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Given how much of a PITA my car has been, everything I just got is getting dumped immediately on someone who can actually use that rig. Even if I gave somebody a $2500 bargain deal, that's still a sizeable chunk of extra cash I can put in to my purchase. Also, I'm finding that car salesmen LOVE...

I like the convenience of having a desktop session in a tab an awful lot, especially for VMs I don't need to use for very much. Actually the first use I had was for direct sharing of :0 on my CachyOS game clients, since I'm always having to mess with Steam Rom Manager, something that I can't do...

Apache Guacamole is a session manager for remote desktops that runs in a browser tab At least, remote desktops you can look at via RDP or VNC. It's not perfect, but it's handy as a tool to access desktop VMs in one place. I'd never encountered it, but I think it's something I'll keep using.

Guys, it was just a regular Ryzen 9800X not an X3D, and she decided to keep her giant monitor. Shucks. AI Bullshit updates: nVidia and Perplexity.ai released a new tool over the weekend for on-device AI via RTX GPUs. It's supposed to offer Agentic tools. I have access to Perplexity Pro; I...

I forgot that I never updated this so: Caddy, for signing SSL certs, was absurdly easy to set up. Install it, set up hostname overrides in your DNS server and write what you want to happen to its config file. You have to add its security certificate to your OS and/or Firefox installation if...

The biggest gamer I know is a 70-something year old divorced woman. She's been getting her hair cut based on her headset needs for about the last 15 years. She told me last night that she's been advised to stop gaming because of ongoing joint pain in her hands and neck, so she's asked if I want...

As I'm writing this the 5060Ti 16GB currently costs more than a 9070XT, a card that's something like 75% faster. To be clear, they're both overpriced right now, but at time of writing this post, we're talking about a $800 (basically double MSRP) 5060Ti and a (20%-ish above MSRP) $750 Radeon. I...

My favorite part of that picture is the way Bill's mouth is just a little bit open in the most simian way. I'll change it some day when somebody pies Elon Musk. I don't think he'll take it as well as Mr. Gates.

Through some unique confluence of events, I've gotten packages from just about everyplace I order things today: 3 Amazon deliveries (so far; I'm supposed to get another one "before 9PM"), FedEx, UPS, US Mail (Aliexpress), Shein, Instacart and Walmart have all been by my place today. This was not...

That's been a rumor every year since the Element was discontinued. They're absurdly practical cars, but Honda only sold ~50,000 of them in the US over their whole production run. Somebody shows up with a mock-up design and I get my hopes up. I'm pretty sure a new Element will be north of $40k...

I'm actively campaigning to buy my father's Element. Low mileage, no rust and pampered for its entire life. It's 20 now but I can probably get 10 years out of it. I set a ceiling of $25k for a new-to-me car, ideally a hybrid crossover-something. What I'm seeing is that to stick to that number...

I just found this fun youtube channel, which is devoted to testing PC case fan designs. The guy gets designed by his viewers, which he 3D prints and attaches to a Noctua frame/motor. It's oddly satisfying.

Ok now I have power. Huzzah! I bet it scared the shit out of my cats though.

It's day 15 now.

New Corvettes definitely look like Italian sports cars, but they're also very common where I live. A cherry red paint job on a low-to-the-ground sports car might be a Ferrari or a Lamborghini. My area does get those, because there's a lot of money in the vacation homes along the Lake shore. But...