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Daily Discussion Thread: ☕ Sat 24 Feb 2024 (aussie.zone)

submitted 9 months ago by CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

woooo mate's workplace was decommissioning a site and junking everything in a "everything must go" rip down and he earmarked me a friggin' 50" hisense. Went over there to help him nab (and the whole rack cabinet he marked for himself)and discovered a box of Pine64 builds that were being tossed as ewaste. Builds, parts (like a dozen screens, motherboards, you name it) and a whole fuckin' box of about a thousand USB-mounted chips I also grabbed for another mutual friend big in building home automation.

Just googled the usb chips and they're fucking digispark attiny85 boards.

I have about a thousand of them. Not hyperbolic. He's creaming his fucking pants rn.

(I also nabbed some routers for conversion to openWRT for the mesh I want to build, got enough terabyte drives to finish off my proxmox at zero cost......and also the TV turned out to be 55 inches. oh nooooooooo)

[–] bull@aussie.zone 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I recognised many of these words

[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's nerd speak. Collected a lot of good shit from a mate.

[–] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You're doing better than me. I only recognized the little joining words.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Scored a lot of technical nerd parts that not only mean I get to finish off a lot of projects without spending a penny, but so do several of my mates. Also I got a free gigantic television

[–] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 4 points 9 months ago

Congrats!

[–] Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Are you an electrical engineer?

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago

? No

[–] Cendana@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago

Sysadmin if I remember correctly.