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Reche @rechegp.com · 25/05/2026

Esta, senhoras e senhores, é a maior pipocada do design DA DÉCADA #Ferrari

Reche @rechegp.com · 14/02/2026

Got inspired by the goat @electroboom.bsky.social and found the breaker panel for my hotel in Uruguay! They do have a RCCB system and it works! Interestingly they also use a lot of EU wall outlets, both the recessed and non-recessed versions of the plug with plastic tabs to protect kids! Not bad!

Here we see an EU outlet with an Asia/AU outlet? I am a bit confused by it, but it's nice to have more options!

Here we see an outlet (I am not sure what standard it is, but it fits EU connectors just fine) with plastic tabs inside to stop inserting objects into live and/or neutral wires, which is symbolized by the child in the lower right corner. The light switches also have a highlight to indicate what side closes the circuit. Neat!

Here we can see the RCCB in the breaker panel. Works exactly like GFCI with a few differences between them. Test button works!

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Reche @rechegp.com · 11/02/2026

But you know what was the worst part? After a firmware update for the new router, it mandated me to update my pre-existing wireless password to include characters, as if it wasn't safe enough! So I had to reconnect EVERYTHING I have at home again!!! Enough networking for today, I am done 🙂 (5/5)

You can tell I was very happy about all this. Here's Spongebob looking as if he was absolutely fine. Contains sarcasm.

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Reche @rechegp.com · 12/11/2025

#Linux nerds, help me out here! I am trying to give a good ending to a PC with a single core 32 bit VIA C7M CPU. Performance on the distros I tried is terrible, since it's pinned at 100% CPU usage all the time pretty much. I tried Mageia, Puppy and LMDE, all of which ran slow. CPU running cool. 1/4

Picture of my monitor ouput connected to the 32 bit VIA C7M PC. Temperatures are fine, stable at 37 degrees Celsius. However, the CPU is pretty much pinned at 100% usage all the time. It's bad to the point dragging windows is sluggish, UI elements take seconds to respond and the overall experience as a result is terrible. I am not giving away a PC in this condition. By the way, this is running from an old 64GB Kingston SSD which was compatible with the IDE protocol of the motherboard (no AHCI support in here!). I also need to change the original PSU which came with the computer since it has failed. It's currently hooked to an external TFX PSU I bought by mistake thinking it'd fit in the case. However, THE PSU THAT FAILED IS IN A PROPRIETARY FORM FACTOR (at least not its connectors, looking at YOU HP and Lenovo) WHICH THERE IS NO REPLACEMENT FOR! Love that. Anyway, hope you enjoyed that random rant I left here.

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Reche @rechegp.com · 04/11/2025

Small upgrade on my current workhorse! Added some more fans from my brother's computer which I swapped on his for some reverse blade fans I got for cheap. It looks decent, but your eyes don't deceive you - that's a 9 year old GTX 1050 in there! Still kickin' for university work, so can't complain.

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Reche @rechegp.com · 20/10/2025

Had to say goodbye to my best canine friend today. I will miss you, Blackie. Thank you for everything you brought to my life

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Reche @rechegp.com · 12/10/2025

This was a ton of work, but man, was it worth it! Did a transformation on my girlfriend's setup so she doesn't need to rely only on her MacBook to get work done anymore. Not only that, but I also rearranged and cable managed her desk so she can see the pretty side of her new PC. Specs in alt text!

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Reche @rechegp.com · 28/09/2025

Mathmatical methods of Physics exam in the tuesday

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Reche @rechegp.com · 05/08/2025

End of an era. One of my favorite aircraft liveries of all time. Glad I have a 1:200 model of it until the end of time!

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Reche @rechegp.com · 12/07/2025

They just shouldn't be there. If there is a technical reason for them being placed there instead of elsewhere, like along the other switches on top of the pilots' heads (let me know!), and the NEED to be in that position, why not put them under a safety cover with a sensor to warn when it's open?

A generic car electronic start engine button cover. Many Lamborghinis have this as a quirk. Although this obviously is not an aviation application (although having this kind of protection/security cover is usually found in some aircraft), it's boggling that seemingly no mainstream commercial airliner has this as a security feature. A position sensor, akin to a car door, could warn the pilots through the onboard computers when it's open. Having this as an external layer of security by blocking the actuation of the switch unless opened should be enough to make sure this wouldn't ever happen by accident.

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Reche @rechegp.com · 12/07/2025

I understand they need to be pulled to change from a position to another, but what if the safety mechanism just isn't there for some reason (as SAIB NM-18-33 shows the possibility of this being an issue). But why is it in a place susceptible to accidental actuation? (Read images' alt texts)

Center console of Airbus A330 cockpit, with the engine throttle levers and cutoff switches in focus. The engine cutoff switches are immediately below the levers, without any sort of security cover to prevent unwanted actuation of these switches, although they can only actuate once pulled and then placed on position.

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Reche @rechegp.com · 21/05/2025

I'm a tall person and figured out the monitor arm I was using couldn't raise my display enough. So, now I upgraded and have more clearance and better posture! Took some time to redo cable management as well and I'm happy with the result. Ignore the box under the PC, my cables ran a bit short lol

My current desk setup. I know there is a cable hanging in the left, it's a toslink for my Samsung Music Frame speaker. I still need to cable manage that as well, but that'll involve some drilling. It'll stay there for now!

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Reche @rechegp.com · 11/05/2025

My first NAS server is assembled! Not pretty? Check. Old case with terrible cable management? Check. Old power supply? Check. Molex to SATA adapters? Check. Questionable motherboard? Check. Fans at max speed and it's loud? Check. Old, mixed capacity desktop-grade HDDs? Check. But hey - it works!

