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We bought a few cans for an elderly relative that has a compromised respiratory system. They have a medical oxygen bottle, but if it runs out or their cannula stops working for some reason we wanted them to have another option besides asphyxiation. There are not many minutes of oxygen in one of those cans, but if you’ve got nothing even a few minutes is a gift.

Oh no, does this mean Gen X are going to be the wisened graybeards that holds arcane knowledge and seemly executes feats of magic when related to technology?

This is why I’m glad I’m on lemme.ee, and I have the option to choose for myself as they don’t really defederate any of the main instances.

In this case the choice isn’t yours. I’m not aware of any server that defederated from Beehaw. Beehaw was the one that blocked most everyone else. They could choose to block lemm.ee if they wanted to for any reason.

Notice Beehaw’s not on the “good” list anymore? Wonder why they’re not on there…

As far as I understood at the time, Beehaw cut themselves off from just about everyone else in the fediverse. If they want to make that choice I respect their position but its sending the message they’re not interested in interacting with most others. If someone tells you to go away and they don’t want to talk to you, I’m not going to chase them and try and change their mind. I’m going to let them go do whatever they want to do and I’ll do my own thing with most everyone else.

at lan parties using 10base2 networks and

“Anyone have another BNC terminator? Oh, also the IPX network number we’re using is 11111111.”

Rendition Verite video cards

Nobody could afford the Canopus, it was a room full of Sierra Screamin’ 3D cards at best

with a side of 3dfx.

A dedicated 3D card in addition to a good 2D card?! We’d dream, but didn’t have that kind of cash.

I know a bit of python and ruby, but doing something similar except I’m writing it in BASIC on a Commodore 64 and am going to attempt to refactor it assembly. I have most of the BASIC version working now.

The git commit comment when pushing to prod is just: WCGW?

… alternate ending: YOLO!

That used to be universally true. Is it still? I think the last time I looked at the bag about 7 years ago it was just about on par with the price per oz of the name brand. The store brand in the box (as opposed to the name brand in the box) is still cheaper though.

I understand the pentagram request. That pizza has pineapple on it, which is an unholy abomination and a crime against humanity.

I know its memes and not much depth is expected, but I think its slightly more.

As in, Pharmacist is a socially acceptable profession. Xanax is a socially acceptable pharmaceutical. It is socially acceptable for a patient to take this medication. However, this particular person is planning to abuse the drug, while still maintaining social acceptability, and the pharmacist knows this too, and is giving a wink and a nod they are aware of it.

The joke being “we’re not dirty drug dealers and users, but really, for this case, we are, and we’re getting away with it being socially acceptable.”

You can tell by the way that it is.

From context, it looks like the user plans to abuse the drug, and the pharmacist is well aware the user plans to abuse it.

Same here! There are dozens of us! Dozens!

I came to the chat wondering what it was too. Look like an endoplasmic reticulum to me, but no idea why that would be there.

Windows: “Oh you want to open a PDF? You must want to use an MS Web Browser.”

User: “No Thank you Windows, please use app X”

Windows: “I got you fam, app X for PDFs from now on”

…later…

Windows: “Oh you want to open a PDF? You must want to use an MS Web Browser.”

Do we need to update Sam Vimes ‘Boots’ Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness to Sam Vimes **‘Compute’ ** Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness?

Curious how you calculated that? What system load is it based on? Idle? Max?

Very much an estimate because OP didn’t mention what generation DL360 they had, how many CPUs, drives, etc. So I assumed 120W continuous 24/7/365 consumption which is pretty low. Assuming 22 cents per KWh for midwest, 33 cents/KWh for Boston and 44 cents/KWh for California.

OP is likely drawing much more than my estimate.

My point is, you can possibly spend the same money and get better hardware that isn’t so power hungry and have a better experience with your hobby.

I have 4 DL360s with 96GB RAM each to run a K8s cluster with a handful of containers

If someone is paying you to host those and covering your costs, go wild! However, as a hobby you may be spending $925/year or more for electricity to run those in the Midwest. $1,387 if you’re living in Boston, $1,850 if you’re living in California.

In one year you may have been able to buy more new power efficient hardware from just what you’re spending on juice.

I have been an IT professional since 1995. Never have I ever had a personal PC that wasn’t either a refurbished laptop or some sort of Frankenstein abomination that I pit together from whatever was on sale and upcycled parts.

I’ve been in the game for about the same amount of time. I stopped doing that about 15 years ago when I saw that the electricity I was paying on older gear was equaling or exceeding the cost of buying newer, faster, and lower power consumption hardware.