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Updates! :-D Desktop USB drive failed clickity click a week or two ago. I bought a WD Red Plus 4TB and put it in the seagate case and it initially worked, then failed outright and I couldn't read anything off it at all. Buggered, returned after sitting a powerful magnet on it overnight twice on two ...

Booted to rescue mode, decrypted the disk (keyboard worked fine) and did a bunch of updates, kernel, xserver-xorg HWE versions (16.04) and so forth and voila back to normal, but quiet and super fast. Can easily play 4k (11% CPU, <80C CPU temp) vs unable to play (100% CPU, 100C CPU temp) before and l...

Well, the 9th gen i9 octa core nuc ghost canyon arrived today! They spent a few hundred on the packaging, ha ha, oh well, gamer marketing machine. Popped the two SSDs from the 6th gen i7 quad core nuc in and the 2400 RAM from the old nuc, too, and booted right up into a skull and the decrypt volume ...

I should read your post entirely before I hit submit! :-D Re cam phase, they'll be software detecting it. You can't do wasted spark on odd numbers of cylinders so you have to know where you are. Maybe they fire and see what happens and then set it in software ah la "we're here!" or somethi...

Re VR, the rising and falling edges are so far apart that you get independent wave forms from an effectively reset state as the magnetic flux has gone in between. The distance between rising and falling zero crossings probably isn't particularly consistent because the real zero crossing is in the mi...

Gidday, good to see some activity here! :-D Re your assertions about the single tooth trigger, I would assert that you're wrong about that. It appears to be VR which has a few implications but the first issue and biggest is unrelated: In a single cylinder 4 stroke engine you can only really reliably...

This machine met an untimely end today! :-( Sequence of events: 1. Electrician came earlier in the week and replaced the switch board with a modern one - power was out most of the day 2. I ignored the desktop machine for a couple of days because busy with work - didn't think anything of it 3. Today ...

And success there, too. Glad that was easy. Glad I procrastinated as last time I checked there were VM incompatibilities. Seems like they have improved their stack. Plenty of disk headroom now.

Migrated successfully. Going to try for an upgrade, too.

Ha ha:

uptime
22:35:49 up 513 days, 17:22, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00

That's when reboots start getting scary :-D