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Here's a fun thing you can do if you never want Windows Search to send you to Bing ever the fuck again: Open Regedit HKLM > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrerntVersion > Search Create a 32 bit Dword called BingSearchEnabled Set it to 0 Bliss

Today I wish to celebrate my sole remaining Ryzen 2700x, which I can stick in any AM4 motherboard and upgrade to support arbitrary Zen 3-whatever. It has been a real Bro for enabling upgrades to Vermeer-class CPUs even on crappy A320 boards. I did not know there were so many AM4 Athlon systems...

You can just assign 192.168.100.2 as a secondary IP on whatever workstation and access the administrative interface. In Windows, it's a lot easier to do this through ye olde Control Panel, in Network and Sharing Center, Network Adapters, whatever, Properties, IPv4, Properties, Add. You can also...

I have a number of SSDs large enough to bother to RMA. 500GB and smaller? I'm not going to mess with them, although I have several I know aren't working. Crucial just let me make an RMA on a pair of 1TB drives. No big deal and they're already on their way back. TeamGroup accepted a RMA on 2TB...

Many ISP modems have a home router mode and a bridge mode. Bridge mode doesn't try to do anything besides forward packets to the internal interface(s). Home Router mode will have NAT, DNS and Firewall functionality. You may want to look to see if you can access the management interface on your...

I run a PC building class for my local community center once a year. It's happening Mondays all through April. I have a dozen people for it. I have some e-waste systems I'll have them put together, fine, but explaining to everyone that there has never in my life been a worse time to build a PC...

I've been looking for an affordable USB to 10GbE solution for a while and this is looking really appealing right now. They're $80, work from USB4 or Thunderbolt and are from an OEM I've actually used before. There are some less expensive options on AliExpress, including some that say they can...

Google Play Books will invert easily if the documents are smaller than 100MB total. 100MB is a bit light for my needs because I often have giant role playing manuals open, but that's answer A. I also a Komga back-end with Moon+ Reader as a client as a self-hosted solution since, as I said...

I did a "$1000" build with a Ryzen 5700, 16GB DDR4-3200, a 1TB SATA SSD and a secondhand RTX 4060 on Sunday. I already had the RAM and drive on hand and I'm not proud of the chassis and PSU I wound up putting those parts in, but based on fair market value, that's a $1000 PC right now. If RAM...

My partner roasts me for playing 25+ year old games on obscene hardware, but I like to have an understanding of what I'm getting into when I play a game at all. I've been slowly enjoying Menace but it takes me 90 minutes to two hours to play one mission, where I know exactly what I'm getting...

RCS 4 will support native video calling in your SMS (well, RCS) messaging application as a standard. Pixels and a few Samsung phones now directly support Apple Airdrop as well. I'm not sure why they bothered when QuickShare exists and already works with literally everything, but it might be nice...

... and here we have the actual Nazi shit. Actively illegal medical experiments on imprisoned transpeople with an emphasis on preserving the fertility of transmen.

I'm just one person. I think it's silly to have a yard and a bunch of space I'm not using when it makes more sense for me to be in density-efficient housing. There's no one coming after me, so a home as a mechanism for wealth preservation rings hollow as well. It might be the American dream but...

I still don't want a home. My parents are coming up on 80 years old and want me to move in with them. I don't want to do that, but it's the most likely path to home ownership for me. The biggest impediment for me getting a lease somewhere else is actually my cats. I have four, which is two...

FFS. Turns out the solution to my problems was a part or serial number mismatch between some of the chassis components and the replacement motherboard. I don't know why it's only now a problem since I've never bothered to update the BMC but once I forced the numbers to match, the stupid thing...

xClarity Pro isn't THAT expensive, like $100/year/node. Some of my systems are licensed because it was part of the package when I got the machines. This one is a frankensystem that I put together by mating a chassis with a dead motherboard with a working Lenovo replacement and a pair of Xeon...

I have been through the borked .NET runtimes many times. IIRC I had a conversation with long-time member timwhit about it in the early Vista era. Same exact problem. The last time I reloaded Windows on my previous (Threadripper) workstation was because .NET fucked itself. The cleanup tool and...

Same line of thought, but an OpenWRT travel router or the like? Seems safer than using suboptimal encryption.

Maybe you could offload the tunnel to your phone and run a local hot spot for access?

How likely are you to do anything that needs that level of security on your older devices in the first place?

I'm actively interested in getting a device that can run GrapheneOS, which is sort of the last gasp of functional AOSP builds. It only works on Pixel devices and it's missing some of the DRM functionality needed for things like banking software. I might get a Helium Mobile SIM for it, which...

The most recent two episodes of the It Could Happen Here podcast have been a discussion of the goals of the Venture Capital class and the ways in which Tech Bro billionaires are attempting to reorganize the world around them. The guest for these episodes does a lot of putting pieces together to...

What do you think made the Secretary of the Treasury look like he's going to faint after being pulled out of an interview to speak with Trump, then come back to finish? He starts talking about how he's proud of his kid. Friday evening is the traditional point when release terrible and/or stupid...

What I've seen from Wayland is that it often ignores explicit config files in favor of doing whatever the fuck it wants. That's not endearing behavior for anything running on *nix. In theory, I could sub in my Arc A770 or a Radeon 6700 or 7800 instead of the 5070ti. Or I could put Windows on...

