Recent content by Mercutio

There's writing on the electoral wall, but I wouldn't look at anything actually happening until the new Congress is sworn in. Even then, there's enough members of the GOP in the Senate that actual removal will be on the table. These guys don't have the shame to consider stepping down before a...

Maybe it's like college now, when everybody has to take a class in Excel and Powerpoint even though only the only application a college student is definitely going to use is a Word processor? I've literally never made a slide deck.

The REALLY funny thing to me is that it was being covered at least a couple weeks ago outside the USA by tech journalists, but has only become an issue here since the elections.

I've kind-of used a punch card system, but I was a VERY little kid when my mom was taking a FORTRAN class in about 1979. Putting the cards in the machine was "helping." Why did my mom have need to take a FORTRAN class? I have no idea, but I definitely remember being stuck in a room full of...

Floppy disks are a perfect definition of not fixing what ain't broke. We used to build systems intended to last for decades and those drives are a fantastic example of technology that stood the rest of time. I'd be really curious if today's thumb drives will still work in 40 years, just knowing...

Honestly, they're all massively overvalued. We're at the point that tech stocks are competing with international bonds because none of them can afford the capex on their AI build outs. They're all trying to demonstrate that they can still grow when there's no more worlds to conquer and...

Tax on not being wealthy enough. The most Florida of ideas!

My partner is pretty pissed about Nixon's loss, especially given that the Ds won literally everything else they could've hoped to get. I suppose that means all the reactionary dickheads who moved from CA to TX will soon be buying property next to Mar a Lago, so have fun with all of the evil...

I had to stay up to see the Michigan election result, but this morning I saw that Democrats won Texas outright and that is absolutely breathtaking. I realize that Trump is going to try to rule by executive fiat and veto everything that gets sent his way, but at least there's a decent chance...

Since I've been talking about 3D printing a lot: The Creality SparkX i7 with 4-way filament support is $350 right now. For the money, it's a way better setup than the Ender 3 KEs I've been dealing with; integrated camera and native ability to print using multiple materials or colors. I think...

A special Halloween vocabulary word

The controller can implement less of the spec depending on the root hub. A lot of laptops will have a "Hi-Speed" 480Mbps root hub that exists to support a mouse or Logitech receiver, even though the 3.x controller supports some form of 5, 10 or 20Gbps Superspeed. Those little markings around the...

Bluetooth audio hardware so very often seems to be disposable. I can see being mad about it. I buy a new pair of Soundpeats semi-wireless earbuds approximately annually because SOMETHING happens. I do know that my AVRs support bluetooth output but I've literally never used it. I'm not sure if...

Switch 2 game dumps are starting to show up on pirate sites. I have no idea whether or not there's a working emulator but since Switch 2s are only about a year old, it's hilarious either way.

Oh I spent this whole well checking systems to make sure I didn't leave anything running on old PHP. And cursing my life finding all the WordPress installs with themes or plug-ins that didn't want to work with the updates.