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I saw that, very cool. Since a big part of the advertising value was selling the services of their advanced engineering company (Red Bull Advanced Technologies), I was hoping for more of the engineering geekery.

Not yet. Currently at the second (of four) interviews at one of the most recognized companies in the country, and starting talks at another just in case.

The internet here is fiber to the technical room in each apartment, then there is a media adapter before connecting to the ISPs router. Recently there was a firmware update to their router that removed bridge mode entirely. After getting through the first level of support (in Danish!) I was able...

I have an indoor exercise bike that I use almost frequently enough to feel ok about it. My proper road bike sustained some damage on the move over, and I haven't bothered to get it fixed yet. Perhaps this is the time before spring arrives....

Of all the related languages, I've found Icelandic to be the most beautiful sounding.

My condolences as well JTR. I've done some caregiving for family, and can't imagine how overwhelming it would be to keep it up for a decade. I suspect that you'll still have your hands busy for the next couple weeks, but I encourage you to talk to someone who can help you figure out what you'll...

Swedish isn't exactly a walk in the park ;) Norwegian is actually the sanest of the lot (at least the words are spelled correctly). I was considering Sweden and Norway, but wanted something Schengen to maximize our (and our daughters) flexibility going forward.

Yup, but she has less control over policy here than the royalty of England (which is practically none), so it is more of a subject of conversation than a pivot for policy.

(And thanks for all the well wishes!)

That place did last about 25 years, but the chef died of a heart attack brought on by rampant alcoholism and the owner died of complications of Covid. Both were in their 60s.

Merc, that is true of just about anywhere else. The nordic countries, Denmark in particular, have some of the best social support systems in the world, so are quite concerned about people coming here to leech off of it or mess with their culture of personal responsibility for the collective...

Happy New Years All! Sorry for being gone again, but life gets complicated. I now find myself looking for a job in Denmark. The money isn't really needed, but the only visa option for us requires employment with a Danish company and a high salary. I have 6 months to find work before we're...

There is a special type of satisfaction that comes from messing with complex machinery and it working again afterwards. I wish you luck ;)

There are illegal things on the market, but "reasonable" is just fine, IMO. If the bulb can be changed then you don't need to realign, as that is part of the main light body that you aren't messing with. Just be sure to not get anything that is blue or otherwise annoying, and if you are worried...

The Windows Hello facial works really well on my Dell XPS 15. I did prefer the fingerprint reader, but it isn't terrible? The port shortage is certainly a thing. A USB4 dock (or monitor with a USB hub integrated) is just about required for more than mobile computing. The lack of a single USB-A...

Then on a budget I'd consider looking at this:

5Gb is a rare thing, especially compared to 2.5Gb. I'd consider bonding 2x 2.5 to get the better switch selection if you can.

The current high trim is whatever the latest tech is in fake leather. But honestly all the smooth, sticky surfaces are the same (real leather, vinyl, and all the fake leathers). Of the things in fancy cars, my favorite is Alcantara (which is close to suede in feel), but it would be great to just...

I understand the move to leather for durability and perceived luxury, but cloth is just better. Ventilation is nice, and does counter some of the temperature spikes of leather, but it is still a compromise in my opinion.

Do the acceleration thing, then do the self-driving thing. Other than that it is just a really nice car appliance. It does all the things non-car-people care about really well. I switched from the Model S to the Model 3 when we came to the EU because the roads are so much narrower here.

If you're looking for a more powerful pi this is certainly not the thing. For our project we were looking at a legit x86 computer that is connected to an Arduino for GPIO things. This just puts both of those on the same board. I can throw Debian on it when it shows up and see what doesn't work...

I did just order one of these for a new project. If there is any testing or questions ya'll have, let me know. For me I'm interested in how transparently I can expose the GPIO pins to an x86 custom program running on a Win11 instance running inside Proxmox.

I haven't played D&D since the early '90s, but a friend will be starting a game in about a month that I'm looking forward to joining. I taught my SO at the time how to grind items in Neverwinter Nights and it paid for most of her college. Skyrim consumed at least a thousand hours of my time, and...

I've also been avoiding all the Baldur's Gate 3 stuff, but will immediately buy it and disappear for a while once it is ready to go.

