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UPS just found another package I'd considered permanently lost after it went radio silent for almost two weeks. If the tracking is right now, I should get it today.

Perhaps that's the case, but we're a 365/Azure shop first and foremost and are a bit out of our element when we have to support someone who's in Google Workspace. I can and have gotten the job done, but even I'm personally not fond of the way Google tends to do things. At least I can kind-of...

Yeah, throw a copy of Outlook with a giant, uncleaned-for-years mailbox and a few instances of gen-u-ine Adobe-brand Acrobat and maybe a few spreadsheets in Real™ Micro-Soft® Excel©©®©™ and those figures can get pretty nuts, especially if literally anything is running in the background based on...

Walmart's house-brand makes generics of the Outshine bars for a couple bucks cheaper per box, and you get a couple more bars in each box -- I bought the coconut ones to directly compare against the Outshines, and while I could nitpick and say the Outshines have a bit more coconut shavings, they...

Thanks for the insight into the era, Merc. You'd be surprised to hear it but it's not an era a lot of people talk about -- the late 90s, sure, maybe the run up to 2000 in the non-Windows NT world as the various UNIX platforms are apparently more interesting than the one that'd come to dominate...

My headset jack still doesn't work right -- it registers something plugging in but never puts sound out to it. But that's relatively minor. My built-in mic is picked up on now in applications. I've acquired another PIII era laptop, this one is another nice little subnotebook -- a Compaq Evo...

It's definitely an interesting proposition for my desk for my next major upgrade in a few years. Do you know what kind of power it's drawing from the wall? It'd be interesting to see if it can outgun my desktop and Precision in even less power than the Precision takes, which is around 175-200W...

I'm a moron. I didn't give my user membership of the audio group. I'm shocked I had working audio at all.

Nothing too out of the ordinary policies wise. We do run a security stack -- including ThreatLocker, which did the Kaby-R i7 in my work laptop no favors speed-wise, but doesn't seem to do badly on for RAM, hovering around 50 megs -- and for some workstations a BCDR agent pulling backups, but...

Yeah, they've dropped the "new" branding from their beta baby and rebranded plain Outlook as "(classic)". I have quite a few users who are concerned about it disappearing entirely. I have a couple folks who like it, but most have no end of issues with it. Moreso than old Outlook, which they're...

Even after all that tomfoolery I still never got sound out of my headset jack and discord won't pick up my built-in mic. Thankfully generic USB-C dongles work and bluetooth works fine -- which is weird, usually bluetooth is the bit that likes to not work right for me under Linux.

If your trial service and permanent service are on the same carrier they should transition that for you. If they're not the permanent service ought to be able to port your temporary number.

I wouldn't buy anything meant for someone to actually use with less than 16GB of RAM in $currentYear. Really I don't even like 16 for Windows anymore -- they run uncomfortably close to the line with a few Chrome tabs open now. Throw Outlook and Teams or Zoom into that mix, along with a few...

And the Intel ones use funky sound hardware that needs special firmware and such, like this does. Would you believe that it took this long for the modules to get integrated in-tree? I used to have to use a script that'd strip the modules from a regular ChromeOS kernel or something. Insanity. My...

That's true. Not everyone religiously backs their dotfiles up to their NAS like I do, making restoration relatively quick and painless beyond the tedium of typing out a long mount command to pull up an NFS share. But I find segregating /home a little silly on a machine with a single physical...

well, my fstab is more NFS shares than actual physical volumes anyway, so... A separate /home volume makes a lot more sense when there are multiple internal drives. Back when I used to do a split-storage setup -- 512GB SSD root and a 2 or 4TB drive for /home -- it made a lot more sense. I...

I should probably qualify that statement: before, I've tried having /home on a microSD card or even a small USB drive. Bumping the sides of the machine would disconnect the drive briefly and make the entire X session crash. I can handle that for some games alone, but not the entire X session.

This probably seems obvious to you all, but it just occurred to me that I can move my steam/wine folder in my /home to a microSD card and hardlink the folders; hell, I could probably even get away with mere symbolic links. This would allow me to install a bunch more stuff on the chromebook and...

Something not super-ultra-high-end but with TLC NAND and a decent DRAM cache is what you're looking for. Last month the MSI Spatium M470 and M480 were pretty good buys, not sure if they still are, I think I paid $115 for a 2TB M470 on Newegg? Granted, the machine I put mine in doesn't have PCIe...

In other news I've learned the display on the Presario is actually one of those funky Hitachi High Performance Addressing things, a missing link between passive and active matrix that massively improved image quality, but didn't do much to prevent ghosting. The improved image quality is why I...

Right, I'm not saying there wasn't technical merit to either one: - MCA was kind of brilliant especially for its proto-PnP arrangement. It was just too expensive and not enough companies made peripherals for it because the licensing was onerous. The only relatively common cards you'll find were...

I've seen some ridiculous uptime figures and heard stories of Deskpro ENs in particular living through stuff they really had no business doing. Yeah, the torx screw thing is annoying, and is where you can see the Compaq DNA in HPe machines today easiest, but they're also slotted, and I like the...

I got friend pricing on a heavily modified original Xbox. It's been flashed with Cerbios, he left a header so I could easily reflash with whatever if I needed to, he added another 64 megs of RAM, and recapped the whole thing. It's been a blast to play with. Insignia is a more-or-less complete...

