Yeah of course! Once I went on a buying spree of used WNDR3700. They were so cheap and I won a few too many bids at once.

I gave one to a flatmate when we lived together as students and he took it with when he moved out. Put one in the office room of my current flatmate and still have one or two in reserve. I usually take one with me to LAN-parties.

Before that I once used DD-WRT on a WRT54GL. It also wasn’t bad from what I remember.

If I ever started customizing my KDE Plasma, then that would be the last direction I’d ever go in.

As a Linux user, you can pretend the os x is just Linux. That’s not true, but you can make it work with brew, some googling and your favourite ide / tech stack.

You can, but it’s still a miserable experience because the GUI is opinionated and its opinion is removed. I’ve been on that boat for three years now.

helloSystem sounds miserable. Copying all the weird things that macOS does and hiding how things work in favour of “simplicity”

How much is your 10Gb/s plan?

Because wget doesn’t use standard output for the downloaded file by default, instead it creates a file with the name in the url in the workingdir. If you want it to use standard output you need -O -

But then you get the pleasure of making it submit. My Minecraft server is now running in GNU screen just like I wanted it to, and SELinux can only look on and whimper softly.

I just read today that the newest version of ROCm (5.7.1) supports the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, the first consumer GPU to have official support in a long time. That one is about three times your budget, so there is no way to get an officially supported one. Reportedly some unsupported models work too, but I’d say you’re looking at a lot of hurdles here.

An OTDR sends pulses of laser light into a fiber optic cable and records the minute reflections that occur at every point of the cable over time. The time of arrival of the reflections corresponds to the position of where it was reflected. This way you can record the attenuation of an entire cable just from shining in pulses from one end. Good for checking if a new cable was properly installed, or for finding the location of issues in existing cables for debugging.

Recently a supplier of ours announced that we could finally host their removedty java app on Linux instead of paying removeding Oracle for Solaris. So we were eager to hear the requirements. It was RHEL 8.4 or something, a version that was already EOL at the time.

They can’t even update their distros apparently.

Category: OTDR measurement results
File extension: .xml or something entirely new

OTDR: Optical Time Domain Reflectometry
SOR: Standard OTDR Record
XML: Extensible Markup Language

.sor files are a mess, poorly standardized, too restrictive as a format, and every manufacturer makes their own proprietary extensions.

OTDR measurement results in like XML or whatever open self documenting format, just not SOR. Or even just in actual standards compliant SOR, if that’s all I can get.

Wow the explanation of how they reverse engineered their way to pixel atomics was super interesting!

The content isn’t anything to write home about. I don’t really get it.

I’m a bit of a fan of Okular. It just does a good job displaying PDFs and is not annoying. The table of content works well if the document has one. There is text select and block select for when you need to get content out of the PDF. You can tell Okular to ignore DRM with a simple checkbox in the settings, for files that “don’t allow” selecting and copying text or “don’t allow” printing.