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I had to set up a PC for a fully blind person this morning. When I was a student, I had some experience with adaptive technologies, but almost entirely for people with limited mobility or functional but impaired vision. Fully blind is new. Their "monitor" is a $3000 bar that reads out 80...

I had a multi-paragraph response to Chewy here but somehow it isn't autosaved. I'll see if I can gather those thoughts again later. Instead I will just continue the news about Alex Jones by noting that there were only two bidders on Infowars. One of them was Jones, working through a shell...

Fortunately, most people probably aren't looking for an authentic Slot A with GeForce MX experience since stuff was pretty uniform on Win32 by then.

Trump administration officials are definitely people who think that it's really, REALLY important people know the distinction between pedophiles and ephebophiles because Matt Gaetz is only one of those things.

I listen to a podcast called Knowledge Fight that typically has 2 - 3 2 or 3 hour episodes per week devoted to what Alex Jones is ranting about, in part so I know what the evil parts of the country are thinking and in part because the hosts legitimately have a lot of insight into what the sphere...

The Onion bought Infowars, the media company owned by foaming conspiracy nutter and human lump of hamburger Alex Jones. This is probably the best news I've heard in approximately nine days.

Remember a couple months back when I linked to an absolutely insane ~800GB collection of DOS games? 86Box the tool to use with them. It's a specialized hypervisor that includes ROM dumps so that deeply specific hardware can be fully emulated. So your VM isn't just a Pentium 2 with a generic...

XP 64 was just mildly annoying for having crummy driver availability. I was big on advocating for Windows Server 2003 or SBS for getting a better overall high end desktop experience at the time. It was objectively faster and more or less everything you'd actually want to use with it was...

It was. At the time, the big selling point for me was that Matrox offered excellent drivers, including full Linux support in the mid 90s and had first-class RAMDACs for driving high resolution analog displays at insane refresh rates. Getting a 4 or 8MB video card was pretty decent in 1996-ish...

sed, How often are you printing from your retroPCs?!? There's some curious voter behavior that in every one of the "battleground states." There was a significant undervote on the Presidential ticket while votes were recorded for the US Senate. In other words, voters went to the polls and cast...

Humble Bundle has an "All Things Sid Meier" bundle up for grabs this week that includes Civ 3 - 6 with all their DLCs plus some old favorites like Pirates! and Railroads!, for an $18 donation. I haven't touched an actual Civ game in decades because of Alpha Centauri but it's the rare place where...

Again, don't use Meta services. A friend of mine gave around $3k, a few hundred at time over the course of a couple months, to some dude using a picture that was revealed to be on literally hundreds of Twitter and Instagram profiles. The aggravating thing is that my friend is a 25 year old...

I finally had an excuse to buy and use a 5700X3D in a build, as a drop in upgrade for a 2700X. I've had the CPU for a while, just no reason to do anything with it. The promise of AM4 is real. I think it's about 60% faster than the old CPU and it's working well on an x370 motherboard, keeping...

Solution: Don't use Meta products or services.

It's going to be worse than people understand. No one anywhere along the line will be able to stop any of the worst ideas the administration will have other than possibly Generals in the Pentagon, and even they will be reassigned or forced to resign until enough yes-men are put in position...

My partner has been crying on the couch the last two days. Democracy is dead. Be sure you use your human rights while you still have some.

I've never actually cared about RAID0 as a performance matter. I just did it to staple the capacity of a couple drives together. Windows will recognize and re-assemble dynamic volumes on other computers if all their constituent parts are connected.

Everything about X3D is optimized for gaming. If your needs don't line up with small and extremely low-latency I/O tasks, I doubt you're going to get anything really interesting out of the new parts. The best case is probably that they're the same speed as the xxxxX versions, but that hasn't...

Since most people aren't going to have the setup for using an Interchangeable Lens camera just to do webcam stuff, my serious answer is that even an old phone is a better webcam than about 90% of webcams, mostly because the phone will handle object tracking and noise isolation better than your...

AMD calls it RAIDXpert or something on Windows. I prefer using Storage Spaces to either of the above because I don't like dealing with the amount of nonsense involved in switching storage drivers on Windows (especially if you're trying to upgrade a PC with an Optane m.2 drive) but Storage Spaces...

You install the second keyboard layout on your computer and tell the OS to use one vs the other. In Windows you get a little button in the tray on the right side of the taskbar that you can use to toggle. I imagine that you'll prefer the physical layout match the keyboard you're less familiar...

Unless it's attached to a card with an actual CPU of its own on-board, it's software RAID, whether it's LVM or Intel RST on Windows.

Since you're dealing with software or quasi-software RAID and RAID0 at that, I don't think using a non-identical drive matters all that much. You're going to lose data if the array craps out and it's not like you're going to be worried about rebuild time or firmware oddities in your use case.

Can you try typing that again?

