Recent content by sedrosken

The employees are already the ones left holding the bag. Micron's press release says they're going to minimize the impact insofar as they can by relocating them within the company, but I imagine placement for that's fairly minimal. It's basically another wave of soft layoffs. Steve from GN had...

Yeah, I mean... my demo unit is fine. It doesn't win any awards but it does its job and lasts forever on a charge. I've gotten to where I don't even bring my charger with me on a service call.

Frankly, I hope they do get burnt and they learn from it.

I would be the oldest of my generation in this branch of the family if it weren't for the cousins who were brought in by my uncle remarrying... I'm actually grateful -- it keeps the heat off me for making another generation, which frankly, I've further and further soured on as years pass. I...

In regular, active use are my Precision (10850H/32GB/RTX5000 16GB, used rarely) and the Surface Laptop Go 2 (1135g7/16GB), though I do make use of the Evo N410c (PIIIM-1.2/1GB/Mobility Radeon M6 16MB) for a surprising amount of stuff -- that native RS232 is surprisingly useful, and it's strong...

Got everyone kicked over through the weekend. I won't even get a final bill, I'm all paid up. I don't think I'd be coming back to holidays at all if my folks were like that. We very carefully tiptoed around the subject of politics, but that was a conscious effort from all parties because no one...

Yeah, I use pfSense at home and it smacks of an obscure configuration issue but I couldn't tell you what. I'd maybe look at the time issue as well -- a few minutes makes a huge difference.

Spoiled milk, Lysol, black coffee, and power steering fluid (specifically the import formula). Call it the Domineering Horse Annihilator.

Mine's looking like half of it's gonna be consumed with getting a cousin off my wireless plan so I can change carriers and save everyone involved some money. I had her on my plan to begin with because she couldn't afford to replace her phone and it'd cost her twice as much to go to a big carrier...

I'm not buying her anything consumer-ish, to be honest. I want it to last her and she's not terribly good about babying electronics, so I'm very sure if I get her another consumer grade laptop it'll be broken in a year or two. I'm okay with it being a bit slower than strictly optimal (trying to...

I'm trying to swing something with a 7840U for my sister for Christmas since her old 5625(?)U laptop kicked it a month or two ago. I'm going with something that high-powered because it should be relatively available used or refurbished (I'm eyeing Elitebooks) and I'd like it to last her through...

Hm. I'm on blood pressure medicine but I'm not in the best shape health-wise and my dad was on it by my age too. Mine's still a fairly low dose -- I didn't notice any issues getting mine, the pharmacy even got me a 90-day supply. It's nothing I'll die immediately without, but that doesn't mean...

I've been doing most of my day to day computing on a Surface Laptop Go 2 I got a sweetheart deal on as it had things wrong with it that I fixed. Apart from the soldered memory (to be fair, this allows it to be Fast, LPDDR4 moment) it's actually surprisingly repairable. It's probably the newest...

Every couple of years now there's some new use for GPUs that keeps them expensive. First it was mining crypto, then it was mining crypto again, now it's running AI models, and it looks like this one is going to stick at least for a few years. Maybe once these companies fold we'll start to see...

Things like this are another reason why I just... couldn't.