Recent content by Mercutio

I've been looking for an affordable USB to 10GbE solution for a while and this is looking really appealing right now. They're $80, work from USB4 or Thunderbolt and are from an OEM I've actually used before. There are some less expensive options on AliExpress, including some that say they can...

Google Play Books will invert easily if the documents are smaller than 100MB total. 100MB is a bit light for my needs because I often have giant role playing manuals open, but that's answer A. I also a Komga back-end with Moon+ Reader as a client as a self-hosted solution since, as I said...

I did a "$1000" build with a Ryzen 5700, 16GB DDR4-3200, a 1TB SATA SSD and a secondhand RTX 4060 on Sunday. I already had the RAM and drive on hand and I'm not proud of the chassis and PSU I wound up putting those parts in, but based on fair market value, that's a $1000 PC right now. If RAM...

My partner roasts me for playing 25+ year old games on obscene hardware, but I like to have an understanding of what I'm getting into when I play a game at all. I've been slowly enjoying Menace but it takes me 90 minutes to two hours to play one mission, where I know exactly what I'm getting...

RCS 4 will support native video calling in your SMS (well, RCS) messaging application as a standard. Pixels and a few Samsung phones now directly support Apple Airdrop as well. I'm not sure why they bothered when QuickShare exists and already works with literally everything, but it might be nice...

... and here we have the actual Nazi shit. Actively illegal medical experiments on imprisoned transpeople with an emphasis on preserving the fertility of transmen.

I'm just one person. I think it's silly to have a yard and a bunch of space I'm not using when it makes more sense for me to be in density-efficient housing. There's no one coming after me, so a home as a mechanism for wealth preservation rings hollow as well. It might be the American dream but...

I still don't want a home. My parents are coming up on 80 years old and want me to move in with them. I don't want to do that, but it's the most likely path to home ownership for me. The biggest impediment for me getting a lease somewhere else is actually my cats. I have four, which is two...

FFS. Turns out the solution to my problems was a part or serial number mismatch between some of the chassis components and the replacement motherboard. I don't know why it's only now a problem since I've never bothered to update the BMC but once I forced the numbers to match, the stupid thing...

xClarity Pro isn't THAT expensive, like $100/year/node. Some of my systems are licensed because it was part of the package when I got the machines. This one is a frankensystem that I put together by mating a chassis with a dead motherboard with a working Lenovo replacement and a pair of Xeon...

I have been through the borked .NET runtimes many times. IIRC I had a conversation with long-time member timwhit about it in the early Vista era. Same exact problem. The last time I reloaded Windows on my previous (Threadripper) workstation was because .NET fucked itself. The cleanup tool and...

Same line of thought, but an OpenWRT travel router or the like? Seems safer than using suboptimal encryption.

Maybe you could offload the tunnel to your phone and run a local hot spot for access?

How likely are you to do anything that needs that level of security on your older devices in the first place?

I'm actively interested in getting a device that can run GrapheneOS, which is sort of the last gasp of functional AOSP builds. It only works on Pixel devices and it's missing some of the DRM functionality needed for things like banking software. I might get a Helium Mobile SIM for it, which...