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i remember balena Etcher getting a lot of hate because oh no muh electron but, it is *so* much nicer to use. it does dbus auth, it does smart disk selection so you don't overwrite your system drive, it has a validating step (that you can skip too!)

hah this was such a brain weird moment, testing my usb-cereal crossover cable between new server and thinkpad, accessing both over ssh from my desktop..

and typing in one serial console seeing it show up on the other :3

it wasn't dnd in the end, as one person couldn't make it. we still hung out virtually and played games, was nice

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oof i almost forgot dnd night :))) but it's online dnd night again :))))

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you've heard about "My Drunk Kitchen" but what about My Drunk Hardwarelab

i think im pretty good on track boosting the flote feline every day, i hope it still cheers people up

so if either the liveusb or the new install (nixos, which is still new to me, and im doing a very complex setup with zfs and full disk encryption) don't connect to the internet with ssh open there's nothing i can see nor debug

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as there is no gpu and no built-in graphics on the cpu there is no output *whatsoever*

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man fully headless systems are definitely An Experience

cosmos booted fully headless from the nixos usb with ssh \o/

looking at nice cable management: ooh sexy
doing cable management: aaaaaaaaa

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