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kleinbl00  ·  2555 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The most wonderful thing on the interwebs today: Raiders of the Lost Walmart

This is the winner.

If you find yourself in the unenviable position of having to read memory sticks via your floppy drive, $78 is a goddamn bargain.

I had a device at a job backintheday that had a DD floppy drive. It was connected to the device (which spoke CP/M) via a proprietary 30-pin cable. The device was solid state. The drive was not. And while it was probably a Toshiba from 1986 that was available from certain eBay vendors in questionable condition, seeing as it was 2005, my boss grudgingly paid $1800 for a replacement floppy. After all, we billed that piece of shit out at $220 an hour.





user-inactivated  ·  2555 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My personal favorite was the Gateway. My PiHole has more power than that thing.

user-inactivated  ·  2555 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I guess this isn't technically worse than downloading an install script and then running it, but it sure makes me want to cower under my desk more.

kleinbl00  ·  2555 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I might need one of those.

user-inactivated  ·  2555 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I put one on the public open WiFi at work for the patients to use, and I get compliments that everything runs faster and how did I do that. parts are stupid cheap and you can run it on any small linux box. And it blocks everything including phone ads if you are on wifi at home. It's lovely.

kleinbl00  ·  2555 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So basically build a rasbpi, put it on the network, run a script and feed it to my router? 'cuz I can prolly do that.

user-inactivated  ·  2555 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yea. You are creating your own DNS server that you use for all the stuff in your internal network. So instead of serving up 8.8.8.8 as your DNS you use the IP of the PiHole box.