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I'm coming to the realization that adding "Gamer" to hardware really just means "we put funny color LEDs on something so we can charge you five times as much."

Well usually the gunfire is just a random shot or two.

Did anyone else get treated to two solid hours of neighborhood fireworks and/or random celebratory gunfire last night?

I'd kind of like to see Hillary win with 400 electoral votes, just so we can get another four years of republicans yammering that they just didn't nominate a conservative enough candidate. Who am I kidding? They'll do that regardless.

I was thinking $50. The "don't buy a Razor" comment is helpful since that's the one brand name that specifically came up. Gamer friend mostly plays LoL and clicky RTSes, but she's already got the fancy mouse of her dreams.

Anyone have a suggestion or opinion for a "gaming keyboard?" My first thought is to just buy one with ridiculous LED illumination. The person asking isn't concerned with mechanical springs and AFAIK the only other thing that influences whether or not a keyboard is for gaming is how many...

That sounds crappy Lunar. Hopefully it will bring good news.

I'm sure all the Teahadists who are not Mormons and in the House will love that idea.

I used to use SonicWall products because one of my customers had a Sonicwall system set up before I started doing work for them, but they're expensive to maintain and not as flexible as using Untangle, pfSense or IPCop. My customers aren't so large that running a security appliance in a firewall...

I just found this on Imgur, somebody else's "Coffin"-type wallmount design.

I think I pay about a $30 premium for being on a business plan and I just moved to 100/20 service, something that costs a whole $130/month. Comcast won't even give residential customers in my area a 75Mbit plan, but wants $130 for 50/10 "with 220 channels", so I'm A-OK with what they're doing...

1TB/month doesn't seem that much if you're streaming anything at 11GB/hour.

The Dot I have won't output stereo from its 3.5mm jack, or at least won't with the four things I've tried doing that with. It does from Bluetooth but I think that qualifies as something wrong with the one I was shipped. It also can't detect when external speakers are available and when they're...

Encrypt the stuff you don't want your provider to access. Do I care if somebody can see the pictures I took of my cat or know that I have a large collection of classical music? Not really. Are they going to do something with my mom's recipe collection? Doubt it. My medical info and receipts and...

My big problem with Backblaze is that they don't offer unlimited file versioning, something I'd get with most other backup tools I might want.

None of this would really be necessary if Amazon just had a decent client application in the first place. I suppose that's the trade-off for theoretically unlimited storage.

My parents live in a house that is specifically not part of the homeowners association for the other homes in the neighborhood; the person who owned the property originally didn't include their private home when they sold the rest of their land to a developer. They've been involved in a...

Here's a tutorial describing how to integrate NuGet providers like Chocolatey for Windows Package Management. You can just install Chocolatey directly, but this works with generic sources and as such you could technically roll your own repo or install from multiple sources.

Well the Dot plugs in to AC power so that would be a neat trick. The Tap is the one with a battery. I'm only mildly concerned about it, but I just realized that Alexa doesn't have a parental control of any sort. You have to trust that no one in your house is going to go on an Amazon shopping...

At the moment, I'm just doing a basic file sync of media files that more or less never change. Backup is another issue and I'll address that after my ~4.5TB transfer completes. I sent just under 1TB in 1 week at 10Mbps to Amazon, which is in line with what I think I should be getting given my...

That's deeply crappy, Chewy. I had something a bit similar happen, in that I lived for about a year beneath a drug dealer. But that's the sort of thing that really could happen anywhere.

I'm not a huge fan of my Echo, but I really like the Amazon Dot. The $50 thing with just enough speaker to give me news and podcasts + order stuff from Amazon makes more sense than the $180 thing with a fancy-but-not-even-remotely-nice-enough-for-the-money speaker. I can see why Amazon sells...

Looks like MalwareBytes bought Adwcleaner. I've been advocating use of both for some time, with adwcleaner as a quick clean-up/check up prior to a full scan with MBAM. I'm a bit troubled that having the detection engines come from the same people will mean that using both will be less useful...

Bad tape? Did you do a verify on your initial copy?

I've read up on it. In a lot of cases the easiest way for me to deal with it is to handle my file manipulation with shell scripts, but here's a case where I'm having to work with something external to my control. I can't imagine that Amazon Cloud has arbitrary path length limits, but both the...

