Recent content by sedrosken

I chipped a tooth clenching my jaw at that. Holy shit. All of a sudden I absolutely understand the line about not being taken alive.

Houses are a liability right up until it's time to sell. And I doubt I'll ever be able to afford one anyway.

The thing I hate about actual big-iron servers is that it's never enough for you to just buy the hardware you need, you also have to keep licenses for every little thing it can do. Computing has been a subscription service for a long time in that regard, enough so that the switch to cloud...

In this case I'm not accessing anything actually sensitive with these old machines, I know better than that, I'd just prefer not to literally be broadcasting what I'm doing in plaintext. Usually, I'm listening to something from my music library, or fetching installation media from my server for...

The build is finished and surprisingly ended up with a Sound Blaster Live. I abandoned any hope of running DOS games on it when it refused to put anything in either PCI slot any lower than IRQ9. I then ran Windows 2000 on it for a while before chafing at issues with the Extended Kernel project...

Considering an iPhone won't even let you have two concurrent VPN connections at all, that's not likely. However, I was able to share my VPN tunnel from my laptop through ICS, so that's a good last-ditch thing if I really need it -- comes in handy, but I do like my stuff being able to stand on...

When I take old stuff with me on the road to have something to amuse myself with, I often need resources that are locked on my home network, and even through a VPN I get better throughput than if I were to copy stuff over USB 1.1. While the strength of that encryption doesn't need to be very...

I borrowed a Cloud Gateway Ultra we had in stock that was sans its box (so we can't just sell it) to get a config set up for my home stuff and figure if I was going to use it long-term or not. If I do end up putting it into service long-term, I'll just buy one boxed myself and bring it in to be...

It almost certainly is. Most of my graphics problems on Linux have nVidia to blame. Which is kind of a problem considering the most recent Steam survey has them at 85% of the market, still. Admittedly, myself, remote desktop (specifically HOSTING a remote desktop) is still extremely...

What kind of setup were you running that Wayland didn't just work out of the box for you? I'm running a RX 5700 with a 1440p120 display and a 1080p60 on its side and everything just worked for me, in fact I usually have to fuss around more with Xorg at this point. I'm on Debian 13 with KDE, I...

We use a lot of Ubiquiti in our shop and I can vouch for it -- everything I need (and most of the stuff I want, too) and it's honestly pretty straightforward. You have advanced settings if you really want them, but the defaults are pretty sane. If you get the CGU, it can manage your APs and...

In a couple years, any platform that can't give the "are you an adult" flag won't be allowed to load most websites, most likely.

I'll look more into that when the helpdesk team takes over more duties to turn my job into much more of a traditional 9-5 instead of 9-5 plus being on-call for everything 24/7. It's nerve-wracking enough just trying to schedule in time with friends and family without having call anxiety. It...

I had to tune out from the news. It's getting to the point where it's all that's in my algorithms and I just can't handle it anymore. I'm starting to have fucking panic attacks when I wake up in the morning wondering "what's happened now".

I’m not even talking about the kind of stuff that gets printed and sold behind the counter. No, I’m talking about the shock sites and various prototypes to stuff you’d find on LiveLeak now. I won’t name anything in specific, and I doubt I’ve seen anything outright illegal more than just...