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  • There is no way, in this sub or any other. Lemmy still doesn’t support video upload. And even if it did, video takes so much space that the instance would have to recode it, which would take a lot of CPU/GPU power, so even video upload becomes a thing some day, I seriously doubt most instances will have it enabled by default. NSFW instances, maybe, but regular ones, probably not.





  • It’s probably just the converter… something misconfigured in the drivers or… who knows. Try and see if you get the same garbled data in Windows and Linux (binary check). If they match, it’s something hardware wise.

    Back in the day, yes, the Chinese USB to Serial/Prallel converters were terrible, no doubt there. But, over the years, they’ve gotten surprisingly good. In fact, I picked one up a few weeks ago (as you said, about $5), works like charm.

















  • PCChipsM922U@sh.itjust.workstonetworking@sh.itjust.worksFreaky Friday!
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    3 years ago

    Once one of the backbone Zyxels stopped working, so we went to the floor on which it was located. We look in the rack, as expected no blinking lights.

    We didn’t have a spare and I’m into electronics, so in order to keep things going, I decided to take a look at it. Open it up… jeus fucking christ 😲… a swarm of roaches rushes in all directions! I just rushed out and told the cleaning ladies to get a vacuum cleaner in there ASAP. They did and got most of them, but eventually we did have a minor roach infestation in the office and had to disinsect a few times.

    After the storm was over, I took a look at it… apparently, they laid eggs underneath the PSU and when the eggs started hatching, they short circuited it. The PSU was fried. Luckily, the output voltage of the PSU was marked on the PCB - 12V. So, I just modded an ATX to power the switch. Still works like that to this day, lol 😂.