Recent content by Mercutio

RAV4 might be going back. I absolutely can't stand the interior. There's no place to put things. No recessed places for change, let along keep pens, lip balm or small tools. I can't keep a tablet anywhere that it doesn't fall off or block the windshield. So far I've put around a car payment in...

There's some security nice to haves. Better biometric options. You can move the taskbar and there's some options to customize the start menu. Nothing you'd care about in terms of features unless you're excited about other than that. I installed it on my laptop and had to go look at what changed.

I'm currently in the process of moving my ebook library over to Stump, because it respects my existing organization structures better than alternatives and works well for ebooks and comics. I'm using BookOrbit now for metadata handling. Jellyfin has had a pretty major update. Among other...

The T20 is an absolute god among laptops of its era. I found myself standing on the monitor side lid of one, purely by accident, once upon a time. Other than my shoeprint, it was unharmed. Which is good, because at the time that particular configuration was probably $3k in 1999 dollars. Also...

Car happened. It's fine, I guess. I am going to miss my old one. The newer car doesn't have in-dash maps, so the first thing I wound up doing was to get a tablet to do Android Auto. I didn't realize how used to it I've become. Putting a tablet in to handle it only costs about $100, which seems...

I have a cousin who is on his third Tesla,. He was an early adopter and I remember that he always had a bunch of Tesla merch to give away because that was something Tesla just offered to people who bought their cars. Anyway, right after he got his first one, his employer transferred him to Erie...

I spent $60 filling the tank on my Element yesterday and then it did another Engine whoopsie on the way home, which REALLY clarified my mind about the whole buying a car ASAP. The fix isn't horrifically expensive, but that's the third time it's happened in two months. I actually thought about...

Finally bought something, a 2018 RAV 4 Hybrid with 80k miles on it. It's being shipped from Arizona, which I hope means it spent its life in the southwest, and I won't get it for a week or so. I did wind up dealing with CarMax, which means I can finally block all the numbers car salesmen have...

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...