Always tooting for th'antihero @Momentrabbit@awoo.space

@Aradia **David Tennant's Most Davidy Tennantiest Voice:**

"Far away, past a constellation that used to be Kasterborous, through the baffles that were once Transductive, and way beneath the surface of a planet which used to be known as Gallifrey, lay a sort of prison. A place where those guilty of the *worst* crimes were kept. Not crimes against people or property, I mean the *WORST* of the worst: crimes against *taste*.

(::rolls eyes, licks set::)

And because these horrid, terrible people were very, very *clever* horrid, terrible people, they were locked up in an temporal envelope where Time itself moved so slowly that barely a second would pass between their sentencing and the heat death of the Universe itself came to pass.

At which point, they'd be free to go do whatever. Think you're so smart, go on, make a pizza oven without bricks why don't you. Make souffles without chickens. MAKE CAUSALITY WITHOUT ANYTHING BUT WASTE HEAT! HA!

Well then, alright, they said.

And they did.

That place will have been known as Dine Aisle Time. These will have been its stories.

**CLOISTER BELL**
**CLOISTER BELL**

::walks off chewing a chunk of scenery:: ooh! Barrowman! It's maade oof *caaake!* hoohoo!!

This is Momentrabbit's monthly reminder that the new shop has at *least* one stickwelder and the CNC CO2 lasertable *easily* cuts 16 gauge sheet mild hot-rolled steel: your boss is easygoing about consumables and will make you a deal if you arrange before you cut.

Dream *bigger*, bunny.

Cheers,
Past You.

For the last week or so, for no particular reason I know of, my right tympanic membrane has been pulsing at about 2-3Hz.

The urge to still the erratic but incessant beating with a #2 pencil is becoming *unbearable*.

Seriously, I don't know how The Master is presumed to have gotten anything done, unless they're going to tell me he went though most of his regenerations in ear-penetrating "accidents" involving knitting needles, screwdrivers, chopsticks, drillbits and in one memorable incident, the miniaturized body of Castellan Spandrell.

@porsupah Individually easier to source and work with 'universal' 12v7.2Ah batteries, I'd think. They're a standard in (older) APC uninterruptable power supplies - the toaster-sized units with no displays hold one, the slender towers with an info display hold two, server rack units hold 4 or more - they probably reuse the control logic between different costs and capacities, too. Efficient manufacturing, they only have to buy 1 type and size of battery for an entire product line, and can pick from an army of suppliers.

Plus, they take the bad battery units in for exchange/recycling at corporate level, which I approve completely since that's lead and cadmium and all sorts of nasties. That said, if 3 'cells' are still good and one is fried, and the customer pays for a brand new 4 'cell' pack, well. Ka-ching...8

@porsupah The enclosed hot-swap replacement unit they sell (for $250?!?) is a steel box containing four 12V batteries wired 2x2, parallel by serial, with 60A fuses between the serial packs, so technically - _technically_ - I suppose they can make a case for it being 'a' 24v 14.4Ah 'battery', and saying it uses 12V 12AH batteries is just forgetting to put a comma in between there. 9.9

I looked up the specs on a replacement pack for the lead-acid batteries to swap in for the dead cells in the Flatline's UPS. Trying to find 12V12Ah units has been a wash locally - higher or lower, sure, but the form factor hasn't matched. I can match the size with a lower ampere-hour rating, but that will affect runtime.

If, that is, APC is telling me the truth...

I grew suspicious of the posted specs, and peeled the APC OEM labels off the batteries that came with the units.

Well, wouldja look at that. Huh. 7.2Ah.

Think I'll buy another two 9Ah units of the same physical dimensions to add to the first two I picked up for testing and call it an 'upgrade'. >.<

@JulieSqveakaroo Polka riot...
To punka fight with someone...
A border Skamish...
Britpopular Discontent...

NO. I've GOT it.

CIVIL DISCOBEDIENCE. XD

@dzuk TorStar still defaults to Social Liberalism, so you should be good. Take a peek and see what you think: hope it's to your liking.

@dzuk Hi! How vaguely-leftist are you looking for? The Toronto Star (https://www.thestar.com/news/federal-election.html) I'd expect to lean central-left, more Liberal than NDP. Or are you looking for more genuinely left-of-center?

The further down the repair chain you have to go in any system rebuild, the more meaningful the end rebuild tends to be.

My current server reimaging project is currently on hold because I'm out of *solder*.

... it's a long story.

@porsupah The headache of the one on the left is a 3/10.

The middle diode's headache is at least 6/10.

The rightmost diode's headache is 8, spiking to 9/10, and may be my new fursona. n.n

Mmh.

Server-grade UPS is bricked. Probably because it's been unplugged for a couple of years and will not start without a minimum charge in the four 12V 12AH lead-acid gelcells that form its internal power reservoir. Replacement packs are $250 (yeah, riiiiight).

... no reason I shouldn't try tricklecharging each battery at 14V for a couple of hours each and see if it'll boot and finish a deep charge cycle from the wall once reassembled, is there?

@Austin_Dern Who among us has not been drawn, in moments of distraction, to the descender of a well drafted g? Musical without end like a cassette tape, supple in bowl and ear and staccato in the abruptness of its kink, the undulations of its ink and sudden protrusion of its spur...

@zebratron2084 @Thaminga ...apropos of nothing, both of y'all are now responsible for a lamia in a mitre in my head who assures me she's Pope Silvia Divinorum and has a whiteboard she really needs me to see.

@Kye@snouts.online Perfectly load balanced, as all system requests should be.

@grainloom It has been my general experience in a few technical fields that your actual self-estimation of your knowledge of The Hardwares does not, in any way, prevent you from being 'The Visiting Expert' in them.

This is both meant as encouragement and commisseration. n.n

@porsupah O.o Oh my.

Clothos is an expert spinner, and wastes nothing. Lachesis measures to the micron and Atropos cuts clean. But...

Sometimes. Just sometimes?

Some people have a little added to their skein.

You have been granted an Extension. Guard it. Carry it. You'll know when to use it. 💜

@rey
There are fancier sausage, if you think they taste sweeter,
Some for the genderbent, some for the plains,
Served with mustards, and jellies, and aspics, and trotters -
But nevertheless, have no less than three names.

- Old Possoms' Book of Practical Meats?

@bunposting HE IS THE HAREBORNE