I wouldn't be so sure of safety in European ownership. Visa/MC are worldwide entities, and Collective Shout has been able to affect change outside the US before, I actually think they're Australian to begin with -- one of their crowning achievements was barring GTA5 for sale period in certain...

It's worth noting that Steam and itch.io didn't do this on a whim -- they were pressured to by Visa and MasterCard, who in turn was pressured by Collective Shout. I do think it's hilarious that GoG of all companies is clowning on them for this, however -- I would have thought they had the same...

I got the coconut ones because I saw them and remembered @Gödel 's post. They're not cheap, but they're amazing. Easily the best popsicles I've ever had bar none. And usually ice cream has a problem with me where it "overstays its welcome" so to speak -- I can't have too much of something that...

Yeah, most Linux file browsers choke on even SMB or in some cases even NFS shares/directories with lots of files. In NFS's case it seems to be more an issue of these file browsers trying to thumbnail everything. Turn that off and it gets much faster. But NFS is very much a second or even...

Also just realized it might be best to drop the systemd unit file I put together to call that script on bootup. It assumes you install the script system-wide to /usr/local/bin.

That's fair enough and a really good point. They're not super dear on eBay if the curiosity becomes unbearable, I suppose. If you're in the mood to tinker with it, you might try ThrottleStop on Windows, or a combination of intel-undervolt and poking at the intel-rapl power driver for Linux...

I'm perfectly okay. I can buy something else if I need to -- heck, we've got refurbs in stock at the office I have practically free license to look through if I want -- I wanted to see if I could press this back into service before I gave that a go, and I'm pleasantly surprised by it now that...

In need of a nigh-disposable extra-portable machine for some light web browsing and such while I'm out again, and less an EliteBook 840G8 that frankly had some bad memories attached that I gave to my neighbor before she moved, I re-examined my discarded project Chromebook -- an HP 13g1, from...

I have an iPhone purely because it was on sale at my carrier. The main thing I like about it is it gets really decent battery life for a "normal sized" phone. Two years in and it's still easily lasting through a full day, maybe two at a stretch. That and the US models have full band coverage...

Not really aware of the original source for this edit, but...

Dad's up 25 pounds and has a lot of his strength back after a couple months on the feeding tube. He's still got a bit of a road ahead as far as getting his leg strength up so he can walk again without being in danger of falling, but even being able to be up and out of bed would be a massive...

Who said a popular uprising would leave any billionaires?

I was more specifically referring to himself, but yeah you're probably right.

I was aware of this, but it feels like a deliberate obfuscation tactic to enable a "I was just following orders" defense considering the penalty for disobedience in wartime can include being put to death. There's even a sort-of foolproof method by which one can get through an insubordination...

Gotta love how one of Trump's campaign promises was to make the Epstein files public, and now the official line is that there are no Epstein files. Wonder who he's protecting with that move.

Yeah, jtr I'd say at this point it's optimistic to think we'll have mid-term elections at all. The vulnerable populations -- those who are some variety of LGBTQ, people of color (especially of hispanic or middle eastern origin) and those with disabilities and illnesses needing management need...

Slow down time so it appears to run faster by default? Chrome runs faster but consumes ungodly amounts of system resources, just due to a different design paradigm. As everything it's a tradeoff.

Yeah, I'd say the military is brainwashed enough to just fall in line. See what they're doing in California. They're already deployed there -- in the event of a shooting war, California would be subdued in less than a day because they're already there and California has no defense of their own...

Yeah, those keys tend to require phone activation. I wouldn't use them on a machine we sell for liability reasons. On my own stuff I just install 2021 and then massgrave it.

See, I used to scale DPI lower so I could fit more on a screen, but this was like… fitting 1920x1200 into a 19 inch 1440x900 screen, nothing crazy. This was of course before my vision went completely to shit. mubs, Windows supports setting an arbirtrary percentage for scaling now, and has at...

I did another playthrough of Morrowind recently with Tamriel Rebuilt, which among (most of) the Morrowind mainland it implements (the base game takes place on the island of Vvardenfell, a lore-relevant Tribunal Temple preserve only recently opened to colonists) it also implements vanilla-esque...

I probably worded it poorly, but I was just saying I think I'm done entirely. I was so shocked at being pursued that I let it happen, and that was a mistake; I think in the future my answer will be 'no'. Maybe I'll word it more nicely, maybe I'll just keep it the one word, simple and clear. Not...

Oh, that's already happening. Miami's elections this year are cancelled, they're pushing them to next year is the official line. If you think this stops in Florida, you're delusional.

I have to scale 1080p to 130ish to keep it readable at 14", and I've found a lot of my clients get mileage out of the scaling due to similarly (though usually to a worse degree) poor vision.

So birthright citizenship basically isn’t a thing anymore, and now I’m just waiting until they turn that around to start making dissidents who were born here non-citizens and therefore fair game to deport to an El Salvadoran gulag.

Say what you will about Jellyfin, it's worked on everything I've tried and I refuse to pay for Plex Pass.

I wouldn't. We're far past the era in which it makes sense to pay extra for an antivirus. Windows Defender is 100% just fine. Again -- don't. I'd heard Nord shares logs with anyone who asks, but that doesn't appear to be the case -- however, apparently they DO make it very difficult to cancel...