fiscalnonsense

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by fiscalnonsense 1y ago
Diskless rocks for making appliances. I have rock solid raspberry pi based micro-sd based services because of this - diskless mode keeps the sd writes to a minimum. unplug the power at will? sure, go for it.
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by fiscalnonsense 1y ago
In active use: retropie - pi3b+ gps based ntp (2x pi2 + gps hats. Chrony rocks.) rtl_433 monitor for 915 and another for 433 (2x pi2, 2x rtl-sdr sticks) an ads-b 1090 monitor (pi3 + rtl-sdr stick) libreelec - plex clients (2x pi4 (1GB and
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by fiscalnonsense 3y ago
This.
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by fiscalnonsense 3y ago
nginx is simultaneously a registered trademark of F5 and imnsho mouth garbage for English speakers. This is a good opportunity to rename the project.
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by fiscalnonsense 3y ago
The arrow keys seem to be placed for maximum torture, which was pretty typical in the 8bit era. Inverted T forever.
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by fiscalnonsense 3y ago
Linux literally is a 3rd party knock-off of his 1970s work.
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by fiscalnonsense 4y ago
I had something similar with a TSA event in the late 90s. My buddy and I took second place in the nationals for Computer Construction. We asked "why didn't we get first place?" and the response was "because your invent
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by fiscalnonsense 5y ago
I've found reduced keystrokes for common operations. I use "sudo -i" instead of "sudo su -" in vi, I use "ZZ" instead of ":wq!" to save and exit. bonus: I save time typing repetitive things into
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by fiscalnonsense 12y ago
Of everything done, doing nothing about something "so that I can be home at night" still places highest in my list of challenges with software engineering.
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by fiscalnonsense 12y ago
Answering the first question - the keyboard... pro's type, a lot. It'd be fantastic if they had decent keyboards... full spherical keycaps and travel. None of this flats and scissors mush... I gots to type brackets and braces fo