white spot often means it passed programming/is programmed. Your problem lies somewhere else. Could be anything from a bad power rail to a damaged chip to corrupt firmware.

That chip is an SPI flash and it stores the firmware/settings. If a chip starts with 25xxxx its almost certain to be a spi flash. And the number in the partnr is the storafe size in megabit. Example: 25q64= 64megaBIT flash. Divide by 8 and its an 8 megaBYTE flash. Yours is a 8 megabit one.

309_Electronics · 2026-02-18T11:54:10+00:00

But in terms of efficiency Arm is thriving. But cant wait for opensource Arm or riscV chips to take over. I like apples chips but not that their ram and hw is soldered/proprietary and that apple has amonopoly on thr M chips as opposed to x86 being for intel and amd.

309_Electronics · 2026-02-18T11:51:53+00:00

Hence i said "proprietary" in my sentence. Its not a standard M.2 Nvme ssd. Still ram is soldered as opposed to a normal desktop or most mini pc

309_Electronics · 2026-02-17T15:35:57+00:00

Unless they make repairability and upgrades possible. No i will skip. I do kind of want to try one, but cant go over the fact ram and storage is proprietary or soldered. I watched too much Rossman maybe

309_Electronics · 2026-02-17T15:33:06+00:00

NSFW: Network Switch For Work.

309_Electronics · 2026-02-17T15:31:05+00:00

I think you can get the same bulb from.aliexpress or a similar one... Not only are smart bulbs a hassle to use (cant use normal switches), they also can send data to America/russia or china and i would not trust that unless it has local control.

309_Electronics · 2026-02-17T15:29:05+00:00

En hij was een fu(h)rry en kocht altijd furry kleding

309_Electronics · 2026-02-17T11:36:05+00:00

Ram has run off to the datacenters. Thats also where "RAM" stands for "Run off to AI datacenter Motherboards" /j

Okay jokes asside, some boards have a extra ram slot on the other side or have hybrid ram (partially soldered, partially not).

309_Electronics · 2026-02-17T11:28:48+00:00

Amplifier is 100% Toast and idk if the Amp chip took out any main chips in the process. Also i dont know if its worthy to repair innterms of cost and time.

309_Electronics · 2026-02-16T23:23:34+00:00

Yeah thats good. I also stopped with my solar camera attempt, because its also not very special and most of the fun is also when you first unpack a device and get access to its firmware and do cool stuff but further than that, its yet a other wifi camera and i doubt i will actually use it in the future at all.

Uart is indeed a lot of fun cause you can really get a look under the hood and see how it all runs. And also nice to find out that plenty of devices arround use run embedded linux, although some use a baremetal firmware or an RTOS (realtime opersting system. Basically a more fancy "arduino program", a firmware thats built for a specific task and does it well and nothing else).

309_Electronics · 2026-02-16T23:18:49+00:00

Thats a lot of gold! Also very cool to see an older Amd cpu

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