This is scraped of facebook, and presented mostly without comment (and translation). I also have a distinct lack of memories over quite a lot of those.
Obligatorischer Jahresendpost, bevor Admiral von Schneider und die übrigen Honoratioren hier einfallen. Persönlich war's eigentlich ganz okay, die globale Gesamtsituation war definitiv nicht okay.
Empfehlungen, Fiction: Revenger (Reynolds), Record of a Spaceborn Few (Chambers). Empfehlungen, Nonfiction: Legion versus Phalanx (Cole), Dirty Old London (Jackson). Empfehlungen, Film: The Death of Stalin (shut up with your conterrevolutionary talk of "from 2017").
Nun gehet hin und tut Dinge. 2019 wird nicht von alleine besser.
This is scraped of facebook, and presented mostly without comment (and translation). I also have a distinct lack of memories over quite a lot of those.
This is one part of a historic post that has been split up for republishing.
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Some Assembly Required.This is surprisingly easy, and I totally didn’t type this caption thrice.
Unicomp produces mechanical keyboards based on the classic IBM Model M. Those things are heavy, clunky, clicky and LOUD keyboards that provide a good amount of resistance against any use and misuse. I love this thing.
What I love even more is the fact that Unicomp also sells custom keycaps in various colours, both printed and unprinted. As you might have noticed, I ordered a set of blank key caps to force myself to finally learn blind typing. It works surprisingly well, albeit I currently find it easier to just delete a whole word and re-type it then to search for the correct key to correct a typo…
If you want a keyboard with a set of custom caps, order directly from Unicomp. If you just want a keyboard, try getDigital – retails price + shipping from the US roughly equals their price, and there wont be any hassles with customs.
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FutureSjut
The other [sic] new toy is a Synology DS1515+ NAS. His name is GLADos, following established naming procedures for IT equipment.
Welcome Home.
I got myself a five-bay NAS because there is no kill like overkill, and I really wanted a RAID-10 and an additional back-up disc as well as the various additional playthings this model can run. For common home purposes, a RAID-1 with two big discs should be sufficient.
“What the fuck did you just say?” Okay. A NAS is a Network Attached Storage – an external hard drive connected to the network instead of your PC. A RAID is a Redundant Array of Independent Disks – several HDDs working as one volume. RAID-1 uses two discs and mirrors them unto each other – both hold the same data, if one fails you still have the other. RAID-10 is “two RAID-0 in a RAID-1”, wherein a RAID-0 spreads your data in blocks over two discs, resulting in faster access but no redundancy. The fifth bay holds an additional backup-disc where important data will be backed up to. I once lost 1.5TB of media, I am that paranoid.
But let’s start at the beginning: after ordering the NAS itself (Conrad had the best offer among big suppliers, much cheaper than the cheapest on amazon), five WD Red 4TB HDDs, two Noctua NF-A8 FLX fans (especially recommended as quieter than the ones provided by Synology) and a 4GB RAM block (all via amazon, and no, I do not get any money for this, even if I totally should), I ended up with… some several boxes.
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So, The Lord GabeN, in all His glory, hath heard my prayers and gifted upon me a Shiny New Toy.
The Steam Controller. Why did I get it? Because I’m an engineer, the subsequent pathological love for interesting new tech-stuff, disposable income and poor impulse control. Also, I wanted to try out controller-based PC-gaming for quite some time and decided to save myself for the Light of the Lord GabeN, instead reverting to the tools used by the Filthy Console Peasants. But seriously: I really wanted to take a look at this thing. It arrived on Friday, I got it on Saturday, and over the weekend I tested a whole bunch of games with it. Here is what I found.
[Disclaimer I: I never really used a controller before, except in agony-filled afternoons when friends decided we would game on their consoles. I have no way of comparing this thing to any other controller, so I wont.] [Disclaimer II: Depending on how things work out, there might be a follow-up post some day, hopefully addressing problems mentioned here.]
Which is totally not about the relations between Largo and Cpt. Varrot. That would have been meaningfuluseful not as absurd as how it gets.Continue reading →
In which we deal with periodic sandstorms, marine biology and strange, probably Ragnite-fueled magic.
And the other half of the ongoing battle, of course.Continue reading →
In which we encounter some dessert desert warfare, sniper fire and several units of lore.
There should totally be a SI-unit for lore. Continue reading →
The second report that we can purchase from Ms. Ellet is called “A Taste of Home”. The report shows an episode between Welkin and Alicia at the garrison during some quiet time.Continue reading →
