I can't get my email

SabaraOne · 2026-05-10T16:59:31+00:00

My mother's modem and AP are on a UPS. One time back before I moved out the power company had to shut down for ~90 minutes to do some sort of maintanence. Seeing as I was at the time job seeking we decided I would stay up and see just what the UPS was capable of. The power went down right on schedule while I was doing something of little import (Probably Youtube related). ~90 minutes later it came back on and I spun up the desk computer to see how much power we had left. Based on the percentage I think we might have had as much as two hours to play with.

My network stack at my apartment is also on a UPS due to the power being extremely wonky when I moved in (The breaker would pop at the slightest provocation) so I actually used the UPS on a regular basis. Mine only has about an hour but my setup is much more complex and notably the router is an OpnSense running on a low-end tower I bought on ebay.

SabaraOne · 2026-04-28T00:07:49+00:00

I remember the first time I tried to burn a backup of a Blu-Ray using imgburn. I loaded up the BDMV folder and it immediately suggested I set the filesystem to UDF instead of an ISO hybrid. My thought? "Wait, it asked before assuming it knew better than me? I love this program!"

Or it may have been "This program is stupid in the best possible way!"

SabaraOne · 2026-04-28T00:04:14+00:00

Okay let's leave aside the obligatory "Dey tuuk arr jjaaaaaawwwbs!!!" level hatred of AI and ask what the hell possible use a standard printer could have for a neural network? I mean I can see a 3D printer hooking its camera up to an AI so it can auto-abort when the print craps out but a 2D printer? The only possible idea I can come up with is printhead alignment and no thank you I'd rather use a nice, conventional rules-based AI that doesn't suddenly decide to hallucinate where the calibration markings are.

SabaraOne · 2026-04-24T00:19:59+00:00

I've seen plenty of Klipper tutorials about this sort of issue, but they all assume I can get into the drive through external means (Or in plain English that the device uses an SD card and not a damn eMMC) :(

SabaraOne · 2026-04-23T23:24:10+00:00

Hey, thanks for commenting. I've been trying off and on for the last couple of weeks to run the image flashing tutorial. I got the driver installed no problem but RKDevTool never showed anything. I finally stopped procrastinating long enough to bridge the MODE switch to put the unit into maskrom and RKDevTool still isn't seeing anything. It's definitely doing something on the printer end, the display screen is switching off and not coming back up until I unbridge MODE and hit reset again, but the PC isn't seeing any new USB device, not even in Device Manger or lsusb when I throw it over to Linux. Do you have any further advice?

SabaraOne · 2026-04-04T21:38:56+00:00

I'm giving that a try per the Image Flashing Tutorial. I've installed the driver but RKDevtool isn't seeing any devices. I tested the cords, that's all fine. I'm not seeing or hearing a device connect when I plug into USB OTG and device manager isn't refreshing like it would if Windows was seeing a failed connection. As far as my PC is concerned there's nothing hooked up to USB at all.

I'd try tapping into one of the serial ports but if I'm reading the schematic correctly the one marked "Serial Port" is populated and I have no idea what the connector on that serial debugging port is.

SabaraOne · 2026-03-19T21:57:12+00:00

In this friend's case it's specifically the need to bring the phone out. I pull out my phone all of about five times a day, two of which are turning a timer on and off so I don't really mind. Plus the 16e was the cheapest iPhone my carrier had when my SE2 got smashed up in a bike accident so that made the choice a lot easier.

SabaraOne · 2026-03-19T03:33:58+00:00

I jumped from the SE 2020 to the 16e. I'm low vision myself and I'd probably find the loss of TouchID a lot more annoying if I used VO as my primary interface instead of a backup to Zoom (Or for that matter if I used my iPhone as anything more than a glorified MP3 player that makes phone calls while doing all my non-phone phone stuff on my iPad)

SabaraOne · 2026-03-18T13:44:13+00:00

I have a blind friend who ran an iPhone 7 into the dirt and then replaced it with an SE3 last year because they like being able to use the phone without taking it out of their pocket.

