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Re: show us your iron

Unread post by wuxmedia » Tue Mar 17, 2020 8:32 pm

WFH is not enough: outside working begins!
but nippy still, didn't go today - I am testing a solar powered off grid battery and it works plenty good enough.
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made that from scraps of wood and the (t)rusty bbq :) it normally sits on the kitchen table.
WIth all the kids coming out of school (not mandated - but why wait, wife can take care of them fine in the day) I will be fucking off out into the shed (the building to the right in the distance (without chimney)
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Unread post by ivanovnegro » Wed Mar 18, 2020 1:54 am

Wow. Looks incredible.

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Unread post by GekkoP » Wed Mar 18, 2020 7:25 am

Wow, better than MacGyver, I see.

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Unread post by vic » Wed Mar 18, 2020 9:28 am

Doom prepping? ;D

But looks awesome. :)
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:01 pm

Thanks All - it is a bit wobbly, but i only type on it.
nah the wife is doom prepping. france was going to be our end times shelter, slight problem of actually getting there though :/
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Unread post by gutterslob » Fri Mar 20, 2020 9:11 am

^How're the coretemps during dinner time?

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Unread post by wuxmedia » Fri Mar 20, 2020 10:21 am

^ Oh I see, yeah lol.
Moved inside as the klds are all around the place now, and everyone was like "are you on farm, is that a rooster" yes it is...
back to the old stand desk, just with the laptop on top.
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Fri Mar 20, 2020 10:27 am

I do need to clean the shit out of the grill of the X1 though normal temps are now 50C rather than 45C

could probably do with cleaning the BBQ grill too
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Fri Sep 18, 2020 8:15 am

new battle station French style :D
battle stations!
battle stations!
bit of a work in progress (no! really? )
Ideally get the NUC running again, with both screens. This is an acceptable compromise for now though.
shame the X1s don't have docking stations (well, they do, but all USB3 plug things)
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Unread post by GekkoP » Fri Sep 18, 2020 9:31 am

Lovely guy on the right watching over you.

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Unread post by ivanovnegro » Fri Sep 18, 2020 5:28 pm

Old buildings, how I love them.

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Unread post by pidsley » Fri Sep 18, 2020 11:30 pm

Question -- I see the two-monitor setup, and I get that, but there is someone on the Arch forum trying to set up a single machine with 8 monitors. What kind of setup needs 8 monitors?

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Unread post by vic » Sat Sep 19, 2020 7:08 am

A very schizo person, or alien with eight brains and eyes like flies? Monitor horder?
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Unread post by GekkoP » Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:27 am

I can see why a sysadmin can use a couple of monitors, but it's a very confusing setup for me. Too much head motion for my taste.

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Unread post by pidsley » Sat Sep 19, 2020 5:52 pm

I can understand two monitors, but eight? You can't look at more than two at a time, and the rest would seem like just noise to me. But I have a smallish 4x3 monitor and don't even see the need for a bigger wider monitor. I just run everything full screen and switch screens when I want to see something else. Maybe if I did anything professional with my machines it would make more sense, who knows.

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Unread post by wuxmedia » Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:44 pm

8 is just showing off, I'd say. I certainly wouldn't really need it.
my 2 monitor setup is left one my tmux sesh on the bastions server, and right is a browser. work chat is a browser window now (mattermost, it's quite good) and I have a few local terminals for /etc/hosts editing and mucking about on the right.. I haven't used two for about a year now. Haven't missed it that much. really, using i3 with most things fullscreen
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:58 pm

and yeah Llama available to purchase!
funnily enough, while it is an old building, that wall bit is all newish (2007ish) :D
The oldest bit is the door that we got off the neighbour and fitted in to the plasterboard.
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Sat Nov 14, 2020 4:03 pm

got the wife a Lenovo Yoga ryzen 5 something something - pretty cool, with a touchscreen which folds into tablet or tent. Still has windows on it so she can do photoshop - pretty nice machine, hasn't blown up yet anyway. Got it secondhand off a place on ebay.
Stupid problem with the gfx drivers making the screen light up after resuming from sleep - but can't do anything - so have to power off and back on again. Reinstalling the drivers (twice so far) have made it work normally. Quite tempted to put ubuntu or something on it. for now it'll do
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Fri Jul 23, 2021 8:31 pm

OH I bought a zenbook. It's pretty nice. nothing majorly annoying (apart from the FR keyboard which even the french are astounded how bad/useless it is)
I popped the fucking keys off that I could to make it at least appear mostly qwerty. (terrible ex-pat I know)
it's pretty quick. it was this or a 2017 thinkpad X1.. which well there wasn't anything amazingly wrong with the X1 I really like the battery (8 hours on 89%) that's good with me. Wifi isn't as able to pick up the signal outside (stone walls) as the X1 - keyboard is acceptable and some keys in weird places I've just about got used to.
Yes it is running gnome, ubuntu 21 is really very nice.
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Re: show us your iron

Unread post by vic » Sat Jul 24, 2021 7:59 am

Congrats, let us hope it will serve you well for a long time. :)
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