asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'sorry this is a tobacconist, not a colo' ?☟︎
asciilifeform: also i'm open to shipping something other than pl2303, if anyone has suggestions. ftdi is BANNED because 1) it costs 10x moar than pl2303 2) it is american/tw 3) it has rewritable fw that cannot be disabled
asciilifeform: it is pretty basic 'pons asinorum' of sane hardware.
asciilifeform: who has a box that understands plain old circa 1960s rs232 -- can use fuckgoats
asciilifeform: so it is and will forever be a serial device, compatible with e.g. data diode.
asciilifeform: and i will NOT make a rng that doesn't work with msdos box
asciilifeform: i will not make rngs that DEMAND 2way protocol and usb micro ( with the rewritable firmware nonsense ACTIVE AT ALL TIMES , and 50MB pdf of liquishit spec with holes )
asciilifeform: afaik there is not a clean solution to this, other than to burn the pc nonsense to the ground
asciilifeform: problem is that ~nobody has an actual serial port
asciilifeform: phf: i fucking hate usbtoserial dongles
asciilifeform: i don't see a mention of anything ~appearing~ in diana_coman's screen -- merely that it doesn't barf from nonexistent tty
asciilifeform: i've been thinking for entire year what is to be done about this, but have conceived of no solution other than THROW AWAY BROKEN OS OMFG
asciilifeform: ( will pass through some bits, but at fraction of rated bandwidth and PATTERNED crapola )
asciilifeform: which in the case of FG means worse-than-useless
asciilifeform: phf: i suspect this will do 0, in buggy pl2303 driver i encountered, it's the bandwidth and flowcontrol setttings that didn't take. but other than that adapter behaves normally
asciilifeform: i picked pl2303 because it is the most afaik widely supported, but apparently not even it worx everywhere☟︎
asciilifeform: do you have a ftdi or other type of ttlserial cable in the house ?
asciilifeform: yes it sees the tty. but FG puts out ~arbitrary~ octets (yes all 8 bits) and the tty gotta work with this without losing what it thinks is 'control chars' (0x13, 0x03, etc)
asciilifeform: certainly not since cyrix 486 at any rate
asciilifeform: ( ever wonder why even cheapest shit cpu for pc never used heatsink held with epoxy ? )
asciilifeform: you gotta mechanically decouple the thing from the board somehow
asciilifeform: heavy heatsink held with conductive epoxy is in asciilifeform's experience more often than not a recipe for ripping the chip from the board, balls, tracks, and all
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: fans do jack w/out heatspreader
asciilifeform: when you bolt'em to an iron sheet, it gets pressed, so can still use it, but need the iron sheet
asciilifeform: the other problem with those is that they have no heat sink from vendor other than a little aluminum shim that depends on the stock iron case being there
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you don't ~want~ them in too high density
