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Probably the first time in my life I've not put off something like this -- scheduled my COVID booster for later today. I'm only about a week late! My first two doses were Pfizer and there's data showing that mixing types can help improve effectiveness, and at worst it won't hurt, so I went with...

I don't know if it's required. I also got my Corolla through a pre-approved loan with my bank, rather than dealer financing, so YMMV. I remember being offered gap insurance, I don't remember if I took it or not, and I was a cheap bastard in June of last year, albeit necessarily so, so it's...

Well, sure, obviously if they can fix it I'd rather they just do that. It'd be a lot healthier for my wallet and I could get something better when I'm actually, you know, prepared for it. I'm just trying to keep my options open in case they say they can't. It'd sure suck to be told that and have...

Well, the 5600G is only, like, 20 bucks extra right now I think. For me, considering I'm running a dGPU anyway, I don't care if it has an iGP or not. In fact I'd prefer to save the money and TDP. Granted, I'm told by reliable sources I want to keep the iGP if I go Intel, because for some reason...

FYI - the Ryzen 5 5500 is US$134.99 on Newegg with a promo code. Not that I expect anyone here to be in need of a budget part like that, but it's a huge leap over my 1600AF in the same power envelope -- my 3700X consumed almost twice the power, so I sent it off to my friend for his 1070 -- so if...

Welp. I've all but signed a lease on a place -- 2 bedrooms, 850 or so sqft, I can use the second bedroom as an office space -- it's not perfect but nothing is down here, you're compromising one way or the other. Given my timeframe for moving I really didn't have time to be picky. There's no...

In my experience, using the baked-in Microsoft drivers leads to sadness, poor performance and/or a complete lack of OpenGL support sometimes even. I've always downloaded the latest and installed them.

nVidia's drivers aren't a paragon of virtue either -- they waste 99% of the download on the GeForce Experience, which I never install, and it just keeps bloating more and more. I remember raising a stink when the driver package passed 300MB a few years back. I was surprised to find it is now...

Personally, in addition to the media collection -- music in FLAC can take up quite a bit of space as my library continues to grow, and movies and such tend to be space hogs as well -- I keep a software archive for tools, games and drivers for everything I currently own. I fetch stuff as needed...

I personally feel like Microsoft doesn't give half a damn about its corporate customers anymore, or Windows 11 as a whole wouldn't have happened. The round of downgrades to the UI -- particularly the taskbar, though the start menu is noticeably crippled too -- feels like them spitting in the...

Almost 100% I'd say. The only thing you really need Win11 for are the P/E core model Alder CPUs -- the scheduler in Win10 has no concept of how to properly make use of that setup and likely never will.

Nothing immediately strikes me as wrong with that. I wouldn't be using them to put together something meant to be used for production -- not having a warranty anymore makes that a dicey proposition -- but for personal use they ought to be fine. (If you're looking to offload a few, let me know...

Like I said, I'm supposed to be inheriting a copy of my home desktop from work -- although I plan to swap the CPU for a 2200G we have spare, so I can pull the GPU -- and if I grab another NIC I can use that for a router. My tentative plans now are to run Proxmox and have VMs for pfSense or...

I'm kinda keeping tabs on this because I'm mostly used to just servicing existing installations for work (usually Ubiquiti or something really simple with consumer routers) but I'd like to figure something else out for my home network once I move. My current setup, a Netgear R6250 with DD-WRT...

Thanks for the heads-up on the book bundle, I bought it and I'll be perusing it when I've got some extra time and can focus on them.

I know a just enough bash to be dangerous, a little bit of powershell, and a distressing amount of batch scripting, so while I'll likely need to brush up I should be okay? I probably need to actually buy and read through a book on powershell sometime. It's the kind of thing that'd be awfully...

I really got lucky ending up where I did. By all rights I shouldn't have been able to get this job, I was completely unqualified, and by some definitions (including my own) it was practically nepotism -- my uncle connected me with my boss. Not only did I get lucky just getting the job, I got...

I have decent credit, especially it's good for my age, so I think I have a decent shot especially if an actual human reviews my application. Hopefully I wasn't late getting to it. If I don't hear anything by mid-day tomorrow I'll call them over lunch. And start throwing my application at some...

That's worrying. I use an MS account personally, but not on my work machine or machines I build to sell.

In another episode of Sedrosken Overshares™, we talk about my renewed living space issues. My roommate/landlord is selling the house, looking to close at the end of June, and this could not be happening at a worse time! I hit salary next month, so I'm not necessarily worried about money...

Seconded on the first point, AMDGPU is indeed far better than really anything else on Linux. As much as I try to run it on my main machine, I end up taking up gaming again or something and end up chafing and reinstalling Windows before too long much as I hate Microsoft as a company. As for the...

Downgraded from the 3700X back to the 1600AF -- it just suits this board better first off, the VRMs were NOT happy trying to adequately feed enough power to the 3700X to keep it boosting at max. Second, I just don't really use the extra power the upgrade afforded me outside some applications I...

I'm actually fine with my car, being perfectly honest, and don't think I want anything newer where the driving is all done by inputs to a computer. The things I had to replace are all either bad luck or timing, or things that should have been replaced anyway. I fully expect to get another 100k...

Forgot to elaborate based on the prior posts I made regarding loans -- apparently my credit is way better than I thought because while I am on a 66mo term (of which I've paid roughly 10), my interest rate is only 3%. I barely qualified for that, and it was likely only because I was asking for so...

Well it's a bit late (I got the car June last year) but I'm now running a 2010 Corolla S. Had 112k on the odo when I got it, has a bit under 120 now, and since I got it it's needed a new alternator, I've replaced the tires (Kumho Ecsta 4x), and had the oil changed twice. It's a perfectly Fine™...

