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Well it's a bit late (I got the car June last year) but I'm now running a 2010 Corolla S. Had 112k on the odo when I got it, has a bit under 120 now, and since I got it it's needed a new alternator, I've replaced the tires (Kumho Ecsta 4x), and had the oil changed twice. It's a perfectly Fine™...

It's one of those things that I notice, but it's not a necessity there for me like it is on my PC.

It's common among younger people to differentiate them from shooters following a more current design paradigm -- also related to Gen Z and Alpha's tendency to call anyone older than them boomers. As in, "okay, boomer" and such. I happen to find the term hilarious despite its inherent inaccuracy...

Name for a subgenre of shooters that follow design conventions of the late 90s for FPS -- either level-based Doom/Quake style action or an Arena style like in UT or Quake III Arena. Halo technically doesn't qualify but I throw it in anyway.

I mean, I typically keep it to 'boomer shooters' anyway (UT99, Quake III, Doom, Halo CE) since I can pick those up on really short notice and get a few rounds in before I get bored and shut it off, and my friends tend to keep them installed for impromptu deathmatches but it's also nice to see...

I had the epiphany that, with all my bulk data offloaded to the NAS, the only thing keeping me on Windows on my personal machine was games. Well, that and iTunes for syncing my iPhone, but I can run that in a VM when I need to. And since I don't really game much anymore -- and what I do play...

Finally got my XR, after a fiasco in which my original order got stuck in Georgia where the handoff from DHL eCommerce and USPS was supposed to take place. Got refunded and ordered from a different seller, even saved a little money doing it, and of course once they finally got it to the post...

Finally nutted up and installed DD-WRT on my router, and then fought with it for another couple hours to get it just-so. Turns out I did not want client bridge mode -- I wanted just plain client mode since this way the router uses whichever radio is configured for it as a WAN connection instead...

I never minded shoveling snow or yard upkeep. I didn't particularly enjoy it but I didn't particularly hate it either. Either one gives me a chance to put on some music (louder, in the case of yard work) and do something mind-numbing while I think about how to get around whatever problems I...

Successfully moved (in one trip, no less, but I cheated by enlisting the help of two other vehicles) on Friday. Aside from pulling both biceps because I really ought to have stretched before picking up a 90lb CRT television, and generally just being sore, I'm alright. I can finally use the...

I'll be 24 in July, and I just signed a lease to rent a room closer to where I work. Not a house, or an apartment -- a room. Property values are getting that ridiculous down here, I found the best deal I could ($850/mo including utilities, others are ~700-800mo with separate utilities) and took...

Unfortunately right now I really don't make enough to properly contribute to retirement savings, that'll happen later on or possibly not at all depending on how bad things get in the future. By the time I'm old enough, if they stop moving the goalposts that is, there likely won't be any social...

At the risk of sounding entirely too old for my age, I've been trying to (and doing pretty well at) cutting back on soda entirely, and eating sugar in more moderation. A. I'd like to not develop diabetes, B. I'd like to keep my teeth, and C. they're just too damn expensive. Thankfully I've...

And I finally pulled the trigger on a three version old XR. I ordered one that was specified as being in "Excellent" condition, we'll see how good of a job they did refurbishing it when I have it in hand. I ended up going with a 128GB because I don't really need to carry 6+ days worth of music...

I think I have a Windows 7 install kicking around somewhere that I can hash-compare these to, if it'd make you feel better. I prefer these to the UWP downgrades anyday.

It's worth noting that the "two versions old" iPhone, the 11, will likely have complete software support through 2025 if not longer. Apple's still selling it new, even. They are rather expensive, though.

Unfortunately if I want my career to progress at all I don't think I can avoid it. I'd prefer to -- and I'd managed to up until now, but... I need to start racking up certs to pin there, too. I think I'll start with the A+, Network+, and Security+ stuff and work upwards from there. I could...

Yeah, I just went and disabled fTPM in my main's UEFI settings. I'm leaving it on my work laptop -- if it gets force-upgraded, I can then push for my boss to acquire some LTSC licenses :) It helps that I keep image backups of that laptop made roughly once a week. I left it alone on my personal...

I really need to re-learn how to smile properly for photos. I had some shots taken professionally today for my LinkedIn and in a full half of them I look like a psychopath. Had a couple choice ones that I think came out really well, though, and the photographer's services came out remarkably...

Hmm. There's an option, I could keep an eye out for a TMobile specific A52 5G used. Still, the XR has every US band, so it covers me well if in a year I decide to switch providers... I knew Mint was a T-Mobile MVNO, it's why I went with them at the time -- T-Mobile simply has the best coverage...

Fact remains that I have the service and I'm going to use it. I will not finance or get a phone on contract. Stuff has changed too drastically too often in my life to where every time I've done that so far, I've been burned. So I buy unlocked and outright, or I don't buy at all. I've had an...

According to the site I used (kimovil, at the recommendation of a few of my friends -- GSMArena tends to parrot the same band specs for a lot of phones from what I can tell) the A52 US model picks up band 12 but not 71. What source are you using? Maybe it's more accurate than mine?

Soooooo as it turns out I'm a complete moron. Mint uses LTE bands 2, 4, 12 and 71. My Moto G Power supports only 2 and 4. I'd been wondering why I've had such weird signal cutout issues -- it only supports half the bands the network uses to function. And it gets even better -- most budget...

Extremely small company. No. But I'm doing better now than I was then -- y'see, it's a little problematic to prescribe breathing exercises to one whose anxiety stems from the fact that they can't breathe like they feel like they should be able to. It just sucks that the only significant symptom...

Yeah, I try to limit my exposure to the outside world for that reason -- I live in northwest Florida now, or lower alabama as the locals sometimes call it, and I was once cursed at just for wearing my mask, not even suggesting that anyone else should wear one. This was my second go around and...

I'm fine, don't worry. I was given one as part of my "home care" kit when I left the hospital after getting tested. My symptoms were surprisingly mild considering my co-morbidities, and I'm over it now. Worst my O2 saturation ever got was, like, 92, and that was when I was asleep. Typical awake...

In a true HP moment, Linux either freezes on the version of the BIOS the Pavilion came with, or it doesn't see the WiFi card whatsoever with the one I updated it to. I was using Ubuntu as a stepping stone since everything worked on there (apart from the freezing) but now it's running a copy of...

Yeesh. Maybe I'm still just poor, but $3k is a solid chunk of my car note, I'd never spend that much on a computer. But if you need that kind of quality and can pay for it I have no room to talk. They do their best to hide the option, even without an internet connection. It'd have been one of...

Yeah, now that my Moto doesn't have the new phone luster, if I had to do it all again I'd probably go with an A52 5G to have something with a bit more longevity. 5G rollout in my area is pathetic, but I assume some day it won't be, and 4GB RAM just isn't a ton on Android like it was when I had...

I wouldn't quite call a US$1350.00 laptop cheap. It's more like, it isn't catered to professionals and our needs, because I definitely get that impression between the design of the machine and the listing on their website. That's not to say that all consumer-class laptops are cheap trash, even...

I was given someone's cast-off Pavilion 2-in-1, in decent shape but needs cleaned up a bit and the storage and RAM need upgraded. I happen to have a spare 128GB SATA SSD which ought to be plenty for a Linux laptop, and 8GB DDR4 SODIMMs are cheap on Amazon. My last personal laptop was a...

In a lovely series of events my Pentium 4 machine is back down to a more appropriate card for the era I guess. My 6800 Ultra's VRAM started crapping out, now I'm getting framebuffer corruption even at the desktop. My X1950Pro probably isn't being powered enough, it locks up the entire machine...

EGS is just Steam with shadier business practices, at least as far as DRM is concerned. I refuse to give them my money and I'm one of those obnoxious ones who think you shouldn't either.

I'm still biding my time waiting for the price on the 16GB kit of RAM I want to buy for my work laptop to go down. I wonder if I shouldn't bite the bullet and go straight to 32, but I don't want to pay those prices -- then again, I don't even want to pay for the 16GB kit, I feel that should have...

So I've been operating under flawed information in regards to my K6-III+ build. I was under the impression that while the addition of on-die L2 cache greatly mitigates the uncached RAM penalty for going beyond what your chipset can cache, it does not completely erase it on the MVP3 platform...

Mostly I just wanted to know if those longer timeouts and such mattered in a mdadm soft RAID, as that's what I'm going to be using them in. I have a semi-reliable source for the pre-shingles WD Reds, as at the capacity I want you can pretty easily get either-or, so SMR isn't an issue.

In my personal experience, I've had lots more trouble out of Seagate drives than WD. I know you don't think much of them, but with the consolidation of hard drive makers over the years, it's really coming down to WD vs Seagate, and I don't think much of Seagate anymore. Plus, I'm not sure what...

Possibly a question none of you can answer, but I haven't found a definitive one anywhere: does ERC in a hard drive matter for a Linux soft-RAID via mdadm? The NAS I was allowed to take from work needs new drives and I'm debating whether the ERC of the WD Reds I'm considering over just a fleet...

So, what do you typically use for new parts? I've been using Amazon these last few years as their pricing is comparable at least to Newegg. I don't have a Microcenter local and Best Buy kinda stinks.

A third (fourth?) on Motorola. I myself use a Moto G Power 2020 (Snap 665, 4GB RAM, US$230 on Amazon back in July), I learned my lesson from past movements and just bought the unlocked version directly from them. Yes, OS updates are the big achilles' heel of Motorola these days, since their...

Last night was my last at the restaurant. I'm going full-time with my IT job. No... career. It feels awfully weird to say that at 23 with no formal education beyond a few basic certs. They believe in me a lot more than I do, I can tell you that much.

Yeah, there was a big hoopla with the leaked beta builds where they supposedly needed TPM, but only to install. "Fixed" builds were circulating just hours later. Getting force-updated to Win11 might just be the last straw that makes me figure out how to do GPU passthrough to a VM through KVM in...

From what I've been told, VIA stuff was the more stable offering for SS7, while ALi performed better. Or maybe vice-versa. SiS was the clear budget contender with their integrated graphics baked in, but they were okay too. But I can't say I've had any significant stability problems thus far...

Swapped my 486 motherboard/CPU/RAM with a friend of mine for their Super Socket 7 board/CPU/RAM. The 486 is no more, replaced by a machine running a K6-III+. This machine also replaces my Pentium III since it does well enough at both DOS and Win9x to meet my needs. Anything it can't do that the...

I actually ended up with something from RackNerd, they had a special cooperative deal with LowEndBox for a 2.5GB/3c/40GB VPS that I jumped on for I think 24 bucks a year? It's more than adequate for what I need.

Easy now, I said I try not to give them any more information than I must. I don't really get that far into it, I don't sacrifice much, I still use YouTube pretty extensively and shop more on Amazon than I do in actual brick/mortar stores. I just try to move away from the really personal services...

Yeah, I was considering repurposing another Sandy Bridge-era Optiplex for that, maybe install a RAID card and drop a few drives in it for RAID5 and use it for a home NAS while also running my website and bouncer from that, but supposedly my new ISP is way stingier about people putting stuff on...

You can disregard this last post. I ended up looking on LowEndBox for a deal and found one with RackNerd -- for 24 dingleberries a year I have a VPS with 2.5GB RAM and 2 cores on an E5-2680v2, with 40GB of space to play with. Plenty for the base usecase I had in mind, we'll see if I can make it...

A bit random, but that's what this topic's for... What VPS provider would you recommend? I don't want or need anything spectacular, though I could be persuaded to splurge a little if they offer free or cheap domain registration as a bonus. My budget is, like, $30/mo maximum, but that's if it...

I'm one of those weird folks who think Google's the devil and try not to give them any more information than I absolutely must. I admire the Chromebook for what it is, but I'm more likely to want similar hardware running actual Linux, myself.