Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[BU508A]

Urrrggghhh. Late starting the kids on their first day of school due to configurating my new WiFi/VPN router.
My balls already ache...   



mnem
And now it wants to do a FW update...

Why do you configure your router with your balls? Sounds painful ... 

 

[tggzzz]

Start 'em young. 

That’s a win. It’s the modern equivalent of the radio shack 160-in-1 I got that started all this 

If I was starting now, I'd go into the life science for the same reasons I started with electronics and computers.

So, where is the equivalent of the Philips EE-20 or that 160-in-1 kit? For that matter, what would they enable you to do now and in 10 years time?

[tonyalbus]

Email from Ali, your TinySA is in your country...usualy that is 7 days... whoop whoop... counting down.

meanwhile i play with this...

[SilverSolder]

Start 'em young. 

That’s a win. It’s the modern equivalent of the radio shack 160-in-1 I got that started all this 

If I was starting now, I'd go into the life science for the same reasons I started with electronics and computers.

So, where is the equivalent of the Philips EE-20 or that 160-in-1 kit? For that matter, what would they enable you to do now and in 10 years time?

Today's equivalent might be an Arduino kit of some kind?

[AVGresponding]

Note that he says nothing when a cyclist does the exact same thing:

https://youtu.be/lGkYM_PE2DA?t=16

I think he was focused on his target. I have seen him berate cyclists on several occasions.

Also in all fairness, you're quite a bit more likely to die from a careless/selfish driver than a careless/selfish cyclist.

[mnementh]

I dunno... the more of his vids I see, the more I'm reminded of this...



He is a bit aggressive...

mnem
...and a bit of a violent crime statistic just waiting to happen.

[tggzzz]

Start 'em young. 

That’s a win. It’s the modern equivalent of the radio shack 160-in-1 I got that started all this 

If I was starting now, I'd go into the life science for the same reasons I started with electronics and computers.

So, where is the equivalent of the Philips EE-20 or that 160-in-1 kit? For that matter, what would they enable you to do now and in 10 years time?

Today's equivalent might be an Arduino kit of some kind?

I was really thinking of a life sciences kit.

[mnementh]

This kit starts with 9V battery-light blub circuit level of understanding and works up to Arduino. I like that it starts with the fundamentals.

mnem
There's plenty of time to integrate the organic interface once the boi learns the basics... 

[mnementh]

Urrrggghhh. Late starting the kids on their first day of school due to configurating my new WiFi/VPN router.
My balls already ache...   



mnem
And now it wants to do a FW update...

Why do you configure your router with your balls? Sounds painful ...   

Unfortunately for my tender bits... yes. Like all routers this one is born knowing instinctively just where to kick you for maximum effectiveness. I think it's a core process; part of the ROUTER DNA... 

mnem
ow.

[bd139]

Yeah one reason that Cisco 1941 ISR I have is sitting in the hall still rather than being my router. I got it and now I'm not in the mood for a ball kicking 

[med6753]

So the Lady Copper's 11 year old Dell tower joined the great gig in the sky. Obviously it's my job to fix that. The only thing she ever uses a computer is to browse the internet. Or occasionally print something, from the internet. For that type of user Winblows seems like overkill. Decided that Linux would be the best solution for her. I have a Dell tower here with Mint on it but I'm not happy with that distro. It sucks. Slow to boot and overall just clunky. Also have a Toshiba laptop with Ubuntu 19. It boots fast and seems overall snappy. But it seems every time you boot it wants to load updates. But at least it's a pain free update process.

So....gonna take the Dell tower and wipe Mint and load Ubuntu. Show her how to use it and be a hero. 
 

What ya gonna do if Lady Cop says she prefers windows and want windows 

She is savvy and smart in many things but computers isn't on the menu. She could not care less what OS is running as long as she can get on the internet with minimal hassle.

And so, I had to go out and buy some DVD+R's. Winblows 10 turned one of my USB sticks into an inaccessible brick after I asked it very nicely to make it bootable.   

[Fungus]

Any suggestion for good small/mini PC? Something like this one
I bought this for my pfSense and it is work stable since months, 24/7 always on, only joy never a problem.

Intel NUCs are good - a bit bigger than that but they take ordinary SSDs.

[mnementh]

Yeah one reason that Cisco 1941 ISR I have is sitting in the hall still rather than being my router. I got it and now I'm not in the mood for a ball kicking 

Ugggh. I misunderstood the manual when I was shopping this thing... while I CAN limit router management to a single specific MAC address(es), I cannot limit it to a single interface or preferably a single ETH port like a REAL router; if I add the MAC of my WiFi adapter to the management whitelist it happily pops up a login portal.

Why the FUCK would ANY router manufacturer ever take away such a fundamental security measure...? 

Fucking toy.  If I can't find a precompiled build of OpenWRT I think it's going back. A shame too... awesome hardware otherwise.

mnem
assholes.

