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I have a giant OLED TV and a great audio setup in my living room but man, but going to the movie theater is a treat. In the last three weeks, I've seen The Odyssey, the filmed staging of Hadestown and of course the new Spider-Man movie. And man, I have yet to be let down this summer. These were...

You could always set up robocopy or something to run periodically so your desktop and notebook stay in sync. Unless you're in the habit of writing video files in your user folder tree, that's also workable.

A Sandisk support representative just told me that my use of multiple partitions on a 500GB Ultra Fit is a completely valid reason for her to deny my warranty claim and that initiating the warranty on my drive was a courtesy on her part.

There's some wisdom in having a file server for your stuff, even if it just replicates the stuff on your desktop. Since you're only talking about two PCs, it's pretty unlikely that you'll get file replication errors if you have your systems pushing and pulling to the same back-end.

You can get multi-bay 2.5" SATA enclosures but I think that if you're trying to get dual SATA AND dual NMVe, you're talking about either a NAS or a very complicated Direct Storage system with newish SAS controller. Dual drive enclosures are a thing. But in this case you're talking about...

FFactions has a integrates a crap-ton of useful FFmpeg operations into your Windows context menu. I found this because I have a folder full of movies taken on phones where the video plays in the wrong orientation on some, but not all the files, but it will also do things like turn a stack of...

I have to confess that part of my reasoning behind not taking the steps to make my CachyOS clients cleaner desktop systems was the recent chaos from poorly secured AUR packages. On the other hand, they're pretty complete systems as they are. The have the correct browser and MS Office documents...

I think the only packages I grabbed from AUR were Chrome and Edge, which are browsers supported by Amazon Luna. Each one is specifically set up with different credentials to keep their Epic Logins for Fortnite purposes.

The Desperation home lab: Machinist X99 dual LGA 2011 board. Pair of Xeon 2678s. 256GB ECC DRR3 RAM. I already had the RAM so the setup is $190, +$200 if I didn't. It uses a standard PSU and it supports m.2 and has a bunch of PCIe options. It can sit in an eatx case and use normal cooling...

Trump tanks the markets most weekends and says something to walk it back on Sunday. It's been like that almost his entire term.

Still ok out there jtr?

I set up somebody's 55" TV a couple weeks ago. My standard practice is to ignore the TV's internal OS. WebOS isn't as bad as Tizen, but they're both pretty bad. A model year 2025 LG TV would NOT proceed to display anything until its terms of service were accepted. Shut up and be a display. I do...

Bitlocker on Windows 11, Server 22 and Server 25 can be entirely bypassed via a trivial exploit. The main mitigation is to turn off the Recovery partition in Windows. So that's cool.

A bunch of old UEFI keys expired last month. New ones come with Windows update. What do you do if you're not running Windows to get new keys? Fuck you, that's what. But anyone running Linux probably knows they can just turn it off in the first place and not hurt a damned thing, but major PC OEMs...

My glasses finally came in. We get used to whatever way we see but holy crap my old lenses were actually probably dangerous to keep wearing.

Actually, here's a follow up to that last video. In context, the previous video had some potential impact on mDNS resolution (Bonjour etc) and this one does not.

Just think of the resources and personnel being devoted to keeping his corpse out of the ground and realize the statistical certainty that there's that many fewer minutes those doctor, nurses and aides could have helped someone who definitely meets all the criteria for being 1. alive and 2...

I dislike consoles on a variety of levels, starting with the fact that two of them are just crippled PCs now but continuing with the attending clutter they create because none of the console manufacturers can agree on what constitutes a gamepad, headset or storage device. There was a point in...

My partner genuinely loves it. She's otherwise a Tequila snob. She's also started drinking beer since she moved to Florida. That's the one that actually disgusts me. I got to talk to a guy today who was the primary representative of a class action suit that went all the way to the US Supreme...

Honestly, if you were following their published documentation, it should be a much higher discount. Sony's President sold something like 50% of his shares in the company today, which doesn't sound like a vote of confidence in the business, and Microsoft laid an ungodly number of people in the...

My partner is a huge fan of it. Most people say it is the most disgusting spirit bar none. The kindest description I've heard is that it tastes "herbaceous." The company that makes it is also the only distributor for it, so if you find someplace that carries it, it's because they very...

There are many other fine spirits. Have you considered Malört?

Just saw this. This can be a bookmark for several of us.

I just barely know the name Taylor Swift and nothing about the other person. On the other hand, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell is apparently (literally) brain dead but on life support just to fuck up the midterms. Just like he fucked over Obama getting to nominate Merrick Garland as a...

Apparently there is such a thing as a low power RJ45-SFP+ transceiver but I just used whatever I found first. The indoor temperature at my place might be a contributing factor.

I actually backed the Kickstarter to get a Comet Q, a USB-C all in one IPKVM, and a Comet Pro X, a 4-port IPKVM. The two devices put together came to just under $300. I think the USB-C system can work with a Mini PC, although GL.inet says it's intended for access to a notebook or tablet instead...