It's one of those things that I notice, but it's not a necessity there for me like it is on my PC.

It's common among younger people to differentiate them from shooters following a more current design paradigm -- also related to Gen Z and Alpha's tendency to call anyone older than them boomers. As in, "okay, boomer" and such. I happen to find the term hilarious despite its inherent inaccuracy...

Name for a subgenre of shooters that follow design conventions of the late 90s for FPS -- either level-based Doom/Quake style action or an Arena style like in UT or Quake III Arena. Halo technically doesn't qualify but I throw it in anyway.

I mean, I typically keep it to 'boomer shooters' anyway (UT99, Quake III, Doom, Halo CE) since I can pick those up on really short notice and get a few rounds in before I get bored and shut it off, and my friends tend to keep them installed for impromptu deathmatches but it's also nice to see...

I had the epiphany that, with all my bulk data offloaded to the NAS, the only thing keeping me on Windows on my personal machine was games. Well, that and iTunes for syncing my iPhone, but I can run that in a VM when I need to. And since I don't really game much anymore -- and what I do play...

Finally got my XR, after a fiasco in which my original order got stuck in Georgia where the handoff from DHL eCommerce and USPS was supposed to take place. Got refunded and ordered from a different seller, even saved a little money doing it, and of course once they finally got it to the post...

Finally nutted up and installed DD-WRT on my router, and then fought with it for another couple hours to get it just-so. Turns out I did not want client bridge mode -- I wanted just plain client mode since this way the router uses whichever radio is configured for it as a WAN connection instead...

I never minded shoveling snow or yard upkeep. I didn't particularly enjoy it but I didn't particularly hate it either. Either one gives me a chance to put on some music (louder, in the case of yard work) and do something mind-numbing while I think about how to get around whatever problems I...

Successfully moved (in one trip, no less, but I cheated by enlisting the help of two other vehicles) on Friday. Aside from pulling both biceps because I really ought to have stretched before picking up a 90lb CRT television, and generally just being sore, I'm alright. I can finally use the...

I'll be 24 in July, and I just signed a lease to rent a room closer to where I work. Not a house, or an apartment -- a room. Property values are getting that ridiculous down here, I found the best deal I could ($850/mo including utilities, others are ~700-800mo with separate utilities) and took...

Unfortunately right now I really don't make enough to properly contribute to retirement savings, that'll happen later on or possibly not at all depending on how bad things get in the future. By the time I'm old enough, if they stop moving the goalposts that is, there likely won't be any social...

At the risk of sounding entirely too old for my age, I've been trying to (and doing pretty well at) cutting back on soda entirely, and eating sugar in more moderation. A. I'd like to not develop diabetes, B. I'd like to keep my teeth, and C. they're just too damn expensive. Thankfully I've...

And I finally pulled the trigger on a three version old XR. I ordered one that was specified as being in "Excellent" condition, we'll see how good of a job they did refurbishing it when I have it in hand. I ended up going with a 128GB because I don't really need to carry 6+ days worth of music...

I think I have a Windows 7 install kicking around somewhere that I can hash-compare these to, if it'd make you feel better. I prefer these to the UWP downgrades anyday.

It's worth noting that the "two versions old" iPhone, the 11, will likely have complete software support through 2025 if not longer. Apple's still selling it new, even. They are rather expensive, though.

Unfortunately if I want my career to progress at all I don't think I can avoid it. I'd prefer to -- and I'd managed to up until now, but... I need to start racking up certs to pin there, too. I think I'll start with the A+, Network+, and Security+ stuff and work upwards from there. I could...

Yeah, I just went and disabled fTPM in my main's UEFI settings. I'm leaving it on my work laptop -- if it gets force-upgraded, I can then push for my boss to acquire some LTSC licenses :) It helps that I keep image backups of that laptop made roughly once a week. I left it alone on my personal...

I really need to re-learn how to smile properly for photos. I had some shots taken professionally today for my LinkedIn and in a full half of them I look like a psychopath. Had a couple choice ones that I think came out really well, though, and the photographer's services came out remarkably...

Hmm. There's an option, I could keep an eye out for a TMobile specific A52 5G used. Still, the XR has every US band, so it covers me well if in a year I decide to switch providers... I knew Mint was a T-Mobile MVNO, it's why I went with them at the time -- T-Mobile simply has the best coverage...

Fact remains that I have the service and I'm going to use it. I will not finance or get a phone on contract. Stuff has changed too drastically too often in my life to where every time I've done that so far, I've been burned. So I buy unlocked and outright, or I don't buy at all. I've had an...

According to the site I used (kimovil, at the recommendation of a few of my friends -- GSMArena tends to parrot the same band specs for a lot of phones from what I can tell) the A52 US model picks up band 12 but not 71. What source are you using? Maybe it's more accurate than mine?

Soooooo as it turns out I'm a complete moron. Mint uses LTE bands 2, 4, 12 and 71. My Moto G Power supports only 2 and 4. I'd been wondering why I've had such weird signal cutout issues -- it only supports half the bands the network uses to function. And it gets even better -- most budget...

Extremely small company. No. But I'm doing better now than I was then -- y'see, it's a little problematic to prescribe breathing exercises to one whose anxiety stems from the fact that they can't breathe like they feel like they should be able to. It just sucks that the only significant symptom...

Yeah, I try to limit my exposure to the outside world for that reason -- I live in northwest Florida now, or lower alabama as the locals sometimes call it, and I was once cursed at just for wearing my mask, not even suggesting that anyone else should wear one. This was my second go around and...

I'm fine, don't worry. I was given one as part of my "home care" kit when I left the hospital after getting tested. My symptoms were surprisingly mild considering my co-morbidities, and I'm over it now. Worst my O2 saturation ever got was, like, 92, and that was when I was asleep. Typical awake...