My value stems from knowing "enough" about lots and lots of things. Big companies have specialists who are cross-trained to across maybe one other area of related responsibility and that's a level of specialization I can't afford to take the time to reach.

255 characters, apparently. Some Windows applications don't have a problem with it and some do. It's an inconsistency I really wish somebody would fix.

Difference between benchmark and real world activity. Not that hard to understand.

No, because absolutely the only thing that anyone uses is Quickbooks. To put it another way, I support some folks who use PerfectOffice in place of MS Office. I don't support anyone who uses anything but Quickbooks. Lunar, the largest organization I directly support has, at last count, 43...

I mean, you could rsync or robocopy every two hours and probably get pretty close for any normal use case. edit: Also, one of Windows, the FS driver or Amazon Cloud has a problem with long file paths. God. Dammit.

I suspect it's a similar level of trivial scripting, if you're more concerned about that than basic sanity and coherence of platform.

Either way, for people who want to make an issue of information security to be running a 13 year old commercial OS is a bit too off-message, isn't it? Was it too much work to install Ubuntu 14.04 and at least claim to be current on patch levels?

How synchronized do they need to be?

Turns out that Donald Trump's campaign doesn't really get the Cyber, either.

Most of the businesses I deal with * conduct a lot of their work via Email, via external servers * Either don't make all that many local files or make huge numbers of PDFs that are basically images * Interact with some weirdo irreplaceable legacy application that couldn't be rehosted in a...

Speaking of status updates, what's going on with you, Lunar?

I haven't seen it disconnect yet, if that's what you're asking. It takes a minute for Explorer windows to populate, but having the ability to address the storage outside a web client makes it vastly more useful to me. I'm in the process of moving over 4TB of FLAC files and mirroring ~400GB of...

I managed to get this Dokan (FUSE for Windows) project working well enough to upload at about 10Mbit from what appears on my PC as a mounted drive instead of Amazon's lame-ass software. It's not perfect but Amazon's software is also terrible and I don't want to buy $300 worth of ExpandDrive or...

The V20 is a phablet. I regularly carry an 8" tablet in my back pocket, but the LG G4 is just a TINY bit too wide for me to use right handed. My right thumb (not my dominant hand, but still) can't reach all the keys if I hold the phone in portrait mode, so I really see that as a physical limit...

I truly don't think it's funny any more. To comment further might invite greater hostility, but after the last few weeks I just want this cycle to be over with. Indiana in particular is bizarro-land about some of this stuff.

I know about Amazon Freetime, but I suppose I'm looking for something like Windows Group Policies, but that stuff requires G Suite and Apps for Business or Education-type accounts. I'm surprised there isn't a set of interfaces for parents, because these are things that would make sense for it to...

I've found that plain cement bricks are much less expensive and more useful for semipermanent construction and I can't imagine any other use for a WD drive.

You guys are missing the obvious outcome of 8k displays: They'll be widely available on shitty 5" phones while 24" desktop screens at higher than 1080p are still considered exotic.

I can get App Lock-type deals where you can cut off access to specific software and allow other things, but nothing so granular as to allow access to portions but not all of the Settings menu. Youtube is particularly troubling because it's all over the place. Allowing access probably means a kid...

Once again, you can turn off the acceptable ads. It's one check box. You un-check it. Since everyone using any ad-blocker is probably using two or more subscription lists, this is hardly any greater burden. And if it works and they're getting money to hit more obnoxious companies over the head...

I'm struggling to think of a place where I'd need a $150 Rpi-sized hardware firewall.

Just what you want: having the intersection of four bezels right at the dead center of your crosshairs in an FPS. Although I'm surprised he only needed two $1600 graphics cards to get playable Crysis 3 at that resolution given that a GTX1080 doesn't even assure a decent 4k experience. That's...

As someone whose coworkers regularly leave five minute+ voicemails, voicemail transcription exists for an even better reason.

This is the most effective thing I've found for killing sites that try to prevent use with AntiAdblocking scripts. Basically, you use Greasemonkey for Palemoon/Firefox/Chrome or Tampermonkey if you're using some truly shitty browser. You install their filter list and then Greasemonkey script...

It's even more fun when my developers talk about THE server. Even if they're as remarkably specific as "the TEST server" I still have no idea the fuck they're talking about, since each of them has two or three VMs plus the two that are held for common use. I cringe any time I hear one of them...