Recent content by Mercutio

RCS 4 will support native video calling in your SMS (well, RCS) messaging application as a standard. Pixels and a few Samsung phones now directly support Apple Airdrop as well. I'm not sure why they bothered when QuickShare exists and already works with literally everything, but it might be nice...

... and here we have the actual Nazi shit. Actively illegal medical experiments on imprisoned transpeople with an emphasis on preserving the fertility of transmen.

I'm just one person. I think it's silly to have a yard and a bunch of space I'm not using when it makes more sense for me to be in density-efficient housing. There's no one coming after me, so a home as a mechanism for wealth preservation rings hollow as well. It might be the American dream but...

I still don't want a home. My parents are coming up on 80 years old and want me to move in with them. I don't want to do that, but it's the most likely path to home ownership for me. The biggest impediment for me getting a lease somewhere else is actually my cats. I have four, which is two...

FFS. Turns out the solution to my problems was a part or serial number mismatch between some of the chassis components and the replacement motherboard. I don't know why it's only now a problem since I've never bothered to update the BMC but once I forced the numbers to match, the stupid thing...

xClarity Pro isn't THAT expensive, like $100/year/node. Some of my systems are licensed because it was part of the package when I got the machines. This one is a frankensystem that I put together by mating a chassis with a dead motherboard with a working Lenovo replacement and a pair of Xeon...

I have been through the borked .NET runtimes many times. IIRC I had a conversation with long-time member timwhit about it in the early Vista era. Same exact problem. The last time I reloaded Windows on my previous (Threadripper) workstation was because .NET fucked itself. The cleanup tool and...

Same line of thought, but an OpenWRT travel router or the like? Seems safer than using suboptimal encryption.

Maybe you could offload the tunnel to your phone and run a local hot spot for access?

How likely are you to do anything that needs that level of security on your older devices in the first place?

I'm actively interested in getting a device that can run GrapheneOS, which is sort of the last gasp of functional AOSP builds. It only works on Pixel devices and it's missing some of the DRM functionality needed for things like banking software. I might get a Helium Mobile SIM for it, which...

The most recent two episodes of the It Could Happen Here podcast have been a discussion of the goals of the Venture Capital class and the ways in which Tech Bro billionaires are attempting to reorganize the world around them. The guest for these episodes does a lot of putting pieces together to...

What do you think made the Secretary of the Treasury look like he's going to faint after being pulled out of an interview to speak with Trump, then come back to finish? He starts talking about how he's proud of his kid. Friday evening is the traditional point when release terrible and/or stupid...

What I've seen from Wayland is that it often ignores explicit config files in favor of doing whatever the fuck it wants. That's not endearing behavior for anything running on *nix. In theory, I could sub in my Arc A770 or a Radeon 6700 or 7800 instead of the 5070ti. Or I could put Windows on...

I understand that the next thing will be a full-fat PC that is able to run software meant to run on Windows and supposedly regardless of where that software originates (GoG, Steam whatever). That's a lower bar to clear than building an actual new console. I suspect it'll be higher-spec than the...