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Reche @rechegp.com · 23/04/2025

Next time I'm trusting my AI-spotting senses lmao

Screenshot of a discord chat with a draft of a Clash of Clans recruitment post made by my clanmate. I found the text suspicious at first, but trusted that my friend actually wrote it. Only for him to confirm it was made with ChatGPT! Btw, feel free to join our clan and prove your worth.

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Reche @rechegp.com · 22/03/2025

Finally got a case for my small home server. Look how cute it is, secured by the monitor's VESA mount! Don't wprry about airflow, the side next to the was has perforations. And this machine never got past 50°C in open air. Now I'll have to shell out for a good motherboard for the big NAS server...

A black, small form factor PC (HTPC class) case attached to the back of a black monitor. It has a blue LED lit power button and a tiny red hard drive activity LED. In this picture I haven't peeled the protection plastic for the front panel, but I have done now. So don't worry about it!

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Reche @rechegp.com · 17/03/2025

I guess it's a good sign to see this! I was finally able to create an account with my own domain in it. I did install openWRT on my router (almost gave me an heart attack when it didn't enable wireless by default lol) and, though I still need to get familiar w/it, it's now working! Another milestone

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Reche @rechegp.com · 13/03/2025

Turns out that trying to install an OS in a cheap flash drive is not the best of ideas! Who would have thought! I kinda feel bad for it tho, it's probably crying in pain. Good old fucking around and finding out

A picture of my Proxmox server system monitor. CPU, RAM and HD space are fine. However, the "HD" is actually a crap-tier cheap USB flash drive I had lying around I wanted to give a try on to see if it could work out with what I thought wouldn't be too much for it. Unfortunately for the poor thing, it can't handle shit and IO delay is over 90%! I figured something was off by 1. the time from boot to running was quite slow and 2. it's taking an eternity to download the ISO for the VM I wanted to run in it! So I guess I'll have to buy a SATA SSD for it after all. At least those are cheap to buy, I guess. Is this what torture would be for cheap flash storage?

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Reche @rechegp.com · 12/03/2025

As a lart of this journey I'm also on this side quest of "do these relics of PC tech still work?", in that case: a dial-up modem adapter and a Wireless networking card, both on a PCI interface. The NM70 motherboard I got has it, so I figured I'd give it a go. So far, neither of them shows up in LMDE

A picture of my current test bench with a Gigabyte GA-C847N-S2 motherboard with an integrated Intel Celeron 847 processor. It has only one PCI slot, to which is connected a D-Link DWL-G510 C1 hardware revision AirPlus G wi-fi card, but also had two old-style ports in the rear I/O: a parallel port and a serial port. The serial port has a serial to ethernet cable inserted, which is connected to my TP-Link router in the background. Also in the background is the system running Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) in the 32-bit version. Neither the serial adapter or the wi-fi card are working, although the PCI card has a green LED lit up just below its external antenna. If you know anything about how this old stuff works, I'd greatly appreciate your help!

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Reche @rechegp.com · 09/03/2025

Like look at this overkill AF board! I need one so bad, I love it

A picture of the ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VI EXTREME AMD X370 motherboard. Alongside the four RAM slots, there is three PCI-E x16 expansion slots, three PCI-E x1 slots, three M.2 slots, 8 SATA ports, a USB-C header, a seven-segment display for error codes with buttons and switches nearby, and all other internal headers one can dream of having. And many RGB lights, of course. The rear I/O is not visible in this picture, but it has wi-fi, five P2 audio plugs and a TOSLINK connector, Intel gigabit LAN, wi-fi, BIOS flashback and clear CMOS buttons, 11 USB-A ports, and a USB-C port. Like, who doesn't want something like this?

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Reche @rechegp.com · 20/02/2025

Omg Ferrari 360 Modena hi!!

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Reche @rechegp.com · 30/01/2025

I'm also hosting pihole thru the same computer, but I changed the default ports to avoid conflicts. Here I have a print from the pihole web interface showing no queries are being blocked. I am genuinely clueless, so if anyone knows what the issue could be would be greatly appreciated. #selfhosting

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Reche @rechegp.com · 25/01/2025

Well, I found it. Given the video was uploaded less than three hours as of I'm making this post, and that it's the last comment in time order of Youtube Comment Finder (turns out it exists lol), his claim stands legs. Waiting for Rossmann's clarification on the matter.

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Reche @rechegp.com · 25/01/2025

One more thing: DarkViperAU's comment is definitely of concern. Though I couldn't find Steve's comment, I'll give the benefit of the doubt to Louis, as he may have disclosed it in the first recording, which was corrupted. Still, double standards are not a nice thing, and I'm sure Louis and GN know.

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Reche @rechegp.com · 13/01/2025

The real Vision Pro in my books.

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Reche @rechegp.com · 10/01/2025

I never completed SMG2 (somehow I lost the disc) and never played the first either. Despite that, I nominate the OSTs as my crunch time music. What helps me get through it all. And thank you YT music for not needing Nintendo's app for all the time that one didn't exist.

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Reche @rechegp.com · 09/12/2024

New electronics lesson today: heat can be your friend. I was able to pull the chipset and heatsink apart using a hairdyer in the hottest setting. Unfortunately too little too late for my neurons to link stuff!

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Reche @rechegp.com · 08/12/2024

Learnt an important lesson today: in electronics, if something feels like it's gonna break, it probably will. Somehow the heatsink and PCH ended up fused together and I can't pull them apart #pcmr #fail

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Reche @rechegp.com · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #7,734,307!

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