What?

What an ironically meh comment. Did you work on that all night?

I would rather just get a $100 brocade off eBay. Ubiquiti edge routers (at least four years ago) were nice but good god: don’t let them lose power.

Fortunately, the router runs off a thumb drive, but when you are trying to fix a network that is in production and the FNG figures he can just power cycle it like Comcast taught him with his router at home… fml. Especially on a WAN (like ISP), it is a fucking nightmare.

I have found Sophos and Netgate to be good solutions for small businesses, except setting VLANs on Netgate is a pain, but so is setting a VPN on Sophos. And Sophos is also a licensing bitch.

God, I agree so hard. And they rename shit rather than sticking to IEEE standards. And while GSM3 is free, the firmwares aren’t.

It is cheaper to buy a $100 48 port brocade off eBay than a $5000 24 port that then requires you to pay to learn how to use it.

Cisco is the network devil, as well as Fortigate, Juniper, and Sonicwall. Ubiquiti is almost getting to be as bad but in a different way: let’s make shit so user friendly that CEOs love it, but user unfriendly so that network guys are like, "dude, this should be fucking simple! I have to dig into all these menus and then find the field buried in a pretty format.

“Just give me the terminal. Oh, I can ssh in but I don’t have sudo. Nope, you need to use the convoluted web UI to so that.”

Oh no, it sucks, because now I am management. But I do get to design new solutions: that part is pretty dope.

It is just a pain in the ass to get a proper budget.

Dude, J said it was cool.

Sorry, were we wanting to talk about computers? Because you are simply just being toxic. Go touch grass.

No.

Yup. You won.

I know it isn’t. But it is a necessary step. And you should know that as well.

The cool part is that they figured out how to interface with it.

Why is everyone just trying to be the bigger asshole? Are you just begging for it because you think I am the biggest prick?

You can run Doom on a fridge. I am not saying the feat isn’t admirable. I bet it was tough to get Doom to run on a C64. That’s very cool, as is the achievement that this post is about.

I don’t understand the itch in your ass.

Use gray water, and cycle it through an external fan system to cool it down.

You know how a water cooling system works on a PC? Like even an AIO? Like that, but just much bigger.

There are assholes that are throwing money at a bubble and they don’t know shit about computing. Fuck, wasn’t there a data center that got caught for running gas generators?

No, I didn’t. That shit won’t run Crysis.

Stop being a dick. You are projecting your dickness onto me.

I went on a date with a girl who said she was going to school for communication.

We were at a bar and grill, so I misheard her and started deep diving into networks, fiber, PTP and OTA, my favorite switches and routers, why I hate and love Cisco, but why I prefer Brocade and Ruckus, was even starting to get into AM and FM when she finally stopped me:

not communications, communication. Like, you know, talking.

Oooooh. That’s cool.

And somehow I saved the date and we were together for a good five years.

Didn’t even get to satellites. She did really appreciate that she didn’t have to pay to have her macbook repaired, or any other IT shit.

Not really? So OP compiled the Linux kernel to the chip architecture, which was the real feat, and that is admirable, and then played Doom. Cool!

Cool, man. I am getting heat because I am asking what they would do with it, as running a custom OS on your damn death machine is alone dangerous, but let’s test it out by playing the most opened source and well optimized code on the fucking planet… that is the predessor to the real grandpa of FPS… on your fucking car screen… hold up: what is the make, model, year, bluetooth adapter hardware ID or at least which chipset, the wifi chipset, the video chipset, how were each of these compiled to… hold up, what is the CPU used in this year, make, and model of car?

One of these days, people are going to figure out why I said what I said. Not holding my breath.

Edit: to be VERY clear, the structure of the comment was to literally mock you.

Just didn’t want you to assume that I don’t know how to write. And I am not upset. Just being sardonic.

Yeah… to an extent.

Man, don’t get me wrong: for an early project this is cool. I am not trying to rain on someone’s parade.

It’s cool! Super cool! I am glad they had fun.

But dude, I am a systems engineer. You wouldn’t believe the shit I have recompiled kernels for.

That’s the thing. Super happy for them. Awesome! And I am sure they learned some shit along the way, and that is so great!

I deeply encourage people to learn, experiment and create.

But I am getting a lot of backlash, but lets make this clearer:

I have been working professionally in systems, networking, and programming hands on for 30 years. Cool, and neat, and an interesting thing to try when we have a weekend and a 12 pack.

Curious where they hit the brick walls. No details there. Just pics and some base notes.

Props to OP, and I apologize for I guess being a dick for half-shrugging… while I worked today as a systems engineering manager.

So many responses: do you all go to work or sleep or have social activities? Just read? Man, but I am a troll; not you, just what others have said.

You know, I took an old iphone and made it a webserver. Why? I was high, to be honest.

Why? Because the dude on my couch challenged me. It even ran wordpress (though the db was running off my server). Why? Man, we were fucking stoned.

And it was annoying because he wasn’t helping, just there. Like when playing basketball and someone is trying to block your shot and all you wanted to do was play Horse.

Because I read the code? It is wonderful code.

I don’t know about this leet shit, but I have been in the field for 25 years and I do stupid ass mods for fun.

Like, I built an MP3 player from hardware scratch, like I actually started with a custom PCB. My coworker’s kid wasn’t allowed to have his phone in class, the father had a 3D printer, so I threw some shit together.

What fucking sub is this in? You can run Doom on toasters because it is just C, which is like a simple step away from assembly.

This is so fucking stupid. Sorry, I just happen to be a systems and network engineer who also does low level programming. My fucking bad. Great conversation.

What trolling? Have you looked at the code? It is actually quite beautiful.

Ahkay.

A legend in what sense? Doom is so optimized (beatifully, in fact) one could port it anywhere.

Seriously, anywhere.

Now, a legend would be someone dresses up as a maintenance tech for self checkout kiosks and installs Doom to kick on when it normally asks for coupons. Oh my god, not advocating in any way, but that would be punk as fuck.

And on that note, I am going to backpedal into the bushes, but peep out: "Doom is very optimized and built on C. You can port that shit to ship ports. You can run Doom on glasses. You can run Doom on a taco, given the system requirements.

Getting it to run on a car? Meh. I got it running on a TI-85 a quarter of a century ago.

So meh.

The Planet, in the Sol system.

Earth. You might have heard about it.

It is a popular topic if you are on Earth. Also known as Terra or Gaia.

Look down. You probably see Earth.

There are no jokes here.

Now, we have about 50 datacenters, we are launching another 13 right now. And all of them can be found, right here, on the blue and brown ball called Earth.

Likely where you are standing.

Do you really expect me to give personal details?! That is brazen, but I came from my mother, and I was born without a husband.

Thrusted into this world, uneducated, I was forced into a school at the age of five. All I had to eat in the morning was breakfast. Around noon, I was forced to eat lunch. When the sun went down, all I had to eat was dinner.

When I went to sleep, everything became dark. But one day, my eyes were opened! And the same process started again. I saw a pattern!

I hope we all see this pattern, one day.

Dude, I am not going to doxxed myself. Do you think I am such a genius like Elon Musk? No. I don’t remember five minutes ago.

How exactly is data centered. Can data be sideways, cock-eyed, askew? I think I saw Brent Spiner once, and he seemed rather upright.

Hold up: where are you? Joking aside.

I said something. You didn’t. My point was very clear.

Maybe you should simply elaborate on your nonsensical word sandwiches.

You went on a tirade about AI that said literally nothing. You were just dropping buzzwords.

Elaborate. You just weren’t saying anything. At all. Just spitting random shit.

At this point, I think I am annoying you by pointing this out.