While we're at it - see previous post - here's a decent way to measure a fan's speed without having access to specialised hardware.

1. Extract the fan and provision it for power, but do not start it yet.
   
2. Ready a sound recording device of any type, such as your phone.
   
3. Using stiff but not overly stiff tape - I used packing tape - construct an inverted T ( Read more... )

In case anyone ever needs to know - and this is written a bit repetitively for searchability later, if someone finds it via web searches later you're welcome:

The stock Amiga A4000 desktop power supply (PSU) 12V (12 volt) fan runs at 3000 RPM ( 3000RPM ) by my measurement, moving 20-30 CFM (cubic feet per minute) of air according to what little data ( Read more... )

chonkyboi is my gaming PC, and since I built it, it's been pretty solid, but there've been a couple of small issues, mostly related to noise, and last night, I finally did did something about it.

I typed it into Discord while I was doing it, too, so...

ha ha HAAAAAAAAAAA I FIXED THE VBUS PIN

fuck the USB 3.0 header I mean it

i've been single-3.0 front ( Read more... )

holy fuck you scratch the surface and it's TIME TO GO MINING

So this VR rig I got used a little while ago, to use it I've had to plug all the parts into a couple of different power strips every time because I've never finished setting it up right. That kind of sucks and is a barrier to use and all that so last night I decided to be all LET'S FIX ( Read more... )

And relevant to nothing, does anybody know how the hell one gets xubuntu + xfce4 to pay any attention whatever to the settings you make in xorg.conf? I know it's reading it, if I put bad syntax in it fails to launch. So how the fuck do I make it pay attention to touchpad click zones?

(It's not that it doesn't have them. It's that they aren't the ( Read more... )

i've been involved in an archiving project that involves reclaiming email messages from the 1990s

it's involved lot of new c code

because it has had to ( Read more... )

Remember that iNTEL64 nonsense I came up with? The Cartridge Computing System, from an alternate-history where cartridges never stopped being a thing? And of course I built one, partly because I like physical artefacts from alternate universes, but mostly to solve an actual problem.

Anyway, the primary 'cartridge port' has been a separate external ( Read more... )

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cartridge computing fucking rules

yeah i said it

not sure why i said it but i did


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