Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)
@stuartl
Software developer, electronics enthusiast, Amateur radio operator, lover of classic rock. Location: Brisbane, QLD, Australia (QG62ln) 🌉 bridged from ⁂ follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
I'm half way through 2026… and been catching the bus a lot more due to the fuel prices. The nearest I can get on the bus to my workplace is Paddington, just near the start of Caxton Street and Lang Park stadium. From there, it's a couple of […] [Original post on mastodon.longlandclan.id.au]
Damn it `gpg --card-status`, why aren't you working today?! #Humour #ComputerStupidities
Tell me you don't know how IPv6 addresses work without saying you don't know how IPv6 addresses work. #IPv6
This is what happens when contacts back out of SB-50 housings. These ones are so cheap, a quick yank of the cable pulls the cable and contact out of the housing. A genuine SB-50 will not let you do that. The end result is under spring tension […] [Original post on mastodon.longlandclan.id.au]
To get this far, you need to do these things: 1. partition NVMe with a GPT; first partition formatted FAT32 and set up as an EFI system partition in the partition table 2. unzip the release zipfile to that first partition 3. grab the device tree […] [Original post on mastodon.longlandclan.id.au]
Making test calls to 000 I can understand, is wrong, and should not be done… it wastes operator time and resources. The only time I've "called" them in a non-emergency, it was an accidental pocket-dial. (Nokia had the presence of mind to include […] [Original post on mastodon.longlandclan.id.au]
These are the guilty culprits… one just replaced now, and I'll replace the other soonish. Right now #Ceph is getting re-acquainted with the data on the node I just brought back up today, and I'll wait for that to finish before I shut down the […] [Original post on mastodon.longlandclan.id.au]
Well, you picked a fine time to leave me boot disk… Along with your comrade, blowing my OS away… My pair of downed servers, 12TB of replicas… now my Ceph cluster won't heal… …you picked a fine time to leave me, boot disk! #HomeServer #Ceph
Design pro-tip for the ABC: white text on white background is unreadable.
Somewhat inconclusive, as it was overcast, that will affect readings, but sunrise/sunset times with my system I get the following:
So… it is now winter solstice here in Brisbane. I have about 7 months of data now, this is how the charts look. Probably not as heavily pronounced as they would be further south. Voltage metrics seem to show less variance due to weather / load […] [Original post on mastodon.longlandclan.id.au]
Asleep, for the next minute or so… but will be wide awake the moment I open that fridge. The eyes may be shut but the ears are listening.
…and now we're back on the table, staring eyeball to eyeball. *Demanding* attention.
Someone's trying to give me a (not so) subtle hint. Sorry Sam, dinner time is another 35 minutes away. #CatsOfMastodon #cats
One of the things I did yesterday was mod my JLab Play Pro headset with a switched microphone socket. This lets me plug in an external microphone in place of the boom, allowing me to connect one that is in my mask instead. Getting into these […] [Original post on mastodon.longlandclan.id.au]
Seriously, #RaspberryPi … get it together, only one package can lay claim to a file at a time!
Slowly trying to get X up and running on this (yeah, I'll move to Wayland when something workable is available, watching CoW closely, but it's a way off daily driver status, so FVWM3 for now). Right now it's fighting me, because I went the […] [Original post on mastodon.longlandclan.id.au]
Incidentally this is where the module went. A new ARM64 workhorse… I'm doing lots more with ARM these days, both ARMv5, v7 and 64-bit ARM. I considered a few options: PineBook Pro (out of stock), MNT Reform (1500 *Euro* without shipping) […] [Original post on mastodon.longlandclan.id.au]
Damn, I knew these things were small, but I didn't imagine *THIS* small! #RaspberryPi #CM5
Arrived in *CITY**COUNTRY*? Ahh right, I know exactly where that is! #humour