noooo i have work and shit

oh god… that’s even more expensive. but my life will never be complete without it…

you motherfucker.

i wore a pink spandex suit to class enough days last semester that a prof of mine said to me – immediately before a final exam i forgot about and wore a FUCKING PINK SUIT TO, and that i fucking ACED – “[spv], you’re cool, you have a way of making the strangest things seem normal”

to which i replied “i’m just gonna take that as a compliment?”

“i meant it that way, you’re, you’re cool”

it was so uncomfy… lmao

firstly, i greatly appreciate the offer, and thank you for it, but i use a model m every day, and have another “awaiting repairs” in my basement – send it to someone who needs it! start a thread!

secondly, i use a coreboot’d thinkpad already. i want something heaver, jankier, and more “starts a conversation with CS-students”. adding a 4g modem with a gigantic antenna (like i have laying around) would be even funnier.

i want to build something that i bring to class one day, people lose their shit, and then people just get used to it.

“expensive”, “huge”, and “barely portable” – throw in “impractical”, “ridiculous”, and “functional” and you’ve described my taste exactly

i used to bring a model m to compsci classes in high school because i was bored, and my prof didn’t mind lmao

seems like that certain point is now, if not very, very soon :P

the night at the roxbury vid was funny

but gates can still steve my ballmers…

they absolutely can be easily swapped. i’m just bitchin’ that i have to do it again after doing it two weeks ago, lmao…

which one?

inb4 someone mentions an emacs lisp package for filing your taxes

oooooooooooo, shit

i’ve got an 8350k sitting around as an email server, might be time for some migrations! tho hwenc tends to be worse than sw (nvenc certainly is, but the performance makes up for it) so i might just keep it as is for now…

heh, rack

that is hot

intel_gpu_top, nvidia-smi, or radeontop. pick your poison.

depends on what you want to host. a lemmy or pleroma instance could run on an old laptop – that’s often where people start. a small minecraft server too. email can be a bit more resource intensive, but it’s not that bad. mastodon can be a pain in the ass. peertube’s main bottleneck tends to be upstream bandwidth. jellyfin doesn’t require too much power, but if you want to transcode a “decent” GPU is preferable. i threw my old 1650 in there and it works fine for a stream or two.

i’d just like to interject for a moment

i’ve been doing cs for a year now with a coreboot’d t440p. if anything, it’s gotten me some greetz from my profs, lmao

i’ve made do with libreoffice just fine, i submit most of my labs in odt without issue

keep a VM for labs in case they require windows, on machine or a home server. pick your poison

i’d assume this might be a drive issue rather than a distro / linux issue. iirc i installed debian from CD a few months back on a thinkpad because i was bored… hah, parties. you’re funny. undervolting thinkpads while procrastinating finals. that’s my kind of shit.

i really would like to run my own peertube instance, but until i get a symmetric connection, i just don’t have the uplink. :(

i hate to be a pedant (who am i kidding, i love to be) but they didn’t really invent electricity, so much as discover it and improve on existing technologies. ben franklin was writing about lightning rods a century before. also autoerotic asphyxiation. that’s true, look it up.

you’re evil. i love it.