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So I was looking up how to clean my trackpoint cap as it was getting rather grungy, and the option that seemed to show up the most was toothbrush+toothpaste. Worked like a charm, though it's still discolored -- I don't think I can fix that, though. I've also heard you're supposed to change...

I personally think it would be an interesting thing to see, only Apple would have the necessary clout to force people onto a new architecture (since they did so not once, but twice, even a third time if you count the 32-bit support cutoff) and in turn it might bring about a second try at doing...

I'll explore my options on that one, but I doubt they're free, and if they are then I imagine there's a wait list a mile long.

Civ VI looks like it's shaping up to be a good one as always, unfortunately as usual nothing I have will run it satisfactorily. Emphasis mine. I think it'd run, or at least I'd be able to coax it to run at minimum settings, but it wouldn't be any fun. Looks like I'm sticking to Civ 5 for the...

I can't decide if I'm sick or if my allergies are just giving me a harder-than-usual time. And because I'm currently uninsured (Medicaid is giving me the usual run-around that I have no time to deal with at the moment) I can't go to the doctor to figure it out/get excuse notes for those classes...

I would say most of my storage actually goes to my games library. As in, the games I set up but never play. I think I could count how many games I actually play on one hand. Maybe two. As for actual data, my transcoded DVDs take up most of that, measured at 235ish GB? The setup files I hoard...

I would think the HD series has the grunt necessary to drive a 2-4K panel as long as you're not trying to game on it. But then, I've never had a 4K display and I'm not likely to get one this decade either.

Most of the people at the college run 10 now. Including most of the professors! The college's own machines are all still running 7 though. Or, as a shockingly large amount are Macs, OS 10.whatever. I think a few are still running Snow Leopard in fact.

Also, it's finally happened, I'm using more than half of my 2TB drive. If you told me even three years ago that I'd somehow find a way to use even 1TB I'd laugh. At the time I couldn't even fill a 250GB drive halfway. And that was basically my only storage medium at the time, too.

Ech. On my T450 I've switched back to Chrome from Vivaldi because it uses far, far FAR, far too much RAM (6GB for only ~30 tabs) and the UI has gotten so slow it makes Windows 95 on a 386SX look speedy by comparison. I like the tab stacking but I don't like it enough to deal with that nonsense...

For what it's worth I haven't had an update forcibly take down my system since I applied the "fix" in GPEdit. It probably doesn't stop the "critical" updates but it does stop most of them.

Believe it or not, lots of people areound campus were referencing it.

Wow. Wish I had known about that before I bought my Envy 4520. I don't have the wherewithal to get anything else at the moment.

Yar, this be a glorious day indeed.

I have no complaints about performance, but then, nothing is really "slow" on a 20+mbps connection. For better perspective I should probably be trying this from home.

I personally defer to you on this one, on paper it sounds like there's no real downside to making the move. What concerns me is the topics left from years past, would it wipe out all of it or would it all be kept? Sorry if that's a dumb question, forum software isn't exactly my forte.

I've found that using thir basic driver package works much better than the full software suite on Windows, and on Linux I of course don't have to deal with that at all, CUPS and HPLIP are my friends there.

I didn't even know Samsung had a printer division.

So someone gave me their crappy Cloudbook 11 in return for my help in locating a decent deal for a new laptop. For those wondering, I set them up with a refurbished T420 with an 8GB RAM upgrade and 250GB SSD for $320 total. They're very happy with it. Back to the Cloudbook, specs are 2GB...

In other news my dad and (now ex) step mother are "trying again." Now it doesn't affect me so much, I'm out of the house. Whatever makes him happy I guess.

I personally find horror in helplessness, and I think it's hard to do that in a game without turning it into a cutscene.

Otterboxes, in my experience, are very effective. If I had dropped the bare device down the (concrete) stairs as I did the cased phone, it would have shattered the screen among other things. Nothing else is worth bothering with though, nothing else has the build quality. If a device doesn't have...

I might in a bit.

Ended up going with, as recommended, a fixie from a local shop. I'm pretty happy with it. Still needed to replace the seat -- it was just too hard. Please don't make the obvious joke, I didn't mean it like that.

I managed to get my hands on a local sim-unlocked Droid Turbo for super cheap, about $80 (the going rate on Amazon is $130 used, $180 refurbished, $400 NIB) -- I dropped my Transpyre (yes, it was in a case) and it stopped registering touch properly. I used the Sunshine exploit to unlock the...

How about this, then? Or does it have the same problems? Sorry I'm so bike-illiterate.

I'm thinking something along the lines of this, given the recommendations I've received so far... Not looking to spend $600+ like everyone on Craigslist is wanting.

