asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: yes but with freebies ?

asciilifeform unsurprised

asciilifeform: aa see asciilifeform was in happy orc childhood in 80s, so did not see this.

asciilifeform: maybe only pitched to highrollers

asciilifeform not encountered this

asciilifeform: 'can die of boredom like errybody else, or hey why not an auto de fe'

asciilifeform: ^ where 'burning at the stake', guillotine, etc. were made available as ~paid~ service, for folx 'hungry for authentic'

asciilifeform: !#s stand on zanzibar

asciilifeform: 'smellovision'

asciilifeform: reader wants 'true bore' like he wants actual baccilae in the pages of story about plague.

asciilifeform: i'll add however that the strugatskis (imho) pulled it off -- in 'snail on a hill', they had critters who think and speak in circles, and it was drawn lightly enuff so that it did not entirely permeate the yarn with snore

asciilifeform: boredom is the 1 thing nobody wants, dun even have the equiv of the scatofetishist there.

asciilifeform can see it.

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: sure, can

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: reminds me of erry (?) kiddo's eventual q, 'why in these fairy tales nobody ever has to take a shit'

asciilifeform not aficionado

asciilifeform: a

asciilifeform: who's mcmahon

asciilifeform: as per http://btcbase.org/log/2014-02-14#503958 . ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what is sovok(tm)(r) is not this very duality.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: let's take this thread to #p, the #t log readers do not need to sift through the orcolade

asciilifeform: even sumthing like https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-452816395-mini-usb-portatil-flexible-mini-refrigeracion-ventilador-enf-_JM would suffice

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: see if you can find one similar to https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-455183149-arctic-breeze-ventilador-de-escritorio-usb-con-cuello-f-_JM but that aint an 'import, takes 9 days'

asciilifeform: supposing you can locate one

asciilifeform: they not only exist, but will work immediately, with 0 solder

asciilifeform: and would entirely suffice for the purpose

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'm moar than a little bit surprised that you found no usb-powered fans, they are pestilentially common even in souvenir shops over here

asciilifeform: considering that we've exhausted the spares

asciilifeform: tho i was hoping to get one blowing asap, to prolong the life of the installed sadsamsungs

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: aite, unless there's more shops you want to look in ( or can get hold of a 12v brick and solder ) i'ma include blower in the order

asciilifeform wonders, whether the gavin derp is still on the stage, or fully retired nao. i dun follow heathendom closely enuff to know

asciilifeform: meanwhile in today's mircea_popescu-oldies lotto, http://trilema.com/2015/lets-address-some-of-the-more-common-pseudo-arguments-raised-by-the-very-stupid-people-that-like-the-gavin-scamcoin-proposal

asciilifeform: ( if you can afford a toyota, you are a 'ruble millionaire' even nao )

asciilifeform: sorta like in ru nobody gives half a shit about 'millionaire' unless he is specifically 'dollar millionaire'

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-13#1850164 << there is 1 other variant, where 'plot stakes numbering in thousands' come ~back~, in the form of 'thousand btc' ☝︎

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: have you looked in same catalog where you got the uart ? ( for either )

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: '$64k question', famous. ( also remembered as the 1st and afaik last 'omfg it's rigged!' scandal, back when such a thing could possibly surprise anybody ) ☟︎

asciilifeform: meanwhile, in heathen 'intellectual property'(tm) lulz >> https://archive.is/ROUt9

asciilifeform: !Q later tell BingoBoingo plz also say whether you were able to source the 5v blower. if not -- i'ma order one of'em also.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-13#1850134 << was this eggs per se -- or currency meltdown ( ... or both? ) ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: diana_coman, mod6 : ty. will zero the olds.

asciilifeform: !Q later tell BingoBoingo plz lemme know result of search for http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-12#1849871 locally ( i expect -- none ) and i'ma order'em ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-12#1850094 << pipe is not going anywhere ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: verily.

asciilifeform brb,meat

asciilifeform: some serious load test would be neat

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: definitely, once we have the new disks ( i dun expect you'll want the sad samsung )

asciilifeform: would be great to have a spec

asciilifeform: hence http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-05#1793267, http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-21#1843516 , elsewhere. ☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pretty sure errybody who ever touched it, knows

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: lol vivir en mierde (tm)

asciilifeform: aaah yes, the 'these are in padded crate, they must be expensive and taxable' folx

asciilifeform: there was even signs of an 'air force' , but the only plane i saw was a mig8 on blocks

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: didjaknow, they also have a navy. ( consists of, iirc, 3 old tubs )

