Recent content by Mercutio

Microsoft, one of the most well financed and wealthy companies to ever exist on Earth, started charging for Copilot Code tokens at their actual monetary value yesterday instead of heavily subsidizing them on June 1, 2026. Today, many Copilot Code users have discovered that their day-one use of...

The Beelink Ex Mate is a $200 Direct-Attach USB 4 dock with 4x m.2 ports, 2.5GbE and even a decent Bluetooth speaker. Personally, having a network port that isn't at least 10Gb leaves me a little limp, but somebody stuck working full time on a laptop or mini-PC might see this thing as a...

When you create a site within a Reverse Tunnel Bridge on Cloudflare, you can specify an authentication method. You can assign usernames and passwords of your own or use something like a Google or Microsoft account. I think you can require an authenticator app as well, but that's more obnoxious...

I have Immich instances hosted in my home. I have access to them arbitrated by a Google sign in before Cloudflare allows traffic on to the relevant server, where they have to sign in a second time. There are traffic authorization rules you can set on reverse tunnels. I think they're very...

My company's developer laptops are a sore point right now for much the same reason, actually. RAM pricing just makes replacing what we have impossible. 10th Anniversary 5800X3D has a launch date, June 25th, and a $349 MSRP that will probably immediately be pushed up to $500 as stock vanishes...

I use mutiple Immich Instances that each have their own hostname in a Cloudflare reverse tunnel to arbitrate external access for the people who trust me to keep their photos private or things from my personal life separate from the work I do. Recently, I've been making use of MergerFS to gather...

AI companies more or less bought out the entire year's production DRAM production from Samsung, SK/Hynix and Micron, the NAND Flash production from everybody who does THAT (fuck you if you wanted a thumb drive or SD card, let alone a new SSD) and also every spinning drive from Seagate and WD...

I am currently thanking my lucky stars that I've been pulling RAM and SSDs out of e-waste systems any time I'm asked to dispose of things. It doesn't help for DDR5 but 2 or 4GB DDR4/2666 and 240GB 2.5" drives I have a'plenty. Mostly, if I need some of either, I probably have it in a bin in my...

As a follow-up, Namecheap does not allow me to edit TTLs on my records myself, even though I paid extra to be able to do so. Their DNS API will fetch no more than 50 records at a time and any update handled programatically is treated as a complete zone update. There's no way to set an index...

I'd have concerns about keeping the area around the 9850X3D cool. The Peerless Assassin is a fantastic HSF and it's rated to handle bigger thermal loads than a mere 8c12t CPU should drop, but there really isn't any such thing as a roomy and well ventilated ITX chassis, either. Especially not one...

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.