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Actually -- I have cable now. It's great aside from the cap, and I'm still convinced I can pay the difference and get upped to an unlimited tier, we just haven't made our way into their office or got on the phone with them yet. We've been a bit busy with work and sadly it seems like that in...

I'm settled in for the most part and started at my new job. It's not anywhere near as stressful as my last, but I can definitely see it getting crazy once we're in the tourism season especially with stuff reopening. I managed to blow through 75% of a 1.25TB monthly data cap on the cable letting...

Sold my RX480 for more than I paid for it in this recent round of crypto nonsense. I can wait until my next upgrade -- a friend of mine is sending me his 380, since he's not using it, and I don't have an iGP to use in the meantime since I have a proper Ryzen chip.

I've driven my dad's old Ranger that had basically zero noise dampening. Sounded like you were trying to kill it if you took it on the interstate. As I said, as long as I can hear my navigation over it, I don't care.

As long as I can hear my GPS telling me when to take a turn, I don't care about sound insulation. Toyota and Honda was already on my short list, alongside maybe the Chevy Cruze, and the more I hear about them the more I want one.

Thanks for the link. 9.69% seems about average, my cousin just locked in a 4% rate for her new car but she's got a lot more going for her than I have for myself. My own expected rate looks to be somewhere in the 6-8% range depending on how the thing they use to rate me that's more specifically...

I'm sure one of my family down there wouldn't mind to cosign with me, but I wouldn't do that personally. As stupid as it is of me to not accept help I'd rather stand on my own feet and make it by my own merits. So I suppose I'll just have to live with whatever interest rate they decide I...

I appreciate your input jtr but I don't think that would work for me. I'm looking at around, at minimum, a 20-minute drive to wherever I want to go in town down there, and that's in a car. Plus I don't have very good balance. The public transport situation down there isn't very good either.

I'm looking around getting an idea of what I want to move over to once I get moved, and I'm thinking somewhere in the range of a 2010-15 compact of some brand or other. I'm not picky as to goodies -- hell, I could make do just fine with the base model as long as it has air conditioning and...

I've definitely added it to the list of things, but for now the goal is to just get down there in the first place. In that regard, my trip down was a success -- I'll be rooming with my cousin and his mother to start (they have a spare room) and we're thinking within a couple months we'll go in...

Hm. I wonder what my EX920 is. Probably 4-bit, seeing how it was only fifty bucks or so for 256GB and a DRAM cache...

Speaking of travel, I'm due to fly down to the Destin/Ft. Walton area on the 3rd to see my Aunt and Uncle down there and scope out the situation down there to plan for a move. Just paid off my student loans from my failed venture in University and they're trying to get me to go back... I'll...

I actually didn't catch the inauguration, I'd meant to earlier this month but my grandfather (blood clot after a brain bleed caused by a fall out of bed in a hospital stay for a stroke, not COVID-related) passed on Saturday and his funeral was today. I was, however, glad to hear of no issues in...

He's clearly reading from a teleprompter, it's not his style. He's terrified of what's going to happen to him -- it was probably the threat of a second impeachment or the invocation of the 25th amendment that nudged him into making this address. This is as close to a real concession as we're...

Funny, I actually used Netscape 4 on the 486 for a short time before I figured out just how much faster IE 5.5 (6.0 SP1 on 98lite) is on the same machine. Night and day difference -- but Opera 8.50 is the best of all worlds for such a machine, it can render more modern sites than either and has...

I am very concerned about the implications that he may attempt to implement martial law to call for a second vote in battleground states, especially since it'd likely intimidate just enough democrats into not voting to give him the elections in those states.

Hark, for he hath returned! @Merc, good to see you again. We had gotten a bit worried after what happened with P5... As for Lunar, that's actually a curious absence as well. I guess I just hadn't thought about it so much, even my own posts have dropped like a stone.

I'm not at all surprised, if anything, I'd say it took them long enough.

These days if you're buying prebuilts for anything other than laptops you kind of deserve what you get, IMO. I can see the case for enterprise-level hardware where you want to have one big manufacturer to hold answerable for support issues, but for your average joe, spend a couple hours time...

From the first time I heard him decry mail-in voting I knew that was his play. I had a half-formed thought in my head when he claimed that if you deducted the illegal votes he won the popular vote in 2016. "Welp, there's his excuse when he loses the next one... illegal votes." The coming weeks...

They'd never be able to enforce it, especially in the red states. Even removing the fiasco that was our governmental response, people in general don't trust the government enough to unilaterally obey everything it says. They'd screech about their freedoms (to kill grandma) until they went blue...

Personally, I mostly just use it for window management (handling my tiling with RWin+numkeys) and I'm just much quicker entering in numbers with it than the number row. I don't really do much with spreadsheets, but I'd been thinking about it a little bit for doing a little budgeting.

I got fed up with the lack of numpad on my TKL keyboard on my main, so I ripped the switches out and built a 96% using a Melody96 PCB in a YMD96 kit. I customized the layout a little, but by and large it's normal ANSI with the exception of lacking a right ctrl/alt, and having the arrows in the...

I'd agree with you and prepare myself, but most countries immigration policies require you actually bring something to the table, and I really don't, so... I guess I'm stuck. I'll tell you right now that if Trump wins again in 2024 he's going to go full megalomaniac. Then again, I'm not sure...

I bet he thinks if he puts this in front of the Supreme Court he just went through so much effort to pack tight with conservatives they'll give him the election because they feel they owe him. I can't wait to see it backfire.

I'm personally waiting for the 3700X to get really cheap second-hand now that everyone's rushing to upgrade. From my 1600AF to a 3600 is a substantial upgrade, yes, but nowhere near worth 200ish dollars to get one new. My 1600AF to a 3700X, though... That might be worth it, but I'm holding out...

