i don't have a better way to publish photos so this'll do| catstret.ch
i tend to like using Libreboot on the computers of mine that support it - which is many of them, because i have far too many ThinkPads. while setting up Libreboot on a ThinkPad T420, i ran into a SeaBIOS bug - the AHCI initialization code had been recently updated, and it seemed to have broken things…| catstret.ch
recently, on a trip to the local computer recyclers, i saw they had some Citrix-branded rack-mount servers. i was looking out for little applicance-like rack-mount gear, but wasn’t sure what these were, so i popped the lid of one of them off, only to be greeted with a Supermicro logo! without looking at them too much, i figured they’d be Atoms of some description. a quick search for the Supermicro part number on the motherboard didn’t give me an exact match, but revealed a few similar b...| catstret.ch
someone in a discord server i’m in asked the question “how do you tell windows versions apart by looking at them?” - and thus, i had to put this together. this is not meant to be exhaustive (i’m not even going to try documenting betas…), and doesn’t include server editions, but. here you go, nonetheless.| catstret.ch
cohost will become read-only on Tuesday, October 1st. At this time, we will make best-effort attempts to keep the servers online through the end of 2024. “cohost to shut down at end of 2024”, from the staff blog (archive.org link) damn. i was using cohost a fair bit, even if only as a read-only “i enjoy looking at these people’s posts!” thing. i guess that means i need to post the things i’m doing here instead, instead of letting them just sit in my cohost drafts? irys.cc the rewr...| catstret.ch
hewwo, world?| catstret.ch
setting up 20 year old hardware is bound to work first try, right? ... right?| catstret.ch