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Wednesday, February 11, 2026
linux people who have no interest in understanding computers and just want to rice annoy me
similar energy to people who homelab and 90% of their RU's are face plates
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 similar energy to people who homelab and 90% of their RU's are face plates
What are RU's? And face plates?
they're satanic, not black magic
very different
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1 What are RU's? And face plates?
Rack units, when most of their racks are literally just decorative and are sealed off
let me find a pic
some people 3D print decorative ones, some people do the solor-matched metal
this kind of shit really annoys me
spend $10k on a rack, to hold 1 mac mini worth of compute
granted, I've seen way worse than this guys
also funny are when they have a bunch of fiber converters and stuff, that are 90% empty
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1 I got bothered when people in RedTeam said that computers are black magic, so I made those two meetings as a middle finger to let people understand how a CPU works at the fundamental level. And then advertised it at RedTeam to get more people to come to my meetings lol
lol love this
I can appreciate datacentre porn, but I like when people's homelabs are... actually doing something (if not full labbing)
people who go on a midlife crisis spending spree so they can pirate movies is not interesting
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1 Do you have a home server rack, Spooky? Mine is just a computer desktop below my router. I guess I only have two computers in my "home lab" so not really required for me
yeah I have a 12U stacked on-top of a 32U that are both basically full
I'm going to retire my (oversized) FreeNAS box at some point, and rack my desktop and put another box in to do something else
I want to get a real antenna mast setup at some point too, that's been one of those neglected projects that I think I could have some fun with
I'm not that old, lol
PhijkchuNet
granted, I know people who HAM
PhijkchuNet
I have some other stuff too, but that's the main one
Become a literal ISP
Spooky running cables across the western world to make the phijkchu small i internet
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 linux people who have no interest in understanding computers and just want to rice annoy me
I think this might have sounded overly gatekeepery which I wasn't intending,
when it's actual genuine middle school kids learning basic stuff its cool, or even people who just like the aesthetic aspects of it and leave it at that
But I'm sick of this glut of old millennials who are seeking some weird validation whilst having no actual interest in the thing
Related, If you're proud of a double digit github daily commit streak, where the totality of your contributions were +1 -1 readme edits
neck yourself
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 I can appreciate datacentre porn, but I like when people's homelabs are... actually doing something (if not full labbing) people who go on a midlife crisis spending spree so they can pirate movies is not interesting
*movies they dont even watch
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak nevermind
you should make the welcome message something like this
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Pyrric what did you post, it is telling me I need an ID to view it
Thanks pyrric
