Re: My Linux Lair -- A Photo Essay

On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 18:00:41 +0000, Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> wrote in
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Feast thine bloodshot, jaundiced eyeballs on my fantastic Linux Lair.
 
Every REAL MAN needs his lair and here is mine.
 
Note: These images were captured with a 60 mm Nikon macro lens and there
is some depth of field problems.  But otherwise behold the splendor and
eat your hearts out.
 
For the competent, check out:
 
alt.binaries.multimedia.transformation
 
For the lackeys, here is the temporary location:
 
https://ufile.io/f/uzdw7
 
Description:
 
Linux_Lair_0001
 
My main Xeon machine powered up.  Note the cooling fan on the left
blowing large volumes of air across the entire set up.  On the right are
the 2 spinning rust HDDs.  No junk SSDs on my machine.
 
Underneath one can detect my Microslop Winblows machine.  It is located
on the bottom tier because that's where it fucking belongs.
 
On the extreme left and out of focus is my new Xeon machine, still
unfinished.
 
Linux_Lair_0002
 
Here is the total view of the Microslop Winblows machine.  It is seldom
powered up -- for damned good reason.
 
Linux_Lair_0003
 
Here is a bit of a close up of my main Xeon machine.  The Nvidia TU116
vid card is seen as well as the SoundBlaster RX sound card.
I have to lace down the sound card because there is no box.
 
Linux_Lair_0005
 
Here is the 2K monitor and keyboard for my main Xeon.  Also seen are my
fantastic Bose speakers.
 
Out of sight on the right is another monitor and keyboard.  I can
operate two machines at once if I need to.
 
Linux_Lair_0006
 
Here is my DIY microphone and power supply.  The depth of field is
rather poor but the mic is the metal can at the right end of the
breadboard.
 
This DIY mic beats the fuck out of any commercial equivalent but,
unfortunately, the room acoustics are somewhat poor.
 
 
What you have witnessed if essentially a GNU/Linux workstation
powerhouse, running Gentoo, that can whip the ass of any other distro.

Could you please repost to a.b.m.t with a better format?  There
doesn't seem to be any format to those posts.

Indeed, your posts seem very minimal, as if you just expected to
dump the jpegs into a news post program, and expected it to work.
Not even a Mime header, of which "1.0" is even required in the latest
RFC for a news article (though, there is still a lot of netnews software
that doesn't honor that...)

TL;DR:  yenc or uuencode would be very much appreciated.

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