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Naw, the AI companies are just using their fake money they've been passing back and forth with nVidia to buy up literally entire production capacities for years at a time. They drove Micron out of the consumer sector entirely.

I don't have any suggestions there, just... lamenting, I suppose. Me personally, I kicked myself back to an Ivy Bridge box for the moment that's running DDR3 -- I'm hoarding my DDR4 very jealously indeed right now.

I know it's just the reality of the situation, but paying upwards of 400 dollars for a 32GB kit of RAM still strikes me as insane. I concur with Merc. Everything else is fine, for the most part, but I don't know that I'd trust even a good cooler like the Thermalright to keep that 9850X3D cool...

Ouch. At least in my case I only have the one domain to worry about and a relatively simple configuration (some MX records, a few TXT, a couple CNAMEs, one A, and a special DDNS A record tied to a subdomain). I'll have to remember that for bigger use-cases in future.

How did that shake out? Did you end up moving registrars? I'm STILL fighting with GoDaddy for that one client. My AC's drain line clogged last week and it was a fight to get it fixed and the water up from my carpet around it. The HVAC guy ended up putting a couple CO2 cartridges down one end...

I'm glad I got out when I learned I needed a pass to leverage hardware I already had for transcoding. Jellyfin may have its own problems with library management but at least I'm not paying for it.

That's a pretty big issue -- it shouldn't be marking config files that won't be referenced for cleanup, that would be a purge operation... at the very least, you'd think they'd make backups of configuration files and either leave them in the folder structure or copy them to the user's home...

Even the best case scenario so far I've seen is just using them as a domain registrar (we've had a couple companies that used to pay for GoDaddy to host their email -- a couple of disastrous M365 transitions have been the result) and even then they suck eggs. Me personally, my domains are...

Vaguely related to work stuff, but my dealings with GoDaddy have convinced me to never, ever, not EVER be their customer.

We're hitting the point where if they won't let us at least get them set up with Entra ID (which they're usually paying for as part of their M365 sub) we don't take them as clients or make them sign risk acceptance forms. I'd idly played around with the idea of setting up a domain controller in...

Since this seems more relevant here...

Where I'm at it hasn't been much over $4/gal but we had cheap gas to begin with, and it still went up almost 100% relative to what it was. My gas budget for the month has had to eat into my "everything else" budget. My old contacts from the truck stop have reported less traffic for trucks too...

Any strange happenings that you think could be caused by your SSD probably are. Their failure modes tend to look much more abrupt than a traditional hard drive, including being shunted to read-only operation, which very few if any operating systems in their default configuration will tolerate on...

Yeah, we're hitting on-season where we're at -- living in a tourist economy means EVERY field has an on-season because about now's when the money comes in and everyone wants stuff done, they tend to want to coast through the fall and winter -- and I'm just ridiculously busy.

cat goes blep man happy

Whatever the KDE solution is. I'm not swapping to GNOME for this lol

Yeah, overscan is why I never ended up using Linux on my TV PC. I had to change a setting to get my 1440p display to run at 120Hz instead of 60, but I haven't noticed Wayland willfully defying me like it does you. Do you think it might have something to do with it autodetecting everything all...

My sister took in an orange boy a year or two ago when their neighbors moved out and left him behind. His name is George and he is a single-celled organism who enjoys eating phone chargers (as tirelessly as my sister works to keep them away from him) and making noises at birds in the window.

Until it gets rolled back with a feature update. ;) At this point I'm going to set up a home domain controller just to add all these toggles to my netlogon script or Group Policies. At least there it has less of a chance of just being quietly overridden. Then again, I've been using Debian on...

I use my old Ryzen 1600AF for that purpose, myself. I think it might be a little funky on the very earliest Zen boards that have weird problems even with Zen+ (the 1600AF is a down-binned 2600) but in practice I've never had an issue.

Bridge mode may show up as something like a Passthrough mode like on my AT&T gear. That was a pain when I first moved over to fiber. If I had thought ahead and got a router box with an SFP port I apparently could have obtained a modified module that’d connect to AT&T’s network wholesale without...

Been scratching the Asheron's Call itch again, this time with some friends from my classic days on the new Conquest server with a fair helping of custom content and the like. It's actually really fun to go back to what I actually played circa 2007-2015 -- at this point, I've played nothing but...

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...

I saw all kinds of stuff I was never meant to online as a kid and while I can't say I turned out fine I am a functional tax-paying member of society. I completely agree.

Yeah, apparently Newsom himself said that the law wasn't enforceable as-is because it was so vague, but urged it to be pushed through anyway as it can be amended later on. Or something. I find it entertaining that a BSD fork responded by modifying their license to prohibit use in California...

The funny thing is you'd think having soldered RAM called "Display Cache" would mean the 815 doesn't have to steal system RAM, but no. From what I understand it uses this faster pool of RAM that only it can access (I think wired over AGP, even) mostly for the Z-buffer in 3D applications, no...

It wasn't a hyperbole back in Trump I to say they had elements and characteristics of fascism -- to be fair, American politics in general has kind of always had that bent to an extent IMO with how much weight we put on presidential elections -- but things have deteriorated so much that I don't...

For context, the reason I'm doing this, is because I'm starting to realize having a billion computers all kicking around and taking up space is a not-amazing idea, and I'm starting to try to downsize -- I know it really doesn't look it, yet, but these smaller machines, if they work out and end...

I put in a lowball on what was obviously a little SFF barebones PC kit from the turn of the millennium -- the plastic peel for the badge on the front was still present, despite some scratches in the powdercoating on the metal indicating it'd seen a little bit of careless handling -- and...

aw sweet, man-made horrors beyond my comprehension

It was a tweet from OSINTdefender with the following:

Well, this certainly isn't concerning at all.

If you can source an S-VHS capable deck you could make use of the (marginally) cleaner S-Video output. It's a little sharper than regular VHS due to separating the brightness and color signals from each other, though that'll likely be of dubious benefit at best on regular VHS or VHS-C tape...

If you wanted to read Epstein's emails yourself, this is apparently everything that's publically available so far.

CCleaner used to be good, now it's just adware. Even if cleaning the registry was by and large a placebo, it did do a better job of removing temp files than Disk Cleanup did. These days if I need something like that I'll use BleachBit. I'll echo everyone here and say I use uBlock Origin, but I...

Turns out OCCT needs a license to do actual stability testing. Without one, you're stuck with a 1h test duration. I found this out to my detriment leaving the computer running what I thought were laps in OCCT all night and day while I was at work, but it actually just sat idle for 15 of the 16...