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I won't accept SMS messages. They're limited to a single device and can be wonky about delivery, especially between cell providers. Certain whitelisted senders can send them to me but I see and reply to them as email.

I'm pretty sure they'll go in after it if you want...

I'm pretty sure they'll go in after it if you want...

You could just spend $120 and get them a 24" something-or-other. I've definitely had machines where oddball resolutions like 1650 and 1440xwhatever needed driver updates to be supported by Windows XP and Vista, but I haven't seen that on anything newer. Sounds like something isn't plugging and...

I spent 20 minutes this morning explaining Hangouts - a thing that was already on everyone's phone - to people who couldn't agree on a message system. I guess I can understand never using Play Books or Play Music since we have so many options for those things (although they're also good...

Why does no one use Hangouts? It's on every Android phone and a client exists for everything. Why do I need kik, Whatsapp, Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, Skype, an SMS client, or - god forbid - Facetime?

We can and will dig up a post from 10 years ago for a reply to a topic that's been around that long. iPhones have definitely been sucking since 2009 so that makes perfect sense to me.

No one can see me out there. I have a whole bunch of plants blocking anyone's view. My legs actually got a little tan. I'm proud of myself.

I have decided to celebrate US Labor Day by not doing a damned thing. It's very nice outside and I have sat on my balcony and read a book. I have not put on pants. At some point, I will decide that I am hungry and I shall have to do something, but the longer this can be avoided, the more I will...

A Pi with OSMC loaded on it DOES make a pretty good music player. Stick it someplace with speakers and run it through your remote software of choice. I'm using one in my bathroom and my kitchen now instead of BT audio receivers and I kind of like that setup better. I still wish I could find some...

We've talked about this before, but there aren't many games that manage to do scary well to any great extent. Doom (the first one) did it and I think a case can be made for System Shock and the original Alone in the Dark. There's tons and tons of horror movies. Why is it so hard to make a video...

There's some trailers and gameplay footage for something called "Agony" on Youtube that I'm very deliberately not linking and should not be watched while you're at work. I'm not convinced the game will be any fun but it looks like H.R. Giger and Clive Barker decided Doom's hellscapes were too...

Wouldn't two of them just make two mono sources?

I get mine from SmartBuyGlasses.com. The people I talk to are in Texas. I have no idea where they grind the lenses but I can't complain.

I eat protein bars or get a salad or sometimes chicken nuggets from McDonald's. Maybe once every couple weeks I'll go to the ridiculously cheap and good Mexican hole in the wall and get steak tacos, but that's kind of a treat.

On the subject of pro-level gamers: I popped in to Mechwarrior Online on Sunday while showing someone while showing someone what their new PC could do. I played one random match and promptly got in a drop with a dude who got 10 out of 12 kills in the match (in a Jenner, one of the smallest...

Do cases ever help? Ever?

I suppose the maddening thing is that the Echo won't talk to most Google services, in particular Youtube and Google Music. There's a Google Home box, but THEN I have crap tons of purchased music on Amazon and THAT won't work. Apparently this thing will at least talk to Google Now, Siri and Alexa...

G4. It's out of warranty. I believe it fell victim to a known issue (early G4s had a boot loop issue and mine was a launch day phone) but Sprint Service says they don't have to do shit unless I want a new phone. I can buy a mainboard for the phone for about $120 or I can get a refurbished phone...

I went in to Chicago yesterday since I didn't particularly have anything else going on. I was planning to take pictures around the Tribune Buiding/Chicago River and down by Millennium Park. I wasn't doing anything but listening to my headphones and walking, but over the course of about 15...

There's no real difference. It's just Windows 10. I've done it a couple times now and other than not being installable from the ISO, it's completely normal. The license terms even say something about planning to use Assistive Technologies in the future, so it's not like you need them NOW.

There have been rumors since the beginning of the year that there would be a new tablet with an nVidia X1 CPU this year. I'm definitely annoyed if they're going to give up on the market, because the mix of specs and pricing on that device make it fairly unique among otherwise unremarkable...

There are better chassis setups for a NAS anyway.

Spring Breakers is sort of subversive fun, given that it stars a bunch of former Disney TV show sweethearts who spend 80% of the movie running around in string bikinis. I'm sure that's somebody's fetish.

