Recent content by Mercutio

I'm pretty sure I have all of Nintendo. Maybe it's because they're so litigious, but I found massive collections of everything but Switch at some earlier point, and I was able to get the .NSP files one at a time when I was asked to. The headache for me has been that limited numbers of seventh...

I'm not sure how it is right now, but for a very long time there was no supported browser addon for keychain sync to Firefox, which makes me think it's not exactly an Apple priority. And the minute you mention Linux to most commercial software vendors, you're probably SOL. Have you looked at...

I wasn't previously familiar with vimm.net, but but it is indeed where one can find absolutely all of the console video games. All of them. Every single one. 99.9something percent of all released titles for everything up to the PS3 / Xbox 360 / Wii. Apparently, the site has been around for 20ish...

Oh no, you can absolutely see the impact of color grading in movies, even on an ancient CRT. It's the reason everything in Marvel movies is shifted toward blue and why the Matrix movies show everything with a greenish cast. The most common grading is toward cyan and amber, which works very well...

Maybe try Desynger? I have it installed on my tablet but I can't remember whether or not I've used it to edit anything since that's something I usually do on Windows with PDFgear.

My partner kept one and the other got swapped for a miscellaneous collection of parts since I couldn't in good conscience sell it. These monitors are decidedly less impressive, though they're nicer than what I typically buy, 27" 180Hz QHD. If I wind up with extras, I'll definitely be able to...

UPS just delivered a pair of monitors I reported lost almost a month ago. The boxes look like they've been through hell but both the monitors inside worked fine. The funny part is, I have another pair of them coming tomorrow, the replacements for these. If this sounds familiar, it's because I...

This web site can generate a script to turn on whichever of the Windows Defender Attack Surface Reduction tools you might wish. They're a pain in the ass to handle otherwise, but if you're relying on Defender for primary protection, it's probably a good idea to turn some or all of these features...

If somebody is using Outlook, I'm not supporting them in the first place. Outlook is right up there with iTunes on my shit list as singly incompetent for its stated purpose. They're Google Workspace and actually do use GDocs. I'm not sure if anyone there has ever created a spreadsheet. It's just...

You CAN just plug a bunch of 7.6TB u.2 drives into the NAS you have right now. Just like how m.2 drives can be addressed as SATA drives (sometimes), so too can u.2s be addressed as plain old SAS. 7.6TB u.2s are fairly easy to find but in my experience they're going to be priced nearly the same...

Insurance agency. Systems are Beelink SER5s (Ryzen 5800/16GB). All they use are Chrome (or Edge, for one guy) and NitroPDF. They don't even have MS Office. Average RAM in use on clients, at least among the systems I checked, was just under 7GB.

I actually can't believe prices on 8TB drives haven't fallen any more than they have. It seems silly that a refurb 8TB drive is $100 when I've found 16s for $140 in recent memory. At least your Synology unit probably does support SAS (mine does and mine is ancient) so you have the option of...

Amazon is doing a buy two, get one free sale on Silicon Power 4TB TLC 2.5" SSDs. I'm not sure if anyone needs 12TB of 500MB/sec storage but on the other hand, that's an absurd bargain for $360. This post will be hilarious in about five years.

Hey, I was a working professional through all of that as well.

My internet service was out most of the weekend and a Comcast tech couldn't come look at it until Sunday. Turned out that wasps had built a massive nest in the cable junction box that only I use and the solution was for the tech to put on what amounted to a bee-keeper suit to remove all the nest...