Notices by Alexander Bochmann (galaxis@mastodon.infra.de), page 2

@jonny tootctl media remove now has --prune-profiles and --remove-headers options to curb those.

(Also there's tootctl media usage that shows a tally, useful if your storage is remote.)

A thermal camera has been on my wishlist for quite some time now, but they were either way too expensive or the resolution made them barely useful.

It seems that now some manufacturer released a 256x192 thermal sensor that's been incorporated in quite a few similar products, and after coming across this video by accident, and seeing there was a rebate available on the place where you don't buy stuff, I caved in this weekend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiVwZoQ8_jQ

(I blame the person who linked to this other video from the same channel where that device also shows up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KYW38_8-U0)

Anyways, I'm not near any hardware right now where a thermal cam could be useful to troubleshoot issues, but playing around with the thing today I found it pretty amazing that it can picture the *reflection* of my infrared footprint on a window 1.5m away.

@roadriverrail Now I'm tempted to set up a gitea just to see if and when that user tries to sign up too...

@roytam1 It should be usable when FP15 or up are installed. In fact, I had updated to the 32bit networking stack using the CD linked from the previous post (before the partition table got wiped again by what I assume is a hardware problem). Note the TXT on the archive.org download list recommends an installation order (for some reason that text doesn't seem to be on the CD itself).

Considering I initially wrote that I don't really want to install OS/2, oh well... I now installed it like five times?

Even with DanisIDE, Warp 4 doesn't seem to like boot partitions that are larger than 2GB - it does install, but the entire partition table got thrashed twice... Also I chose the default install once, and then it ends up as FAT formatted instead of HPFS...

So anyway, I now have an 533 MHz Via EPIA Mini-ITX system with Warp 4 in english, there's a network driver (the chipset brings basically a Via Rhine II 10/100mbit), but I ran out of time for reinstalling the Fixpack and the Scitech display driver, and also none of the OS/2 Soundblaster drivers seem to like Via's SB emulation... But there's also an AC97 option, and I've seen drivers for that.

Fun fact (kind of): The 3.5" floppies I ended up copying the English language OS/2 installer and system files to had factory labels designating them as Windows NT install disks. All three were error free, so thanks for choosing good quality media, Microsoft of the 1990s.

(Though two of them two of them had manual notes, and it seems I used them as OpenBSD 3.2 and 3.3 boot disks at some point.)

Special OS/2 device driver hell: SYM8XX.ADD for 53C810 chips doesn't seem to work on original Warp 4 install disks (I guess it needs the infrastructure from Fixpack 15?) - never mind I originally forgot to copy the corresponding .DDP to the install disk...

An older OS2CAM.ADD doesn't recognize my Symbios Logic - branded 53C180 card. I have one with an NCR chip too, but it's missing SCSI terminators, and I'm out of short cables.

Oh well, let's try this Adaptec 2940...

Did I mention I didn't plan to install OS/2?

...of course, in addition to all that, it seems the SCSI CDROM drive I used didn't like that exact kind of rewritable media? Because it did boot some Linux CD, but OS/2 doesn't recognize the CD-RW with the OS/2 installation files after I swapped the SCSI card. Now using a different drive (Sony instead of TEAC), and the installer loads data from the drive.

Ah, sigh, there’s several versions of Via AC97 chips…

It's great when you have an ftp server on your network...

Also now with the Scitech display driver installed so I have a sane screen resolution - on the downside scrolling in OS/2 command windows is currently super slow?

Oh, there's an ISO on archive.org that claims to have FP17 and the MPTS and TCPIP updates... (at archive.org/details/warp-4-fixpacks).

Though I guess I'll make an image of my current installation level before I try that one...

I don’t actually want to install OS/2 Warp 4, just wanted to check something out… Anyways, it seems the OS/2 Warp 4 install CD isn’t actually bootable, and you need the boot floppys?

Luckily it didn’t take long to find them, but maybe I should just put them into the box instead of the big
stack of random floppy disks…

Excellent (not): In contrast to the Warp 4.5 installer, the old one has neither a problem detecting the IDE controller on this early VIA EPIA Mini-ITX board, nor the card in the IDE to sdcard adapter that I’m using as storage device…

Seems it's surprisingly difficult to find downloads for the *German* version of Fixpack 15 for OS/2 Warp 4...

Me, frantically searching why there's an unnamed device with a 5E MAC address connected to the the 5GHz band of my Wifi, because I'm certain those that I own myself all are accounted for...

Nmap turns up an open port on 62078/tcp (iphone-sync)...

🙄 :flan_facepalm:

It's the work iPhone...

…sadly, it has just a single CPU board, and not a whole lot of RAM.

And Dallas clock chips are annoying when they run out of battery, but at least they don’t usually leak and ruin boards, I think?

Replaced the IKEA desk next to my bed with something slightly more decorative…

@SubwayTooter That's currently the situation on my system - both Google Play and F-Droid currently feel responsible for Subway Tooter (I don't know from where I initially installed) - somewhat confusing, and I wasn't aware there were build variants either.

I think I'd prefer different package names, though I honestly can't say if I would be motivated to reinstall from F-Droid with a settings export/import, or just stay with the Play version in that case. What would happen to people who use F-Droid exclusively?

@izaya ...kinda reminds me of when I first found some of my early 1990s Usenet posts on Dejanews.

I mean, it was clear that some people who could afford it kept archives, but there wasn't even a real notion of putting them "online".

In terms of the Fediverse, I'd consider anyone who doesn't honour deletions (or scrapes content for archival) a malicious actor, but both kinds are hard to defend against, even when seemingly restricting distribution.