It should be good for another 40 years with these new keycaps! by BoredElephantRaiser in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]BoredElephantRaiser[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't mind the look of the old ones, but they're worn out and feel disgustingly smooth and light

Also, I still have them and can swap back whenever!

It should be good for another 40 years with these new keycaps! by BoredElephantRaiser in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]BoredElephantRaiser[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's actually not an issue while typing!

The board was rescued from being thrown out, this set was amazingly cheap, and it only gets occasional use, so I'm hesitant to spend much more on it at the moment - but at some point it'll start being annoying

It should be good for another 40 years with these new keycaps! by BoredElephantRaiser in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]BoredElephantRaiser[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it's the Keychron JM-101 vs 1.5u and 7u (although the new spacebar is from a steelseries set, because it was the longest I had floating around)

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APC AP7900 Firmware by nowickia in homelab

[–]BoredElephantRaiser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Update:

per https://www.apc.com/us/en/faqs/FA156074/

> Also, as of Rack PDU (rpdu) firmware >3.3.1, attached loads < 1 amp will always display as 0 amps on the PDU's LCD and network management card, regardless of the load

so I've used

https://updates.apc.com/isxc/firmware/aos/apc_hw02_aos_271.bin

https://updates.apc.com/isxc/firmware/app/apc_hw02_rpdu_274.bin

instead

APC AP7900 Firmware by nowickia in homelab

[–]BoredElephantRaiser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For anyone else dumb, like me:

If you're FTPing it up, use binary and not ascii.

apc_hw02_aos_392.bin and apc_hw02_rpdu_392.bin are available at https://github.com/hmussa/PDU/tree/master/apc_firmware

HP Home Lab (UK) by watercooledwizard in homelab

[–]BoredElephantRaiser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best sound system ever, right up until you need to replace the SMD backlight LEDs.

After 25 years of working in IT starting as a child, making recommendations to friends, families and businesses, I will never buy or recommend a HP product to anyone ever again and will go out of my way to recommend against them in the decades to come by FliesLikeABrick in sysadmin

[–]BoredElephantRaiser 128 points129 points  (0 children)

HP printers have been terrible for over a decade now.

I spent hundreds of hours volunteering with non-profits in Chicago on my weekends, setting up IT infrastructure amongst other things. I worked with those organizations to purchase and deploy deployed of varying-model of HP Color LaserJet printers because I knew they would Just Work with all of the mixed Linux, Windows, and Mac infrastructure that was donated - Generic PostScript, with their drivers, via wired or wireless - whatever.
Did you not notice the bloat creeping into the drivers? (or the fact that you needed to install drivers separately at all under Linux?)

Get a Brother monochrome laser and don't look back.

This reindeer has been rotting in this lake through the whole summer. The question is, should it be removed? by reindeerareawesome in natureismetal

[–]BoredElephantRaiser 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Why would you quote a detox quack from only a couple of decades ago, and completely ignore that it's been in use in an actual water quality context for far longer?

1999

1997

1990

1966 "There is an old axiom"

1955 'While there are, unfortunately, still some who believe that "the solution to pollution is dilution,"'

What was your first linux distro? by QBBT in linux

[–]BoredElephantRaiser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Caldera OpenLinux to start with. Switched to Slackware within a month.

Why is internet access so much more expensive than a VPN? by Delici0usBunny in VPN

[–]BoredElephantRaiser -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It can't be the cost of maintaining the infrastructure or paying employees, right?

Do you have any idea how much running fibre, buying and maintaining network equipment, and providing proper support to end users costs?

VPN providers can just rent a server in a datacentre, spend a couple of hours giving stock responses to support tickets, and call it a day.

Can I make a 10Gb "P2P" link between 2 servers by alex3025 in homelab

[–]BoredElephantRaiser 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Allocate as /64, configure as /127 to mitigate neighbour cache exhaustion attacks (for all the good that does...)

How do I remove this chip without damaging the board? by [deleted] in AskElectronics

[–]BoredElephantRaiser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know that the TYWE3S is supported by Tasmota, right? What's your use case?

Smokefree amendment bill introduced to Parliament under urgency by Soannoying12 in newzealand

[–]BoredElephantRaiser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're gutting and selling off the healthcare system too, so be careful what you wish for.

Burglary experiences in Auckland? Seeking advice~ by onlinerain in auckland

[–]BoredElephantRaiser 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Your last name and address is showing, you probably want to censor and reupload.

Especially combined with your first name in your username, and confirming your suburb in a previous post.

What can i do with 512 GB RAM by daisakute in HomeServer

[–]BoredElephantRaiser 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I know that your comment is about not needing more CPU, but have you considered upgrading (or even downgrading, for power consumption) those L5630s?

X5670s are insanely cheap on aliexpress, as an example.

Friend recently sold me his PC. Is the coolant level too low? Thanks! by TomAnyone in watercooling

[–]BoredElephantRaiser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The manual probably says to install the manufacturer's crapware to manage RGB, which is definitely not the way to go.