Recent content by Mercutio

Steam Machine is $1050 for 500GB Storage and $1350 for 2TB. The controller is $20 cheaper if you buy it with the PC. Ouch.

That is very fixable. Open the install file with 7zip, extract the files and install them by hand. At worst, you might have to modify a .inf file or six.

The issue for AMD on Windows 7 is actually just the USB drivers. You can either slipstream the drivers into the installation media or, if you have a PS/2 port on your system, you can just install them after the fact. I'll admit I haven't tried setting up anything better than maybe a Ryzen 3700...

UPNP made a lot of consumer level LAN services a lot easier to set up but of course it's a bad practice to use it. The main reason I use Jellyfin is that it supports multichannel FLAC and I have a lot of multichannel audio. Jellyfin's music service defaults also do a better job than Plex at...

I know there are people who update drivers for older AMD drivers but it's mostly because AMD used to be terrible about abandoning mobile graphics. That A10 is from AMD's pre-Ryzen time in the wilderness. I'm not even sure I've ever installed anything in socket FM2+, but I suspect it would be...

I was going to suggest running your music through Squeezebox or Jellyfin. UPNP / DLNA i certainly works, but you may have an easier time in something that handles presentation as well.

It's something I just noticed in passing. Nadia's birthday is in a couple weeks and I'm looking for something fun to give her. I suspect it would be fine for a lot of use cases that aren't AAA gaming, but she already appropriated my Logitech G Cloud and has an Ayn Odin 2 for her hand-held needs...

I'm assuming that you're on the last set of drivers released, which was from... four years ago. Given that's the case, why not just have your PC reboot like every Sunday night so it's not an issue?

What happens if you turn off the Firewall on your Linux PC before you search?

Windows? Linux? What are you using to host your music? Dedicated server application or just Windows Media player?

Apparently the Asus ROG Ally Xbox edition can be had for around $400 on Ebay and from sellers with dozens of positive feedback ratings, presumably because everyone thinks Xbox is a dirty word now. Arch-derived Linux flavors like CachyOS and SteamOS are going through it right now because a...

My tires were purchased at Costco, which does indeed cover replacement from road hazards. It's a pro-rated coverage, so I do have to pay something like $650 to get replacements, but that's better than $1600 for a new set. I've always paid for high-mileage tires, but since my car uses an odd...

My power is back on for the first time since Thursday night. We had tornadoes through this area, and may have more today. Yay. Even worse, as designated Uber for a bunch of single moms, I spent my power-free weekend driving people to Costco/Sam's Club/BJs and on Sunday I ran over a...

Sadly torture won't actually get you your money back.

I know people with big followings on IG, Snapchat or Twitter but posting a random GoFundMe between the thirst traps would cost them thousands of followers.