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Song Exploder is great. It has also been very helpful in getting friends more into music by understanding the production side.

A friend has asked me to help them with a PC. No games, light DAW use, light office use, 3 monitors. My first instinct was the cheapest current-generation AMD CPU, basic motherboard from a known brand, 32GB of RAM, 2TB M.2, efficient power supply of a known brand, and any AMD/nVidia GPU...

The number 1 "back in my day" story I tell as part of tech support is to reboot your devices. Everyone here can remember when restarting at least once a day was critical to the function of a PC (and it took 20 minutes). Now when I tell people to spend 30 seconds and reboot their phone they treat...

When my S22 Ultra died a few months ago (saltwater does bad things) I replaced it with.....an S22+ Yes, an inferior phone. But the performance is super good enough, the screen doesn't have the absurd curved edges, and I got a refurbed one for $175. That is 20% of what I paid for the Ultra.

Modern printers won't print even just black if any of the cartridges are empty. It is also possible that it hasn't been used in long enough that ink has dried on the end of the printhead and needs to be cleaned. Check YouTube for the specific make/model. 7 Pro might be the best for that machine...

The latest nVidia driver claims to fix a number of bugs related to their vibrance modes and HDR under some circumstances. That may have influenced your experience. Normally display drivers should not significantly alter the experience of watching media.

My condolences Doug, being in charge of the end of a life is the worst I've ever felt. Every time you posted pictures of Booster they made me smile. I'm sure your life is better for it, and it sounds like Booster had a pretty good life, too.

I hope everyone is enjoying what they have and where they are the best they can. I managed to avoid losing any fingers while solo sailing in the Nordics today.

At the moment it is doing literally nothing, other than physically holding up my new desktop. The plan is that when winter sets in here and my work slows down I'll finally get the house off the Alexa system by combining home assistant, voice recognition, a basic LLM, and text to speech. For...

When the last of my grandparents generation died we stopped doing family thanksgiving. My parents, sister, and her children get together, but they live within a mile of each other. When we still lived in the US, a friend who lived just outside Stanford would host thanksgiving for those without...

My main rig is the 9950X3D with 96GB RAM, and a 4090. Laptop is a Dell XPS 15 with an i9-9980HK, 32GB, and GTX 1650. I like it for the amazing 4k OLED and the ability to run Civ V and Kerbal Space Program well. My old desktop is now my server; i9-14900KF with 64GB and a 2080Ti. One the boat I...

I agree that it feels like a pfSense config thing, but I don't know enough about it to recognize the issue. But before I went back to junk consumer stuff I'd format, reinstall, and reconfigure the Netgate using the latest version of pfSense. Separately, does the PiHole run on the Netgate? What...

We'll be following our Danish tradition of going to an Irish pub in Åarhus that serves a more than passable Thanksgiving spread. Not as good as our previous tradition done by our Stanford physicist immigrant friends, but it does the job.

In most goldrushes the money was made by those selling picks rather than miners. If you want to invest in the AI space, not going with nVidia directly is insane. Everyone else is just using the money they get to pay nVidia. Of course, a lot of the money going to nVidia is being "reinvested" in...

It seems like they may have even gotten the structure up to the nacelles without having to create a bunch of parts that don't look like Lego. Very cool.

In hindsight it is clear that Garrison Keillor wouldn't still be presenting, and my lifestyle changed in ways that didn't accommodate A Prairie Home Companion many years ago, but I still have fond memories of that show.

But what if you want more Mandolin?

I'm currently looking at these, probably the cheapest one, just for the super bright screen. https://sailproof.shop/product-category/rugged-tablets/

My mother was out in Portland as a Teletubby. But I share your pessimism. Even if Trump disappeared today those surrounding him like the direction things are going and won't change course.

My current boat project has me looking for tablets with very high brightness and rainproof IP-ratings. Performance is almost inconsequential, so older or industrial-oriented units are fine. Currently using a Samsung Galaxy Tab Active Pro, but would like something brighter.

I didn't grow up with Aussie humor, so I think of the modern stuff and a cultural celebration of offending people. I find it hilarious.

Like removing corruption from eastern Europe or democracy in Russia, you can't get there from here. There are a million other things that have to happen in order to fundamentally change the culture and societal norms, then you can get there. Aiming for peace and failing is like Columbus trying...

Yup. I've completely bailed on the idea of an app for a product I'm working on. It will just be fancy new web stuff and rendered client-side. Not worth dealing with Apple or Google.

