Recent content by Mercutio

AI companies more or less bought out the entire year's production DRAM production from Samsung, SK/Hynix and Micron, the NAND Flash production from everybody who does THAT (fuck you if you wanted a thumb drive or SD card, let alone a new SSD) and also every spinning drive from Seagate and WD...

I am currently thanking my lucky stars that I've been pulling RAM and SSDs out of e-waste systems any time I'm asked to dispose of things. It doesn't help for DDR5 but 2 or 4GB DDR4/2666 and 240GB 2.5" drives I have a'plenty. Mostly, if I need some of either, I probably have it in a bin in my...

As a follow-up, Namecheap does not allow me to edit TTLs on my records myself, even though I paid extra to be able to do so. Their DNS API will fetch no more than 50 records at a time and any update handled programatically is treated as a complete zone update. There's no way to set an index...

I'd have concerns about keeping the area around the 9850X3D cool. The Peerless Assassin is a fantastic HSF and it's rated to handle bigger thermal loads than a mere 8c12t CPU should drop, but there really isn't any such thing as a roomy and well ventilated ITX chassis, either. Especially not one...

My sites were down for about 14 hours between when I approved the transfer out and when Namecheap TOLD me they got whatever approval they need on their side, the whole time insisting that transfers can take up to a week. This is about 13.5 hours longer than I've seen any other name transfer take...

I have two sets of China now, because my mom somehow wound up with six. They're all still in the boxes I got them in, but the main reason I have them is because my mother didn't want her sister to get them. I agree that my aunt is multiple forms of evil, but I have no earthly idea what to do...

Some retailer in India apparently listed the 10th Anniversary 5800X3D for US ~$310. The 9700X is ~$350 and only 3 - 4% faster and obviously restrictive because of the platform requirement for DDR5. AMD could make an absolute killing if they return that chip to production. Gamer's Nexus posted a...

It definitely helps that most of the people I know have pickup truck/small U-Haul quantities of belongings rather than moving van amounts. But there's always a sofa or extra-firm mattress or something to make sure I know I'm not 25 any more. I will definitely say moving day is the moment I...

Also the Namecheap thing was kind of a debacle but at least it's over now.

It always seems weird to say happy Memorial Day, but if you're in the US, at least it's a day off work for most people. I spent my morning helping a friend move and now I'm going to proceed to the not-moving-until-someone-makes-me portion of the day.

Since the gaming thread is where I complain about Wayland, a client's system that was been upgraded to Ubuntu 26 and completely lost its entire GUI configuration, which was removed because it had been set up with Xorg in 25.whatever and the upgrade manager marked all the Xorg stuff for cleanup...

Not that it qualifies as "fun" but if you didn't fall all over yourself signing up for Plex Lifetime at $250, it's going up to $750 in July. Which makes me think maybe Plex won't be around much longer.

I'm dealing with this right now, actually: Namecheap supplies a bunch of wildcard SSL certs I have. The certs generally have between two and four years remaining. My normal name registrar doesn't support API access for updates and it doesn't support wildcard SSL at all, so I can't just set up my...

One of my co-workers had stuff on Godaddy. They were telling me all the shit they just can't do. All their stuff is on Dreamhost now.

Everything in my house is now running on Xorg. Rustdesk magically works. Displays stay the resolution I tell them. Bliss. Wayland can eat my entire ass. I've never complained about systemd even though it also occasionally pisses me off, but Wayland is dumb beyond words for dumb things and has...