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@haskal @Anarkat@hackers.town yeah rather misleading (mis)infographic it seems, and of course when there's more fireworks used, there will be more fires caused by them...

@Anarkat like, yeah it's a problem that 58% of fireworks fires occur during this one week (i didn't check that figure, let's assume it's true) but consider that by actual total number of fires, there is over 10x more arson for example

alternatively I could also use the M.2 slot on the bottom of the motherboard to connect just a fifth drive, and have the gpu (for pi IP-KVM) in the pci slot

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oh apparantly my motherboard just supports pcie bifurcation.

it's a fully passive lane split

these cards still cost a 100 euros

for a ribbon cable + 2 pcie connectors

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i want a custom PCIe card to do both basic vga video and provide 2x SATA for the single x16 slot, but both the routing, and components seem very complex :/

you can have polar grids... something i really really miss when designing round pcbs

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biggest worry being I'll get too used to very hip and good features and then really miss them when using kicad again :|

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so i'm gonna be using altium, sad it's not foss but it does look super cool

fun sunday evening activity: researching international tax law

@uint8_t@chaos.social it's compressed and deduplicated by borg, just quite a lot of data (matrix+masto), and a lower upload limit so my connection is still useful for other things :/

@uint8_t@chaos.social remote backups over residential is hell... 20mbit up (vdsl) my two backups barely finish in 24 hours after which they start again...

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