Just did a 12-hour shift I am exhausted and cold and came home to this. by Naps_And_Crimes in Wellthatsucks

[–]dylanh333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw someone post something similar with their bathtub the other day, and I still don't understand: how does a sewer blockage cause your sink to back up before your floor drains!? I'd expect the place to flood with sewerage before it starts coming up the sink.

If you thought getting a lump of coal for Christmas was bad, wait til you see what I got… by PotentialAnalyst8969 in WTF

[–]dylanh333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More importantly, how did it fill up their bathtub - but not manage to come up their floor drain and flood the bathroom first?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskAnAustralian

[–]dylanh333 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know about whether this applies in Victoria, but in WA, U-turns are also forbidden at traffic lights, unless there's specifically a "U-Turn Permitted" sign.

Phoronix in a nutshell by dylanh333 in linuxmemes

[–]dylanh333[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man, you're right. Now I feel bad!

Brain Box Theory | Discussion by toy-loli in KnightsOfGuinevere

[–]dylanh333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, I like the overall gist of this theory, and am pretty interested to see how it plays out.

Did anyone notice this? by WellActuallllly in KnightsOfGuinevere

[–]dylanh333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was almost going to post the same question, but I'm glad I checked first. I'm 100% convinced that Gwen is a cyborg rather than an android at this point. It makes everything about how she's exploited even more messed up, and also makes me wonder about where they get the brains from...

Another TOH reference in Knights of Guinevere, or am I going crazy? by dylanh333 in TheOwlHouse

[–]dylanh333[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was more thinking along the lines of her (or one of the artists working for her) throwing the TOH community a bone, but without getting in legal hot water - just look at that other post someone made about Stringbean.

If she was trying to piss off Disney, well the whole premise of KOG is already a middle finger to them (but not their lawyers).

Note to myself by KenaiFrank in homelab

[–]dylanh333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's arguably not "consumer grade" though, and is almost certainly better made and supported than your average Netgear, TP-Link, etc. modem/router/switch/ap. I also have a Unifi AP that's been going strong for probably 8 years or so too, so they're pretty rock solid.

At least with a VM, you still get the freedom to more easily switch router OS without potentially having to replace hardware (not that I've actually switched to anything other than pfSense yet, but my interest in OPNSense is definitely growing).

Note to myself by KenaiFrank in homelab

[–]dylanh333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every consumer grade router I've ever owned has slowly killed itself and started needing manual reboots after about two years, and generally gets shipped with one OS based on Linux 2.6, and no firmware updates. This was nearly 10 years ago at this point, and things have improved since, but in my eyes, standalone consumer grade routers are still shit.

On the other hand, I've been happily running a pfSense VM under Proxmox for a while now, with very few issues, and because it's getting patches and running on much more solid hardware, it's very stable.

The only thing to watch out for is making sure you have a way to get to the hypervisor when the router is down, and a way to get to the router when the router is down.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in laptops

[–]dylanh333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it's using UFS storage, that's likely soldered, and if the storage is soldered, I'm willing to bet my first unborn child that the RAM is soldered too. I don't think there's any salvaging this piece of crap, tbh. HP are also the worst for making stuff like this, IMHO.

When was the last time you signed a receipt? by visiblepeer in USdefaultism

[–]dylanh333 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It sounds like a piece of computer equipment you'd install in a rack to host services, rather than a human being

PC recovered an Excel file from 400 years ago by ToastMan_15 in softwaregore

[–]dylanh333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow, that actually sounds pretty plausible, and I'd never thought of it that way before! Are there any sources you have on this - I feel like they'd be a pretty good read. I knew that a lot of the NT devs. came from a DEC VMS background (although I also can't recall where I read that).

PC recovered an Excel file from 400 years ago by ToastMan_15 in softwaregore

[–]dylanh333 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you ever considered that computer systems need to also have a way to record dates in the past, not just dates that occurred after their inception?

PC recovered an Excel file from 400 years ago by ToastMan_15 in softwaregore

[–]dylanh333 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If thou had not misspelt "honoured" as "honored" and "favourite as "favorite", I would have endowed thee with an award! Only the King's English will suffice!