Recent content by Mercutio

uBlock Origin on Firefox and Firefox-derived Browsers, uBlock Lite on Chromium-derived Browsers (Edge, Vivaldi, Chrome, Opera et al). I also install SponsorBlock on every browser. If I go above and beyond that, it's probably because I'm dealing with someone is proof that nature can build a...

Another tip for stupid selfhosting tricks: TDARR is a tool for intelligently batch re-encoding video data, but it's mostly just a wrapper for ffmpeg. If you have a bunch of old-ass camcorder or DV video for whatever reason, it's fairly trivial to set up a JSON template to use neural upscaling...

Steam Headless is a Docker Image preconfigured to support nVidia (or not-nVidia, but nVidia is the one people struggle with) GPUs and Moonlight for game streaming. The idea is that it will interact with locally installed games under /mnt/games, a path it will share with the host system and...

Linux from the end user side isn't genuinely too different from Windows or MacOS. There are a couple small exceptions, one being that there really aren't official clients for cloud storage and another being locked out of full-fat desktop MS Office. A variety of third party clients for storage...

Ars Technical posted this article about nVidia's more than 10 year and still ongoing support for the Shield set top box.

Menace is coming out next week on all the storefronts. I like my turn based strategy games, my Battletech and various forms of X-Com. Menace is a marines in space kind of deal with squads instead of individual units and it's made by people who very clearly love the same kind of game I do. It's...

In other news that should have people concerned, the Administration arrested several journalists who covered ICE Raids on a Minneapolis Church last week; it also had the FBI raid the Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney's office, looking for evidence of election tampering from the 2020...

I find it extremely hard to understand why you care more about property rights than human rights. Even if he actually managed to physically damage a vehicle, that in no way rises to the level of state-sanctioned violence in response. I'm not even talking about American law here. Agents of the...

The administration has not released even the names of agents involved in the shooting to the public, nor to law enforcement organizations in Minnesota. Supremacy clause or no, there are a number of ICE Agents who should at the very least be subject to city and state level legal processes. Is...

What my customer actually noticed was "funny characters" and partial nonsense, which they assumed were data corruption, showing up in a daily report. I was terrified I had bad RAM in a server until my customer let me know that one of his employees had a bunch of the same weird characters and...

You don't see any possible justification for being physically demonstrative over the actions of Immigration Enforcement? None at all? If he was acting in an unacceptable fashion in the moment, why was he not detained in that moment? That's complete and utter bullshit and you know it. Cops turn...

One of my customers had an issue that it took me a couple days to find and deal with. They had a bunch of weird, invalid text in a database they're using, starting a couple weeks ago. Turned out that one of their employees has turned on an AI translation feature in Edge, such that it was taking...

I'm specifically looking at it as a way to get a simplified ISO to turn off the most egregious BS. Like... Go ahead and kill Recall, Onedrive, Microsoft account on OOBE, restore the classic context menu and turn on show file extensions. Those things are the bare minimum I am going to do on every...

Today in nifty things for people, I bring you Winhance. irm https://get.winhance.net | iex What does it do? It does a lot of the same things as chocolatey and the Chris Titus Tool, in that it has the ability to install third party software and toggle Windows default software and settings...

I did finally complete a Steam account setup. Something else I found out is that Adults who are members of the same Steam Family can also share each other's game libraries. I was assuming it was a one-way thing with the person making the invitation being the one sharing the games, but since my...