I understand that the next thing will be a full-fat PC that is able to run software meant to run on Windows and supposedly regardless of where that software originates (GoG, Steam whatever). That's a lower bar to clear than building an actual new console. I suspect it'll be higher-spec than the...

I have never, ever seen Wayland "just work" and I would testify to that in court. The original headache was that I have generally used Rustdesk for graphical access cross-platform to stuff where I bother to run a desktop or, you know, Macs. Guess what doesn't work, STILL, with Wayland? But, OK...

Apparently, Windows 11 is getting an Xbox mode soon. It appears to just be a controller-friendly game launcher for Microsoft-first gaming, but even the Xbox people I know really don't play those Xboxy titles they get through their $30/month Game Pass subscriptions on PCs. So congratulations on...

I have two UBNT and two Omada sites. Omada is cheaper, but it's a Chinese company and the US Government keeps telling people not to trust it. Ubiquiti costs more, but has a broader ecosystem that includes things like NAS and PoE cameras. It is also sometimes hard to find someplace that has the...

I've never tried to use a Microtik switch as a router myself; I don't even think I've ever used one of their managed switches with more than 8 ports. I'm sure they CAN, but it would probably take some finagling with the management interface to get it going and that sounds like a PITA. I do...

I don't think your issue is pfSense as such; I've done both pf- and OpnSense installations without running into this. But in your environment, where users regularly switch between wired and wireless, a couple things make sense to check. One of them is that you set your DHCP lease options in...

Brazil's OS-based age verification rules take effect on March 17, 2026. California, New York, Colorado and Illinois have proposals for OS-level age verification. These laws are being framed as protection for children. They WILL pass. There's not a doubt in my mind that age is only the first step...

https://www.mutualaidhub.org/ Two of the places I have found organizations to volunteer with a through my personal doctor, who is a first-generation Mexican-American. Both her Husband, a legal immigrant from the Bahamas (and also another physician) and her sister (an Immigration Attorney...

Great now do RFKjr, Hegseth and fucking Stephen Miller. I see the war with Iran ultimately playing out identically to Iraq. We're going to HAVE to put boots on the ground. Air Power is great for a lot of things, but it doesn't hold land. Eventually we'll get tired of their ability to lob...

Think about all the weird stuff we use that technically has an OS and probably talk to the internet. Copy machines, medical and industrial equipment, routers and switches, IoT gear... how silly is this going to have to be? I am mostly concerned what this does for the state of anonymity online...

Several US States and multiple countries are in the process of trying to force OS vendors to add an age verification tool to their account generation process. This is something that could put the nail in the coffin for Local Accounts on Windows, but moreover, how the hell would niche OSes like...

I remember having scads of desktop systems around a dozen years ago. I realized I needed to stop collecting them about around the time I realized even my low-end systems had 12 threads. I still have more systems sitting around than I use with any regularity, but I'm down to actively using only...

The Consumer Council of Norway posted this on Youtube yesterday and goddammitsofuckingmuch if it doesn't describe our entire world now.

A decapitation strike on a reactionary religious state is not going to end well for anyone. This is just going to turn into another Afghanistan. We'll have to occupy and then spend decades and trillions dealing with bombs and drone strikes that kill a few of our soldiers a week until we decide...

I was able to get a bunch of 15.6" Vivobooks with Ryzen AI 5 330s, 500GB SSDs and 16GB RAM last week for $400. They're not as well constructed as typical Asus laptops, but for $20 more than my Ideapad 1s, that was a crazy good deal. I sold them all within a day and now that same model is $600.

I'm looking at a direct trade with Samsung; maybe other carriers have different offerings, but not the weird little one I'm using. I'll need to check retailer trade-ins. Maybe Best Buy will give me more for the phone than Samsung will, but its discounts are usually tied to big carriers...

In the final accounting, as much as it completely sucks, I can't justify the cost for an S26+. In past years, the preorder bonus was a $100 coupon and a storage upgrade. This year, the preorder bonus is a $30 coupon AND a vastly lower valuation on my trade-in, with no storage upgrade at all. I'd...

It's pretty easy to get heavily discounted rate at Trump Tower Chicago. I've been known to use rooms there for affordable (sub-$100) photo shoots . Normally I hate working in hotel rooms but it's a very tall building with great views on every side, so sometimes it works for me. Eventually, the...

Chicago named its newest Snowplow Abolish ICE.

If you were at all worried if the RAM crisis is a real thing or not, I just traded a G. Skill 2x32GB DDR5-6400 kit that I think I paid about $150 for a year ago for an Asus TUF RTX5070 Ti.

Today in useful things for Windows Admins to know, here's the recipe for putting the Windows Recovery partition at the beginning of your drive. This is super helpful if you are maintaining disk images or Windows virtual machines. This is assuming there's only one drive in the system and you're...

Greg, do please go be an admitted racist someplace else.

I will leave this here without additional comment. 😔

The Ideapad 1 systems I've been buying and reselling by the dozen for the last couple of years are now being sold with 4GB (soldered!) RAM and 128GB SSDs for the ~$300 SKU, while the previous $319 SKU with 8GB/256GB is currently selling for $380. Yikes.

My musical taste can largely be described as "things wealthy Europeans liked 120 years ago", but I do enjoy a certain amount of jazz, definitely including the previously mentioned Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson. William Grant Still is the only African American composer of Classical music I can...

The great Satan has sold every drive it was going to make this year.