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I forgot when I pulled the 2nd CPU from all my FC630 blades, I left the second sockets ram installed. I’m assuming past me didn’t have a good way to store 48 sticks of 32gb 2400 DDR4 ECC. So thanks past me for the 1.5Tb of relatively fast memory in this drought.

This #CPS2 X-Men Vs. Street Fighter was kinda in rough shape. After plastic bonding some broken posts, replacing a questionable battery and installation of an InfiniKey. This Xmvsfu might out live all of us at the rate we are going.

Busted’ out the big (20M4U) PVM for some maintenance. Still need to do a full recap and calibration, but it’s a big job. Still looks great without it. 800 THICC TV lines. Mega Man X3 is one of the few Snes game I don’t own. So we play Rockman X3 and some R-Type 3.

Me playing StarFox: Remake Remake Switch 2. “Okay fine. But Im going to complain about the voice acting that entire time”

I took a silly Live Photo of Denji cat and using all the power of a Mac Studio M2 Max turned it into a silly video. Denji’s bizarre adventure.

Can’t wait till they remake it again on Switch 3.

Dude must have played FF7: Rebirth and decided he didn’t want to be apart of that slop fest anymore.

Home ports? You talking about firewall rules? We don’t do ports here, real arcade hardware action. Some #capcom #cps 2 #darkstalkers on the baby 14” PVM. Plus a sneak peak of what’s next.

An organized Cisco Nexus is a happy Cisco Nexus. Been really hitting the Cisco hard past few weeks, over the weekend completely re-engineered it. More vlans, better segmentation, performance etc. Replaced the pseudo layer 3 all my one 1gb traffic went over with a real Catalyst with a 10gb uplink.

I find 2026 to be distasteful so I’m going back to 1998. Enjoy your surveillance AI hell scape. I’ll be rocking Mac system 9, wearing Jncos and playing PlayStation and N64.

Happy April 30th Metal Gear fans.

Over half a petabyte, 576tb of storage after parody. 624tb total raw, just the main array. Which I’ve maxed out can no longer add disks. All in a single 4U chassis.

The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @newyorker.com, with Andrew Marantz: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.

Ordered a new pair of Litter Robots to replace the aging V3 robot. Went with the v4 because then newer one has an “AI” powered camera and requires a $120 a year Whiskers+ subscription. No. I don’t want a fancy internet connected litter box taking pictures of the inside of my house.

Six, 4k Remux streams transcoded to 480p, using Plex and Jellyfin. The Intel Arc 310 does work for budget card.

Summoned what little energy I have to install a new GPU in the Plex server. Intel Arc A310 (4gb), wanted the 380 but the GPU market is just… awful. I primarily wanted this for AV1. Since disks are probability expensive. Going to test AV1 & AV1 transcoding.

Not one but two working GDROM’s, and a stack of some Naomi GD fire.

Crazy #FinalFantasyVII turns 29. I still have my copy, even the receipt. Still one of the best FFs of all time. Maybe I should play it on my Debug PlayStation system that came from Square office. (Though the US version has a few more months before it’s officially 29).

Lost Odyssey is $8.24 on XBL buff.ly/3CsyJ5j

I bought this portable Viewsonic monitor for my microscope for soldering work. But I use it more to work on PCs than anything. It also means I need to get back into modding and repair work.

Merry Christmas but 75° and running my AC on Christmas doesn’t feel like Christmas at all. Halloween didn’t feel like it either since it was 90°. Global warming sucks and I want consistently cold October - December.

How and what the hell am I suppose to do till the next season of #Pluribus comes out? Just live life and wait? The way things are going who knows if 2027 will even be a thing. Season 1 review: 11/10, masterful cinematography, sound design, writing and acting.

Working on the last SFF PC refresh for realistically a long long time. I had a feeling hardware availability would tank but didn’t respect it to be this bad. My squad of X3D AM5s should get me to 2029/2030. Kidding but not. :-/ Glad I always went 64gb minimum in ram.

I’m going to buy an island and retire early. This isn’t even all of the loose DDR4 ECC I’ve got laying around.

Talking about SFF: “Oh yeah SFF is the way to go, you can have all the performance and minimal drawbacks. Only my main gaming rig is full size, I love mini itx. “ Working on SFF builds: “Oh god I hate this cable management is such a pain why is it like this I want the pain to stop.”

PC/Server pricing is just unbelievable, I paid $350 for this memory kit 11 days ago (11/07/2025). Now it's almost $800 and prices are continuing to going up. I bought some ECC DDR4 for the home lab Feb/March 2025, $380 for 512gb. Now just 128gb ECC DDR4 is $370 dollars.

My copy of Concord and Google Stadia came in today. Wow I don’t know what one I’ll play first. So exciting. I bet 2026 is year of Stadia and Concord!

Tried aura farming the Death Stranding 2 Platinum.

It just keeps getting worse and worse.

Seriously can’t believe I got sucked into Magic in my 40s. My love of collection NTSC/U and NTSC/J has spilled over into this as well.

Just can’t stop pulling Vivi. This is my third one.

Not only did MTGxFinalFantasy get me into Magic. I’ve been getting the Japanese cards. I’ve also been organizing all my cards. In sets of fifty, organized in common, uncommon etc.

Almost a full collection of Cid’s, just missing the Final Fantasy XIV Cid alternate card.

Got my gigantic bulk card cases setup. One for #MTGxFinalFantasy one for #FinalFantasyTCG Probably will need one more for MTGxFinalFantasy…..