OpenComputeDesign @OpenComputeDesign@linuxrocks.online

It's really annoying that to power a computer from battery backup, the DC of the batteries has to be converted to AC, just so the computer can turn it back to DC. Why can't they also have a DC input?

I'm probably going to regret saying this.

I think this whole Richard Stallman thing violates freedom of speech. I'm not defending what he said. I'm also not saying other people should say offensive things, I'm merely saying it's their right to do so. Just as it is the right of every one else who says at least as bad of stuff back. Any law that makes what he says illegal, makes much of what people that are against him say illegal.

The "$10" Nokia n8

It arrived yesterday, and I installed it this morning. It powered on! and EVERYTHING worked! At lunch time, I was eating and marveling at it, only to do something so incredibly stupid and clumsy. I dropped it in my food. I have never done something like that before. I couldn't believe it, it fell right into a big pool of grease. I swiftly turned it off, took it apart AGAIN, and cleaned it up. Luckily, it survived. And everything still works fine. It could have been worse.

I tried to remove the one from the old motherboard, but I broke it. I finally found one for sale and bought it. After a few more weeks, it arrived. I installed it and put the phone back together again for what I thought was the last time. But, in my excitement, I had broken the screen cable, and didn't notice. I took it apart again and couldn't believe what I had done. I had sunk to much time money and effort into it to stop, so I bought another screen.

I thought, "well, I've already come this far, there's no sense in stopping now", so I found and bought a replacement screen. After several more weeks, it arrived and I installed it. It worked! I excitedly started testing every feature, and, the camera shutter was stuck. Apart it came again. I just couldn't get it to work, so I took the shutter mechanism apart, and never got it back together. I finally realized the camera was in a socket, and could be removed.

Last year, I bought an untested Nokia N8 for $10. It looked to be in almost new condition. I plugged it in, and nothing. I tried every method I could find to reset it, nothing worked. I took it apart and manually charged the battery. Still nothing. I got out my multimeter, the board had proper power, it was just dead. After a lot of searching, I found a "new" motherboard on aliexpress. After months, it arrived, and I installed it. I powered it on only to find the screen was bad

Italians are exhausting. My family is part Italian. For context; in an American movie, everything works out in the end. In a French movie, everything goes wrong by the end. An Indian movie has two parts, the first one is like a french movie, the second like an American movie. In an Italian movie, every single scene is like an Indian movie. It's exhausting.

Well, I've joined two MMORPGs (Runescape and PlaneShift, because they are free, and have native linux clients). So far, I have been to scared to talk to anyone.

Is there any reason a Linux distribution couldn't use multiple simultaneous package managers?

While looking at MMORPGs, I came across Planeshift, which is open source. Has anyone here played it?

I've decided to try an MMORPG. Does anybody have any suggestions?

I bought an untested Xbox 360 at a thrift store for $6. I don't have a power supply for it, so I took it apart and rigged up a 500w ATX power supply. I flipped on the psu and BANG! one of the mosfets was bad and briefly shorted all 35 amps of the psu to ground before exploding. I'm interested to see if I can fix this Xbox.

Raytracing in Excel:
(It would have been even cooler in LibreOffice)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m28jJ7CMp8A

My little sister is so bad at keeping a schedule, I bought her a Palm Tungsten E2.

Thought experiment:

How would one go about designing and building a computer that would last at least one lifetime (60+ years).

Generic plug and play consoles are kind of surreal.

Nvidia is bragging about developing an RTX version of Minecraft. Meanwhile Sonic Ether has Developed a mod that can fully path-trace Minecraft at 30fps on an AMD RX 580.

Well what do you know, proprietary technology isn't always better.

Woo! I just got a 23in 1080p dell monitor at a thrift store for $5!