𝓼𝓹𝓸𝓸𝓴𝔂 þēodrīċ, norþes ecghlāford

https://social.linux.pizza/@theodric

alfalfa male. meh vivant. hack(er?). oldcomputerist. lord of the files. cellist. languager. storyfeller. flaneur. restless wanderer. the vulnerable Bede.

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🔸Opinions expressed are correct
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GitHub: https://github.com/theodric
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2026-10-11 07:21:07 UTC

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2026-09-09 07:31:05 UTC

Tweet.app (formerly Twitter.new and already renamed) is pointless. There's already Mastodon, Twitter, Threads, whatever that service is where people only talk about Trump, and Truth Social. We don't need a sixth place to post.

2026-08-12 05:46:25 UTC

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2026-08-09 16:27:25 UTC

"You’re absolutely right— I should have sent an ambulance rather than a SWAT team. You shot yourself, which was obviously an accident, and you were not at risk of shooting yourself or anyone else again. I apologize unreservedly. I have failed you."
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2026-08-04 14:29:33 UTC

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based

2026-08-04 11:55:01 UTC

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for a few years and two houses I had two Tandem Himalaya K700 mainframes, and my wife didn't leave me! I eventually gave them away because I needed space for a car in the garage. Nevertheless, where there's a will...

2026-08-04 08:44:02 UTC

There's a Starfire for sale in Switzerland https://www.tutti.ch/de/vi/schwyz/computer-zubehoer/computer/supercomputer-sun-enterprise-10000-e10k-starfire/77151345
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2026-06-23 11:45:32 UTC

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@theodric/116799238022259205
Whoever installed that inline fuse holder, which serves as a safety between the positive battery terminal and all electronic components in the vehicle, and who I sincerely hope wasn't actually the manufacturer, did not bother to either crimp or solder the joint, but merely twisted it together and put some heatshrink tubing over it. I love having random bare positive terminals floating around all the exposed ground planes in the engine bay!
#note178c…h2mn

2026-06-23 11:42:15 UTC

Hmm, that might limit functionality somewhat.
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2026-06-18 13:43:03 UTC

my password what now
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2026-06-13 14:40:23 UTC

America: "the tariffs have been really stupid and damaging, we regret them!"
Europe: "hold my wine"
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2026-06-04 06:55:54 UTC

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ooh!

2026-06-04 06:55:04 UTC

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is there a Nix flake for having the self control not to scroll mindlessly? Or a flatpak

2026-06-04 06:17:33 UTC

I want a dumbphone that supports WhatsApp, Signal, Waze, Google Maps, and has a podcast client, YouTube client, and web browser. And Bluetooth audio capabilities. And a pony.

2026-05-26 22:11:59 UTC

Just observed something cool on my phone (Pixel 8a): the camera flash LED apparently continued faintly glowing for several minutes after I'd stopped using it to see in the dark. I thought that perhaps power was leaking to it after I powered the phone down and saw it STILL glowing, but then I powered up and briefly toggled the flash, and noticed that the glowing was brighter and oranger thereafter. This is some kind of phosphorescent doping on the LED module that is pumped by the diode! I'm guessing the point is that it fluoresces in another part of the spectrum to add some warmth to the cold native flash color. Once charged up, it continues to emit for a while after the pump is switched off, like a glow-in-the-dark geegaw.
I just think this kinda shit is super neat, especially when it catches me by surprise like this.

2026-05-23 10:21:09 UTC

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Prusa, but used. Or Creality, with half the budget set aside for upgrades and replacement parts. Tbh I'd go with the Prusa, since makerspace implies some level of tragedy of the commons.

2026-05-05 23:22:27 UTC

All packed up and ready to ship to Abu Dhabi
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2026-04-26 15:32:55 UTC

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2026-04-22 09:32:22 UTC

Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/answers/questions/2007466/are-costs-incurred-when-attempting-to-scan-passwor
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2026-04-10 06:34:15 UTC

Yes, it's real https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00001407877
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2026-04-01 11:42:52 UTC

Had to disassemble the P14s to try and resolve a fan that buzzes under heavy load, so I swapped the gummy CPU thermal paste for a sheet of PTM7950. The system appears to be responding normally to thermal load. I'm not gonna go full Phoronix on it. The fan is still buzzing, however.

