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Something I have just realized is that there really aren't contemporary, budget Intel notebooks any more. There are some Celeron-grade options, but it's almost impossible to find a sub-$500 laptop with a current Core-series CPU in it. Even the modest Core 5 120U mostly lives in $500+ models. I...

It's easier to remote in to a session that's on a single coherent system than to try something like that. I've never had good luck with true portability.

I picked up a Meike 35/2 lens for my A7iii for $160. I am actually shocked how well it works for such a low cost camera lens. It has an ultrasonic motor so it works really well for video and it focuses quickly. My Canon RF 1.8 is still a better lens overall but as a native lens for my Sony, I'm...

Libraries are full of woke and thoughtcrime and if you can find a librarian under 50 who isn't at least secretly a blue-haired queer (he typed, noting his own hair choices) commie socialist antifa with a crippling addiction to merino wool yarn and subversive board games, you clearly found the...

There's a giant "it depends" that's based on your expected workload. Do you need fast burst transfers or sustained IOPs? I bought 4x Acer GM7000 2TB drives for $115/drive yesterday. They're somewhat above average in terms of performance but at the price, I couldn't find anything better. The...

Rufus, my favorite way to make bootable installation media, is in the Windows Store now. I don't know if it's any different for being in there, but since some of its key features involve disabling and ignoring Windows installation requirements, but I'm happy to see it there if only to keep from...

sed, have you ever actually used OS/2? It really was a great idea for its time, especially if you were looking at it versus Windows 3.1 or even NT 3.5. The big down side at the time was just getting a PC with the resources to run it alongside the DOS and 16-bit Windows software you probably...

Man, I don't think anything Compaq made deserved a decent reputation even into the mid-90s when 486s started to become mainstream. I should note that was the point when product lines started to segregate and we got consumer and business systems, but Compaq was always one of those companies that...

~$10/month to get a Fax-enabled number from these guys. This is pretty reasonable. Efax wants $25/month so screw that. Apparently most of the demand for Fax still exists because Faxing was straight up excluded from a lot of compliance regulations. One of my customers lives and dies by a $25...

Email. Faxing is just a print driver on everything made this millennium. There are services like eFax if you don't feel like using a land line just to deal with faxes.

Give GoG some credit. They're the people who let you keep installation media for your purchases and install them anywhere you want. Probably a better deal for your Hentai Furry BDSM Clown Porn title than the service where most people have their badges and game play activity available for public...

As of this writing, there isn't much time, but as a protest over the recent actions of Steam and itch.io to de-list certain adults-only game software, Gog.com is giving a bunch of those games away. Many of the games in question are X-rated visual novels but Postal 2 and Agony aren't.

I have both an AMD Thinkpad P14s (Ryzen 7 8845) and Intel (Core Ultra 165H) for the weekend. They both came from Amazon and I bought one of each just because. For having the same name, they're NOT the same computer. The AMD version is a little bit lighter and has a smaller screen, while the...

I've tested it over OpenVPN, Wireguard, Tailscale, Hamachi and Zerotier. They all work fine, though Tailscale seems to be the fastest option, at least for moving the same 15MB .CR3 file back and forth. I'm hesitant to try access over a Cloudflare tunnel since they do tell free tier users...

It took me about 90 seconds to get Copyparty running and about ten minutes to get it running with what I feel is a reasonable config with limited security and correct volume mapping. The main advantage I see to it at this point is that it's much, much faster for access on my Android, ChromeOS...

For the next two weeks (middle of August 2025), Humble Bundle is offering CorelDraw Suite (functionally Photoshop + Illustrator for the Adobe-inclined) for $70.

Copyparty looks all kinds of interesting to me. Especially for the media controls and ability to deduplicate content. I haven't deployed it anywhere yet but it's on my agenda for this week.

Apparently, one of the updates currently being tested in Windows 11 25H2 is an update to the Mixer application that will allow sound output from multiple devices simultaneously. Android has been able to do sound to multiple bluetooth devices or output to both speaker and bluetooth for years, so...

We're old. Except sed.

I have to watch sugar too much to have a popsicle-filled life. 😭

The main value I have for the X1 is as a tablet that can be taken apart without destroying the damned thing. I have an old Surface Pro that I had to chip the screen off completely to get to its drive, so I usually show those systems off side by side as a teaching aid.

I'm not sure if this is a tech tip or Malware removal but I'll post it since someone asked me to type it up for their needs anyway. Group Policy Objects for fun and profit. At specific issue is Copilot, but I addressed OneDrive while I was at it since I just hate it that much. 1. In general...

Somewhere in my piles of discarded nonsense, I have a Thinkpad X1 tablet. I liked the form factor but it was actively unpleasant to use for either Windows 10 or Linux. To its credit, it is the only tablet PC I've ever seen that can have internal parts swapped, so for example I could add more RAM...

Your lenses likely have decent value if you have any beyond the standard kit option, or you may find a young person who would just be happy to have a camera body at all and pass it on to them. If you happen to know a young mother, I've yet to meet one who didn't want one who didn't want to take...

