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Ok now I have power. Huzzah! I bet it scared the shit out of my cats though.

It's day 15 now.

New Corvettes definitely look like Italian sports cars, but they're also very common where I live. A cherry red paint job on a low-to-the-ground sports car might be a Ferrari or a Lamborghini. My area does get those, because there's a lot of money in the vacation homes along the Lake shore. But...

Any car I own is going to get filled with things most people would never guess is valuable, and it will full time look trashed. Photo stands and lights, tons of random cables and plain cardboard boxes with random PC hardware. There won't be visible tools. My T420 is in there someplace, sure, but...

I mean that's probably a different state's troops... But really, state government actively wants Gary to go away, even though it loves the taxes from all the industrial output here. We're not getting shit from the republican supermajority in Indianapolis. We never have. I have also heard that...

Option 1 is highly dependent on my dad being willing to sell. In the past he's said he wants to keep it for the same practical reason I have one: They're great to just pile crap in, which is awesome when you're bringing home a load of whatever from Home Depot. His "main" car is a '25 Grand...

Random aside while I'm sitting in the dark and contemplating my car options: When the hell did Corvettes hit Ferrari pricing? $250k for a ZR1? Corvettes? The car that divorced boomers who never wear anything but khaki shorts and polo shirts, drive? Where is Clocker? I have so many questions...

I have a dream of getting an actually fuel efficient vehicle. To double my fuel economy would be quite the blessing. I probably put $200 worth of gas in my car every month at current prices. Which is kind of gross, now that I think about it. Part of my desire for a physically smaller car stems...

I love my Element. Truly. Irrationally. It's not comfortable but it's practical. The cargo capacity to overall size of the vehicle is insane. And there's nothing else like it. But now I do have to think about something newer. It's time. Option 1: My dad's Element. It's 20 years old, but it has...

Gary is in national news now because of our situation. The current goal is for near-complete restoration of service by the 25th, a full two weeks after the storm. The reason this is so controversial is that our local Power Company, NIPSCO, initially left Gary off its announced schedule of...

Here's a hilarious project I should not have to have: Firefox recently made some security changes such that sites accessed via HTTP are disallowed from storing certain kinds of local data. Plex Web normally uses HTTP and expects to store things in exactly the way Firefox won't accept any more...

One of the funny things about my current situation is that I'm using a laptop with the hot spot on my phone until the battery on the laptop gives out, then switching to another laptop. I brought six laptops with me to charge at my office. My favorite old guy is a Thinkpad T470s which apparently...

It's a Solix S2000 that was in a package deal with 200W of random solar panels. I live on the beach. If I have to go babysit everything just to get it all charged, I will. The deal for on offer looked great to me. I've already brought it up to full charge once off the wall at my office. The...

Being used to no climate control is normal for me at least. My office did get power back, so I've at least been able to get somewhere with decent internet and lights that are on. I bought a couple of these guys as well as my power station and honestly, no notes. $30 for a huge battery that can...

My part of the world has just had terrible storms. Sustained 90mph winds. There are a million people in Northwest Indiana and Chicago's with suburbs without power. I don't expect to get power back for a couple weeks. They aren't running TRAINS here because of all the crap on the tracks. This...

I don't exactly jump at the chance to go to baseball games, but the place where White Sox play is uniquely awful. Wrigley field has a Red Line stop directly next to it and it's a very old place full of character. The Sox place is like bench seating at a McDonald's. I wind up at a baseball game...

I've been using bifocals since I was six. I can't get contacts in my eyes, either. Other people can't get contacts in my eyes. My vision can't be corrected to 20/20 with glasses, so I've chosen to favor my mid- and near vision

I bought an $80 thing off Amazon with one of those Realtek chips on it. It's plugged in to a 10Gbit USB 3.2v1 port. It works-ish at faster-but-variable 5Gb+ speeds. I think performance depends on how hot it is. It's the only 10GbaseT device I own, and I have it sitting on an AMD Wraith Spire to...

I didn't even mention the m.2 adapter on the table because the Beelink would have no internal space for the port unless you want to start playing with a Dremel. For what it's worth, I've had good luck with these inexpensive 10Gb Switches at customer sites. They aren't all snooty about which...

A lot of my family lives around the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Were we in a relative-visiting time of year, it would actually be the easiest of those to go to. The Virginia is a full-on movie Palace, massively renovated through the patronage of film critic Roger Ebert. It has...

There are some sellers on AliExpress offering 10GbE over USB 3.2v2 using some Realtek chip or other. Relatively few desktops have USB 3.2v2 ports, so you'll probably have to contend with lower data rates, but still much better than 2.5GbE. The OTHER down side with those is that they're Twisted...

beets is an incredibly flexible music tagging tool. It's just a Python script, actually, but it has fantastic flexibility in how it tags and sorts files. Unlike other taggers I've messed with, you can actually extend the schema it uses, so you can for example define a tag for something yourself...

I have a giant OLED TV and a great audio setup in my living room but man, but going to the movie theater is a treat. In the last three weeks, I've seen The Odyssey, the filmed staging of Hadestown and of course the new Spider-Man movie. And man, I have yet to be let down this summer. These were...

