Okay so there’s a better one but this xkcd fits well enough.
I have not bought a new computer in so long, i keep them together with literal duct tape and blocks of wood and poorly hacked together software workarounds.
I’m doing things you wouldnt even think of. But implementation was imperfect. Some things like “playing audio” and “sending emails” are slightly complicated, require adjusting some stuff in systemctl (then back when im done)
Yeah, when people see some of my computers and they’re like, wait a second, so you’re telling me you hacked in four additional sata ports through the fucking Wi-Fi NVMe port.
And I’m like, yeah, it was twelve dollars off of AliExpress, and all I had to do was tape down the extension with some fucking scotch tape.
Do not fucking jostle that computer, I swear to God, I do not want you taking down my entire homelab
When youre really bad at going outside, you can drown in a puddle, die on a suburban lawn.
When you’re fit and perfectly okay at going outside, you’re reasonably safe as long as you don’t live someplace too car dominant, free climb too high, etc. Guard rails are everywhere.
When in amazing shape abd you’re really really good at going outside, you can get into all sorts of trouble someone less competent simply wouldn’t be able to. And anyone you can call for help would be a peer, with the same tools you failed with.
We are in the computer equivalent of ‘okay, we can ski down here, but stay very quiet or everyone dies and the first people who find out will be usgs, if that still exists. And keep up speed before the jump-it’s a pretty long drop.’.
Pedantic, but its an m.2 slot, not NVME slot. SATA m.2 drives existed before NVMEs, and there are m.2 slots that are only capable of SATA speeds.
I spent FAR too long figuring that out the hard way, and documentation on the internet was very much not helpful. I had a motherboard with one SATA only m.2 and one that could handle NVME.
Okay so there’s a better one but this xkcd fits well enough.
I have not bought a new computer in so long, i keep them together with literal duct tape and blocks of wood and poorly hacked together software workarounds.
I’m doing things you wouldnt even think of. But implementation was imperfect. Some things like “playing audio” and “sending emails” are slightly complicated, require adjusting some stuff in systemctl (then back when im done)
Yeah, when people see some of my computers and they’re like, wait a second, so you’re telling me you hacked in four additional sata ports through the fucking Wi-Fi NVMe port.
And I’m like, yeah, it was twelve dollars off of AliExpress, and all I had to do was tape down the extension with some fucking scotch tape.
Do not fucking jostle that computer, I swear to God, I do not want you taking down my entire homelab
When youre really bad at going outside, you can drown in a puddle, die on a suburban lawn.
When you’re fit and perfectly okay at going outside, you’re reasonably safe as long as you don’t live someplace too car dominant, free climb too high, etc. Guard rails are everywhere.
When in amazing shape abd you’re really really good at going outside, you can get into all sorts of trouble someone less competent simply wouldn’t be able to. And anyone you can call for help would be a peer, with the same tools you failed with.
We are in the computer equivalent of ‘okay, we can ski down here, but stay very quiet or everyone dies and the first people who find out will be usgs, if that still exists. And keep up speed before the jump-it’s a pretty long drop.’.
my favourite explanation
Pedantic, but its an m.2 slot, not NVME slot. SATA m.2 drives existed before NVMEs, and there are m.2 slots that are only capable of SATA speeds.
I spent FAR too long figuring that out the hard way, and documentation on the internet was very much not helpful. I had a motherboard with one SATA only m.2 and one that could handle NVME.
ah fuck, I knew it was an m.2 slot and my brain just would not compute the correct word, so I just settled on the first word that came to mind.