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I got a bunch laying about for one reason or another. Sadly, it’s all laptop RAM.

I mean, not sadly for me, as I have a fetish for micro PCs, and guess what…

Did they stutter?

Just today I installed Azuracast on my server, pointed it at my Navidrome library, and now I have my own radio station. Once it’s all configured I’ll hook into it from my laptop for my weekly show using Icecast, which I’m really forward to doing. Because I’m cool.

Plex and Chill Jellyfin and Impregnate Jellyfin and Masturbate

For me it’s the constant notifications I get from DAVx5 telling me that it can’t connect to my Nextcloud server.

My company recently switched out all of it’s older Dell for newer ones that are capable of running Win11 (because existence is pain). As a result, I now have three Dell micro PCs two of which are on DDR4, one is DDR3. All of which cost me nothing.

I’ve already put Proxmox and OpenWRT on one and shitcanned the crappy Linksys my ISP gave me, and am about to put another into service as my home server. The third one has yet to reveal its use to me, but it’ll come.

I currently have eight computers of various specs, sizes and configurations, and am happy to rehouse a bunch more.

Trouble is, all you’re doing by dumping a full trolley is inconveniencing someone who’s paid minimum wage.

Yeah, I need to get a meter so I can see what the power draw is on mine.

Keep an eye out for any thin clients that can’t support Win11 that businesses are getting rid of. You might have some luck with them.

I’ve hit a goldmine with my work upgrading all of the PCs.

I now have two Dell Optiplex 7050 and a 3020 micro pcs, all with 8gb of replaceable RAM. Two of them came with 130gb M.2 SSDs, one with a 130gb SATA SSD. All told they cost me nothing, because the company can’t use them (they don’t support Win11), and there’s another 50 machines that can be sold if the boss can be arsed.

None of them will set the world alight, but they’re perfect for little things I want to do at home.

I spent yesterday setting up one of the 7050s with an M.2 NIC, then slapped Proxmox and OpenWRT on it and am now free of the shitty Linksys my ISP gave me.

Next up, I need to whip the two drives out of my 2014 Mac mini Debian server so I can replace it with something that can accept more RAM than the soldered 8gb I’m currently stuck with.

It’s fun!

The meme is that it’s an anti-meme. Very, very meta. Peak shitposting.

One also pops up in Monstrous Regiment.

You should listen to some Public Enemy and Reagan Youth.

I tried to search for something in Outlook last week. A particular message from a retailer I’d bought something from.

A message from them was at the top of the inbox, having just been received, but I needed an earlier, the date of which was unknown. So I searched for the name of the retailer.

Despite there being an email RIGHT THERE, Outlook decided that no, I did not, in fact, have any messages at all from any sender of that name. Not in any of my inboxes. Nope.

Stupid shit. I hate it.

Stupid work PC.

Thought this was Bo Burnham for a second and briefly wondered why.

I have a tiny, battery powered temperature/humidity sensor in my fridge, connected to Home Assistant.

I don’t actually need it there, but I was interested to know if it would work, and it did. So now I know that my fridge maintains a steady 5⁰C.

I once heard Ozzy Osborne answer a similar question with “Because it would sound bloody stupid if I sang in a Brummie accent”.

You seem to be a similar age to me, so have a similar response to my own.

But to add to your answer; for me in my younger years, it was primarily the fear of being othered by my peers. Being gay was seen as the worst thing a man could be, ergo, being seen as gay by my peers would have been the worst thing. So I’d overcorrect with homophobia.

In our defence (my peers and I, I mean), we were also in the midst of the AIDS crisis, where the news would keep bringing us stories of how many gay men were dying because they were having sex with each other. That’s legitimately scary when you’re young, just beginning to understand what sex is, and that you like the idea of it.

But in the interim I’ve grown up and moved into a mental space where I’m less of a prick.

For the past couple of years I’ve marched in the two pride marches local to me as a fully paid up supported of the LGBTQ+ community, not least because these days I don’t really consider myself to be straight anyway. I’m just a bloke-shaped person who likes to experience sex with other people, regardless of their junk.

OP probably wouldn’t get a meaningful answer in other places either. The kind of guy that reacts to gay men the way described isn’t going to reflect on why they’re scared of homosexuality and come back with anything useful; they’ll just say “I ain’t scared of no bummers!” and then call them a another slur.

Weird.