Ruben Schade (taking break) @rubenerd@bsd.network

Kinda back from my four month social media break. Still keeping it at arms length for now while I sort through ${BrainThings}. But hi. 👋

(On social media break while travelling, but this is my ongoing Vietnam 2026 blog post series if anyone is interested. Trying to chill but also so much to see/do hah).

https://www.rubenerd.au/tag/vietnam2026/

Married! (Only took us… 12 years?!) 🎉

Update: thank you everyone! ♡ We’re off to Vietnam again to celebrate. Catch you all later.

Need to recycle some hazardous stuff and ewaste. Hey look, the council has a community recycling site!

> The CRC is a drive-through facility only.

I… huh? So if you’re one of the millions of Australians who don’t drive… off to landfill? What an unserious scheme.

https://www.hornsby.nsw.gov.au/Property/Waste-and-recycling/Recycling/Community-Recycling-Centre

Sonny Rollins 😢 🎷

Saw him in Singapore in the early 2000s with my dad. He was just as incredible as you'd expect. What a legend.

@joel Haha not sure where that originally came from; my parents always said it.

Pardon the French, but fuck I love #NetBSD.

Had a long train ride home, so SSH’d into my Shonen Jump box at home, then into my old Solaris box, then my Pentium 1. It all still works, and it’s wonderful. Wanted to try something, built a little chroot, done. It’s all so predictable and consistent and wonderful.

And… increasingly rare.

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* My old Sun box. Which at some point ran Solaris/SunOS. You know what I mean.

There are a surprising number of people who are oddly proud of the fact they don’t know how to operate shoe horns.

Got some more boxes that fit into the IKEA Billy bookshelves (when doors are attached).

I’ll finally be able to find “the box” with SATA cables, and disks, and motherboard parts, and and and…! … without the few plastic tubs just labelled “cable crap”

@oxy That's good to know! Love the Noctua browns in my rigs.

When I eventually move off AM4 and LGA1151 I might need to ping them about mounting kits.

@randomgeek Oh nice, I'll give it a try.

The SilverStone FLP02 retro beige case has 3 positions for its upper drive sleds, but only ships with 2.

On a whim I emailed and asked if I could buy another one. Within 24 hours they arranged shipment for one, for USD 6.

SilverStone are awesome!

@decryption I felt that post in my bones. :/

@oxy YES, THIS! I'm still so sad that (an albeit broken) LTO3 machine I bought on eBay was lost in the post. Was basically going to just be a prop, but would have been so fun to be in a machine like this.