Recent content by Mercutio

I set up somebody's 55" TV a couple weeks ago. My standard practice is to ignore the TV's internal OS. WebOS isn't as bad as Tizen, but they're both pretty bad. A model year 2025 LG TV would NOT proceed to display anything until its terms of service were accepted. Shut up and be a display. I do...

Bitlocker on Windows 11, Server 22 and Server 25 can be entirely bypassed via a trivial exploit. The main mitigation is to turn off the Recovery partition in Windows. So that's cool.

A bunch of old UEFI keys expired last month. New ones come with Windows update. What do you do if you're not running Windows to get new keys? Fuck you, that's what. But anyone running Linux probably knows they can just turn it off in the first place and not hurt a damned thing, but major PC OEMs...

My glasses finally came in. We get used to whatever way we see but holy crap my old lenses were actually probably dangerous to keep wearing.

Actually, here's a follow up to that last video. In context, the previous video had some potential impact on mDNS resolution (Bonjour etc) and this one does not.

Just think of the resources and personnel being devoted to keeping his corpse out of the ground and realize the statistical certainty that there's that many fewer minutes those doctor, nurses and aides could have helped someone who definitely meets all the criteria for being 1. alive and 2...

I dislike consoles on a variety of levels, starting with the fact that two of them are just crippled PCs now but continuing with the attending clutter they create because none of the console manufacturers can agree on what constitutes a gamepad, headset or storage device. There was a point in...

My partner genuinely loves it. She's otherwise a Tequila snob. She's also started drinking beer since she moved to Florida. That's the one that actually disgusts me. I got to talk to a guy today who was the primary representative of a class action suit that went all the way to the US Supreme...

Honestly, if you were following their published documentation, it should be a much higher discount. Sony's President sold something like 50% of his shares in the company today, which doesn't sound like a vote of confidence in the business, and Microsoft laid an ungodly number of people in the...

My partner is a huge fan of it. Most people say it is the most disgusting spirit bar none. The kindest description I've heard is that it tastes "herbaceous." The company that makes it is also the only distributor for it, so if you find someplace that carries it, it's because they very...

There are many other fine spirits. Have you considered Malört?

Just saw this. This can be a bookmark for several of us.

I just barely know the name Taylor Swift and nothing about the other person. On the other hand, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell is apparently (literally) brain dead but on life support just to fuck up the midterms. Just like he fucked over Obama getting to nominate Merrick Garland as a...

Apparently there is such a thing as a low power RJ45-SFP+ transceiver but I just used whatever I found first. The indoor temperature at my place might be a contributing factor.

I actually backed the Kickstarter to get a Comet Q, a USB-C all in one IPKVM, and a Comet Pro X, a 4-port IPKVM. The two devices put together came to just under $300. I think the USB-C system can work with a Mini PC, although GL.inet says it's intended for access to a notebook or tablet instead...