[bd139]

My fritzbox can’t do that. It’s irritating for sure. At the same time I treat my entire WiFi net as untrusted. If it gets owned, meh, I’ll hit it with a hammer and set up the Cisco while swearing and sweating for a couple of hours.

[bd139]

Any suggestion for good small/mini PC? Something like this one
I bought this for my pfSense and it is work stable since months, 24/7 always on, only joy never a problem.

Intel NUCs are good - a bit bigger than that but they take ordinary SSDs.

I’m so tempted to buy one of them as a leech box. Do they run headless?

[BravoV]

Any suggestion for good small/mini PC? Something like this one
I bought this for my pfSense and it is work stable since months, 24/7 always on, only joy never a problem.

Intel NUCs are good - a bit bigger than that but they take ordinary SSDs.

I’m so tempted to buy one of them as a leech box. Do they run headless?

For me, I'm currently tempted on this, Ryzen mini PC ...

This -> https://www.asus.com/Mini-PCs/Mini-PC-PN50/



or this

[Specmaster]

Email from Ali, your TinySA is in your country...usualy that is 7 days... whoop whoop... counting down.

meanwhile i play with this...

I almost pressed the button on one of those a couple of years back, the thing that held me back was there was zero information available at the time on them and also it has a transistor tester socket and not to be recommended according to our benefactor Dave.  So with that in mind, I for one will be looking for your experiences with this meter. I like the idea of being able to measure other parameters at the same time. I can do that with my Brymen BM867 but for some reason, bench meters don't generally have that ability unless you for a stupidly expensive high-end meter aimed at lab use, way out of the reach of the average hobbyist. 

[Cerebus]

Yes FreeBSD is about the peak of everything so far. Unfortunately useless for me as it won't run all my workloads. Perhaps when I retire.

FreeBSD runs floozies then?! 

That's yodaesque.

360€/h. Leather optional.

Leather is never optional.

A friend in need is a friend indeed
A friend with weed is better.
A friend with breast and all the rest
A friend who's dressed in leather.
A friend in need is a friend indeed
A friend who'll tease is better.
Our thoughts compressed which makes us blessed and makes for stormy weather.

[Saskia]

did some long walk today including about 4 km through sand. Tired as hell.

Mmmmhmmm... so what was on the other end of the walk...? Something Nakamichi...? 

mnem
 

Did you effing have to jinx it ? I just had to bid for a high end Nakamichi Power Amp.

and put down down payment ...

[Cerebus]

Start 'em young. 

That’s a win. It’s the modern equivalent of the radio shack 160-in-1 I got that started all this 

If I was starting now, I'd go into the life science for the same reasons I started with electronics and computers.

So, where is the equivalent of the Philips EE-20 or that 160-in-1 kit? For that matter, what would they enable you to do now and in 10 years time?

Today's equivalent might be an Arduino kit of some kind?

I was really thinking of a life sciences kit.

"Igor's genetic engineering and self-surgery kit*"
Bonus: extra tentacles in this kit.

*suitable for children from 6 to 60

[mnementh]

My fritzbox can’t do that. It’s irritating for sure. At the same time I treat my entire WiFi net as untrusted. If it gets owned, meh, I’ll hit it with a hammer and set up the Cisco while swearing and sweating for a couple of hours.

Yeah, I guess... but LinkSys got a huge black eye for just this stupidity a few short years ago with the WRT54G FW; when did doing it the stoopit way become the baseline and we all have to just live with it...?

Also, looks like OpenWRT is likely not gonna happen anytime soon... while it uses a custom version of OpenWRT already, the gurus say it's based on a 5-year old build; doubtless one that has been deprecated by now for security issues. 

Evidently BroadCom SoC based systems get very little love from the OSS community, and vice-versa.

mnem
 

[bd139]

Broadcom are cunts so that’s about right. I refuse to go near any of their shit.

[mnementh]

did some long walk today including about 4 km through sand. Tired as hell.

Mmmmhmmm... so what was on the other end of the walk...? Something Nakamichi...? 

mnem
 

Did you effing have to jinx it ? I just had to bid for a high end Nakamichi Power Amp.

and put down down payment ...

*wakes up from nap with a bandage on his hip*   


mnem
Oh dear; I already sold my other kidney to pay for my wedding...

[Neomys Sapiens]

Start 'em young. 

That’s a win. It’s the modern equivalent of the radio shack 160-in-1 I got that started all this 

If I was starting now, I'd go into the life science for the same reasons I started with electronics and computers.

Ewwww! All that glibber.

In die Pumpe mit der Klumpe!

[capt bullshot]

And so, I had to go out and buy some DVD+R's. Winblows 10 turned one of my USB sticks into an inaccessible brick after I asked it very nicely to make it bootable.   

Normally not a big deal for a quick
root@linuxbox> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/yourstickssdx bs=1M count=1
and then start over again.