Recent content by sedrosken

Given the flurry of activity in the nearly three months since the last post... Holy shit. Just holy shit. I thought things would get bad. This is fucking insane.

Yeah, I don't tend to use Jellyfin for library management per se, rather I use it for an easy playback interface that isn't just loading files into VLC or whatever through the network. I find I don't trust anything but myself to do the tagging/album art fetching.

Oh yeah, absolutely.

Unfortunately, I've come to the conclusion that neither can I afford a pet (food/litter is one thing, insurance/vet visits are another) nor can I justify having one around because I live alone and I'm simply not home enough. It wouldn't be fair to them.

Turns out the LaserJet I have did some hours -- it's from a lawyer's home office, but really all it needs is a good can of air let out inside it and a fresh set of toner cartridges. Although it did seem to clear up the yellow dots in the printout after a few test pages printed. It's from 2016...

I got my DCP-L2640DW on sale from OfficeDepot a year or so back for what I felt was a very decent deal, around $150. The MFP model was twice as much and all it has over the DCP is a faxmodem, something that's hardly relevant to my needs. I scan (especially with the feeder) far, FAR more than I...

I've had the Outshine raspberry bars now and I have to say I'm disappointed. The flavor is top notch but the texture is much more akin to a normal popsicle, with very little in the way of fruit bits at all. The Great Value fruit bars are creamier and softer. If Great Value picked up a raspberry...

I'm already not a fan of every storefront needing a system service and Chrome container "app" as it is, I don't want yet another launcher robbing performance. I have a perfectly serviceable launcher and it's called the start menu. :p On my Retroid I use a combination of RetroArch and...

Better off looking at Myrient these days. Vimm bent the knee to DMCA. Most Nintendo titles aren't downloadable there anymore, and a fair few PSP/PS2 games were unobtainium there as well last I tried. Gamecube, PS2 and Wii are well within the reach of most iGPs 11th gen and up, but PS3/360 are...

UPS just found another package I'd considered permanently lost after it went radio silent for almost two weeks. If the tracking is right now, I should get it today.

Perhaps that's the case, but we're a 365/Azure shop first and foremost and are a bit out of our element when we have to support someone who's in Google Workspace. I can and have gotten the job done, but even I'm personally not fond of the way Google tends to do things. At least I can kind-of...

Yeah, throw a copy of Outlook with a giant, uncleaned-for-years mailbox and a few instances of gen-u-ine Adobe-brand Acrobat and maybe a few spreadsheets in Real™ Micro-Soft® Excel©©®©™ and those figures can get pretty nuts, especially if literally anything is running in the background based on...

Walmart's house-brand makes generics of the Outshine bars for a couple bucks cheaper per box, and you get a couple more bars in each box -- I bought the coconut ones to directly compare against the Outshines, and while I could nitpick and say the Outshines have a bit more coconut shavings, they...

Thanks for the insight into the era, Merc. You'd be surprised to hear it but it's not an era a lot of people talk about -- the late 90s, sure, maybe the run up to 2000 in the non-Windows NT world as the various UNIX platforms are apparently more interesting than the one that'd come to dominate...

My headset jack still doesn't work right -- it registers something plugging in but never puts sound out to it. But that's relatively minor. My built-in mic is picked up on now in applications. I've acquired another PIII era laptop, this one is another nice little subnotebook -- a Compaq Evo...