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Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.My part of the world has just had terrible storms. Sustained 90mph winds. There are a million people in Northwest Indiana and Chicago's... -
Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.I don't exactly jump at the chance to go to baseball games, but the place where White Sox play is uniquely awful. Wrigley field has a...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.I've been using bifocals since I was six. I can't get contacts in my eyes, either. Other people can't get contacts in my eyes. My vision...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Selfhosting fun.I bought an $80 thing off Amazon with one of those Realtek chips on it. It's plugged in to a 10Gbit USB 3.2v1 port. It works-ish at...
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Mercutio replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.I didn't even mention the m.2 adapter on the table because the Beelink would have no internal space for the port unless you want to...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.A lot of my family lives around the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Were we in a relative-visiting time of year, it would...
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Mercutio replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.There are some sellers on AliExpress offering 10GbE over USB 3.2v2 using some Realtek chip or other. Relatively few desktops have USB...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Merc's Useful Tools of the day.beets is an incredibly flexible music tagging tool. It's just a Python script, actually, but it has fantastic flexibility in how it tags...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.I have a giant OLED TV and a great audio setup in my living room but man, but going to the movie theater is a treat. In the last three...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Here is a thread to talk about gaming.You could always set up robocopy or something to run periodically so your desktop and notebook stay in sync. Unless you're in the habit...
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Mercutio replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.A Sandisk support representative just told me that my use of multiple partitions on a 500GB Ultra Fit is a completely valid reason for...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Here is a thread to talk about gaming.There's some wisdom in having a file server for your stuff, even if it just replicates the stuff on your desktop. Since you're only...
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Mercutio replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.You can get multi-bay 2.5" SATA enclosures but I think that if you're trying to get dual SATA AND dual NMVe, you're talking about either...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Merc's Useful Tools of the day.FFactions has a integrates a crap-ton of useful FFmpeg operations into your Windows context menu. I found this because I have a folder...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Here is a thread to talk about gaming.I have to confess that part of my reasoning behind not taking the steps to make my CachyOS clients cleaner desktop systems was the...