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 I find the pre-squished text and animation (which I believe is also text) in early-boot Windows environments irksome. They must have done a survey and determined that: most people will have a 16:9 monitor which auto-stretches video to fit, and as early video output is typically 4:3, it must therefore be pre-squished in the opposite direction to make it look correct. Anyone else? 😂 Join me, while I disassemble a 100BASE-ZX SFP module (1550nm, 80km) Surprisingly, these appear to be quite happy running at 1Gbit/s over ~3m of fiber! The reported Rx power doesn't even saturate for the FS.com modules (though it does for the Startech module) Oh: sorry for the bad photos... I wanted to share, but also couldn't be bothered to get the better camera (and my phone camera is terrible). These modules are constructed in a delightfully simple way - a solid "chassis" is wrapped in thin steel, and these press-tabs are pushed in once assembled to hold the outer shell in place. There is one of these push tabs on each side, though they're not quite aligned. They're tricky to get out, but if you're careful, you can poke something thin all the way through!  @attie everything up to and including 15 Gbit/s is basically an AM radio, but for light. Stands to reason that you can push them, and also I don't think anyone still makes low enough yield parts to even have "real" 100M in stock any more Has anyone else discovered this fantastical trick with these grabbers? You can poke their nose through PTH, and grab a little bit of wire on the other side... it makes a great and really solid connection!
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Gregory's Server
@attie this always irked me when setting up Windows in VMs