Recent content by ddrueding

A friend has asked me to help them with a PC. No games, light DAW use, light office use, 3 monitors. My first instinct was the cheapest current-generation AMD CPU, basic motherboard from a known brand, 32GB of RAM, 2TB M.2, efficient power supply of a known brand, and any AMD/nVidia GPU...

The number 1 "back in my day" story I tell as part of tech support is to reboot your devices. Everyone here can remember when restarting at least once a day was critical to the function of a PC (and it took 20 minutes). Now when I tell people to spend 30 seconds and reboot their phone they treat...

When my S22 Ultra died a few months ago (saltwater does bad things) I replaced it with.....an S22+ Yes, an inferior phone. But the performance is super good enough, the screen doesn't have the absurd curved edges, and I got a refurbed one for $175. That is 20% of what I paid for the Ultra.

Modern printers won't print even just black if any of the cartridges are empty. It is also possible that it hasn't been used in long enough that ink has dried on the end of the printhead and needs to be cleaned. Check YouTube for the specific make/model. 7 Pro might be the best for that machine...

The latest nVidia driver claims to fix a number of bugs related to their vibrance modes and HDR under some circumstances. That may have influenced your experience. Normally display drivers should not significantly alter the experience of watching media.

My condolences Doug, being in charge of the end of a life is the worst I've ever felt. Every time you posted pictures of Booster they made me smile. I'm sure your life is better for it, and it sounds like Booster had a pretty good life, too.

I hope everyone is enjoying what they have and where they are the best they can. I managed to avoid losing any fingers while solo sailing in the Nordics today.

At the moment it is doing literally nothing, other than physically holding up my new desktop. The plan is that when winter sets in here and my work slows down I'll finally get the house off the Alexa system by combining home assistant, voice recognition, a basic LLM, and text to speech. For...

When the last of my grandparents generation died we stopped doing family thanksgiving. My parents, sister, and her children get together, but they live within a mile of each other. When we still lived in the US, a friend who lived just outside Stanford would host thanksgiving for those without...

My main rig is the 9950X3D with 96GB RAM, and a 4090. Laptop is a Dell XPS 15 with an i9-9980HK, 32GB, and GTX 1650. I like it for the amazing 4k OLED and the ability to run Civ V and Kerbal Space Program well. My old desktop is now my server; i9-14900KF with 64GB and a 2080Ti. One the boat I...

I agree that it feels like a pfSense config thing, but I don't know enough about it to recognize the issue. But before I went back to junk consumer stuff I'd format, reinstall, and reconfigure the Netgate using the latest version of pfSense. Separately, does the PiHole run on the Netgate? What...

We'll be following our Danish tradition of going to an Irish pub in Åarhus that serves a more than passable Thanksgiving spread. Not as good as our previous tradition done by our Stanford physicist immigrant friends, but it does the job.

In most goldrushes the money was made by those selling picks rather than miners. If you want to invest in the AI space, not going with nVidia directly is insane. Everyone else is just using the money they get to pay nVidia. Of course, a lot of the money going to nVidia is being "reinvested" in...

It seems like they may have even gotten the structure up to the nacelles without having to create a bunch of parts that don't look like Lego. Very cool.

In hindsight it is clear that Garrison Keillor wouldn't still be presenting, and my lifestyle changed in ways that didn't accommodate A Prairie Home Companion many years ago, but I still have fond memories of that show.