Recent content by Mercutio

It's going to be hilarious when the US get evicted from every military base it has in Europe.

This thing prevents cat-related uptime issues.

Apparently, the next version of Windows will be essentially immutable, just as ChromeOS, Android, iOS, MacOS and some versions of Linux are. The idea is that there will be a compatibility layer for software that expects to make changes inside the Windows directory. On one hand, this isn't a...

I have a shelf in my living room where my deceased cats stay. I put them in wooden jewelry boxes and keep them next to my favorite books.

If the US has an open, shooting war with itself, the global economy is toast. I don't think that's likely. It's not going to be Red v Blue. It'll probably look a lot more like non-stop terrorist attacks on what are perceived to be centers of power for either side, although it could be more open...

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...