2026-03-18 20:21:45 UTC

LineageOS: what breaks? Banking. I have a fairly robust risk appetite, but rooting a device to install a closed-source fork of Magisk that hides itself well enough that I can spoof Play Integrity so my bank's app will run is a few steps too far in the wrong direction. So choose what you prefer: access to your money, or some amount of control over your digital leash.
I see no way forward after September that doesn't involve having two phones: one that mostly lives at home for the applications that absolutely won't run without maximum verification, and one for daily use. At that point, I might as well get a used iOS device for the banking stuff.
This fucking sucks.

2026-01-09 23:38:29 UTC

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it's framed in obvious inflammatory rhetoric, and also "because X11 did it that way" is a total non-reason for nuking a feature common to graphical unices since the 1980s. But yes, I agree, they're free to do whatever they want in their little playground! GNOME has been pushing through the boundaries of sensible user interface design for quite a while now. Nothing new there.

2025-12-29 22:09:16 UTC

"I've been working on the railroad" in a minor key would make a great Soviet choral song

2025-12-28 17:55:31 UTC

Anybody remember when TV shows had 26 episodes per season, not 4 or 5 or 8, with no multi-year breaks in between seasons? Shows these days are just lazy.

2025-12-22 22:33:02 UTC

Good news: I found an affordable local source of molasses to make my famous cookies
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2025-12-14 23:16:00 UTC

IBM computer hardware was weird, proprietary, and very expensive, but it was also really, really fucking good. Their z/Systems still are. Top-notch operational documentation, too.

2025-12-14 22:19:46 UTC

Was flipping through my old photos and found this absolutely pornographic shot of my IBM P70 portable
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2025-12-09 12:27:03 UTC

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/115689464433184174
Crazy to me that Python has to go begging for 300 grand while carrying basically the entire tech world AND the AI bubble on its back. Those teracorps and AI shills should be shitting themselves to be the first to give the PSF that much each every month.
#note1p5k…wzww

2025-12-02 12:30:43 UTC

Reminder that Google can nuke your entire account at any time for any infraction, real or hallucinated, on any platform in their portfolio. Use https://takeout.google.com and always have a backup plan for what happens to all the other website accounts bound to your Gmail address.

2025-11-20 13:45:51 UTC

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it worked for me two weeks ago on TW Slowroll, but only under Chromium, not using the Firefox plugin. So it is at least possible for it to work! Check permissions? Not sure what all you'd need, but dialout group at a minimum.

2025-10-31 10:35:19 UTC

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Looks like Debian GNU k/FreeBSD is dead :( Is it too early to say Debian GNU/Hurd? Yeah, it's probably still too early to say Debian GNU/Hurd. Maybe in 2035!

2025-10-27 19:12:23 UTC

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2025-08-27 13:59:50 UTC

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not explicitly, but I did try upstream resolvers that don't support it, which I think should have the same outcome

2025-08-27 13:22:56 UTC

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it's set up for caching, and I was using dnspyre to repeatedly check the same few domains, so one would think I'd save a few ms keeping that traffic local my network

2025-08-26 13:03:54 UTC

Absolutely disgusting that resolving DNS via 1.1.1.1 is quicker by 9ms than using a local device running dnsmasq. Truly, we live in a society [derogatory]

2025-07-27 20:34:32 UTC

We lost Tom Lehrer yesterday. July has been a dark month for the performing arts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIoBrob3bjI

2025-07-22 08:36:35 UTC

Vibe Debugging
VibeOps
Vibe Reliability Engineering

2025-07-11 22:54:38 UTC

We should give Nixon another chance tbh

2025-02-20 17:47:52 UTC

I found a CD-R with a backup of my home directory c.2002, and discovered therein a bash alias I'd forgotten about and will definitely return to using
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2024-11-23 07:06:30 UTC

I'm gonna start calling Bluesky 'Wayland' since it's supposed to replace X but it's missing half the features and kinda sucks and most of the people who advocate for it do so for political-emotional rather than technical reasons

2024-09-18 10:39:22 UTC

Never used Lunix. Wonder if I could blag the interview anyway.
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2024-08-30 04:57:31 UTC

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I haven't tried this on uSD, but I have on SSD: you may be able to get away with simply under-provisioning the card by using a total of one-third or one-quarter the device's total capacity, causing the device to only write one bit per cell. If you see different write speeds for partitions sized totalling whatever factor accounts for writing one bit vs more bits per cell, then you're effectively operating in pSLC mode without needing to mess with the storage device's firmware.
See also: https://theoverclockingpage.com/2024/05/13/tutorial-transforming-a-qlc-ssd-into-an-slc-ssd-dramatically-increasing-the-drives-endurance/