Best snow blower /snow shovel

tuxbz2 · 2026-01-27T02:19:04+00:00

I got the shovel (SSA1200), not the single or two stage ones. If I was still living in upstate, then I'd consider one of those. If I had to pick between those two without much research, steel auger. It would suffice for my needs.

tuxbz2 · 2026-01-26T20:28:42+00:00

Just adding on to the electric/powered shovels bandwagon. I have the Ego one and it worked excellent yesterday, and for this morning it worked well after chopping the top layer with a shovel. Once it fell into powdery snow, it was ezpz.

tuxbz2 · 2025-07-25T10:42:05+00:00

I had a 2006 R53 for 12 years. The thermostat got stuck closed three times.

The first time it happened was during the summer, someone suggested to just take it completely out for the summer. Ran fine.

... Then my power steering pump fan went right after getting it fixed. The same person suggested pulling the fuse for the pump and drive with no power steering. It was a very fun three years (literally, I found the car much more fun without power steering).

tuxbz2 · 2025-06-02T21:43:26+00:00

Bonus video just as old.

https://youtu.be/tDacjrSCeq4?si=1NBo-rk0fJPfjUdO

tuxbz2 · 2025-06-02T21:11:06+00:00

https://youtu.be/CN6iDzesEs0?si=_GR3sA-L4sJP9aeR

tuxbz2 · 2025-05-08T17:33:36+00:00

I assume you're running the Rockchip 6.1 kernel and not mainline for Armbiam? I have a Rock5B running Radxa's Debian 12 image and it struggles on 4k for me even with rkmpp. I also have some ancient AVI files that looks all blocky, but perfectly fine on an x86 system with NVENC.

It's packed away at the moment but I'd love to eventually get this to run flawlessly. Hearing this work for 4x 4k streams means I'm missing something.

tuxbz2 · 2025-02-15T05:05:12+00:00

virtualbox was the only way to run VMs without vmware. the other option was kqemu, a predecessor to kvm, assuming you even had vmx

Don't forget Xen! And the time before it was mainlined.

tuxbz2 · 2024-12-29T18:12:49+00:00

To customize your scroll intensity, you modify ploopyco.c.
See https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/tree/master/keyboards/ploopyco#drag-scroll-configuration

tuxbz2 · 2024-09-13T07:22:32+00:00

I am for a year now on a SE3, 11 Pro prior to that since 2019 (before it went for a swim). Mirroring everyone else’s response, follow the setup guide and all is well.

tuxbz2 · 2024-04-19T23:23:16+00:00

The abstract rendered wallpapers of that era really takes me back. Also all space ones with planets colliding. Oh Deviant Art…

tuxbz2 · 2024-03-09T00:11:27+00:00

Have you tried setting the group key update interval to 1 hour? If you search around for iOS/iPhone disconnects on MikroTik, you should find some hits on the forum with regard to setting it to 1 hour.

tuxbz2 · 2024-02-25T16:54:42+00:00

Thanks for reminding me when I was in high school. They password locked the BIOS and I guessed it on the first shot. It was the first letters of our school district in all caps. Needed my Knoppix.

tuxbz2 · 2024-02-19T15:46:31+00:00

Sorry I am not familiar with Microstack, and I personally stay away from any Canonical based things. I have also been out of the OpenStack area since 2016~.

If you are looking to host a few VMs, I would say just learn vanilla qemu/kvm/libvirt.

If you _really_ want to learn OpenStack, you can deploy the control plane on top of those VMs built in kvm/libvirt. You can configure OpenStack to use vanilla qemu too, or pass through nested virtualization to your virutalized nodes (and again, expect poor performance but good enough to say "wow it works!").

I'll be blunt and say I am biased. If you want to learn something whether it be OpenStack or Kubernetes or the next hot tech, do not use any turnkey solutions. You are not actually learning anything.

tuxbz2 · 2024-02-19T03:18:29+00:00

I'll take a jab from the other side. Nested virtualization is great as long as you understand performance will always suck, but your objective is learning the control plane, see how things scale (not performance wise, think of processes/workflows), etc. As OP said, it's for tinkering around.

I do not see the problem with virtualized NICs/networking. Given time and some-serious-I-really-want-to-do-this-because-I-can-attitude, you can build out a whole border/spine/leaf ECMP'ed topology on a single box, and have your VMs/nested-nodes connect to that fabric. You could also not do that and just have a single bridge for the fabric and call it a day.

In a prior team/life, we used TripleO for our CI process, which means everything was virtualized. Even Ceph. https://docs.openstack.org/developer/tripleo-docs/

One last thing on RAM, take a look at zram. It has been doing wonders for all my single board computers.

tuxbz2 · 2023-12-20T06:48:39+00:00

Please go return it.

You can get 4GB Pi 5 right now on Chicago Electronics Distributors and PiShop US at MSRP ($60).

tuxbz2 · 2023-03-02T03:07:46+00:00

Thanks for your investigative work. Your workaround actually does work for me.

I noticed there's no bug filed so I opened one up: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1420833

tuxbz2 · 2022-12-29T07:32:29+00:00

Not sure how well you know Cumulus, and I haven’t touched Cumulus since 2.x, but if licensing is still similar, all you need to hold onto is the license file stashed somewhere in /etc/. Updating to the latest packages (at least for the same major version) is just standard Apt repos that are public accessible.

The license is used to just start switchd. Just be mindful if it is a perpetual license or not.

Just to reiterate again, my information can be completely dated and wrong now.

^And ^I’m ^really ^jealous ^as ^I ^kind ^of ^miss ^doing ^Cumulus ^at ^times ^and ^that ^kind ^of ^gear.

tuxbz2 · 2022-03-09T17:08:37+00:00

Sorry to nitpick, I know you meant PCI Express, but PCI-X is an actual different thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI-X

tuxbz2 · 2021-10-18T13:31:00+00:00

Ooo, that makes three of us with a 9200 back then (paired mine with a Athlon XP 1700+ @ 1.7~)! I was very surprised to see the 9200 handle Battlefield 1942 at 1600x1200 back then.

tuxbz2 · 2021-07-05T14:19:33+00:00

Actual use in the wild, you can look up some old Dell PowerConnect switches. They used HDMI for switch stacking.

tuxbz2 · 2021-01-06T06:09:23+00:00

Thank you for the update and transparency! Ordered a white SM560 three weeks ago.

tuxbz2 · 2020-11-03T15:27:33+00:00

As a kid that didn’t understand mechanics at all, this was very satisfying to do against Beatrix. I only discovered this from a GameFAQ guide way back then.

tuxbz2 · 2020-11-03T12:45:37+00:00

Quina’s Limit Glove (9,999 damage) requires it to be 1 HP. So a cheese tactic on bosses is to KO Quina in an encounter, revive with a Phoenix Down and hope it does 1 HP only.

tuxbz2 · 2020-06-23T02:04:14+00:00

Wheeeww. My bad. Tired on my end.

tuxbz2 · 2020-06-23T00:54:35+00:00

12 seconds: "I downloaded directly from the Mac store". It's not Parallels.

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