The Official Status Thread
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS I ran into three Swifties while out for my morning coffee.
I don't do "out" or "coffee", so I am am curious how a Swiftie is identified.
Easy, they're not wearing any weeb wear.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Can't use an M2 SSD with a heat sink in this thing.
The (plastic) case is te heet steenk!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS I ran into three Swifties while out for my morning coffee. I feel this is @topspin's fault.
I, for one, am not leaving the house and only recently learned what a Taylor Swift is.
I was out and away on vacation the days Swift visited my city.
Coincidence; but why let facts get in the way of a good story.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith Unfuckingbelievable. Can't use an M2 SSD with a heat sink in this thing. Case won't close. Would've been nice to know, Intel.
Edit: Fortunately I also bought a SATA SSD for the system drive so I can at least try to fight through basic setup while I wait for different M2 SSD.
I have two M.2 SSDs in my desktop machine, one with built-in heatsink and one without (which needs the heatsink that came with the mobo). I suspect one only really needs the heatsinks if yooneu has a write-heavy workload... but I'm not going to chance it.
Fortunately, I also have masses of space in the case. I've made that particular mistake before, long ago...
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
I was out and away on vacation the days Swift visited my city.
You didn't miss much. It's just the normie version of that indie band called ObjectiveC.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS I ran into three Swifties while out for my morning coffee.
I don't do "out" or "coffee", so I am am curious how a Swiftie is identified.
They started talking to me and the barista.
status I had great plans to stay indoors today and the rain has just confirmed I was right too.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS I ran into three Swifties while out for my morning coffee.
I don't do "out" or "coffee", so I am am curious how a Swiftie is identified.
They started talking to me and the barista.
status I had great plans to stay indoors today and the rain has just confirmed I was right too.
Perfect weather for the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, which has a free trial that includes the entirety of A Realm Reborn AND the award-winning Heavensward and Stormblood expansions up to level 70 with no restrictions on playtime!
</copypasta>
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Status:
: Counting down to gay death.
: wasn’t that 10 years ago?
:Also, I’ve been using the 🫃 emoji to mean “I’ve been eating way too much cake for my fat ass”. No ragrets.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith Unfuckingbelievable. Can't use an M2 SSD with a heat sink in this thing. Case won't close. Would've been nice to know, Intel.
Edit: Fortunately I also bought a SATA SSD for the system drive so I can at least try to fight through basic setup while I wait for different M2 SSD.
I have two M.2 SSDs in my desktop machine, one with built-in heatsink and one without (which needs the heatsink that came with the mobo). I suspect one only really needs the heatsinks if yooneu has a write-heavy workload... but I'm not going to chance it.
Fortunately, I also have masses of space in the case. I've made that particular mistake before, long ago...
The first M.2 drive I ever bought had a heatsink on it. This caused a problem because the M.2 connector is right next to the slot with the video card it in, and the drive won't go into the mobo M.2 connector because the heatsink hits the video card fan.
So I bought a card on Ebay that has an M.2 connector on it and plugs into a PCI slot. Worked fine with no noticeable performance impact (seemed just as fast as the SATA SSD I was using previously).
Have since replaced it with a non-heatsink drive. Seems fine.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Can't use an M2 SSD with a heat sink in this thing.
The (plastic) case is te heet steenk!
If the case is aluminum then that probably is the answer. Should be enough of a heatsink that putting a thermal pad between it and the SSD would work
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
this Assembly kit comes with
status: oh shit I seem to be missing a baggie of parts! Well, that puts a large dampener on this assembly program....
status: phew! It was a case of upside-down disrecognition. Construction is proceeding as expected.
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@dkf What's worse is that it looks removable but it's not. There are screws but it's also glued. Even if it weren't, those screws go into a rail that would block the case with or without the heat sink.
Then there's the expansion panel options. The board has two spare USB2 headers and a non-drive M2 port. The only combination I can't get is what I want, USB2 and audio mic/out. But I can get:
- two USB2
- two USB2 and one USB3
- two USB2 and wireless antenna
- two USB2 and RJ45 (duplicate)
- one USB3 and audio out
- a bunch of ugly-as-sin replacement lids that make the expansion panel moot
So I ordered the one with wireless and obviated the wireless adapter I already bought. Guess it'll be a backup for another machine.
