what the fuck are they even doing for ten days to change configuration of one port? playing tetris? surely not
✧✦Catherine✦✧
me: "... so this series starts with 14 minutes of silence and Severe Eye Horror. it gets worse from there on..."
her: "I'll be sure to have a watch!"
always nice when that happens
ecp5 bitstream upload works
✧✦Catherine✦✧
✧✦Catherine✦✧
the absolute hardest part of being in the UK is that institutionally, people can barely do anything. if even that. (this is not a slight against the UK in particular, most of Europe is like that)
#Glasgow_revd spi-analyzer applet can sample at 300 MHz!
Info: Max frequency for clock '$glbnet$U$33.frontend.fifo_clk': 299.58 MHz (PASS at 100.00 MHz)
Info: Max frequency for clock '$glbnet$applet0_clk': 120.51 MHz (PASS at 48.00 MHz)
(not many SPI buses run that hot […]
✧✦Catherine✦✧
✧✦Catherine✦✧
a lot of the recent vitriol in tech discussions boils down to "these two+ groups have never had aligned values, but until now have been able to work together to mostly mutual benefit because resources were plentiful and fear levels were low"
this is not really solvable. people mostly don't […]
✧✦Catherine✦✧
happy with nearly every individual i met*, unhappy with every institution i touched. what a combination
* i know some dont go to the UK to not get hatecrimed but if someone wanted to do that to me they've kept it very well a secret. maybe im just lucky
openreach: we're the best!
also openreach: takes 10 (ten) days to switch me from one drop cable to another (i'm on the wrong one because of their fuckup in first place, some genius decided to pick a drop on the other side of a busy 4 lane road and leave it to the installer to drag an aerial […]
✧✦Catherine✦✧
✧✦Catherine✦✧
i would be a lot more annoyed if virgin shut down my service on the day they said they would but i think they're asleep also. (i did not call them and it is belief-stretching to imagine someone at openreach not being able to reconfigure one port promptly but messaging someone at VM on a Saturday […]
