Recent content by Mercutio

Since I finally got annoyed enough to deal with it, one actual "improvement" in the latest version of Office (365 or 2024) is that there's now a heading under options specifically for Copilot and generally only a single checkbox to turn it off. Excel has an option that says "Only for highly...

Just found this guy, who sells among other things, x16 to 2x x8 PCIe adapters and multiple varieties of SlimSAS (i.e. nvme) host adapters. His hardware looks like it all expects Bifurcation support, so it'll generally only work on AMD or Xeon hardware. All of it is somewhat affordable, around...

I actually used an 8GB Ideapad 1 7520u (these are Zen 2 chips since AMD can't be bothered to name things clearly across product lines) quite a bit over December. I found it entirely tolerable for running Office and Firefox. I spent a lot of time updating documentation and deliberately limited...

This will be a thing where the OEMs are just going to be happy to see costs per unit go up, so people who need new systems will be generally willing to pay more than they would five years ago. It's been a while since entry level was closer to $500 than $350, but I think we're going there. When...

nVidia brought zero new consumer products to CES this year and has apparently sharply reduced the number of 506x and 505x GPUs it's planning to ship in 2026 in favor of restarting production on the 3060. So if you were hoping to get a new RTX-something, maybe don't get your hopes up. Neither...

I've never lost a phone before, but continuing the trend of things that suck, my friend's kid tossed my phone out my car window when I didn't want to stop at McDonald's. My old phone is currently somewhere on I294 in approximately Harvey, Illinois and I'm not going back for it. I'm told the...

You found the one good K7S5A. I'm sure they made millions of those things but holy statistical outliers, Batman.

FWIW I suspect the reasons in this case might have been more like "There's no one on site to monitor the cameras." Gary somehow magically misses out on a lot of state grants and programs that other nearby school districts seem to get easily. I DO live in one of only two blue regions in Indiana...

He absolutely believes that he's the most popular president of all time. I suspect that his handlers don't allow him to see anything that contradicts that. It's a cold comfort, but apparently he's been getting regular MRIs and he keeps being given cognitive tests that one might offer dementia...

Since I have recently exchanged words with my folks on this topic: I no longer see National Public Radio as a worthwhile news source; since the second Bush Administration and definitely during the Obama Administration, it became increasingly willing to allow unchecked commentary from right-wing...

I've kind of spent the last few days in shock over what's been going on overall. One of the things that seems particularly awful is that these people have still had to do regular things like call off work or go and pretend nothing has happened. My one friend gets out of the hospital tomorrow. I...

Apparently, we run Venezuela now. I imagine that must come as quite a shock to the people who live there.

It's so hard to tell with cats. Their standard behavior is to mask their pain as best they can. I've brought a number of beloved animals to the gate of Valhalla and it never gets easier. Your Booster had a better life in a loving home and she didn't have to know pain at the end.

Somebody clipped me with their passenger's side rear-view mirror. My area doesn't really have sidewalks, so I was walking on the very edge of the pavement along a hill with a steep fall-off. There was a good 30" of pavement past the white line defining the road though, so my guess is that...

I have had an absolute fuck of an end of year. A friend attempted suicide in my place a couple nights ago; another former roommate had her home invaded and was SA'd this morning and to top it all off, for the first time in my life, I got left alone with a 10 month old for about six hours because...