Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[Saskia]

SO = significant other.

Papa Smurf, should you not be sleeping ?

Day off. Coughing, presumably allergy or cold. The buyer for my Indiana Jones pinball cancelled about an hour before pickup.
Trying to fix a RockPi  that has lost its microsd slot when it fell off the table (slot torn off of board). Trying to find a replacement did not work, the Molex stuff does not fit.

4 options:

• buy the eMMC ramdisk and use spi flashing to enable booting off that critter, use PXE boot after rigging it
• jimmyrig a microSD card by attaching 0.05 mm wire to the traces and then try to boot and move the OS to an eMMC disk
• do the over the Top SATA M.2 thing (this gizmo has an M.2 slot). Don't know if it will boot though
• toss the critter (it's a 100€ board)

What would you think ?

[bd139]

Smash it with a fucking hammer then toss it and buy a Lenovo M600 tiny instead 

Just spent the entire morning whinging about a misconfigured JIRA instance. See the fun I'm having here. The moat equipped lair is further away now as well. Not motivating 

[tggzzz]

I admire your fight on this one. I'd have parted the bastard out by now 

I'm feeling a little fey this morning. I won't suppress the thought that that puts me in mind of errant children or SOs - in different ways, of course.

"Fey"  ?  Had to look that up. I guess I lack sophistication.  "SOs" escapes me too.

"Fey" is a lovely little word that deserves to be rehabilitated. Ditto "fettle", which everybody on this thread does too much for our own good.

I'm surprised you've never come across "SO"; perhaps you are too young to have used usenet much.

So pray tell, what does you crystal ball say? 

"Time to die"

[med6753]

Papa Smurf, should you not be sleeping ?

I always wake up early and some nights I don't sleep at all. It's a "left over" from working nights for almost 10 years.

[Saskia]

watching too much Blade Runner, are we ?

In answer to your query, they are written down for me.
It's a test designed to provoke an emotional response. Shall we continue ?
Now tell me in single words only the good things that come into your mind - about your mother ?
...

[bd139]

I always wake up early and some nights I don't sleep at all. It's a "left over" from working nights for almost 10 years.

More hours left until you're dead. Can't lose.

[med6753]

Gee, all this morbid death talk.   

[Saskia]

those play it better:
https://youtu.be/B4vQjNvTeY8

for morbidity:

[Specmaster]

The twists and turns that these threads take are sometimes unbelievable but it all proves just one thing, that we aren't finding enough bargain TE around especially on eBay otherwise we would be posting about that, lets hope that for the UK at least, that with the 10 day £1 listing fee that situation soon changes, before we all go bloody crazy.                                                                                                         

[bd139]

Indeed.

Let's cheer it up a bit 



My table's been set for but seven

Just last year I dined with eleven

Goddamn ye, merry gentlemen

[Saskia]

This reminds me that Midsommar is coming up and I will need to dedicate a sacrifice to Odin, Thor, and Freya.

[med6753]

This reminds me that Midsommar is coming up and I will need to dedicate a sacrifice to Odin, Thor, and Freya.

Don't forget Moe, Larry, and Curly too. 

[Saskia]

I don't worship the three stooges. Tbh I enjoy Gomer Pyle a lot more than those HONKs.

[med6753]

Let's cheer it up a bit 

 

  

[bd139]

Well it was more upbeat at least

[BU508A]

Now for something completely different:

https://www.qwertee.com/product/trust-me-i-m-an-engeener

[Specmaster]

Let's cheer it up a bit 

 

  

Precisely, thats 3 minutes and 32 seconds that you won't get back of your life 

[med6753]

Now for something completely different:

https://www.qwertee.com/product/trust-me-i-m-an-engeener

I've never trusted fucking engineers. 

[med6753]

I don't worship the three stooges. Tbh I enjoy Gomer Pyle a lot more than those HONKs.

[Specmaster]

Now for something completely different:

https://www.qwertee.com/product/trust-me-i-m-an-engeener

I've never trusted fucking engineers. 

Erm, excuse me I'm an engineer 

[med6753]

Erm, excuse me I'm an engineer 

I won't hold it against you. 

[Ice-Tea]

Now for something completely different:

https://www.qwertee.com/product/trust-me-i-m-an-engeener

I've never trusted fucking engineers. 

Oy!

[BU508A]

Now for something completely different:

https://www.qwertee.com/product/trust-me-i-m-an-engeener

I've never trusted fucking engineers. 

This one's for you.   

https://www.qwertee.com/product/i-hate-people

[Saskia]

Now for something completely different:

https://www.qwertee.com/product/trust-me-i-m-an-engeener

need to get that for work.

[Saskia]

FWIW the 34401 escaped my budget allocation for disposable income.

Everybody feel free to give it a bid.