mmmkay, x16 card is in the x1 hole, now I need to convert SATA power to PCIe 6-pin to get the card to post. I have fan spin, no magic smoke.

#whenallyouhaveisahammer #unholycomputing #ididabadthing #hardwarehacking #hardwaregore #cursedcomputing

My friend's microphone's USB cable has been slowly deteriorating for years

https://lemmy.ohaa.xyz/post/10672619

A floppy disk that is actually just a whole bunch of SD (or microSD) cards wired together inside a plastic shell to make it identical to an actual floppy disk from the outside, which gets inserted into a FDD that is actually a specially shaped USB (or other protocol, depending on what enables the fastest speeds for the least complexity) port designed to read/write data from/to the floppySD.

#FloppyDisk #HardwareGore #SDCard #StupidIdeas

I really love Immich, bringing back old memories day by day

This is the first 'server' from circa 2015, at first an ESXi host for various tinkering, nowadays in a better looking box running OpenMediaVault and the data backbone of the home infrastructure

What a journey

#homelab #selfhosted #immich #memories #vmware #esxi #omv #openmediavault #linux #server #nas #hardwaregore

Found in the wild: "Acer laptop with minor signs of use"

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/33753337

Blåhaj Lemmy - Choose Your Interface

My Anbernic wouldn't turn on, or charge. Opened her up to find this. She's dead Jim.

https://programming.dev/post/38852888

This controller was giving me problems immediately during gameplay. It’s a PowerA Xbox Controller from years ago, and after it failed big time on the input test, I had to do it.

It was very liberating to destroy this POS. I spiked it on the tile floor, breaking the left trigger, and then I disassembled it and broke the control board in half.

And yes, you have my permission to post this on r/hardwaregore.

#hardwaregore #ragequit #gaming #hardware #controller #aftermath