Remiberry

I'm Remi, your friendly retro Macintosh VTuber!
Hop on my stream @ http://twitch.tv/RemiberryVT if you'd like to see me playing around with retro puters!

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2026-05-07 19:24:55 UTC

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That’s what it looked like to me initially but according to my electronics savvy friends it wouldn’t make sense in this circuit (?)

2026-05-07 19:11:34 UTC

Hey Fedi, I’m trying to fix a Sony PCG-QR3 my SO bought in really decent shape, untested. It seems like there’s a blown up capacitor(?) next to the “DC in” in the middle of the board :(
There seem to be no pictures or anything of this motherboard online but maybe someone owning one of these could open it up and check what the blown up component is exactly?
https://asdf.donotsta.re/media/cbcfa204efbf3c1b0009f1eab2737c00330172836c45635bba9e23ec1c32a542.jpeg
https://asdf.donotsta.re/media/786ba41291d36b663abc838c49138d193863e3d899e6e5c3b2ca63ac106a3dbe.jpeg
https://asdf.donotsta.re/media/7fec0e73ab2c44728cfe9663def4ebb2706a3b50874acdc03b265acc2a3dbc2e.jpeg

2026-05-02 01:04:28 UTC

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im in bed rn but iirc the usb-c ports list a version of the firmware which after everything no longer has a valid version listed
the port works in the OS but it doesn't seem to let me use Alt DP which im pretty sure worked before 😔 (which was pretty useful for debugging while it's rackmounted)
its ok tho

2026-05-02 00:47:04 UTC

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well your first attempt at coreboot has likely bricked my the front USB-C ports of the HP Prodesk in question so it's still running the stock UEFI and probably will until it breaks and gets recycled 😅
next machine will have to have some sort of a lights out KVM thing ;_;

2026-05-02 00:36:17 UTC

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hmm so it appears i'm having a lot of trouble setting up remote unlocking of my luks encrypted root
- manually patching mkinitfs to get a password prompt on boot sounds icky and silly, unmaintainable in the long run (type 3 fun when you remember you updated the package, are far away from the server and there's no one that can help you!!!)
- using intel amt (because I don't have a KVM handy) - hell if you want to do TLS. unencrypted serial-over-lan is scary when you're typing in your luks unlock password 🥶
- using an actual KVM - overkill but will work with any OS, but do we trust it?
so i guess this is where i fall flat with alpine for now. if i don't figure this out i think i'm going to think about debian again ;_;

2026-05-01 21:14:41 UTC

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```
remi@hephaestus:~$ sudo wipefs -af /dev/disk/by-id/*
-snip-
remi@hephaestus:~$ sudo dd if=alpine-extended-3.23.4-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=16M status=progress oflag=sync
1409286144 bytes (1.4 GB, 1.3 GiB) copied, 38 s, 36.7 MB/s
84+1 records in
84+1 records out
1416314880 bytes (1.4 GB, 1.3 GiB) copied, 38.5512 s, 36.7 MB/s
remi@hephaestus:~$ sudo poweroff
remi@hephaestus:~$ Read from remote host 192.168.1.101: Connection reset by peer
Connection to 192.168.1.101 closed.
client_loop: send disconnect: Broken pipe
```
time to start a new and have a drink so it goes well :3c

2026-05-01 18:57:11 UTC

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10th anniversary of Sakamoto is probably enough of motivation to do this

2026-05-01 18:55:27 UTC

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i5-7500T, 32GB DDR4, 512GB NVMe + 1TB SATA SSDs should be enough, right?

2026-05-01 18:54:23 UTC

okay, time to get the ball rolling and get back to basics
pulling alpine x86_64 iso and the unused proxmox box
even if i will be the only "tenant" it'll still be a for-friends box ;-;

2026-04-19 00:38:47 UTC

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I had some terrible results printing things that are supposed to be loadbearing :s
be mindful of shearing forces separating your layers (just look at my microphone adapter ... x3)
might wanna print in a different rotation, also checking for decent layer adhesion when you need extra strength ^^

2026-04-02 12:36:44 UTC

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that's a thing? o_o

2026-04-01 19:46:32 UTC

imagine running a whole system upgrade that churns for like a couple of minutes and then just typing 'no' for them into emerge when they ask you to do the honors
i love bullying gentoo users /j

2026-03-27 20:52:05 UTC

yeah I'm one of these folks... x3 #emacs #zinwa
a buttload of KeyMapper binds and it's usable-ish
https://asdf.donotsta.re/media/8482bc9d328623f2c31380ddbfe4b1b86e05c62e57e55187163069130641dbc8.jpg

2026-03-27 13:11:44 UTC

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so that shouldn't be normally possible, right? :neocat_floof_explode:
https://asdf.donotsta.re/media/9692e42e25b6476e4b2d8d9557da0da12fc733e8e207c09e02151a3f84ae1410.png

2026-03-24 10:06:24 UTC

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can't wait to do any of that when my Zinwa Q25 arrives :yotsuba_yay:

2026-03-24 08:25:18 UTC

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yeah I just woke up and it occurred to me, embarrassing :neobot_laugh_sweat:

2026-03-24 08:22:46 UTC

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ah good grief I should have gotten to bed way earlier
it has 1GB of RAM and 8GB NAND :neobot_facepalm:

2026-03-24 01:12:54 UTC

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I think I have a Kyocera A202KC
lovely little nugget but it sucks that it only has 8GB of RAM
at least it runs Android 10(?)
shame none of the GSIs work on it, but at least one can unlock the bootloader with the mtkclient exploit.

2026-03-09 19:53:59 UTC

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they legally aren't allowed to call it a bean, the heck is that thing :neocat_floof_explode:

2026-01-04 19:48:07 UTC

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2025-12-13 17:42:00 UTC

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make sure that SSD is within the power budget
that kioxia might be asking for more juice than the board is willing to give

2025-12-12 13:07:11 UTC

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what was broken exactly? I remember some grounding issue in that thing?

2025-12-08 10:59:27 UTC

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what does the tongue out emoji even mean in this context LOL

2025-12-02 10:26:03 UTC

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I've actually set it to max :/
Maybe the TDP isn't enough? I can hear the fan go pretty high but rarely I can hear it go even faster so maybe there's some potential here? :neobot_3c:

2025-12-02 01:54:14 UTC

is there a reason why playing Gran Turismo 4 in PCSX2 is almost impossible on an i7-8550u Chromebox under Batocera? I'm getting slow downs on 1x render scale ;_; :akko_eew2:
I thought this was a mostly solved problem :ablobcatheartbroken: