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Here's a funny issue. Not my deal but somebody asked me and I have no goddamned idea. Android has had multi-user mode on devices since KitKat. Not every Android device vendor supports mutli-user, even on Lollipop. Somehow, it's optional and apparently less common on devices with Intel CPUs...

I'll write up something later. Greasemonkey is something you should have installed if you browse the web regardless. The issue is that you need the blocker-blocker outside your ad blocker because that's what they're testing for in their hostile scripts.

Went to see Das Rheingold today, the first opera in Wagner's Ring Cycle (Lyric Opera will be performing the whole cycle leading up to a complete performance of the whole thing in 2020). First thing is, the stagecraft was breathtaking, especially since the performance didn't include an...

The current state of affairs seems to be that we need an Anti-Anti-Adblock. There's a Greasemonkey script that handles it. Also, there's nothing particularly better about uBlock Origin in my experience, except that you don't have to un-tick the box to disable acceptable ads. Otherwise it uses...

It's set concurrently to Daredevil season 2. The Sekovia Accords and events in Civil War haven't happened yet. Most of the MCU stuff is explicitly taking place around the time of its release but this is placed in time just after when Claire Temple witnessed the Hand attack her hospital. The...

I don't expect telemetry to go away. Advertising is part of Microsoft's core business now. Updates are architecturally different from the way they used to be, in that everything is a continuous rollup. Which is kind of OK, since I've been too busy to do more than glance at what updates do for...

I think they only did it in the first episode, but the thugs were mostly given hip hop for background music and the guys at the barber shop mostly got some kind of pre-1980s root music. Luke himself is also shown reading writers of the Harlem Renaissance, while Cottonmouth (later shown to be a...

Microsoft has mad money to throw at ridiculous custom hardware. Do Amazon or Google or Oracle do the same thing? If they don't, why don't they need to?

My latest headache is some Windows 10 machines at my lab with a slow connection slurped updates from an Anniversary Update machine while it was on site. I had all the machines set up so updates weren't happening at all but now all of a sudden they're trying to get updates like any Windows 10...

Luke Cage took me longer to watch because it turns out that sitting comfortably was a bit of an issue this weekend. Stupid nitpick, right off the bat: The President of the USA in the MCU in 2015 is named Matthew Ellis, so named in Iron Man 3 and Agents of SHIELD. Barack Obama's name kept coming...

Best guesses are fondness for diet coke and peanuts. I like peanuts because they seem harmless given the parameters of my dietary needs and I've used diet coke as a harmless treat that incentivizes walking someplace to get it and to satisfy cravings for something sweet and acidic. Sugar is...

By all means, go look up what's involved in a stent through the urethra. Or just cross your legs and contemplate good fortune. The stone did pass last night. It was easier than the first one, probably because I knew what was happening and not because it hurt any less. All my cats, who normally...

Outpatient. They just went ahead and did it.

Today. It was not fun. The thirteenth sign is only used for 10 days at the beginning of December. I tell people I'm that sign just to stop them from talking about astrology. Them I have to explain what it is and why, but at least it's a more interesting conversation.

No conversation that starts with "So we need to make your urethra bigger..." is going to go in a happy direction.

The only ones I've bought this year are UX303s, which are fairly pedestrian i5 / 250GB / FHD systems, rather than the discrete graphics / QHD models. I can usually resell them for a couple hundred bucks over what I pay for them. But I certainly wouldn't expect the Pro models to be any worse.

There are about a dozen applications in my library where I have some Windows tool or other where the author yanked the a freeware version or added bundleware to later installers, such that I'm glad I kept old installers. Other times, there are things where I keep an installer because getting it...

Handy, Zenbooks have been my go-to consumer notebook recommendation for a few years. I re-sell four or five a year and they're well built with nice screens and keyboards. The only reason I've ever opened one is to upgrade an SSD, but even that speaks highly of them since I've not had to swap a...

I have no way to determine the state of your hardware.

Personally, I'm wary of gaming laptops because they usually fuck up the thermals in ways that lead to shortened life for at least some components, but the GTX960 may not be enough of a power hog to warrant the gaming designation in the first place. That's probably the main thing I'd research, if...

I should. I really should.

I'm moving. Maybe Tannin will sponsor me for an Aussie visa. I'll be his goddamned computer fixing slave so he can go take photos of fanged, stinging birds and Jellyfish that walk on land and whatever other miscreations of nature are in the Outback.

I do. On a related note, I know exactly one unmarried human female under 40 with a college degree who is unmarried but I can find hundreds of women whose dating profiles include phrases like "Biblical living" and which also indicate that they are divorced. Correlation does not equal causation...

Well there are still two screens devoted to "Sausage Party" (which FWIW is mildly amusing and probably insanely funny if you're stoned while you watch it) and four screens showing Suicide Squad, but definitely no Kubo. I know I can watch it as an illegal stream, but that's the sort of movie I'd...

I have a Quantum changer connected to a similar LSI controller that I use with a Windows Server 2012r2 machine. I'm sure the software side of your config is fine. Tapes need to go in cases. You don't want them contaminated by humidity or air pollutants. Keep them out of sunlight and at...

Probably half porn and half pirated games. The full version of Doom was, like, 30MB.That's a lot of naughty JPGs. The machine I had in 93 - 95 was a dual (yes, really) 486DX/50 and the other thing I can remember about it was that the first time I encountered an MP3, which was probably the...

Did you try to run the StorageCare Diagnostics for your drive? Tape drives do fail and it's also very possible to get bad tapes, especially if they were stored improperly. My guess is you need to drop back and try LTO3 instead of LTO4 media, regardless of what Windows says.

Medical care here in Indiana is not what I would call affordable (my state government sabotaged the ACA as much as it possibly could) and anything I have done would be out of pocket. I may yet go get medical imaging but I'd have to go to Chicago to have the pulverize thing done, were that...

Nifty tidbit I just discovered: The USTV Now add-on from Kodi's Fusion Repository allows free, legal streaming of over the air broadcast network TV (CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, PBS, CW) for US citizens. It's meant for expats, but it seems to work just fine within the USA, even without a VPN. It's also...

Didn't a lot of Siri stuff only work in a few countries at launch? Could've been that. There's some talk at The Verge of the A10 CPU in the new iPhone besting some (older) Core i CPUs for single thread execution in GeekBench, but I have no idea if the Geekbench mobile CPU benchmark is...

There was puke involved, though I promise I was awake for the whole damned thing. I've basically been sleeping ever since. Today is the first day my side isn't killing me.

Did Kubo and the Two Strings even get a theatrical release in the USA?

I passed a kidney stone on Thursday. It was a healthy 4mm.

Chris Pratt assures that it will at least be charming, even if it doesn't have the star power of the 1960 version. Also, if it gives any visibility at all to the Kurosawa films, that's only a benefit to the moviegoing public. A better question in my mind is who in the hell thought an IMAX remake...

This is for a kid who specifically wants a tablet. I feel like it's really short-sighted to buy a new device that only has 1GB RAM, particularly if you are someone who plays games since it sucks pretty deeply to find that the OS auto-closed your game so you'd have enough RAM to open all of your...

Amazon has the Shield K1 back in stock at $200, but only for Prime members. I wonder if they got the end of someone's supply or if there's a new product on the way. I'm having a really hard time finding a good-fit 8 - 10" tablet suited for what probably amounts to a dedicated Minecraft device. I...

Ghost Rider looks a lot cooler than I thought he would on Agents of SHIELD. He's also got a pretty cool Bear McCreary leitmotif, something that hasn't been done much on that show. Also, nine days to Luke Cagemas.

The proposed new forum software looks really nice. I like the fancy previews.

I wore my pirate hat and eye patch but no one got it. They just thought I had problems with my eye again.

I'm under the impression that every printer manufacturer screws with non-OEM cartridges at least a little. The big issue with Brother (laser) printers seems to be shorter indicated life on generic toner cartridges, for example.

Probably. At least Hangouts doesn't require a Google account. I've had people tell me, with a straight face, that they had to buy an Apple device because of Facetime.

Arrr you ready, kids? I cant Hear you!

The major issue with music curation by ID3 tags is the fucking Album Artist tag. That is a dumb tag. Album Artist is most often used for performer and duplicated in the Artist tag, while systems often ignore the composer tag or don't deal with a mismatch between those three fields very well.

Well this got a laugh out of me. And then I thought about it and, yeah, that'd probably make them a lot cooler, if you're in to that sort of thing.

I have at least four ways to access music in my home so I can stream it, but Plex is ALSO hopeless with metadata for my music, even when I tell it to prefer ID3 tags over online data. Basically the only way I get fully correct information is by browsing a filesystem and playing stuff directly...

There also needs to be a dividing line between what's personal and what's professional. One of the reasons SMSes piss me off (besides the fact that everyone thinks I want to be married to my phone for always and forever) is that I don't want to get them from customers. I don't want to give out...

The BD Extra on Civil War is fantastic, for what it's worth. Oh wait I guess this isn't on the BD. Oh well. Just watch it. It's funny. Luke Cage launches in two weeks by the way.

If you go in to Settings, you can give Windows a 12 hour window in which it will not reboot or install updates. Unfortunately, you can't give it less than 12 hours when it CAN.

I've also seen Homegroups get really slow but ony when they're actually using the Homegroup namespace for the data transfers. Never seen it impact normal SMB.

I'm guessing you'll see sub-$200 1TB drives around Xmas 2016, but this is technically an Enterprise drive, and those don't usually come so cheap.