Recent content by Mercutio

As I mentioned in the Gaming thread over in the Pub, CachyOS is really fuss free, especially for something based on the normally extremely fussy Arch Linux. I had to do one entire thing to enable GoG, Epic and Amazon game support and controllers and bluetooth both worked out of the box on...

The steps to get CachyOS running were extremely straightforward. With the handheld edition, it boots to Steam Big Picture. Controllers just worked in that mode. I needed to do some nonstandard configuration to make things work, but if I just wanted to use Steam on Linux, it's done at that point...

I have a large main room that's meant to be a living and dining room, a very small kitchen, and two bedrooms with two walk in closets. The dining area normally hosts a desk for streaming and is typically the best-looking part of the house. My back bedroom is the tech room, where I do whatever...

Everyone's favorite of my cats, Hiro, was dumped right in front of me on December 22, 2006. Someone threw him out of a car. A nice car, even. A Lincoln or Caddy. The new guy is very friendly and entirely too talkative to not be someone's. The oldest of my cats might be eight years old, so I'll...

I had another stray enter my life. We've decided that his name shall be Ladle, although Soup was also a strong contender. Ladle was clearly someone's pet. He's entirely too affectionate to be feral, but around a week ago, he managed to get in my apartment building and he's been mooching door to...

Here we go: My place is about to be turned into a PC gaming cafe. One of my friends is in what I'm going to call a housing transition, which is to say she's couch surfing. She has three kids over five, and there's a 10 and 12 year old who also show up at my place regularly as well. One of...

Blackmagic Resolve, my video editor of choice, just added full digital darkroom support. It does Lightroom/Capture 1 stuff now. This is particularly interesting to me see it's also very good at using CPU and GPU resources it's given, which isn't always the case with non-destructive photo...

I've gone ahead and applied the fix to make sure even Windows Home systems I work with have Gpedit and I've scripted the GPO imports I even have a script that specifically sets up non-GPO-able Registry changes that I can set up to run from the Windows Startup Script because there are that many...

Here's a fun thing you can do if you never want Windows Search to send you to Bing ever the fuck again: Open Regedit HKLM > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrerntVersion > Search Create a 32 bit Dword called BingSearchEnabled Set it to 0 Bliss

Today I wish to celebrate my sole remaining Ryzen 2700x, which I can stick in any AM4 motherboard and upgrade to support arbitrary Zen 3-whatever. It has been a real Bro for enabling upgrades to Vermeer-class CPUs even on crappy A320 boards. I did not know there were so many AM4 Athlon systems...

You can just assign 192.168.100.2 as a secondary IP on whatever workstation and access the administrative interface. In Windows, it's a lot easier to do this through ye olde Control Panel, in Network and Sharing Center, Network Adapters, whatever, Properties, IPv4, Properties, Add. You can also...

I have a number of SSDs large enough to bother to RMA. 500GB and smaller? I'm not going to mess with them, although I have several I know aren't working. Crucial just let me make an RMA on a pair of 1TB drives. No big deal and they're already on their way back. TeamGroup accepted a RMA on 2TB...

Many ISP modems have a home router mode and a bridge mode. Bridge mode doesn't try to do anything besides forward packets to the internal interface(s). Home Router mode will have NAT, DNS and Firewall functionality. You may want to look to see if you can access the management interface on your...

I run a PC building class for my local community center once a year. It's happening Mondays all through April. I have a dozen people for it. I have some e-waste systems I'll have them put together, fine, but explaining to everyone that there has never in my life been a worse time to build a PC...

I've been looking for an affordable USB to 10GbE solution for a while and this is looking really appealing right now. They're $80, work from USB4 or Thunderbolt and are from an OEM I've actually used before. There are some less expensive options on AliExpress, including some that say they can...