Recent content by Mercutio

What happens if you turn off the Firewall on your Linux PC before you search?

Windows? Linux? What are you using to host your music? Dedicated server application or just Windows Media player?

Apparently the Asus ROG Ally Xbox edition can be had for around $400 on Ebay and from sellers with dozens of positive feedback ratings, presumably because everyone thinks Xbox is a dirty word now. Arch-derived Linux flavors like CachyOS and SteamOS are going through it right now because a...

My tires were purchased at Costco, which does indeed cover replacement from road hazards. It's a pro-rated coverage, so I do have to pay something like $650 to get replacements, but that's better than $1600 for a new set. I've always paid for high-mileage tires, but since my car uses an odd...

My power is back on for the first time since Thursday night. We had tornadoes through this area, and may have more today. Yay. Even worse, as designated Uber for a bunch of single moms, I spent my power-free weekend driving people to Costco/Sam's Club/BJs and on Sunday I ran over a...

Sadly torture won't actually get you your money back.

I know people with big followings on IG, Snapchat or Twitter but posting a random GoFundMe between the thirst traps would cost them thousands of followers.

Microsoft's Xbox executive: Sucks to be them, huh? Emudeck is absolutely on my shit list. Seems like every time it updates, I have to update the path to individual emulator binaries on each of my game systems. And then I have to execute titles that use those Emulators in Steam Rom Manager...

FTX was a highly regarded Crypto Exchange once upon a time. I have no idea how to promote a GoFundMe. Social media? Does anyone here use that?

Manifestv2 has been on death's door for about a year as it is. They said summer of 2026 a while ago and time has flown as expected. I transitioned everyone I manage to uBlock Lite instead. It doesn't work as well but that's exactly why it's acceptable to Google and MS in the first place.

You do still have assets and presumably those do have value that exceed your current financial obligations to someone. There's probably an instrument to use those to get back on solid ground. A Crypto IPO probably isn't a ticket to wealth unless you're set up as a pre-offering owner of the...

One of Firefox's primary developers has merged Brave's open source ad blocking engine into the Firefox code base. I don't think it's in current releases and I don't think it will be as thorough as fully functional uBo, but if it's something I can enable by default through ADMX files on systems...

I have a small claims judgment against Samsung over a misdirected RMA shipment, but I can't figure out how to collect on it. I sort of have a dream of visiting an office or a trade booth and just walking off with something petty, like a chair from a waiting room.

Joe, have you examined City resources for addressing your situation? I do see that there are programs in your Borough and City-wide for helping out older persons as well as programs run by Con Ed. I'm not entirely sure what you might qualify for, but surely it is a better option to consider than...

One of the more interesting things I've done with it is to translate code I've already written and in some cases used for years and years and made into some other language. Perl scripts I wrote in the 90s look like line noise but they can become very readable Python, for example. Not so much...