We just want our rat hole back. It was there for actual decades before anyone did anything about it, and it was well known enough to be a joke around Chicago for at least the last five years or so. Estradiol isn't illegal. It's a controlled substance in about the same way as a common antibiotic...

I have dozens of pictures of my partner leaving offerings at the Roscoe Village Rat Hole. Which was probably actually a squirrel. She was a big believer in leaving stuff for it. Usually at least a shooter (tiny bottle of booze). Sometimes food. Often whatever change she had in her pocketbook...

You could try FastCopy. I remember getting annoyed with it for some reason. Damned if I can remember why at this point.

robocopy has been part of Windows since the days of NT my dude.

I finally got my new cables and fired up the 7250. The damned thing is full of black particulates all over the inside. I'm going to have to replace the fans. At least that explains the cover over the SFP ports and probably the $75 price tag.

The truth is that any pizza is going to be a good pizza. Even deeply shitty pizza is good pizza. Like Pizza Hut is absolute garbage but sometimes it hits. I usually like tavern style better than deep dish (and people do pick that up and eat it) but it turns into a case of which component of the...

I'm not sure if you want file sync or backup software but for file sync, there's our good friend Robocopy. robocopy sourcedir destinationdir /mot:5 /r:50 /w:10 /zb /j /sj /copyall The reason we like Robocopy here is that we can resume incomplete copies and control many aspects of how the...

I am an observer to these things, since I hate gamepads and information-poor interfaces that are common to console gaming. Nintendo is overly litigious and actively refuses to sell huge portion of its game library on contemporary platforms because it apparently hates money and loves filing...

The limitations of food I can get locally are pretty frustrating. In the Gary area, we basically have Mexican, Pizza (locally, not even good pizza. Pequod's or Nancy's might only be an 75 minutes of Chicago driving away but that's still an undertaking) and GFS-grade Chinese buffets. There are...

LM is talking about his time leading CIA wetwork Ops again. I'm a big believer in getting novel cuisine when I can. Food is usually is usually a highlight of any trip to a major city. IMO, every culture on Earth has ain't kind of great food. You just have to go find it.

They're very weird hardware. The graphics are good, but they don't work with standard bluetooth audio for in-game headsets and only Seagate-proprietary drives are blessed for game install locations. You can plug in and use a SSD for media. You just can't install and run games on it. I can't...

Until the voting is over, we have to be nice to all of the people who live in the five states who get to decide whether we continue to have democracy or not. THEN we can go back to pointing and laughing at their lack of shoes and dentistry.

Halloween is stripper Christmas. The peak of cosplay season, plus we live along the beautiful coast of Lake Michigan for all the fall photo opportunities. I've been busy a lot this month. Ironically, Halloween itself was the only night in the past few weeks I didn't have anything scheduled. I...

Satellite Internet is not a fun time for having fun so much as the thing you get when you live someplace so misbegotten that no one bothers to put up cell towers nearby, like Alaska or or Nunavut. The latency is real.

If anyone happens to have Amazon Prime, right now Guardians of the Galaxy (on Epic) and Doom Eternal (on the Microsoft Store) are available through Prime Gaming. Also most of the Borderlands games.

My family was more about chess and board games. None of us can see for shit and we're all endomorphs who are, shall we say, built for love and not for speed. Not playing those team sports was probably the one positive contribution we could've made.

They're regular NVMe by physical interface. I guess they might have Playstation friendly firmware on them. You might want to check on that. Xbox drives well and truly piss me off. They're expensive and proprietary to the console and there's no other acceptable media for storing games on one...

Making things work is a useful skill no matter what field it is applied to.

What is the case you're using? I like those little 4 in 1 backplanes. I don't think SATA SSDs get so hot as to need the 40mm fans on them if there's otherwise decent airflow in the case. They are kind of a cabling disaster, but there's a lot to be said for getting hot swap bays someplace you...

I never played any. My town was so small there were only a dozen kids plus or minus two years of me. I wasn't related to anybody and didn't go to their weirdo church. PE was mostly just walking around a track as far as I remember. It wasn't exactly a highlight of my childhood.

Do you think they'll immediately abandon 75% of Windows users?

Microsoft will support your personal Windows 10 installation for an extra year for $30.

My partner likes American football but her team is Cincinnati for some reason, so she has to go to a sports bar to watch it and she's usually not THAT motivated. Football makes very little sense. Play starts and stops all the time and there's a timer and sometimes it's timing and sometimes it...

It's just asking to grab more telemetry. I can't think of a reason to allow that either.

I've been offered the chance to visit the broadcasting booth at Wrigley Field several times because of people in my social orbit, but baseball is like watching paint dry to me. I doubt there's 90 seconds of action in a whole game. If I have to watch a sport I'd rather see someone seek...

I think the only non-stabilized EF/RF lenses I have are my Sigma 50/1.4 and Canon 100/2.8 Macro.