I opened up a mystery chip; it turned out to be a "switched capacitor filter" from 1984. Filters are important circuits, for example, adjusting the bass or treble in an audio signal. This chip, the MF10, was popular because it combined two filters into an easy-to-use chip. Let's take a closer look…

At 30W it can crunch more numbers than almost any X86 chip I've tested at same power. At 15-20W its efficiency curve is even better. But wildcat lake is looking great

Heh, I finally figured out YouTube started blasting out my 4 year old 'I'm sick' video on the algo, and I'm getting a ton of DMs saying get well. Until I figured that out I was wondering why so many people were saying that lol. I'm doing quite well for the past couple years! :)

NTS-200 NTP Time server from early 2000s was handed to me at VCF Midwest. It works! Just... off by 19 years ;) I put a DC block on the antenna input though, don't want it to fry my GPS splitter! I may be able to get it to 2026, we'll see.

And... we did it! Thank you to everyone who donated!

Chances are someone you know has one or has had one, though usually we ostomates don't go running around shouting about them on the rooftops haha.

Basically. This could be the golden era for retrocomputing... so many new things on the market to make the rough parts smoother, and fix up old machines. Enough parts that still work that aren't too expensive (MOST of the time), and still have many people who built the machines around (for now).

PCIe link speed not amazing, but useful for some cases. AMD and Nvidia drivers have been okay on arm64 a while now, but Intel drivers still... not perfect.

The support is key—I am extremely lucky to have a few amazing caregivers who have helped when I was at my lows and really needed it.

So happy to celebrate Ostomy Awareness Day with my beautiful wife (after this morning's @uoaa-ostomy.bsky.social fundraiser livestream), the same week as our anniversary — 16 years in, still learning new things together daily!

Ouch, maybe you have some old upstream node limiting to 1G!

I am on business, and if they block 123 I can definitely get that removed :)

Oh don't tempt me with mechanical clocks... I know that's a rabbit hole far too deep for me to ever escape. Like the black hole of time-nuts. People go there and never come back :D

AAAAH FIBER!!! After four years of pestering AT&T, it is finally here! (And I can finally join the NTP Pool... eventually, it'll be a video of course!)