The dicking stations can't be that old if they are 3.0, but hey, what a perk for the office.

Unlikely, but if anyone here is going to be in Reykjavik near the end of Sept, could be fun to meet up.

I ran a half-dozen Surface Books (the last generation of their laptop, with the removable hard keyboard) and was disappointed in the design quality. Keyboard failed to connect reliably and the power button got jammed in the frame a couple times. As the whole thing is epoxied together, the only...

I'll second Merc on the Lenovo units, they are great quality and do the thing. The next warning is true for any of these smaller PCs: be careful getting the top-spec unit and filling it with stuff. If you can use the i5 instead of the i7 and not put a 2.5" HDD in it, the noise and thermals are...

I've been alternating between Beelink and Minisforum, depending on whomever has the lastest CPU or connectivity. The NUCs are smaller than either, but I feel their thermal management was always compromised for my uses. The Beelink GTR6 is the most recent acquisition for a video wall/presentation...

NUCs were fun, but lately I've been buying other companies products in that space. And having an Intel board was really nice when the others were making crap, but things seem to be fairly good at the moment.

Composites expert does a story on Oceangate. It is fairly damning.

Yes, the old. I do forget every once in a while. Then I try to move without making some kind of sound, and the old returns ;) I've already had conversations with my daughter about information: That it spreads and cannot be taken down. Be very careful what you put out there. Notice I didn't tell...

Ouch. I must say it might be worthwhile to just not have a personal Snapchat account to avoid this. Also impressed that grandma knew how to take a screenshot ;)

I suspect it is due to the expected use cases. Sitting fully charged 99% of the time, with the occasional significant discharge spaced apart by months. It would be better if it wasn't, but likely a cost cutting measure.

I don't have any issues with M.2 as a form factor. The form factor beats 2.5 or 3.5" SSDs in every measurable way. Higher density, easier to manage interface, easy to cool, could be easy to install/remove depending on the housing. Using PCIe lanes as the protocol makes a lot of sense, and the...

I'm not sure this is a practical limitation for NAS-like applications these days. Probably hasn't been for a couple years. And my tech habit will have me upgrading again within 5 years anyway.

Yup, Chewy nailed it. Ours is 10, and at that age we trust her to keep her devices but only use them when appropriate. There is nothing preventing access, but the firewall logs everything so I can help her if her self-control starts failing. ;)

I have a couple CATL batteries in my workshop for an EV conversion project. They have very impressive capacity, but wouldn't fit in a PC rack ;) So far I just have the BMS wired in and managed over CAN bus, charging circuitry is next.

For me a single 10GbE connection is plenty. I do very little batch processing these days.

Yup, under 40TB. I'm considering filling one of these with 4TB M.2 drives to hold everything.

The last crazy thing I had happen was Dropbox suddenly decide to change from "online mode" to "sync everything locally" on my laptop. Didn't notice until my free space was gone. This is a really useful type of tool to identify such things quickly.

I haven't tried any of the data export stuff. Usually I just look at it once a month or so to make sure there isn't anything crazy going on.

Tons. Typically they have similar architecture to the gaming cards, but with more ram and "more reliable" firmware.

Nah, Finland is....weird. There is certainly some anti-immigration sentiment after letting in so many immigrants during the Ukrainian invasion. As a percentage of the countries population it is quite significant and the impact on culture and society is obvious and negative. But "Taking one for...

Some analysis I read showed nVidia selling anything that gamers don't buy to AI startups. The first time they overpriced the gaming market crypto bailed them out, now it is AI. They just don't need to care about the gaming market, especially not the price-sensitive end of the market where the...

When I lived in California we had a bit of that a few years back. Now the only concern I have is an Icelandic volcano....

Everything that isn't a program lives on a NAS and some cloud somewhere.

I was considering separate SSIDs, but decided against it. Not for technical reasons, but parenting reasons. Something something technical solutions to social problems have more negative consequences than they're worth something something.

And going into it without the information seems like an even worse decision.

WizTree is a free program you can install on your computer. It provides an easy to understand visual representation of the relative size of folders and their contents. It can also be downloaded in "portable" form where it doesn't need to be installed and can run direct from a thumbdrive or other...