@LeoBurr Well that’s just ridiculous

@LeoBurr When I get the extra sets of plasticware, it always feels like the message is “you ordered enough food for a family of five” :blobfoxlurkglare:

@nixCraft Does this include servers with a non generated hostname that one sshs into often?

@eff Dang I thought I was about to learn about some cool new style sheet exploit :blobfoxglare:

The i on iMac stands for Gay

How many obsolete CD drives a person needs?

What do normal people do on vacation?

You didn't need another reason to hate Meta (which owns Facebook and Instagram), but here ya go anyway:

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/14/meta-robby-starbuck-ai/

@af @aphyr I was in the same boat until last year. Vyvanse was the new hotness the last time I was medicated 😅

IMO the two most interesting developments since then are 1) new research indicating that NDRIs can have a positive effect in treating ADHD, particularly where mild depression is a comorbidity, and 2) a new Ritalin-derived prodrug called Azstarys was approved in the US in 2021 (vyvanse is an adderall prodrug).

@aphyr It was on my todo list for a long time too, and didn’t happen until after I had waited too long and had burned out. But in the end it was worth getting the support.

Finding meds that work for me has made a difference in being able to focus on work, get things done around the house, and it even helped in some social settings - turns out being able to focus on a specific conversation in a loud bar instead of being inundated by *every* conversation is actually pretty nice.

@ado You would need to pair a small amplifier with that board (e.g. https://www.adafruit.com/product/2130). They also have versions with the amplifier included. I would recommend an enclosed speaker module (e.g. https://www.adafruit.com/product/3351) over a raw driver just for ease of use - those modules don’t sound *great* but you don’t have to worry about mounting and baffles. If you want to get fancy, you could take some measurements to characterize that speaker and pre-EQ the files you load on the sound board.

If you come over to my place, you better know about the three shells.

@ado These are the first places I would check, with Adafruit being the most likely to have something easy to use with relevant guides:

• Adafruit
• Sparkfun
• Seeed Studio

If it’s a one-off project and you want to just get it working, something like this would probably do the trick: https://www.adafruit.com/product/2341. It supports up to 8 buttons to trigger sounds without needing an external micro controller and supports things like looping or random sample selection. It can be controlled by a microcontroller over UART if you need more flexibility.

There are cheaper options too if you want to do more of the work yourself or have a higher tolerance for unclear documentation.

Spent the morning closing tabs and bookmarking interesting things I had left open. I'm down to 20 Firefox windows now! It feels like a huge accomplishment

Years of being around folks in open relationships has rendered me immune to like 99% of drama.

"What would you do if you had a boyfriend and caught him in bed with another man?" -> "idk, put on a pot of coffee?"

My new favorite curse is, “May you spend an eternity selling in-demand, fairly priced items on FaceBook Marketplace.”

@lw I had the previous generation LSI tri-mode HBA (SAS3008) in a TrueNAS Core (FreeBSD-based) system. It was an upgrade from the old reliable SAS2008 HBA I’d been running for *many* years. The 3008 worked, but there seemed to be a driver issue where the card would lock up after a week or two and require a cold boot¹ to recover. The same card worked fine under Linux for many months without issue.

Having said that, the card did suddenly fail completely about a week ago so it *could* just be I had a bad card. I now have the SAS3416-based HBA and it’s working great, but since I migrated to TrueNAS scale in the process of diagnosing the issues with the old card I can’t speak to its compatibility with FreeBSD.

In short, my experience was that support for newer LSI HBAs was somewhat unreliable in FreeBSD. YMMV

¹ As in shutting down then pulling the power cord. Once it was in that state, the standby power from the PSU was enough to keep it there.