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pixie.town got a donation for a new 500GB SSD :)
when it comes in terra hardware configuration will change from:

256GB ssd (rootfs)
2x 2TB hdd in RAID1 (postgres and media storage)

to
2x 256GB ssd RAID1 (rootfs, postgres)
media storage:
200GB ssd cache (remainder of the 500GB)
2TB hdd

this should definitely improve Matrix and Mastodon performance a lot

taking terra (synapse, mastodon) down for a bit while I debug a possible hardware failure

alc, joke 

"if rubbing alcohol fixes outside boo boo, then drinking alcohol fixes inside boo boo"

"So i just came out to my dad abt being #nb, and he said something really wise about names, i think.

He said “Gifts are not obligations. You give things to people, and you hope they like them. And your name was a gift from us to you. If it doesn’t work for you anymore, you’re not obligated to keep it.”

and i just thought maybe other people could use hearing something like that."

letyepetyelepetye.tumblr.com/p
#lgbt #gender

I'm now turning this into a pcb module, starting with the schematic.
Adding USB-C wew

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so the bicycle parking where my second bike is has a maximum stay of 2 weeks (which they actually enforce, I had to pay to get my bike back once already). I don't visit there too often anymore though, so today I took the train there, moved my bike to a different spot, and got the train back, with 3 minutes in between trains :D

and here's the schematic, the TP4056 is a great simple chip. I used 2.2K ohm for Rprog, but with 1.2K it will charge the fastest (1A)

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so tonight I did my first real SMD soldering, on a pretty challenging chip :D

I desoldered the TP4056 ic from a dead SHA2017 badge, then made everything work on the smd-protoboard of the eth0 badge.
Great fun learning to do tiny soldering, and getting used to working under a microscope

It charges a single-cell lipo, and gives the charging status over a wire, something the prebuilt modules can't (they connect it to an onboard led instead).

Next up will be adding a voltage divider to get a battery voltage reading, and throwing this all into kicad (also a first for me)

@tom if you want to kick my shins, I can get the footstool so that you can reach

@hambibleibt hmm when I try to open this post on todon.nl it doesn't exist?

@grufwub@notbird.site sexy hacker so you can do hacking too
or sexy hacker trash

"Elon has only mitigated a fraction of his company's massive carbon footprint. But I guess this blatant PR campaign was always destined to play well with redditors."

@nimblejack @alexis @DissidentKitty have you ever read Édouard Siddon's classic argument in "Against America"? It really thoroughly debunks these myths you're spouting

@TheConstructor @raichoo@chaos.social @milan Dendrite is slowly being worked on, and ruma.io/ seems to be making progress again as well, but more implementations are good. Keep in mind however, that Matrix is quuite a complex protocol, due to its federation model and DAG-structure

@TheConstructor @raichoo@chaos.social @milan synapse is your only option at this point, just works(tm) for me

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