Notices by Cursed Silicon (cursedsilicon@social.restless.systems)

[violence]

"Hey are you working currently?"

"Yes"

"Okay why does your resume end at last year though?"

"Because I haven't updated it"

"How come your LinkedIn isn't updated then?"

"Because I don't want clowns like you shotgun blasting me with entry-level shit because I'm stuck at a PC repair shop due to a frozen job market"

@silverwizard It's mostly that Australia was such a laggard

Gravis/CathodeRayDude: Yeah so in 1998 we went from 33.6K to 2 megabit DSL

Me, smoking an entire cigarette in one go: Most Australians still only had Dial-Up until about 2004 or 2005

Me: I have a really stupid idea for a computer project

Startech: how stupid

@lanodan @domi "I asked chatGPT to tell me what commands to type but it keeps not working"

@domi This post from the other week still just drains the life energy out of me

@eltheanine It's in the "Service Pack" ISO that it boots

Check my media tab. I tried running it on a headless Linux server originally and got kicked out for not having a browser to launch

(Then tunneled Firefox over X11 forwarding)

I almost want to pick up this G9 DL360 to see how many (if any) of the problems I had with the G8 have been solved

https://www.ebay.com/itm/235532804084?toolid=10050

Also because the drive bays and other things are inter-compatible anyway

If someone wants to donate one I'll do a series on building a better system firmware upgrade utility because HP's is the actual fucking worst

Whoever decided that you should boot a fucking *browser* to update system firmware needs to do a hundred yard sprint over lego bricks

I violated the golden rule

I got so angry at an incredibly moronic HackerNews comment I sat down and wrote a long-ass reply

There was a thread on OrangeSite that talked about *not* using Kubernetes and this was the top comment

Unfortunately they got immediately dogpiled and called "old" for such outlandish takes

The IT job market is completely in shambles, but I feel like "Legacy Sysadmins" are going extinct. Replaced by DevOps and Cloud Engineer folks who over-engineer a static HTML website with a CI/CD pipeline and multi-zone multi-cloud redundancy "because that's how you're supposed to do it"

The Nintendo DS is 20 years old today

I played Frostpunk 2 until the sun came up

It did not fix me

Good luck, I'm behind 9 DVD drives!

I got officially thrown under the bus. Being told "senior leadership decided you weren't a good fit"

When I pressed what exactly they felt was not a good fit I was told that HR was "not privy to that information, and we're an at-will employer anyway so it doesn't matter"

Who out there needs a Linux Sysadmin? I'm particularly good at migrating off legacy systems to vaguely modern ones

@i_lost_my_bagel What are you compiling it foooor?

@i_lost_my_bagel @tomo Ugh I need to get a PS4 Pro to run Linux on at some point

When someone tells me "just use Linux!" I am forever grateful to have this to clap back with

Bless @TechConnectify

@tk SATA and SCSI are fairly similar, it seems like the kind of thing a cheap FPGA could probably do. The "ACARD AEC-7732" exists but nobody ever cloned it

Hey retro people

Is there anything like the Startech SATA to IDE adapters but for SCSI?

Literally does a SATA to SCSI adapter exist yet

I know there's lots of "slow" SCSI stuff for like OG Macintoshes, but I've got some SCSI Ultra160 capable devices and I wanna max them out