Alright. I would have just set it aside until I socked away enough money for the parts for a NAS anyway. Probably better choices out there for my use case anyway.

Sounds about right. Weight doesn't matter much, I'm not going to be carrying it after all -- and the best parts are shining beacons for would-be thieves. Walmart special it is, then.

With the distances between points on campus being so great, and wanting to go other places in town without relying on the bus or generous friends with vehicles, or of course spending hours walking to and from, I have concluded that I need a bike. Most of what I'm planning on doing with it is...

I have been summoned? (looks up BitFenix Prodigy) Hmm. That could work for a NAS/dedicated folder project I had planned -- I have a fair amount of overfill from my student loan disbursing -- bought my books and a ton of stuff I've seriously needed for a while, it's been great to finally be able...

In other news, my unifying receiver for my M510 randomly died. Now whenever I plug it in Windows complains that it's malfunctioning, and a live Linux distro I tried just refuses to acknowledge its presence. Other USB devices work fine, so it's not the ports. Looks like I need to find one of my...

I personally doubt there will be much of anything in 100 years. I give humanity in general about 50, maybe 70 years before we self destruct. Or fall to the machines.

Y'know I didn't think of the IT department having openings, I should check sometime. I wonder if I have to be certified in anything in particular... Maybe I should look into taking an A+ cert this semester as well.

Sallie Mae (my lender) doesn't disburse until the twenty-fifth, so I'll need to request a University Funds Advance and pay $20 for the privilege of having it decided on in order to buy my books in time. It's not even guaranteed. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Not much I can do here other than put in the application...

I have the Windows.old folder. Debating deleting it, considering the anniversary update seems stable enough.

Not until I connect my phone to my laptop later tonight, SF doesn't seem to be playing well with my phone for some reason -- I can't request the desktop site so I can upload a shot.

Moved into my dorm sweet dorm today. Just finished my todo list for the day, short of going to that mandatory meeting around 6:30ish. Considering grabbing a nap, I didn't get much sleep last night. Speed test says the connection here is just short of 22mbps down, almost 5mbps up, 24ms ping...

Just did this -- started the upgrade then cancelled because it was taking too long just to prepare (figuring I'd just do it later). Some time later (enough that I had almost forgotten about it) it's like "Hey, we're about to shove this OS upgrade you decided not to install onto your machine...

I generally don't defer them for that long, just long enough that I can finish/save what I'm doing and restart gracefully.

So the update process has finally made me seriously mad -- it, without any warning, just closed everything and restarted. I had stuff open that I can't get back now because those idiots decided to take that sort of control away from me. So I went into group policy editor and found the policy...

What I have sounds alright to me. I really don't care what I'm using as long as it doesn't have that high pitched whine in the background, it drives me nuts.

I do most of my listening on my laptop, which has some kind of generic HD audio output. I think it's Realtek? Either way, I can't tell too much of a difference even on that. Even that much might just be some kind of placebo effect, but FLACs tend to sound a little cleaner and clearer to me. Not...

I can hear the difference between MP3 and FLAC but if the MP3 is at a high enough bitrate (200kbps+) the difference is negligible to my ears. That's actually a good thing since most of my library is still in MP3. I don't have the space to fit my entire library on my phone in FLAC, as much as I'd...

I'm assuming you're trying to say to rotate the header plug? Did that, still isn't working. Double checked my wiring and it seems sound enough, maybe it's just broken? Either way, he's happy enough just to have everything else working, he doesn't seem to care about having the power LED working...

Today was eventful: Helped a friend turn his very new Dell vomit box into something worth using for gaming. He bought everything before I was conned into helping out, so I had no input on what he purchased. All I can say is thankfully the addon parts he bought weren't crap. This whole thing was...

Same here. I just used IrfanView because Windows's baked-in photo viewer has never failed to suck. Trying Xnview now.

I can say from experience that my T450 is booting perfectly fine from M.2. Electrically though my understanding is that they won't take PCI-E M.2 stuff, only SATA. Also, having my BIOS updated to the latest version may be helping me on that front as well.

With so many marriages ending in divorce, I don't know if I will be getting married at all -- and that's even if I can get far enough with someone that it'd be an option. My dad's marriage lasted nearly six years -- but again, at least some of the years were happy ones... for them anyway.

+1 for Anti-Beacon, it's very comprehensive and it can refresh your immunizations on every bootup if you want it to. Between Anti-Beacon and the fact that I just don't have anything to hide (if they want to look at my computer, they deserve what they get) Windows 10 is actually tolerable for me...