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Cake day: March 21st, 2024

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  • Somewhat felt this with RoboCop - it’s referenced quite a bit in discussions but to me, the plot felt incredibly thin and I’m surprised it hasn’t been criticised more for this.

    To me, it came down to cop gets brutally executed, revived by a dystopian tech company as a robot following commands, it starts remembering who it was in its prior life and swears revenge against its murderers, all the while he falls in love with his partner cop despite having a wife in his previous life who moved on after his death.

    I get the dystopian undertones of it, but it all just felt incredibly cheesy to me.




  • I thought I’d step out of my Debian/Arch comfort zone by installing OpenSUSE on an Intel MacBook - Tumbleweed has trouble working with the Broadcom wireless adapter, and Leap straight up kernel panics because it can’t find root on boot.

    It’s been actually educational and almost nostalgic in that it makes me feel like a total Linux noob again as I try to navigate zypper and YaST.

    Once I get it working this meme will feel extremely relatable.


  • I know this is said in hindsight, but the way the first paragraph is written sets off alarm bells of weird reporting, and I imagine probably was what triggered you to look into it further.

    ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems, hoping to ease the rising costs of laptops and gaming PCs.

    While I get that Asus naturally would want to be competitive, why would they (from an economic standpoint) care about ‘easing the rising costs’ of their products. They would have actual motives like trying to be independent of these major memory manufacturers.

    Reports say the company is preparing to manufacture DDR5 memory by 2026.

    2026 is in less than 5 days. If this instead said “by the end of 2026” or longer I’d have a better time believing that claim.





  • Perhaps I have too many devices, but here’s everything I got, in order of most used to least used:

    • ThinkPad X260 (i5-6300U, 16/512GB, 1080p display) - been an excellent and durable daily driver device that also gets used on the field. Port selection is excellent. Total spend 170AUD
    • MacBook Air M1 (16/256GB) - equally used as much as my ThinkPad, but for work/study and is usually connected to a 1440p display. Total spend 710AUD
    • MacBook Air 2015 11" (i5-5250U, 4/128GB) - originally purchased for cheap to see if I wanted to fully commit to a proper Mac computer, now used as an extremely portable and convenient internet browsing device. Total spend 80AUD
    • Custom Built SFF Server (i5 Sandy Bridge, 16GB/1TB) - all my self hosted stuff runs on this currently, most used for Nextcloud and Invidious. Not the most power efficient, but being mini ITX I do intend to replace the mobo in the future. Total spend 130AUD
    • Custom Built Gaming PC (i7-8700, 32/512GB, RTX 2060) - built about 3-4 years ago, it sees little use from me nowadays, and it may be sold in the near future. Total spend 700AUD

    Otherwise I have a few spare devices such as a HP ProDesk G7 (free), a Leader SN6 NUC (free), and RPi 4B 4GB ($40 back in 2018). I’ll probably give the ProDesk away as it used to be my server but I just found it too big for my liking.

    I also have a vintage palmtop device (HP Jornada 820) that I intend to hold onto and restore (restore the battery pack and 3D print broken keys and case parts).





  • Generally I stream music using Qobuz because at least its more ethical than Spotify AFAIK, paying their artists better rates and not (yet) bricking their physical products (Car Thing).

    I’ll otherwise download music using spotdl and my old Spotify playlists, but I don’t enjoy pirating myself. I mainly do this for players without internet like my MP3 player and my car’s head unit that only works with iPods or mass storage.

    I’ve been getting into records recently but this is a novelty thing for me.


  • As an Aussie, absolutely heard about this and was frankly disgusted not only by the comment, but the timing given he had said it some 2-3 hours after it happened.

    At that stage, information is still coming to light and proper investigative processes have to be undertaken. I don’t believe the shooter’s names were even released in full at that point in time.


    I maintain that the best thing Australians and the world at large should be doing is coming together and collectively rejecting everything those shooters stood for. Being divided is exactly what they wanted, and unfortunately we Aussies are seeing that in politicians and fellow Australians.

    Some incredibly heroic acts of bravery happened that day transcending racial and religious barriers, and we should be remembering and commemorating those people and their actions.

    I reject any comments from politicians using this tragedy for brownie points. Due process will continue, the scumbag will surely have the book thrown at him, and we can make an informed decision on what’s the next best move to help prevent further tragedies like this from happening.


  • I never considered a Chromebook in that respect. I’ve got a 2015 11" MBA that does Invidious and lightweight work fine, but the battery leaves a lot to be desired.

    I’m guessing the Chromebook I’d want would have to be jailbreakable and x86 if I wanted to run a lean Xfce Linux distro on it?