they call it powershell because it powers hell

lol western digital changed their CSS but didn't realise it was load bearing and now card payments are broken

HACK THE PLANET
PLAGUE IS A FUCK
PRANK EM ALL 1989
I am Gibson man
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why does nobody ever say "inrageous" to describe stuff that is remarkably normal? that seems like a good word to have in the ol' vocabulary.

"can you hotbox but with meth instead of weed? the FBI is eager to find out!" and other news stories that prove we're in the dumbest timeline

OH: "SNMP? isn't that a Scottish political party?"

I love nonsense conversations.

me, referring to the duvet having gotten tangled with the weighted blanket: "we appear to have a topology problem on our hands"

wife: "you're a topology problem"

me: "I'm a topology *solution*"

I am fully here for the move to RGB LEDs on network switch status ports. it's one of those features that sounds like gamer gimmick bullshit but is actually super useful.

this is interesting and explains why I've been seeing GaN BDS ICs popping up from various manufacturers. low cost AC-DC conversion with a PF of 0.99 and >95% efficiency is impressive.

https://youtu.be/9CETZbYKbps

the mastodon language suggestion feature continues to offer incredible social commentary on languages

when I saw the @weirdunits post yesterday about carrots per ohm I spent about 30 seconds trying to decide whether or not to actually go measure a carrot for a laugh, and I'm glad I did because the results were actually way more interesting than I expected. so there's a lesson. always go do the silly thing.

https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/115149719242982295

yesterday's weird discovery is that every regular sized carrot I have tested is almost exactly 100kΩ end to end with sharp probes stuck in it. a couple of them come out at 100.0k on the dot.

inb4 NIST carrot-based electrical resistance metrology reference

microSD in particular is a product category that I find baffling. it is so physically small that it becomes useless as a portable storage medium because you 100% will lose it, and if you need any appreciable density or performance on the thing it's also very expensive, which makes losing it all the more terrible. so most of the time it's only getting used for expansion storage, which would be far better served by the device just having more native storage using a far better device type.

poor physical resilience, poor data integrity and retention at both rest and in flight, a mix of standard and proprietary protocols, a massive standards shitshow, utterly uninteligible branding on speed grades, and a market for fakes and bullshit claims that makes buying them a miserable gamble

have I mentioned that I hate SD cards? because wow do I hate SD cards. awful awful storage format.