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Bridge mode may show up as something like a Passthrough mode like on my AT&T gear. That was a pain when I first moved over to fiber. If I had thought ahead and got a router box with an SFP port I apparently could have obtained a modified module that’d connect to AT&T’s network wholesale without...

Been scratching the Asheron's Call itch again, this time with some friends from my classic days on the new Conquest server with a fair helping of custom content and the like. It's actually really fun to go back to what I actually played circa 2007-2015 -- at this point, I've played nothing but...

I chipped a tooth clenching my jaw at that. Holy shit. All of a sudden I absolutely understand the line about not being taken alive.

Houses are a liability right up until it's time to sell. And I doubt I'll ever be able to afford one anyway.

The thing I hate about actual big-iron servers is that it's never enough for you to just buy the hardware you need, you also have to keep licenses for every little thing it can do. Computing has been a subscription service for a long time in that regard, enough so that the switch to cloud...

In this case I'm not accessing anything actually sensitive with these old machines, I know better than that, I'd just prefer not to literally be broadcasting what I'm doing in plaintext. Usually, I'm listening to something from my music library, or fetching installation media from my server for...

The build is finished and surprisingly ended up with a Sound Blaster Live. I abandoned any hope of running DOS games on it when it refused to put anything in either PCI slot any lower than IRQ9. I then ran Windows 2000 on it for a while before chafing at issues with the Extended Kernel project...

Considering an iPhone won't even let you have two concurrent VPN connections at all, that's not likely. However, I was able to share my VPN tunnel from my laptop through ICS, so that's a good last-ditch thing if I really need it -- comes in handy, but I do like my stuff being able to stand on...

When I take old stuff with me on the road to have something to amuse myself with, I often need resources that are locked on my home network, and even through a VPN I get better throughput than if I were to copy stuff over USB 1.1. While the strength of that encryption doesn't need to be very...

I borrowed a Cloud Gateway Ultra we had in stock that was sans its box (so we can't just sell it) to get a config set up for my home stuff and figure if I was going to use it long-term or not. If I do end up putting it into service long-term, I'll just buy one boxed myself and bring it in to be...

It almost certainly is. Most of my graphics problems on Linux have nVidia to blame. Which is kind of a problem considering the most recent Steam survey has them at 85% of the market, still. Admittedly, myself, remote desktop (specifically HOSTING a remote desktop) is still extremely...

What kind of setup were you running that Wayland didn't just work out of the box for you? I'm running a RX 5700 with a 1440p120 display and a 1080p60 on its side and everything just worked for me, in fact I usually have to fuss around more with Xorg at this point. I'm on Debian 13 with KDE, I...

We use a lot of Ubiquiti in our shop and I can vouch for it -- everything I need (and most of the stuff I want, too) and it's honestly pretty straightforward. You have advanced settings if you really want them, but the defaults are pretty sane. If you get the CGU, it can manage your APs and...

In a couple years, any platform that can't give the "are you an adult" flag won't be allowed to load most websites, most likely.

I'll look more into that when the helpdesk team takes over more duties to turn my job into much more of a traditional 9-5 instead of 9-5 plus being on-call for everything 24/7. It's nerve-wracking enough just trying to schedule in time with friends and family without having call anxiety. It...

I had to tune out from the news. It's getting to the point where it's all that's in my algorithms and I just can't handle it anymore. I'm starting to have fucking panic attacks when I wake up in the morning wondering "what's happened now".

I’m not even talking about the kind of stuff that gets printed and sold behind the counter. No, I’m talking about the shock sites and various prototypes to stuff you’d find on LiveLeak now. I won’t name anything in specific, and I doubt I’ve seen anything outright illegal more than just...

I saw all kinds of stuff I was never meant to online as a kid and while I can't say I turned out fine I am a functional tax-paying member of society. I completely agree.

Yeah, apparently Newsom himself said that the law wasn't enforceable as-is because it was so vague, but urged it to be pushed through anyway as it can be amended later on. Or something. I find it entertaining that a BSD fork responded by modifying their license to prohibit use in California...

The funny thing is you'd think having soldered RAM called "Display Cache" would mean the 815 doesn't have to steal system RAM, but no. From what I understand it uses this faster pool of RAM that only it can access (I think wired over AGP, even) mostly for the Z-buffer in 3D applications, no...

It wasn't a hyperbole back in Trump I to say they had elements and characteristics of fascism -- to be fair, American politics in general has kind of always had that bent to an extent IMO with how much weight we put on presidential elections -- but things have deteriorated so much that I don't...

For context, the reason I'm doing this, is because I'm starting to realize having a billion computers all kicking around and taking up space is a not-amazing idea, and I'm starting to try to downsize -- I know it really doesn't look it, yet, but these smaller machines, if they work out and end...

