David Cross @david@mastodon.crossfamilyweb.com

today was rough...

@burgerbecky I love when that happens, so productive.

@dvl double booting from USB stick 🤮 I hadn't followed closely enough that, I though that was just to do an update step, not a forever thing

@dvl If you need assistance with FreeBSD UEFI/GPT boot I can help, I am an expert here, I wrote my own FreeBSD UEFI secure-boot setup :)

@dvl I found this. https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/tcp2rz/dell_poweredge_r730_boot_from_pcie_m2_device/

It is a disaster of a set of instructions, and I doubt you need all of it. Some of the takeaways that seem to be important in my researching is that you may need to use GPT and UEFI booting if you haven't tried it yet, and you may be able to get UEFI/option rom 'platform firmware' for the SSD itself, thus it won't need BIOS support to boot it will have its own firmware.

@dvl I do know that HP has their BIOS PCI ID locked to not boot other people's NVMEs.. so maybe dell is doing that here?

@dvl Isn't NVMe just SSD connected to PCIe? (via the controller chip?) That is to say NVMe *is* PCIe.

@dvl https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/howto-speeding-up-poudriere-build-times.69431/ ah, found it. I was off a bit.

Tutorial on speeding up poudriere.

> Have 96GB of RAM
> End tutorial

😆

@dvl 342GB of RAM.. yikes. There was a post years ago about speeding up poudriere builds and someone was commenting theirs was just fine and someone noticed their machoine had like hundreds of gigs of ram and just commented akin to "how to speed up poudriere, 256GB of ram, thank you for coming to me TED talk"

@dvl Can you get a network sniffer on this? my guess, is that it is not listening on HTTP (migrated to HTTPS?).. or HTTPS and they changed their crypto with a new cert with a root cert it doesn't support, or crypto algorithm it doesn't support (SSL, TLS1.1, etc)

Maybe moved their files and paths.

Can you download locally and self-host?

@darkosubotica IIgs! awesome, I have one right next to me right now running!

@scanlime switch bus standards frequently and frequency!

@gavininny @phen314 *gavin has entered the chat*.

Gavin, awesome to hear from you. I like the 'small town' feel that mastodon has, it is like when twitter started, and you cold still really connect with people

@phen314 Inkjets are like THE WORST EVAH. I have thrown away so many inkjet ink cartridges and printers because the ink dries up and cakes in the heads, tubing, etc.

I print rarely, which is good. When I want to print I want it to WORK. I don't want to need to remember to do maintenance prints.

Super happy with my laser (and scanner too!) and I will suck it up and buy the $1k worth of toner.

I hope I get at least half as many years from it that I got from the LaserJet 4p it replaced.

@phen314 I know, it is great. BUT. The toners for a full set is still thousands of dollars. So maybe they went for a razors and blades model