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  LEDs on a laptop mobo, removal/rewiring So I'm repurposing an old laptop motherboard to use as a HDD music player. It's all very janky but it works. Eventually I'm going to build a custom case so I can have it on display with my stereo system without being embarrassed. But I'm down to the small annoyances now: The board has two LEDs soldered on, one is a steady green to show the system is on and running. The other blinks orange to say the board is running on direct power from...

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  Secret Chiefs 3 annonce crowdfunding campaign for their Third Act, spanning 12(!) full length albums After many years of near silence on Secret Chiefs 3, the band's (that is, bands') ringmaster Trey Spruance (Mr Bungle, Faith No More) is unveiling a mad scheme to realise twelve new full length albums. The full announcement text (minus bold and italics, you'll need to go to Kickstarter for formating): Friends, There have been rumors about a massive secret undertaking unfolding...

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  When the show continues, it's definitely not going to pick up from the Disney season numbering, and for another soft reboot they may want to start at 1 again. So going by season ones, it'll be "New New New Who”. Some sticklers might want to go by showrunners instead of formal seasons, which would make it "New New New New New Who". (I'm starting at 2005 for this because the show didn't have showrunners as such before that). But of course, you could...

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  This is just to say I have bought The record That was for sale On the auction site And which You were probably Wishing Never to see or hear again Forgive me It is deliciously Weird And so cheap

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  I'm going to set up a simple, local digital music player out of the internals from an old laptop I have lying around. Yes, I could have ponied up €80-100 for a used Rpi, but I'd rather get some more mileage out of the old hardware, plus I like to tinker. The player is probably going to run Daphile, and will sit between the USB HDD housing my digital music collection and my stereo amplifier. No streaming required to other rooms or on the go at this time, just a straight, wired connectio...

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  Listening to L7 records in memory of bassist Jennifer Finch who passed this weekend.

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  Time to wake up.

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  Surely a society of all narcissistic tech bros whose only talent is talking people into giving them money would be ideal, right guys? Right? Explain: One of the funniest stories in history that I heard was Dostoevsky recounting some utopian thinkers among the Russian Aristocracy that wanted to make everything rational, and someone objected saying the peasants would never go for it, so they replied "then we'll just eliminate the peasants". As though a society of all rich p...