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

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!

Finally finished moving our family FreeBSD bhyve/jail host running All The Family Things™ from our venerable Antec 300 to to the SilverStone FLP02!

Will write a review about when I have a moment. But what a fun little project. (The Iomega drives have been moved into my 1999 beigetastic Dell).

Next steps: Getting a beige optical drive, and a mounting bracket for additional HDDs.

Big Bridge Thingy from the Train Station Thingy.

Moved our Minecraft server Dynmap from using flatfiles to MariaDB. Only took me 5 years.

This... is going to take a while.

HAHAHAHAH!!!! AHAHAH!!! Hah! HAH! *wheeze* *cough*

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1509689/rds-connection-information-display-and-revoke-lice

May or may not have just scored some beigetastic Cambridge SoundWorks PC Works 2.1 computer speakers for my retro table setup!

I so badly wanted these as a kid. Being an adult sucks in many ways, but being able to fulfil these silly childhood dreams is awesome.

I *KNEW* it. The ABC (Australia) website has a slightly slanted footer.

This irritates me way more than it should.

New ThinkPad arrived! 2.8K IPS! Matte! Exclamation marks! YAY

This is my first “new” ThinkPad ever, I’ve always had second hand machines. Also marks the end of my personal Mac era, having first got an iMac DV in 1999, and a bunch of iBooks and MacBooks since.

Next step is to wipe the unserious OS off it and put FreeBSD and Fedora on it.

Dear Mr Bennett arrived! John Pizzarelli’s first vinyl LP release since 1987 :’) ♡

I love that mailing lists are still a thing. He emailed his fans late last year to preorder. I know some that only announce on Insta, etc.

Was reminiscing with a client about our first network kit. This was mine: a D-Link DE-805TP 10BaseT hub.

Until that point as a kid my sister and I had been using a crossover cable to play Age of Empires II. This little box let us play with friends. Wish I still had it :').

Even if you have no intention of editing Wikipedia, get yourself an account. You can then use the classic Monobook theme again, which is delightful.

Finally upgraded my crappy 14W iron with a new one! And I inadvertently got one that matches the decor (cough).

This was a fun experiment :). Mapping and overlaying the screen resolutions I've used over the years.

https://rubenerd.com/mapping-my-screen-resolutions-over-the-years/

If you ever feel imposter syndrome, just remember there's a trillion dollar infrastructure company that sends this email to thousands of people every month.

Oh *that* is a dark pattern. The unsubscribe link is in black and not underlined, so you can't even tell it's a link.

How many people wouldn't bother trying to click?

10/10, no notes.

Council pickup lottery strikes again! 32 GiB (16 x2) DDR4 2400 DIMMs, just sitting on the side of the road.

Will have to MemTest these when I get home.

(Insert obligatory comment about memory prices because of stochastic parrot machines).

Bought my first ever *new* ThinkPad! Even got a spiffy new bag in the bundle too. First new personal machine in 5+ years. Hopefully arrives in time for my birthday.

(I won't specify the model or specs, because experience tells me I'll be told they're wrong, irrespective of what they are).

Update: Despite the aforementioned risk, wrote a post here. https://rubenerd.com/buying-a-new-thinkpad-for-the-first-time/.

Walking past the local used music store, saw a 12-inch single for $5 and… WHAT THE?! INSTABUY.

(If you haven’t seen the music video for this, you must).

Le sigh.