Recent content by Mercutio

I'm on a 5TB Google One on my persona Gmail, which gives me Gemini Plus. I bought in to somebody's Gemini Pro through G2A. I do see that there's a difference in the reasoning models I can use on one versus the other. One of the things I can see is that I can feel "Pro" vastly larger files and...

It's fairly tangential to Windows 11 as such, but the newly announced version of MacOS does not support any Intel hardware. If they aren't releasing x86 binaries, that's the end of the road for the Hackintosh community as well, and that's one less choice for the rest of us as well.

Knowing that we're looking at the "new" 5800X3D in about a week and a half, I should point out that the 5900X is around $250 and the 5900XT, a CPU that is only 18 months old, is $280. Both are considerably faster than the 5800X3D if you have any kind of non-gaming workload and fairly negligibly...

I've never, ever, ever had a fraud issue with G2A. If they're ripping off Microsoft or Google or Valve or anyone who makes the mistake of using Valve for distribution, that sounds like other people problems to me.

I paid $12 for 15 months of access to a Gemini Pro plan from G2A on a tertiary Google account I have after seeing how stupid cheap they are on G2A.com. I feel a little dirty about it, but I did want to know what it can do since people keep asking me about it. So far, I had to join a newly made...

I don't think we're getting vastly more efficient anything unless there's some staggering breakthrough in materials science. Germanium-based wafers or the like. We're already deep into diminishing returns; 5nm to 4nm didn't move the efficiency needle much for CPUs or GPUs, and I don't think...

"Crawling" might be a strong word. But what else will they do if rackmounted compute hardware isn't consuming every bit of capital expenditure in tech? Without OpenAI and Anthropic driving demand, why vastly overspecialize in high bandwidth memory? The bubble popping will be UGLY. Not just...

Microsoft, one of the most well financed and wealthy companies to ever exist on Earth, started charging for Copilot Code tokens at their actual monetary value yesterday instead of heavily subsidizing them on June 1, 2026. Today, many Copilot Code users have discovered that their day-one use of...

The Beelink Ex Mate is a $200 Direct-Attach USB 4 dock with 4x m.2 ports, 2.5GbE and even a decent Bluetooth speaker. Personally, having a network port that isn't at least 10Gb leaves me a little limp, but somebody stuck working full time on a laptop or mini-PC might see this thing as a...

When you create a site within a Reverse Tunnel Bridge on Cloudflare, you can specify an authentication method. You can assign usernames and passwords of your own or use something like a Google or Microsoft account. I think you can require an authenticator app as well, but that's more obnoxious...

I have Immich instances hosted in my home. I have access to them arbitrated by a Google sign in before Cloudflare allows traffic on to the relevant server, where they have to sign in a second time. There are traffic authorization rules you can set on reverse tunnels. I think they're very...

My company's developer laptops are a sore point right now for much the same reason, actually. RAM pricing just makes replacing what we have impossible. 10th Anniversary 5800X3D has a launch date, June 25th, and a $349 MSRP that will probably immediately be pushed up to $500 as stock vanishes...

I use mutiple Immich Instances that each have their own hostname in a Cloudflare reverse tunnel to arbitrate external access for the people who trust me to keep their photos private or things from my personal life separate from the work I do. Recently, I've been making use of MergerFS to gather...

AI companies more or less bought out the entire year's production DRAM production from Samsung, SK/Hynix and Micron, the NAND Flash production from everybody who does THAT (fuck you if you wanted a thumb drive or SD card, let alone a new SSD) and also every spinning drive from Seagate and WD...

I am currently thanking my lucky stars that I've been pulling RAM and SSDs out of e-waste systems any time I'm asked to dispose of things. It doesn't help for DDR5 but 2 or 4GB DDR4/2666 and 240GB 2.5" drives I have a'plenty. Mostly, if I need some of either, I probably have it in a bin in my...