Recent content by Mercutio

There is no doubt in my mind that something very similar to all of this this played out in Washington DC last week.

There's a trinity of factors that have to be in place prior to use of deadly force: Capability, Intent and Opportunity. This is a universal standard for law enforcement in the USA. At most, Mrs. Good could be seen as having opportunity, and only if you consider the possibility that driving a...

Did you watch any video of the event other than the one the Administration posted on its official instruments? Sarah Good's truck tires were pointed away from the ICE Officer. He was in no danger of being hit. None. Not even a tiny little bit. He had no lawful reason to fire at her. Even if Mrs...

This guy has a set of scripts to kill pretty much all the AI nonsense baked into Windows in one shot. https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

Since I finally got annoyed enough to deal with it, one actual "improvement" in the latest version of Office (365 or 2024) is that there's now a heading under options specifically for Copilot and generally only a single checkbox to turn it off. Excel has an option that says "Only for highly...

Just found this guy, who sells among other things, x16 to 2x x8 PCIe adapters and multiple varieties of SlimSAS (i.e. nvme) host adapters. His hardware looks like it all expects Bifurcation support, so it'll generally only work on AMD or Xeon hardware. All of it is somewhat affordable, around...

I actually used an 8GB Ideapad 1 7520u (these are Zen 2 chips since AMD can't be bothered to name things clearly across product lines) quite a bit over December. I found it entirely tolerable for running Office and Firefox. I spent a lot of time updating documentation and deliberately limited...

This will be a thing where the OEMs are just going to be happy to see costs per unit go up, so people who need new systems will be generally willing to pay more than they would five years ago. It's been a while since entry level was closer to $500 than $350, but I think we're going there. When...

nVidia brought zero new consumer products to CES this year and has apparently sharply reduced the number of 506x and 505x GPUs it's planning to ship in 2026 in favor of restarting production on the 3060. So if you were hoping to get a new RTX-something, maybe don't get your hopes up. Neither...

I've never lost a phone before, but continuing the trend of things that suck, my friend's kid tossed my phone out my car window when I didn't want to stop at McDonald's. My old phone is currently somewhere on I294 in approximately Harvey, Illinois and I'm not going back for it. I'm told the...

You found the one good K7S5A. I'm sure they made millions of those things but holy statistical outliers, Batman.

FWIW I suspect the reasons in this case might have been more like "There's no one on site to monitor the cameras." Gary somehow magically misses out on a lot of state grants and programs that other nearby school districts seem to get easily. I DO live in one of only two blue regions in Indiana...

He absolutely believes that he's the most popular president of all time. I suspect that his handlers don't allow him to see anything that contradicts that. It's a cold comfort, but apparently he's been getting regular MRIs and he keeps being given cognitive tests that one might offer dementia...

Since I have recently exchanged words with my folks on this topic: I no longer see National Public Radio as a worthwhile news source; since the second Bush Administration and definitely during the Obama Administration, it became increasingly willing to allow unchecked commentary from right-wing...

I've kind of spent the last few days in shock over what's been going on overall. One of the things that seems particularly awful is that these people have still had to do regular things like call off work or go and pretend nothing has happened. My one friend gets out of the hospital tomorrow. I...