I put in a lowball on what was obviously a little SFF barebones PC kit from the turn of the millennium -- the plastic peel for the badge on the front was still present, despite some scratches in the powdercoating on the metal indicating it'd seen a little bit of careless handling -- and...

aw sweet, man-made horrors beyond my comprehension

It was a tweet from OSINTdefender with the following:

Well, this certainly isn't concerning at all.

If you can source an S-VHS capable deck you could make use of the (marginally) cleaner S-Video output. It's a little sharper than regular VHS due to separating the brightness and color signals from each other, though that'll likely be of dubious benefit at best on regular VHS or VHS-C tape...

If you wanted to read Epstein's emails yourself, this is apparently everything that's publically available so far.

CCleaner used to be good, now it's just adware. Even if cleaning the registry was by and large a placebo, it did do a better job of removing temp files than Disk Cleanup did. These days if I need something like that I'll use BleachBit. I'll echo everyone here and say I use uBlock Origin, but I...

Turns out OCCT needs a license to do actual stability testing. Without one, you're stuck with a 1h test duration. I found this out to my detriment leaving the computer running what I thought were laps in OCCT all night and day while I was at work, but it actually just sat idle for 15 of the 16...

Got the 3770K in. Kicked it to 4.5GHz 1.35v just off the bat. Got it at 4.6 now, seems okay in testing so far, though Firefox did crash suspiciously the first time I was writing this post... that COULD just be a coincidence, though. Edit: no, no it's not. 1.35 was my limit for voltage for a...

I really need to make it up to see my dad more often than I do.

And regardless of how "violent" you think Pretti was, he was already disarmed and no longer a threat when he got magdumped. Maybe we shouldn't be magdumping protesters, just kind of like, at all?

ICE is being sent into places where they are meant to experience 'resistance' (aka, people not cheerfully giving up their friends and neighbors to the modern equivalent of the Gestapo) specifically to stir up enough trouble to justify a further crackdown and potential declaration of martial law...

This could be a gamechanger in getting a baseline image setup quickly and easily.

I've been using library sharing to share my own (not insignificant, ~490 titles now) library with my sister for years now. One thing I like to do is buy old games when they get cheap on Steam or GoG, and then grab more appropriate install media for the target platforms where appropriate and use...

It's not -- if I have to swap the board, I'm more likely to rebuild with my X470 board with the questionable SATA ports. I've sent the 3060 and 5700X I had on to a friend who needed it more a little while back, and my 1070 and 5500 are going out to another friend in similar straits sometime next...

Ivy Bridge with questionable-to-nonexistent ReBAR and potential UEFI GOP issues. Plus, the Arc is just wholly inappropriate for this class of hardware. And it consumes more power than I'd like. I also play a lot of older titles that still act strangely on first-gen Arc. I imagine I'd get a...

You're pretty much bang-on. DRAM and to a lesser extent NAND prices are in crisis right now and only getting worse and GPUs have been insanity for years, even at the low-mid end. I will say, if it's a light-use machine, just stick with the integrated graphics. An APU is 100% fine for 99.97% of...

What ISN'T working so hot is my old RX480. It has full driver support but I think my particular example must just be dying. Stressing it out and then asking it to use its encoding block to stream is a good way to make it corrupt the display, lock up the machine and then first completely shut off...

I used Poweramp back when I was an Android user. I think there's a port of foobar2000 as well.

We're in a civil war already, we just don't know it yet.

As long as what I'm doing doesn't have a hard AVX2 requirement, I'm having a hard time finding a workload that really, truly crushes it underfoot, even at stock clocks. Sure, my 1135g7 takes a fifth of the power to run ~10-15% faster, but that's basically a full decade removed, I'd sure hope it...

I've got an i7-2600 box up on the bench right now testing its RAM after I installed an updated UEFI a friend put together for me that fixes UEFI in general (these Sandy boxes were early days for that, yet) and curiously allows for booting NVME, and after I went down a few little rabbitholes with...

Yeah, I ran it on my 16GB SLGO2 and noticed a pretty decent drop in allocated RAM at the desktop, though a modern web browser still soon renders that moot. I hate this timeline.

Something like this is what I have in mind. I don't LOVE giving anyone a machine with less than 16GB of RAM anymore, but it sounds like her needs are pretty basic, and this will satisfy basic needs pretty well especially for the money. If she plans to do anything but update Windows and a web...

7 is your best bet. 10 will probably work but be a trainwreck -- 11 will need Rufus shenanigans to get it to even install, maybe, though on Core2 I honestly don't know if you'll run into some illegal instruction messages. I second Merc on this. Their money is better spent on a Chromebook or an...

AWS is still Amazon, which means it's still really not all that sovereign, is it?

On the contrary, I doubt it'll be very funny at all when Trump's bruised ego makes him declare war on every country that kicks us out. The American century of humiliation continues apace.

Oh, no doubt. If it were a work machine or if I wasn't planning to make use of the big IGP in the x840 SKU, I'd be fine with it, but if I'm putting in the money and it's going to be soldered, it needs to be 32. I'm making 16 work right now in the SLGO2, but it can't run some of the stuff that...