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-12#1850055 << the orig link derpage mentioned gui, but sadly even without any graphics current-day kernels are sad on small iron. ☝︎

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ^ unsurprising. per tradition, whoever begins to show symptoms of 'cured of usd' , 'suddenly' ( a la libya etc ) is 'found to have terrorists' and gets 'democratized'

asciilifeform: ( http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-24#1702815 << old thread re subj ) ☝︎

asciilifeform was scratching head, 'this figure aint right, it was about 1/10th when i paid...'

asciilifeform: 250bux / 16MB.

asciilifeform: but still pretty penny.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-23#1702698 << lol divide this figure by 8 ☝︎

asciilifeform: observe that box with 1990s level of immunity to 'cachebleeds', 'rowhammers', etc. still costs 1990s price...

asciilifeform: for instance, i might like to bake a box with ice40 as 'mips cpu' and http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-23#1702696 for main memory. and then for ~2k usd you can have... 16MB . and what to run on that. ☝︎

asciilifeform: granted 64M won't get you very far if you're eating up http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-12#1849805 . but at the very least how about kernel that doesn't eat half of those 64M just for own ??? 'needs'. ☝︎

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'm entertained by the 'steal the having-been-stolen-from' of current 'minimal linux' frauds

asciilifeform: ( and when tried to re-create this in '14, found that it is impossible, the packages are nowhere, unsurprisingly )

asciilifeform: fughet even the '80s, i had freebsd 4.7 quite satisfactorily on 'toshiba libretto' with 64M / 166Mhz.

asciilifeform: who the fuck thinks '256M / 500MHz' is 'minimal hardware' ☟︎

asciilifeform: M and a 500 MHz CPU, meaning that some very elderly silicon is theoretically going to be able to enjoy the highly polished Enlightenment desktop'

asciilifeform: in other idjicies, 'Designed to run on minimal hardware, Elive is very much a passion project of its leader, Samuel F Baggen. Based on Debian, the first version took a bow in 2005. The second stable version made an appearance in 2010 and it has been a long eight years for the third stable version to become available. ... Elive has an impressively low bar to entry, with hardware requirements for the distribution coming in at 256 MB RA

asciilifeform: recall how seagate shipped (mech) hdd that in konsoomer model differed in 0 physical ways from the 'server' one, but 'mysteriously' misbehaved in raid ☟︎

asciilifeform: 'market segmentation'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suspect that ssd makers dun particularly want folx using cheap stix in place of golden toilet 'adult' ssd.

asciilifeform: the diff was esp dramatic in classical mech hdd -- where you get 200M/s seq writes but 50-60 random, if yer lucky

asciilifeform: whereas linux box, not

asciilifeform: right

asciilifeform: not quite same, some flashes optimized for sequential burst

asciilifeform: re sd card -- mircea_popescu may find it interesting that asciilifeform's initial (week before flight) rk test bed used a premium 'camera' 128G sd to boot ~and~ run from. but found that it is intolerably slow, the things have pretty sad randomaccess performance

asciilifeform: ( the grime suggests sad things re the supposed 'gold' plating , incidentally )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where, in the rx100 ?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo cleaned a couple and found what looked like dissolved contact grime. which suggested the hypothesis.

asciilifeform: ( chances are -- not, as the boxen booted and ran without any eggog when they were emplaced on usb2 )

asciilifeform: i won't know if they actually used up their sparesectors until i zero'em tho

asciilifeform: i'd bet that not

asciilifeform: i dunno, what sense does the crapple battery thing make. they rope chumpers into buyin' new ones, one way or other

asciilifeform: or was speaking of fw boobytrap

asciilifeform: that stick gets pretty warm even on 0 load

asciilifeform: hence i'd like to take'em to the saw.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 100% possib, could be firmware 'planned obsolescence' booby.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: erry schism ever worx ~same, neh

asciilifeform: for ref >> https://archive.is/alX6k << usb3 connector anatomy

asciilifeform: note that 4 of the 6 installed drives were found thusly 'castrated'

asciilifeform: i am rather curious where precisely the contacts melted, and so cleanly as to render the thing 100% functioning but usb2-only

asciilifeform: diana_coman, mod6 : plz say when ok to zero the retired drives ( dun have to be immediate, but it takes a day or so and would like to get'em mailed to my vivisection table ) ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-12#1849949 << what was the story here ? 'ohnoez, nun rape' item ? ☝︎

asciilifeform never yet had occasion to curl-with-cookies

asciilifeform: sorta like glibc does with dns.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it does, and current openssl does the /etc/.../systemwideusg.rubbish thing.