You could always set up robocopy or something to run periodically so your desktop and notebook stay in sync. Unless you're in the habit of writing video files in your user folder tree, that's also workable.

A Sandisk support representative just told me that my use of multiple partitions on a 500GB Ultra Fit is a completely valid reason for her to deny my warranty claim and that initiating the warranty on my drive was a courtesy on her part.

There's some wisdom in having a file server for your stuff, even if it just replicates the stuff on your desktop. Since you're only talking about two PCs, it's pretty unlikely that you'll get file replication errors if you have your systems pushing and pulling to the same back-end.

You can get multi-bay 2.5" SATA enclosures but I think that if you're trying to get dual SATA AND dual NMVe, you're talking about either a NAS or a very complicated Direct Storage system with newish SAS controller. Dual drive enclosures are a thing. But in this case you're talking about...

FFactions has a integrates a crap-ton of useful FFmpeg operations into your Windows context menu. I found this because I have a folder full of movies taken on phones where the video plays in the wrong orientation on some, but not all the files, but it will also do things like turn a stack of...

I have to confess that part of my reasoning behind not taking the steps to make my CachyOS clients cleaner desktop systems was the recent chaos from poorly secured AUR packages. On the other hand, they're pretty complete systems as they are. The have the correct browser and MS Office documents...

I think the only packages I grabbed from AUR were Chrome and Edge, which are browsers supported by Amazon Luna. Each one is specifically set up with different credentials to keep their Epic Logins for Fortnite purposes.

The Desperation home lab: Machinist X99 dual LGA 2011 board. Pair of Xeon 2678s. 256GB ECC DRR3 RAM. I already had the RAM so the setup is $190, +$200 if I didn't. It uses a standard PSU and it supports m.2 and has a bunch of PCIe options. It can sit in an eatx case and use normal cooling...

Trump tanks the markets most weekends and says something to walk it back on Sunday. It's been like that almost his entire term.

Still ok out there jtr?

I set up somebody's 55" TV a couple weeks ago. My standard practice is to ignore the TV's internal OS. WebOS isn't as bad as Tizen, but they're both pretty bad. A model year 2025 LG TV would NOT proceed to display anything until its terms of service were accepted. Shut up and be a display. I do...

Bitlocker on Windows 11, Server 22 and Server 25 can be entirely bypassed via a trivial exploit. The main mitigation is to turn off the Recovery partition in Windows. So that's cool.

A bunch of old UEFI keys expired last month. New ones come with Windows update. What do you do if you're not running Windows to get new keys? Fuck you, that's what. But anyone running Linux probably knows they can just turn it off in the first place and not hurt a damned thing, but major PC OEMs...

My glasses finally came in. We get used to whatever way we see but holy crap my old lenses were actually probably dangerous to keep wearing.

Actually, here's a follow up to that last video. In context, the previous video had some potential impact on mDNS resolution (Bonjour etc) and this one does not.

Just think of the resources and personnel being devoted to keeping his corpse out of the ground and realize the statistical certainty that there's that many fewer minutes those doctor, nurses and aides could have helped someone who definitely meets all the criteria for being 1. alive and 2...

I dislike consoles on a variety of levels, starting with the fact that two of them are just crippled PCs now but continuing with the attending clutter they create because none of the console manufacturers can agree on what constitutes a gamepad, headset or storage device. There was a point in...

My partner genuinely loves it. She's otherwise a Tequila snob. She's also started drinking beer since she moved to Florida. That's the one that actually disgusts me. I got to talk to a guy today who was the primary representative of a class action suit that went all the way to the US Supreme...

Honestly, if you were following their published documentation, it should be a much higher discount. Sony's President sold something like 50% of his shares in the company today, which doesn't sound like a vote of confidence in the business, and Microsoft laid an ungodly number of people in the...

My partner is a huge fan of it. Most people say it is the most disgusting spirit bar none. The kindest description I've heard is that it tastes "herbaceous." The company that makes it is also the only distributor for it, so if you find someplace that carries it, it's because they very...

There are many other fine spirits. Have you considered Malört?

Just saw this. This can be a bookmark for several of us.

I just barely know the name Taylor Swift and nothing about the other person. On the other hand, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell is apparently (literally) brain dead but on life support just to fuck up the midterms. Just like he fucked over Obama getting to nominate Merrick Garland as a...

Apparently there is such a thing as a low power RJ45-SFP+ transceiver but I just used whatever I found first. The indoor temperature at my place might be a contributing factor.

I actually backed the Kickstarter to get a Comet Q, a USB-C all in one IPKVM, and a Comet Pro X, a 4-port IPKVM. The two devices put together came to just under $300. I think the USB-C system can work with a Mini PC, although GL.inet says it's intended for access to a notebook or tablet instead...

Looking at the list of available-at-retail AM4 CPUs is actually looking like a horror show right now; only the 5500, 5500X and 5600, 5600X and 5600XT are available for less than $200. Used prices are a lot better, obviously, but it's it seems that the predictable outcome of unaffordable DDR5 has...

I'm not sure if anyone here is even remotely interested, but Motion Cam Pro, the software I use to capture RAW video on Android, just released its v5.0 update. They have also announced that the price is going from $27 to $39. It is also getting an iOS release and apparently it's a buy-once deal...