I have one. I don't really have any reason to have it. I have better ways to make speakers do things. I'm probably going to give it away eventually.

Probably about a third of the list will still be Pixar movies.

Send it to sed. ;)

I probably have a couple systems with Intel H67 boards, but if I had to guess, I'd say the 22" monitor is being stupid about the 800x600 resolution. If you go in to Setttings and look under Troubleshooting and then the Advanced Options, you should see "Advanced Boot Modes." These include good...

Here's a nifty how-to for controlling Kodi from an Alexa Skill. Like you might want if you have a Fire* Remote with Voice support or an Echo or something.

Why not just save the cards and resell them as somebody else's gaming system?

I had issues with that on Intel-branded H61 boards.

Zero. In fact, I unplugged the phone in my office back in March. Everything goes to voice mail now and then gets delivered to my email so I can deal with it that way, in some cases with an If This Then That Recipe. No one has noticed.

I wouldn't MIND having a super GPU setup in my big machine, but I don't feel like the GTX970 I have in it right now is at any kind of hardware limit. I'm also fairly certain my idea of what that card (or cards in this case) is worth is substantially less than "reasonable." The only title I own...

BBC List of 100 greatest films of the 21st century, which is perhaps most interesting as a reason to look at a lot of movies and say "Come on? Really? That one?" Come for the twee adventures of everything Paul Thomas Anderson has done in the last 15 years (which, granted, I really like PT...

Buy a steamer.

Plus Curling, the sport where I can be an Olympian. Bridge is another thing that's been considered an Olympic sport in the past for some reason. I will say that I have watched pro-level Starcraft and League of Legends players do their thing and while I wouldn't call it sport, having also played...

I think that's a function of the browser and its relationship with GPU acceleration in the first place. I'm sure it's a messy combination of plug-ins under Firefox. It might be different in Edge or Chrome.

Broadwell's GPU supports hardware decode of every contemporary codec I can think of. I think you're just a victim having too damned many pixels. I tried running Haswell and Skylake Core i3s without a discrete GPU on my (4k) TV and found it similarly underwhelming.

Apropos of nothing going on in the thread right now, has anyone seen a dual slot M.2 adapter that actually works and can address both drives independently? I've tried a couple that didn't work and I've yet to see one that does. I have single drive adapters and they're fine but I'd rather have...

Do you have any room in your chassis to experiment with ducts for managing airflow? I have no idea what it looks like in your new baby but a cardboard shroud doesn't seem like an unreasonable step in experimentation.

I really like the BitFenix Prodigy time suggested, but holy christ is it a huge chassis. I suppose that if you're going to stick a $600 GPU in an ITX rig you might as well buy one that has as much or more interior volume than most microATX chassis though.

I read the short story that it's based on and have NO FREAKING CLUE how they can make that into a movie without destroying the central conceit of the written work.

Chicago wouldn't be HORRIBLE, but AFAIK the best Summer Olympic venues in the USA would be LA and Atlanta. LA has the transit infrastructure and plenty of huge stadiums already and Atlanta still has the facilities from whenever its Olympics was, which were already some of the cheapest games in...

Something very amusing to me happened over the weekend. The Hugo Awards for Science Fiction in media were given for this year. That by itself is fairly unremarkable, but for the last few years there has been a concerted effort by white male conservatives, usually called the Sad Puppies, to...

sed, A+, Network+, Server+ and Security+ are all good entry-level certs. They're all pure book learning, but the tests are expensive and the certs expire after two years. If you can convince somebody to pay for the tests, go nuts. You can probably get through A+ with a few days of study. In an...

I'm in the fast cadence beta updates ring on my Thinkpad and I've had it for months. It's been fine.

I really do wish we had European style ownership of personal information here in the USA. California has a state law that requires notification of theft of personal information and that's a start. I have a feeling that if that were not law in California, we'd never even know about a lot of data...

Shockwave 12.1 for Windows seems to have been the issue. I still don't know why it was a problem, but any time it was getting invoked, my PC would drop out of its hardware accelerated video mode. There might be a better way to do it, but I had to sit there with a web object inspector, my ad and...

Not a problem man. I'm sitting here and watching Process Explorer and flipping through Imgur with Palemoon and Chrome right now. I'll catch a pattern eventually.

That's not even remotely safe. I also use the same collection of addons and configuration on all my other machines, which don't have any issues.