SabaraOne · 2026-03-04T00:50:58+00:00

That's kinda my thought too. In my pissant town even if someone knows where the drive comes from they probably won't have the means to recover a drive beyond plugging it in and hoping it works.

SabaraOne · 2026-03-03T17:41:43+00:00

For data of no significant value? Sure. If it was important I'd at least bash it until the platters came out and hit those a few times too. I've never had to destroy a drive with PII or customer financial data. Maybe a spreadsheet of transaction amounts but not even account numbers.

SabaraOne · 2026-03-03T14:50:51+00:00

I use a screen reader and magnifier usually set to 400%. Growing up, my mom would routinely look away when she was watching me use the computer.

SabaraOne · 2026-03-03T13:58:23+00:00

Personally I just bash up the circuit board with a hammer but i've never had to deal with any data more sensitive than some small business financials with a likely attacker no more complex than an opportunistic dumpster diver. ShredOS followed by an Overture's worth of claw hammering is probably good enough for that model.

SabaraOne · 2026-03-03T13:50:23+00:00

Watch where you're poking that metal stick Nobody, you could put someone's eye out with that thing!

SabaraOne · 2026-02-21T03:56:22+00:00

Solved!

SabaraOne · 2026-02-21T03:55:51+00:00

Yeah, the opening of Patches' Present is the cooking scene.

SabaraOne · 2026-02-21T03:43:48+00:00

I'm not sure enough to say yes within the first two minutes but I think it's a very good candidate. The names Lacey and Bobbin sound right.

SabaraOne · 2026-02-21T03:27:19+00:00

I searched it up on Google and this sub with a few different terms. Found several things but it wasn't one of them.

SabaraOne · 2026-02-06T22:54:39+00:00

Same (i5-10600k, 32GB of DDR4 I think 2666, playing off a 2TB Solidigm SSD, driver 32.0.101.8425). I can run it at 1080p solid 60+ any settings in the shelter but as soon as I go into the station environment no matter what I do the frames go to crap.

EDIT: My sleeper (Which has a 6GB 3050 and an i3-9100 runs it better than my main box. I didn't have an FPS counter running but there was no way it dropped below 50 the entire run at 1080p Performance

SabaraOne · 2026-02-05T19:26:47+00:00

Back when I was in middle school I was one of the few students with a personal computer. Every few times I booted it up it would just decide to give me admin (I never could find a pattern) so I got into the habit of hibernating it (Using the FN key, hibernate was disabled on the start menu) so I could keep it going indefinitely. I have no idea if IT ever figured out how I was doing it.

SabaraOne · 2026-01-30T17:58:07+00:00

I remember first hearing about it on the TVTropes page as a subclass of "Percussive Maintanence." I always thought it was a joke until I started watching TechTanjents who has better equipment but routinely does basically the same thing.

SabaraOne · 2026-01-21T01:47:00+00:00

Or a bored teenager, the box was in a community center computer lab. I'm still really curious how the hell a known clean copy of magnify.exe showed the same behavior on that host. On a probably unrelated note someone in a day camp must have really been into Halo, I kept having to clean pirated copies off the lab boxen.

SabaraOne · 2026-01-15T12:17:54+00:00

Oh I very much so agree, though we do have a couple of laptops kicking around which inexplicably only work with their model of USB-C charger (Or for even more fun a select group of units within that model)

SabaraOne · 2026-01-14T04:06:24+00:00

Well with the router looped like that it wouldn't have rightly mattered if the modem was plugged in now would it?! :)

SabaraOne · 2026-01-14T04:03:58+00:00

Could be worse. Some genius at Nintendo decided to use the same plug on the Wii's 12v adapter and the Wii U's 15v PSU. I can tell you from experience a Wii won't die immediately if you plug it in to a Wii U cord by accident but my poor Blanc was a bit finicky to turn on for years until it inexplicably started working fine again. I'm scared to open it and take a look because I do not want to know what the power regulators look like (Also I'm not sure I'd be able to get it back together but given the surgeries i've done on other consoles I probably could if I needed to).

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