tychosmoose

Funny. I just gave away my desktop with that same chipset & CPU. It was a really good hardware generation.

No plans for a replacement in the near future.

Even if I want to, I canopic one to do it.

Same. Moved from OpenWRT through OPNsense to Mikrotik. The performance per watt and per dollar is great.

What are you saving on that drive? Many data file formats already have compression of their own and don’t benefit much from file system compression. So if this is for media files, for example, it’s likely to add CPU overhead without a big benefit in transfer speed.

ZFS is not installed by default with most Linux distributions due to its license. It’s something you install after the os. Btrfs should work, but I see some discussion online of 128 or 256MB minimum volume size.

Sorry. That is what I meant.

Zero zombies here. I have a couple of Debian servers and one repeatedly upgraded Ubuntu on noble numbat that I’m too lazy to migrate to Debian. None have zombies.

Do you run a DE? Mine are headless.

No problems here. Pretty basic use, outside light scheduling, tying inside lights together (if a on, turn b&c on), bathroom fan timers, and sensor notifications. I haven’t really messed with the dashboard.

darktable developer?

There were 1300 cases of armed robbery in the US in 2024.

That number seemed way off to me. Not sure where you got it. Perhaps in some kind of analysis of a sample/subset of cases?

Robberies all involve violence or a threat of violence, so calling out armed robbery specifically seems too narrow. Someone says they have a weapon and robs you, that’s reported as a robbery. If the police catch them and they are unarmed, that’s still just robbery, not armed robbery. But it seems relevant to the point in this discussion.

Anyway, New York City alone had almost that many robberies in the month of December 2024, and had 16000 robberies for the year in 2024. Source

The number I see for the country in 2024 is ~625000 robbery cases from FBI data. Just looking at armed robbery is more like 100k cases (200k if you include strong arm). Source

Ah, but the color was named after the fruit!

Before oranges were introduced to English speaking areas the color was called yellow red. The use of orange for the color is only attested from c1500.

That’s a nice looking switch. Wow. I bet it makes a nice thwack.

It looks like there are two ground/earth wires on one ground post and two hots on the corresponding hot. Two circuits are being powered through the one switch. Would need to see more of the device guts to understand why.

I think that would be classified as a Rocker switch with a Paddle actuator.

From the back it looks like a DPST switch.
Double/Dual Pole means it switches two separate pairs of conductors at once. Many circuits only need to switch the hot or the ground wire and use a Single Pole switch. A SPST switch has 2 terminals on the back. This one has 4 so it can switche both the hot and ground at the same time.
Single Throw means it’s got only off and on. No other position. Dual Throw would have 3 positions, so a SPDT would have 3 terminals on the back, and a DPDT switch has 6 terminals on the back.

Rectangular
Panel mount
Recessed or Inset

Any numbers or markings on the back? I wouldn’t be surprised if this isn’t available any more. To me it looks like something from the 1970s-1990s.

There might be markings on the circuit board that help date it.

It looked anti-vandal to me with it’s low profile, chamfered edges, and all-metal face. It would be difficult to get leverage against these to damage them or rip them out of the hole.

A €1 button is made of plastic and is easily smashed to bits.

It’s not exactly featureless.

In electronics terms this is a switch.
Pushbutton
Momentary (meaning it doesn’t remain in the pressed state when you stop touching it)
Panel mount
Anti Vandal
Non-illuminated (I’m guessing based on the photo)
Green

There aren’t so many green switches as red or black, so that can help the search.
It’s also probably something readily available since this doesn’t look like a device built in the thousands.

I’ll bet it’s this one or a different size from the same manufacturer:
https://www.buerklin.com/en/p/eao/pushbutton-switches/82-6851-1000/12G0085/

Of course it could just as easily be something sourced in China if I’m wrong and this control panel is mass produced.

Ha! Mine’s the same! My job was dumping them and said take it if you want it. A v1 TP-Link TL-SG105. I don’t think I’ve used mine in at least 10 years but I can’t bear to throw it away.

Classic blue 5-port gigabit switch. Chef’s kiss!

These things will be with us until the heat death of the universe. Still chugging along.

I make coffee every morning for me and my partner. Used to say “coffee!”

After considering the wisdom of Kevin’s “why waste time, say lot word when few word do trick?”, I started pronouncing fewer of the sounds that make up the word. Eventually it became a quiet grunt. “Uh”

In the morning that still means coffee in our house.

Needless to say, if there are cognitive consequences of a reduced word count then “me dead.”

There’s a French First Empire joke in here somewhere.

The roads might be safer if we marked speedos like this

Makes perfect sense! The sharp corners on most rulers like this aren’t very pocket-friendly.

What’s the story with this ruler. It seems to be have markings for measuring up to 20.5cm of length, but it’s labeled from 10 to 30. Why does it not start from zero?