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status what do Germans get up to on their birthdays? Hopefully not Taylor Swift concerts.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
this Assembly kit comes with
status: oh shit I seem to be missing a baggie of parts! Well, that puts a large dampener on this assembly program....
status: phew! It was a case of upside-down disrecognition. Construction is proceeding as expected.
status: fucking hell! I didn't realize one of the parts did not have the holes threaded.
Now pondering how to extract a tiny stripped screw so I can tap that hole (and the others around it).
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
the one with wireless and obviated the wireless adapter
Placing bet: they just put a card in the M.2 slot.
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@Zenith: I'm curious about why you specifically want USB 2 instead of USB 3, but at the same time I'm afraid to ask.
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Updated Thunderbird from version 91 to the latest, 115.
Didn't want to, but TB 91's handling of OAuth2 is broken. Works on some mail servers but not others. I've stayed with TB91 because the UX of all the newer versions is complete shit.
Spent half a day trying to wrangle TB into something usable and that doesn't annoy the fuck out of me.. I don't understand why these assholes can't just fix the things that need fixing and leave everything else alone.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith: I'm curious about why you specifically want USB 2 instead of USB 3, but at the same time I'm afraid to ask.
He wants his mouse to let him know it can go faster if plugged into a 3 port.
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@Zerosquare Windows 7. I thought we covered this already?
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Status: Awesome mood today.
It's summer, so just the time for the A/C to konk out. You know, after having paid to have it fixed almost exactly a year ago. Turns out antifreeze was low. Car starts up, air starts to cool, then my mom closes the door and the fan shuts off entirely. Look under the hood again, big plastic cover for the fan is cracked. It's leaning on a wheel with a belt, which was probably causing the slight whine I've been hearing. The crack must've been there for about a week. That's when I heard this "clank" noise, like some flat piece of metal fell off, after backing out of my driveway but could never find anything on the road. So I get to drive home with no fan...but I can still feel some small amount of cold air, even with the A/C off, so the freon (or whatever) is probably leaking. Hopefully it'll pass inspection without a working fan because I have to drop the car off to have some door rust fixed right after the inspection (it's the 3rd, everywhere will be closed the 4th, weekend is 6th and 7th, and rust shop is expecting it the 8th....for a week at least - no idea why they think it'll take that long with the parts already ordered and presumably there by now but I'm too tired of this shit to ask).
And that's why I'm thinking of taking on a 3rd job. I'll either be rich or dead. Either way, none of this shit will be my problem anymore.
(Edit: this is on top of a ton of other shit that's not going right lately)
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
rust shop
no idea why they think it'll take that long
Rust isn't known for its compile speed
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@Applied-Mediocrity Plus you have to endure the sound of geese.
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Status: I woke up too early this morning and couldn't fall asleep again. Now it's time for work, but I can't stay awake.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Now it's time for work, but I can't stay awake.
feels in having to stop the MSQ at a key juncture for sleep
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Status: Well, that was
Flash drives showed up today so I downloaded a FreeBSD image to try loading on the NUC. Rufus tried to format the flash drive and failed. It then popped up a Windows dialog that also failed. Keep in mind the flash drive was just fine before this. Now Explorer acts loopy when it's plugged in and it's only recognized enough to read that A) it exists and B) has a product name.
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@Zenith It's probably salvageable. It can happen if the partition table is fucked ("the parameter is incorrect" etc.) or when Windows doesn't recognize the filesystem ("you need to format drive" etc.). Don't even bother with Disk Management or diskpart, they haven't been fixed against wasting time infinitely in some such cases. If Rufus sees it exists, close all explorer instances (including the shell, if in separate process) and try again. Otherwise take another and try gparted.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
FreeBSD
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
on the NUC
You're very brave.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
if the partition table is fucked
If memory serves FreeBSD images are "hybrid" ISO/Disk images that contain a kinda-fucked-up partition record that Windows 7 absolutely hates (as demonstrated) but mostly-ish works on 8-and-up.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
You're very brave.
When @Tsaukpaetra himself tells you this, you know it's time to reconsider.
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Status: Changed compilers and I'm now getting errors for things which previously worked.
error: ‘size_t’ was not declared in this scope; did you mean ‘std::size_t’?
Fuuuuuuuuuck you. I'm not typing that shit, it's already too long. What stupid C header do I need now?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Changed compilers and I'm now getting errors for things which previously worked.
error: ‘size_t’ was not declared in this scope; did you mean ‘std::size_t’?
Fuuuuuuuuuck you. I'm not typing that shit, it's already too long. What stupid C header do I need now?