Looking at the list of available-at-retail AM4 CPUs is actually looking like a horror show right now; only the 5500, 5500X and 5600, 5600X and 5600XT are available for less than $200. Used prices are a lot better, obviously, but it's it seems that the predictable outcome of unaffordable DDR5 has...

I'm not sure if anyone here is even remotely interested, but Motion Cam Pro, the software I use to capture RAW video on Android, just released its v5.0 update. They have also announced that the price is going from $27 to $39. It is also getting an iOS release and apparently it's a buy-once deal...

We talk about this every year. I have an old ass AC unit that I'm not allowed to upgrade or replace because it's identical to the ones in every other apartment in the building. It cools roughly the 8 square feet closest to itself and nothing else. I only run it if the outdoor temperature is...

And I just noticed that it's going to be over 90F the rest of the week so hopefully no more kids or games at my place anyway.

It's possible Asus has cleaned up its warranty act after getting a crap-ton of bad press for being just the worst about RMAs. I don't know that, but it's possible. The last thing I had that should've gone back was a 9th gen i7 laptop with an unclearable BIOS password. Asus sets a default...

Valve and Meta are IIRC the only two companies selling PC compatible VR hardware. If anything, they either have to keep making gear or cede the market to an even greater evil. The last thing the world needs is to let Facebook have sole control of a technology. If you're counting, I do think...

GL.inet Comet Pros were $140 last week and I bought a couple. These are IPKVMs with direct support for Tailscale and Zerotier that support up to 2560x1440 resolutions at up to 60fps. They have ~30GB of internal storage that can be used for deploying OS images or backups, There's a down side...

How much of a market does VR have in the first place? I don't think I know anyone still trying to do something with VR in 2026.

I've been working on PC stuff since the late 80s and I've never once had an Asus RMA complete successfully. I still buy its monitors and notebooks but I'm going to be interested to see how this plays out.

I have to engage with it as a side effect of supporting other people who play games on PCs. I do get to tell people how wrong they are the entire time, but much like people who buy iOS devices, this is a thing a loathsome thing that is nonetheless regularly set before me. How is it worse...

An HX 370 has very credible graphics performance for an APU. Supposedly between mobile 3060 and 4060 performance, but with assignable RAM and power configs. Mine was $700 with 32 GB RAM and a 1TB SSD. It also has OcuLink and USB4 on it and only really makes meaningful noise if you manage to...

I've never tolerated Valve and I've never understood why anyone else does, either. Valve actively makes PC gaming worse for the essential monoculture it has created for gaming, a space where that never should have happened. GoG is much closer to the ideal everyone should hope wins out, and I...

A socketed CPU and one PCIe port would probably change a lot of minds, but they didn't go that route. The frustration I have here is that I can see a lot of people saying that they were looking at this thing as the entry point to make PC gaming console like. I don't know why that should be an...

I never thought I'd see the day that I'd jump at a chance to spend $40 on a 250GB SD card, but here we are.

I've never been OK with Valve, but I think the mass audience of PC gamers thought it was their friend that could do no wrong, and see the price as a smack in the face. The smack in the face is somewhat real, but I've been telling people all along that whatever that thing sells for, it'll still...

Windows 7 was really the last no-bullshit version of Windows. I understand wanting to cling to it.

Steam Machine is $1050 for 500GB Storage and $1350 for 2TB. The controller is $20 cheaper if you buy it with the PC. Ouch.

That is very fixable. Open the install file with 7zip, extract the files and install them by hand. At worst, you might have to modify a .inf file or six.

The issue for AMD on Windows 7 is actually just the USB drivers. You can either slipstream the drivers into the installation media or, if you have a PS/2 port on your system, you can just install them after the fact. I'll admit I haven't tried setting up anything better than maybe a Ryzen 3700...

UPNP made a lot of consumer level LAN services a lot easier to set up but of course it's a bad practice to use it. The main reason I use Jellyfin is that it supports multichannel FLAC and I have a lot of multichannel audio. Jellyfin's music service defaults also do a better job than Plex at...

I know there are people who update drivers for older AMD drivers but it's mostly because AMD used to be terrible about abandoning mobile graphics. That A10 is from AMD's pre-Ryzen time in the wilderness. I'm not even sure I've ever installed anything in socket FM2+, but I suspect it would be...

I was going to suggest running your music through Squeezebox or Jellyfin. UPNP / DLNA i certainly works, but you may have an easier time in something that handles presentation as well.

It's something I just noticed in passing. Nadia's birthday is in a couple weeks and I'm looking for something fun to give her. I suspect it would be fine for a lot of use cases that aren't AAA gaming, but she already appropriated my Logitech G Cloud and has an Ayn Odin 2 for her hand-held needs...

I'm assuming that you're on the last set of drivers released, which was from... four years ago. Given that's the case, why not just have your PC reboot like every Sunday night so it's not an issue?