Recent content by Mercutio

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...

After playing with it for a bit, Zentyal (I spelled it properly this time) is just some smartly-configured options on an Ubuntu 24 LTS base, or a package you can overlay on a Debian/Ubuntu system already in place. The DC config is just Samba, but it is REALLY easy to set it up as a DC. The...

The Aorus B650i isn't silent. It has one of those stupid chipset fans, but you'd never know over a fan noise from a midrange GPU at full blast. I built in a Fractal Terrra with a 9700X with a Be Quiet Purerock LP and an Asrock Radeon 9070, and honestly I'm giving serious thought to keeping it...

IIRC AMD has committed to AM5 for at least one more generation of desktop CPUs, so your Ryzen 10whatever should be an option on a motherboard you buy right now. If you haven't been keeping up, Intel really pulled off a coup with the Arrow Lake Plus refresh it released a month ago. If you're...

I have a couple customers who insist on buying home PCs from Costco or something instead of standardized client systems. These are the jerks I can never talk in to setting up anything else just so I can centralize authentication. I'm about to donate a couple old Lenovo mini PCs so I can quietly...