I'm gonna guess the previous compiler had that defined as a builtin type. Your current compiler doesn't.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Don't even bother with Disk Management or diskpart, they haven't been fixed against wasting time infinitely in some such cases.
I have previously used diskpart to rescue a failing flash drive, but that was (checks watch) over a decade ago
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Laser eye surgery part deux: electric boogaloo
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Laser eye surgery part deux: electric boogaloo
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@dcon gcc 9 vs gcc 11, or something.
Side note: fuck you, Tim , I don’t want to type Gucci. The previous sentence aside, I can’t think of a scenario I ever would.
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@error how’s the experience been so far?
I’m not going to do it myself, just curious. I’d like to see better, but I’m already night-blind enough and I like glasses.
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@dcon said in The Official Weather Status:
And probably everything else...
And so it begins... Just had a blip - enough to wipe the microwave, not enough to wipe the oven or coffee maker
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New keyboard - other than being chiclet keys, not bad... And turning off the LEDs was easy enough - I didn't need to look at the manual.
edit: Ok, the Fn key is backwards. All my past keyboards, the green LED means F<n> is active. This one means the non-F<n> keys are active. (and, sadly, things like home/end/pgup/down are now all alternate keys - but the choice of corded ergo keyboards is now rather slim)
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@Tsaukpaetra Yeah, I got it to not fail exactly once, but slipped and haven't seen it succeed since. Have to go back to using discs, what a surprise.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@error how’s the experience been so far?
The procedure was quick and painless. My first time took me from 6 diopters of astigmatism to 0.5. They said that was good enough that I didn't necessarily need a second procedure, but the fine-tuning was free and it was easy enough the first time that I opted to try for better.
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Status: Rufus is shit.
It picks and chooses if and when it's going to work. The version I previously had just stopped showing dialogs. Like there's an options button and an info button and they're both mysteriously dead now. Same version copied a FreeBSD image onto the USB drive exactly once and never again. Downloaded the last version that worked on Windows 7. Can't read FreeBSD ISOs for some reason. Aren't ISOs, you know, a standard CD file layout format? But it can read a Windows 7 ISO I have. Not the first time, of course, that failed just like the FreeBSD images. But the second time worked. The difference? I had another program set up partitions. See, even though Rufus says it deletes and creates partitions (can't even disable/skip it), sometimes it just touches itself for five minutes and goes "oops I r teh broke lol." And then when it "succeeds," the NUC won't recognize the USB as bootable anyway.
Edti: Suddenly I'm reading pages on Google that say Rufus can't create bootable USB drives with MBR. Then why is MBR the only option for everything in not just the ISO/IMG files I have but the built-in ones? Then again, all of these sites seem to have the ESL grammar that's common with AI-generated text so who knows.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
partitions (can't even disable/skip it)
.... Aren't you using DD mode?
Also, if you're trying to use a flash drive, why are you even trying to use the ISO image anyways, there's supposed to be a .img specifically for that use-case.
Edit: Oh, they removed the toggle, it just forces you into that mode if you select a disk image and not an ISO...
FakeEdit2: Oh, maybe it's just gone entirely?
I guess folks were having a Hard Time figuring out which was supposed to be used and so the kid gloves went on.
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Meanwhile, here I am having never had trouble with Rufus for making bootable USB sticks or formatting large SD cards to FAT32
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@Zenith Lies.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Meanwhile, here I am having never had trouble with Rufus for making bootable USB sticks or formatting large SD cards to FAT32
You need to upgrade to Windows 7 for that!
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Rufus is shit.
Yes, I know.
I ranted about that, too, Perhaps in the Windows to Linux thread. It fucked one of my thumb drives.
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@Tsaukpaetra I kept reading of "DD mode" but not what it was or how to enable it. Every time I pick an IMG or ISO, practically every option below that is disabled except the "check device for bad blocks" controls.
Windows 7 ISO:
FreeBSD IMG:
Any FreeBSD ISO:
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Rufus is shit.
Yes, I know.
I ranted about that, too, Perhaps in the Windows to Linux thread. It fucked one of my thumb drives.All I'm hearing is that the only two people here who had issues with Rufus are the two using Windows 7
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@loopback0 If Rufus says it works on Windows 7, shouldn't it actually work on Windows 7? I mean it can't even make a 7 image from 7. How's that for fucked up?
Damn having to wait a week for some DVD-Rs. And to think, it took zero hoop jumping to get Windows 3.1 on a fairly cutting edge (at the time) P4.