Ironically, the three trades you listed are in high demand right now specifically because of the rapid rollout of the data centers needed to power AI.

In ECC memory?

I think it’s the first time it’s happened since I upgraded my hardware over a year ago. 64 gigs of RAM and I rarely use more than 30% of it.

Reset button not working, but power button working is quite odd.

Yeah makes me think something hardware level.

Are the server and chargers close to each other? Can you reliably trigger it with the car charger?

No. The car charges every night. This is the first time this has happened.

Microsoft comes out with Windows Supercomputer Pro.

They sell 6 copies.

When you’re running exotic hardware, everything is custom. Linux is the most easily customizable.

Can you eat starfish?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl4IBsqS2gY

(Not a real gun, but thought you’d appreciate)

I know Valve is all about this. They insisted on having a USB port on the Index HMD just so people could attach dodads to it.

How can we penny auction without pennies?

My high school bully graduated second in our class and clearly thought he was destined to great things. Ran into him four years later, he was attending grad school a few states over. Confirmed he was still an asshole.

Looked him up a decade later. He’s a grade school teacher. Teaching is an incredibly noble pursuit and a miserably thankless job. I hope he’s enjoying it.

Yeah, like let’s put our servers in a gigantic Yeti mug. That’ll help them cool off.

The Romantic. Really cool animated fantasy feature film from ~2009. For a while, the creator had it on Vimeo and even uploaded it to archive.org. Then he seemed to wipe every trace of it off the web. I can only find a shitty 320p version that someone must have had cached. It’s better than nothing, but I want to see it again in the full resolution that was once available.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110103034132/http://theromanticmovie.com/

https://hackaday.com/2025/07/09/crunching-the-news-for-fun-and-little-profit/

You can run Windows 9 on an iPhone 9.

Vigil from Mass Effect. I think it’s the song playing when you first get the galaxy map, and playing that game and seeing the world open up while hearing that song really put me in a great mood.

It’s a great doc. It was on PBS for a while.

I was excited to learn that homeassistant lets me bypass the atrocious Sonos app for controlling all my speakers from various music sources.

Though at the same time, I’m little disappointed that offTikTok is broken.

WARNING

The docker-down.sh script associated with offtiktok runs a docker prune -f and will delete any unused docker containers you have without warning.

Wow, this is exactly what I was looking for!

I saw this clip on eBaumsworld when I was like 12 and was overjoyed that we had finally done it and all the climate change stuff I learned about wasn’t going to be a problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a74uarqap2E