Rowan Crowe

[Rowan Crowe @rowancrowe]

@WillieDJenkins1 My car has an I4T in an engine bay that can also fit I6 and V8 options. There's still fiddly areas on the sides, but there's some nice extra space between the engine and rad!

[Rowan Crowe @rowancrowe]

@HungryJacksAU 5NFYZL

[Rowan Crowe @rowancrowe]

Hey @HungryJacksAU , I had an issue with your store (ordered and paid for X, got Y), sent email, submitted form, sent reminder email, sent reminder email

All that has happened is two missed calls (no VM) 11 days after the initial report. It's been nearly 3 weeks. Where to now?

[Rowan Crowe @rowancrowe]

@9mmsmg This happened with my ex-partner. She wanted to look at my new phone; I specifically warned her not to drop it. A few seconds later, it was bouncing off the asphalt. Luckily being 20 years ago it was rugged (and ugly), but the drop did leave a permanent scar on the housing.

[Rowan Crowe @rowancrowe]

@10PercentJoe @its_The_Dr This clip is flipped horizontally for some reason (trying to avoid copyright detection?). Look at the cars at the end.

[Rowan Crowe @rowancrowe]

@mholt6 127.0.0.0/8 is a huge waste of precious IPv4 space

How about we deprecate loopback, and route the block globally?

Might surprise a few people, but it's for a good cause, right

Dibs on 127.0.0.0/24

Next up we address (literally) 0.0.0.0/8

[Rowan Crowe @rowancrowe]

@BristOliver I typed in the address of a site I'm developing. Google AI told me it was an ad tracking service. (It is not). After further queries, it revealed that it couldn't actually examine the site, and had chosen this label solely because of a particular word in the domain name. 😑

[Rowan Crowe @rowancrowe]

Drinking game: take a shot every time you ask AI to make a minor change, but it randomly modifies or removes comments that are entirely unrelated to the requested change.

[Rowan Crowe @rowancrowe]

@TrisH0x2A I go the other way, though I use a different server and don't have high perf requirements. I limit mysql's RAM allocation, allowing the OS to mostly handle buffering. As an added benefit, ZFS keeps the cache compressed, so 100GB of ARC holds 200GB of raw data.

[Rowan Crowe @rowancrowe]

People who purchased enterprise hard drives also commonly purchased fruits and vegetables. (These are real suggestions at the bottom of the listing of a computer part)

[Rowan Crowe @rowancrowe]

You can buy an enterprise class hard disk drive via a supermarket website. Pick up some milk and cereal whilst you're at it.

[Rowan Crowe @rowancrowe]

I have downloaded and installed Firefox, and I'm currently watching a video on YouTube.

But it couldn't connect to the internet

[Rowan Crowe @rowancrowe]

Configuring new tablet:

"Couldn't connect to the internet"

Meanwhile, I can am dumping wifi and can see it's successfully connected to like 5 Google IPs on port 443, and it's busy downloading crap.

But it couldn't connect to the internet

[Rowan Crowe @rowancrowe]

@FrankBr05713205 The brake specialist I took the vehicle to was a completely different experience. They said the brakes were good and to come back in maybe 6 months for a checkup. No charge.

[Rowan Crowe @rowancrowe]

@FrankBr05713205 Took a newly acquired car to Ford because of a whine at certain speeds. Car yard had already replaced the tail shaft, which reduced (but didn't eliminate) the noise.

Dealer quoted for replacement of rear diff, which was like 20% of the car's price! I declined, and lived with it.

[Rowan Crowe @rowancrowe]

@coconut_jpgg You know, it's possible to request a new tor circuit (including exit) without having to kill and restart the entire freaking daemon. How do you even load a webpage when the local port dies every 10 seconds?

[Rowan Crowe @rowancrowe]

@AliBeckZeck I use the analogy of a trusting puppy.

If you hurt her once then immediately apologise, she may be cautious, but she will forgive you.

If it happens a second time, then a third, she will quickly figure out this behaviour is intentional.

Some of the replies here are appalling.

[Rowan Crowe @rowancrowe]

@eevblog I also have a number of email aliases, so I'm receiving multiple copies of this garbage daily. I don't understand the purpose of emailing the exact same thing to the exact same account 200 times. Is this an indiscriminate virus thing?

[Rowan Crowe @rowancrowe]

@stupidtechtakes Now I check my notes:
- Four 7200.9 drives purchased new
- #1 DOA
- #2 failed SMART <24 hours later
- #3 failed a month later. The refurb replacement tripped SMART almost immediately
- Complained to Seagate, I wanted a refund, they replaced all four with 7200.10 (refurbs)😑

[Rowan Crowe @rowancrowe]

@stupidtechtakes 20 years ago I had an incredibly bad run with a batch of 4 Seagate 300GB drives which failed, then they sent me "certified refurbished" drives as replacements which also mostly failed. I sold one of the non failed refurbs for $0.99 on ebay - about what it's worth