My goal with this new guy is to get a Tamron or Rokinon 35 - 150/2-2.8 FE mount lens. They're relatively affordable and the variable aperture zoom is all on the fast end of the scale. It's a lens that doesn't have an equivalent in Canon's ecosystem and truly could be a single lens for almost...

I just found Operese, someone's project to upgrade Windows 10 straight in to Kubuntu. It maintains user data folders, but the install can be kicked off directly from Windows, which seems pretty sweet to me. There isn't even a working web site for it yet, but the project is interesting enough...

I hit up a "Bin Store" today, a place where they re-sell returned items from Amazon and other big internet retailers. I found a new, complete Sony A7 iii with the 24-70/3.5 - 5.6 kit lens for $200. Absolutely nothing wrong with it except the retail box was mangled. Full frame, 24MP, 4k30...

Gross

You say that now but the disease only spreads unless you kill it with fire. Or cilastatin. But fire is better since it doesn't promote resistance.

You're dead to me.

I think I can click "Scan Now" an awful lot of times for $30, but your mileage may vary. To be clear, I have asked that people buy MBAM, but they're people who have displayed the special talent of having infections literally every time Iook, in spite of other precautions I have taken to keep...

These are the drawbacks to apartment living for sure. My current issue is that my mechanic shop doesn't seem to be responsive about getting a list of parts for me to buy. I want to obtain Honda OEM parts. I'm aware that most parts that could be used on my car will be Chinese knock-offs and I'd...

That's actually great news. Gödel, I'm more of a Hide the Pain Harold sorta guy. That's pretty true to life experience at the moment.

If you haven't done so in a while, maybe run Malwarebytes on your PCs. A crap ton of formerly legitimate chrome and edge addons got re-classed as malware over the weekend after updates made them all part of a web scraper network. I had a color picker tool installed in Chrome that seems to have...

Winamp has an EQ.

I still don't have a place to do the work, jtr, nor any appropriate tools. Nor anyplace to put ramps when I am not using them.

Sadly, I don't have access to anyplace with facilities for safely working on a car. I suspect my landlord would take exception to me trying to do any serious work in our parking lot and it's not like I live in the best area. I don't know anyone with tools for car work either, so given the...

Well, I let a drive train specialist look at my car. His official diagnosis is that the people at my original mechanic's shop just encountered a sound they didn't want to look into and so wrote it off as someone else's problem. I still need work on my car, but it's basically all suspension...

A Samsung S23/23+ is worth about the same amount as an iphone 14. You can also find Samsung S24FE, a Pixel 8 or 9a or 2025 Moto G Power for somewhere between $300 and $400. Another curious option is the Samsung A56, which isn't MEANT to be sold in the USA, but can used on US networks. The A5x...

iOS is evil and should not be countenanced. Some fun things to know: There are three and a half real phone carriers in the US, Tmobile, Verizon, AT&T and the half is US Cellular, which is only available in some parts of the US Midwest. There are DOZENS of MVNOs, resellers of services from one...

I think I got a death sentence for my Element today. I'm going to get a second opinion but my mechanic seems to think I need my rear differential replaced at a cost roughly on par with the value of my car. I am not sure what I want to do about it, but I haven't had a car payment in 10 years and...

Given that they tend to live in places that are pretty hard to get to, like private islands, fortified mountain compounds and Montana, I'm not sure digging them out would be the best use of limited revolutionary resources.

I think there is only one name being protected. Not the minimize the issue, but the fact that actual millions of deaths can be laid at Trump's feet for his administration's handling of Covid, not to mention the cuts to medicaid and food assistance that will kill even more, is a far greater crime...

The people working at the three letter agencies are just as Trumpy as everyone else. No one is coming to save us from ourselves. I don't believe that a poor showing in 2026 elections will be allowed to stand. I think we're done.

Honestly, even pictures of NYC have value. It is the epicenter of Western Culture, after all.

Google AI Studio. AI doesn't do a whole lot for me and I kind of think most of the people who are pushing it have no idea what people actually DO with their devices or for their jobs, but my partner actually brought this to my attention: AI Studio can interact with live audio video, either from...

First thing is there are no blue states. There are CITIES and not-cities. Everyone has access to the same tech and same training, and you're as likely to find urban and rural dwellers who know how to conduct drone warfare or cybercrime. What cities largely don't have is a widely distributed...

There is something wrong with your PC if Firefox is using 100% of your CPU. Maybe you're missing some video codec and stuck rendering something that should be handled by a GPU on your processor? Every browser is a RAM hog. All of them. Especially if you're blocking ads, which IMO is not...

Mubs, I've never heard of that. Maybe it is something in the full driver package that nobody bothers to install? I use 3x 32" displays with the one on my left in portrait mode, plus my Samsung tablet as a drawing tablet/display. My 4k screen is set to 125% scale but the others are just 100%...

Firefox with non-crippled ublock origin.