Built the Pentium 4 rig. The fast kit of DDR RAM I had that I thought was 2x1GB is actually 2x512MB, so I chucked in another DDR-400 kit of 2x1GB to hit a total of 3. Even with a PAE patch, WinXP can't use much more than that on i865 anyway, so I'm okay with it. The X1950Pro I have works...

Oh please. We were never a democracy. From the beginning it was meant to be for the privileged only. Only white male landowners had a vote for quite a significant chunk of time. Now they let us all vote -- ostensibly -- and they let us think it actually changes anything. I'm still going to, just...

Personally I still do the small fast/big slow arrangement, but to be fair I swapped the spinning rust for a slower SATA-connected m.2 drive in my case and delegated the mass storage to the server... Except, server's dead now, and my big archives all live on the cold storage drives I backed them...

So, plenty of new developments: - I made a small, relatively (compared to my main) low wattage home server out of a SFF Optiplex 790. I replaced the 95W i5-2400 it came with with a 65W i5-2400S. The clock deficit doesn't really matter relative to keeping all four cores while still using less...

Even as bad as things have already gotten I only think things will get even worse before they get a little bit better. What am I talking about? What am I not talking about? COVID, the rioting, the militia groups rising... Where I work, most of my regulars still think that either everything will...

In my experience, since Quantum landed, nothing's been able to touch Firefox in terms of usability, flexibility or stability. I don't *quite* have the tab stacking that I enjoyed when I used Vivaldi (or, for that matter, Presto versions of Opera -- 12.somethingorother and older) but the Simple...

Oh wow. That's just awful -- how do you just have a cache of that stuff laying around? The impact of this is going to be felt for quite a long time. In 486 news, I bit the bullet and got a DX4 overdrive -- thankfully I got the version that works in a standard 168-pin 486 socket and not the one...

A bit offtopic but I love your range -- I've always found older furniture/appliance designs more charming than I perhaps should.

I didn't like Trump then, I really don't like Trump now, I just wish people would stop giving him attention as that's apparently all he seems to want. When all eyes and ears are on him he seems to be at his happiest. I won't be voting for him this November and I didn't vote for him in November...

Okay, so some things have changed. I'm on my fourth super IO card, this one being ISA, and it seems to work fine. Round about as fast (or slow) as the VLB one it replaced, more reliable, it just works... I had awful luck going through these things. My second VLB card was unreliable (in fact it...

Just so you all know I'm alive (the 'rona didn't get me), I've been building a 486 desktop. It's been going well -- I've been messing with it for the last few days and it's worked very well but I'm planning to take it up a few notches. I broke my singular VLB super-IO card by trying to solder...

Apparently the 10900F will consume 224W for 10c/20t. Ouch. I consume less than half that -- hell, a little over a quarter that -- for over half the core count. Of course I'm not at the blistering clockrates of the 10900F and at that price-point, power consumption doesn't matter for much...

I feel like that'd just start WW3 with how closely tied the businesses are with their government. One we could never hope to win -- we don't make anything anymore, we have something like a fifth of the population and even less with the stomach to fight. I know I wouldn't do it. That said, I do...

This bit really got me thinking. I hadn't really thought of it that way and the more I do, the more it makes sense. Then again, Trump's always the type to do what he wants, damn the press. His people will fervently support him either way -- they're like a damn cult. Wouldn't be at all surprised...

You're about, oh, five years late? ;) This was what got me into playing Doom mods and while the dev of this particular one is apparently a bit of a prick (as well as alleged plagiarist...?) it's definitely a classic. Personally I'm a much bigger fan of playing Doom II with Combined Arms...

Well damn. My pulse was too high to give blood. 112 when their threshold is 100 -- I had a cup of coffee earlier not thinking about it and I don't like needles on the best of days. I drove 25 miles for nothing.

The Red Cross needs blood. I'm O-, or so all the junk mail they've sent me over the years says. I'm scheduled to donate Tuesday at a rural church roughly 25mi away, I know the area, I used to live there. I'm going in dressed to the gills, who knows what I've come into contact with where I work...

Personally I believe this would have hit us hard no matter who was in office. It wasn't just Trump, I don't think anyone would have really been prepared for it to hit US shores and quickly make its way into the urban population. Some would have perhaps handled it better, taken less time to...

That's if you believe the numbers coming out of China, which I and most others I talk to don't. That's if they're not keeping the infections down by firing squad a la North Korea.

Hah, my name is actually Jacob, I came up with this screen name as a nonsense word that looked "cool enough". This was, gosh, almost ten years ago now? Time flies.

People are sick and dying. Now is not the time to have political hang-ups. We need to get much further on constructive conversation. But alas, such is humanity. My symptoms almost entirely cleared up by, oh, Wednesday. I've still got a little bit of congestion going on but I blame that on...

Longer than a normal cold maybe, but I'm not exhibiting my normal flu-like symptoms -- I'm not lethargic at all, just sneezing my head off and hacking up a lung every three minutes. Plus, the flu knocks me flat on my ass for a week at least, so I'm still well-within that range.

I still don't feel significantly better, but the swelling in my lymph nodes went down, and as with yesterday and Saturday, I don't have a fever. It's just that every time I cough or sneeze feels like razorblades coming up my throat. My cough dried up, sometimes it was productive before, but...

I called out from work yesterday because I had a cough. Nothing serious, though I did have a fever and swollen lymph nodes, and normally I'd work through it -- I can't afford to miss, and we don't have the people to cover my absence, but I figured the current climate would be very inhospitable...