Not the cheapest by far, but the only system I have experience with. I can't stand sending any more data than needed to anyone. I've set up many people with the Ubiquiti system. I like their firewall and wifi systems, and once you have their Dream Machine brain as your firewall and wifi...

Thanks for sharing all, I'm looking forward to a time when our life situation is stable enough to be responsible cat parents.

The irreplaceable stuff is in 3 places, offline here, offline at our storage unit (in another similar Synology) and in Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive. The S3 is only in case the other two units fail in some way. The main reason the unit here is off most of the time is that my space is limited...

Mine is also ancient (DS1812+), but I'll only replace it if I can go fully solid state for a very reasonable price. Probably still a couple years out. In the meantime I pull it out, plug it in, and power it on whenever my wife wants to look at old home movies or whatever. A few times a year.

I am still keeping an eye out for a replacement of my archive cold storage 8x8TB Synology unit. The prices are getting close.

I think the OEMs saw the Intel performance numbers before we did and realized this generation was a hard pass. On the desktop Intel could just adjust pricing find value, but on mobile power consumption matters.

If you don't know Robert Miles, he is an expert at the fundamentals of AI design and has made a name for himself explaining and exploring the risks of GAI.

In the spirit of Reinhold Niebuhr's Serenity Prayer, know what you can change, and freaking out about what you cannot change is unhelpful. So, this is, in fact, fine.

This is the part where I feel our knowledge can help get us where we want to be. I've been familiarizing myself with: The tasks that my car needs The parts that are needed to complete those tasks The brand for those parts (not always the OEM, sometimes 3rd party can be better) The places...

More my style, especially lately.

I also live in an apartment. While the neighborhood is nice, it is a bit too nice for work in the underground parking garage to be tolerated. I'd love to have a shop with a lift and all the tools, but that may be outside of my price range until I have some income. In the meantime I have two...

Your situation has settled a thought I've had for a while. I've decided to up my car knowledge game. We all have friends that don't know a lot about computers, other than that they need them. It is always a bit of a sad story to hear about the hurdles they've faced, mistakes they've made, or...

My recent project is making progress, 1998 BMW 528i Touring (wagon). Shocking about of space on the inside considering it is practically a "small" car by modern standards. $4k to buy and another $4k in suspension, brakes, rust repair, and a bit of electrical work. All that is left is recharging...

I'm not sure about that. The military has been selecting for and developing ideals in-line with Republican values forever.

I'm at least 30" from my screens, I find the eye strain isn't as bad.

Not me, once I had enough money to choose I started running 40"+ monitors. The last few have been 42" 4k with 150% scale. Before that I ran for a while with 2x 49" 5k ultrawide stacked vertically, still at 150%. That setup was interesting, but not as useful for monotasking. Now I'm considering a...

That entire concept has been a joke since at least the 90s. The gap between a bunch of people with fancy guns and a small number of people with all the data, drones, smart weapons, and control of the infrastructure is insurmountable. If the military is on the side of the politicians (and it...

Sorry for the late response, did a quick road trip to Amsterdam. But Merc nailed it as usual. SSDs are no longer the bottleneck for even power users. And 96GB has been plenty for all I do. Honestly the reason I went 96GB over 64GB was just to not worry about it ever.

I find that the big updates just don't show up for a while. No matter how many times I "check for updates" the day before travelling, my laptop waits until I'm tethered to my phone in another country before deciding that a massive update actually exists.

That suggests some good insulation, or no ventilation? The good news? At only 73F there might be an HVAC tech available.

I find it interesting that ya'll run such old installs on your main workstations. After a year I can feel it is slower, after two I feel it worthwhile to nuke and pave. The improvement is very noticeable every time.

N150 would probably have trouble keeping the NICs saturated, but if 900MHz long range wireless is the bar, it is sure to clear it.

I had one running when I was doing lots of system builds or repairs. Nice to have the benefits of ad blocking without having to modify systems that weren't mine. Also actually helped performance on struggling systems when I had to go online.

+1 on Merc's comment. Most of the benefits I've seen from talking to someone actually happened from me stating the thing and just looking at it again. The other person was just spectating and making sure I was being honest.

In Danish culture this is a much more common problem, as the average Dane is about as socially awkward as us, and being outgoing is frowned upon. I now find myself in several small social groups (3-5 people) who chat amongst themselves in Discord or elsewhere. It is unfortunate that culture as...

Sorry to hear it.

Another thing to help rule out the switch is doing a test from System B to System C, but I think Merc might be right on the system transfer limit (bursting through the cache and then limiting).