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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • Disclaimer: I’m not a 3dprinter guy. I want to be, but I never found the time beyond a partially assembled prusa mendel i3.

    …however, I have done an extensive amount of wiring, in various environments, a lot of it on moving parts, and what I can say is that wires of these gauges don’t break like this just from movement along that cable chain (or whatever it’s called), unless it’s incredibly cold environment and/or incredibly cheap wiring.

    I’m thinking that you’re most likely correct in that it has been pinched.











  • Not very practical, but good for understanding the OS: Everything is a file. Even your filesystem and harddrive is represented by a file (devicenode).

    Back in the day, before things such as pulseaudio and equivalents became the norm, there was also such a file (it might still exist, idk) for your soundcard. By shoving the contents of a wav file directly into /dev/dsp, you could hear it as if it was played normally.

    Unrelates to the above, in a terminal context it’s very handy to learn the concepts of STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR, and how to manipulate these. I won’t go into it here, but whenever you see a bunch of commands strung together with redirects, < > | >>, that’s usually for sending the output (STDOUT) of one command somewhere else, such as to the input STDIN to another command.






  • I for one like these builds. Partially because I had a similar one myself (Although I went straight from Socket 7 to Socket A… never had a Slot CPU in my life.), but also because the same reason why older car engines look cooler than those feom today: When I see under the hood or in a modern computer case, all I see is plastic covers.

    Besides, cable management with PAATA cables was no easy feat.